Top Releases, Hot Concerts, & On-Air Shows
Top Releases
Contemporary Artists
Junior Brown Long Walk Back - Curb
Deke Dickerson & The Ecco-Fonics Number One Hit Record - Hightone
Darrel Higham with the Barnshakers High Class Baby - Goofin (Finland)
Hot Club Of Cowtown Swingin Stampede - Hightone
Jim Lauderdale Whisper - BNA
Tom Morrell & The Time-Warp Tophands Win Place And Show - How The West Was Swung Vol. X - WR
Hal Peters & his String Dusters Lonesomne Hearted Blues - Goofin (Finland)
Various Artists The Wandering Eyes Sing Songs of Forbidden Love - Lazy S.O.B.
Various Artists The Pine Valley Cosmonauts salute the Majesty of Bob Wills - Bloodshot
Various Artists Deep In The Heart (of Texas) soundtrack - Shanachie
Instrumentals
The Fly-Rite Boys Big Sandy Presents the Fly-Rite Boys - Hightone
Rich OBrien Seasons, Roads, and Faces - Shanachie
Reissues
Stoney Edwards The Best Of Stoney Edwards, Poor Folks Stick Together - Razor & Tie
Floyd Tillman The Best of Floyd Tillman - Collectors Choice Music
Hank Williams The Complete Hank Williams 10-CD box-set - Mercury
Various Artists Diggin Texas Swing 19461955 - Krazy Kat (England)
Various Artists From Where I Stand: The Black Experience In Country Music 3-CD set - Warner Bros.
Local Artists
Red Meat 13 - Ranchero
Sugar King Boys Topsy Turvy - Wormtone
Truck Songs
Sonny George - Spinout
Dale Watson & His Lone Stars The Truckin Sessions - Koch
The highlights of the many great shows I saw 1998:
April 15 at Viva Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV
The Chop Tops (Santa Cruz, California) during annual Bluegrass, Country, Folk Marathon - February 15, 1998
The Swing Rays (Bloomington, Indiana) - February 22, 1998
The Hot Club of Cowtown (Austin, Texas) - August 2, 1998
Deke Dickerson & The Ecco-Fonics (Los Angeles, CA) - 1998