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This issue we talk with Pop Folk sensations The Weepies, whose debut landed them all over the TV. Their new one on Nettwerk Records, Hideaway is even more infectious.

And we get up rhythm and blues figure James Hunter on his new disc, The Hard Way. He was our first video interview a couple of years back; but my mention of it made it clear he had no particular recollection of the event. He's a laugh, as ever, and the record could make him a big star.

Lastly we talk to a singular songwriter and bandleader from Boston; we caught his amazing band at the Rodeo Bar in NYC recently, The Chandler Travis Philharmonic.

The reviewers are into the hinterlands and down the middle, including Mudcrutch, Old 97's, The Long Blondes, Nico Muhly, Bodies Of Water, and Nalle. There's J. Spaceman and Sun City Girls, Amos Garrett, Fred Eaglesmith and Cassandra Wilson, not to mention Dr. John and the 30th Anniversary multi-disc reissue of Billy Joel's The Stranger.

Summer's here,

Frank Goodman

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