Crisper Roots

Send us Fan MailJesse Welles, whose LP 'Hells Welles' I covered last year, is in an amazing patch of creativity, and has a new album, MIDDLE.

Send us Fan MailCrisper Roots is back for season 2! With the Doohickeys' hilarious ALL HAT NO CATTLE and Jason Eady's lovely MISSISSIPPI, UNPLUGGED.The gutsiest country song ever recorded: I Don't Give a Damn About Football

Send us Fan MailLast episode of Season 1. Out of 90, more or less.(1) Samory I, Strength(2) Jesse Welles, Hell's Welles(3) Fiona Boyes, Ramblified(4) Stephanie Lambring, Hypocrite(5) Jerron Paxton, Things Done Changed(6) Elizabeth King, Soul Provider(7) Leslie Stevens, eponymous(8) The Franklin County Trucking Company, The Death-Defying Adventures of(9) Wyly Bigger, Broken Telephone(10) BadNews Barnes, Bad News Travels Fast

Send us Fan MailHudson Westbrook's eponymous EP and Ags Connolly's YOUR PAL SLIM: SONGS OF JAMES HAND

Send us Fan MailTwo fine EPs: Tyler Ray Miniard, THE COUNTY LINE and the Doohickeys, CAN'T BEAT MY OLD BEATER

Send us Fan MailTwo good late-year albums! John R. Miller, FIRESIDE SESSIONS VOL 1 and Forest Sun, NO FINISH LINE. No it's not "I'll meet you at the bar" on "America I Love You." It's "I'll meet you at the mall."

Send us Fan MailTwo unusual 'Western' items: Tyler Halverson's WESTERN AMERIJUANA (pt 2) and Corb Lund's stunning EL VIEJO (deluxe edition)

Send us Fan MailBluesman Eric Bibb's beautiful IN THE REAL WORLD and the late-arriving greatest record of cowpunk, VIVA LONE JUSTICE. I meant to say, re Bibb: J.B. Lenoir.

Send us Fan MailTradition and innovation from the great young bluesman Jerron Paxton and the budding folk-pop star Joy Oladokun.

Send us Fan MailLovely albums by two guys who with outsider personae: Gurf Morlix, IN LOVE AT ZERO DEGREES and Chris Acker, FAMOUS LUNCHSorry, I kept saying "Bill Bruckner". Bill Buckner!