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Peggy Seeger Period Pieces (Ryko/Outside) Intelligent, socially conscious, feminist-heavy folk sure to evoke some rueful chuckles. 8/10 (MT) Los Super Seven Self-titled (RCA/BMG) Some stray Lobos and others scratch at the chicken yard for their Tex-Mex folk roots. 8 (RB) Pullman Turnstyles & Junkpiles (Thrill Jockey) Tortoise boys pull out the acoustics and get all mushy melodic. Pullman? V. purdy. 8 (CY) Belizbeha Void Where Inhibited (As ONE) Wide-awake after "Charlie's Dream," this jazz-funk outfit come conceptually correct, but they need to lose the fat-rapper. 6.5 (SC) Willie Nelson Teatro (Island) Willie: Make fewer albums and spend more time using yr status as Grandaddy of Grass lobbying for decrim. OK? 6.5 (CY) Graham Coxon The Sky Is Too High (Caroline/EMI) Blur-ry solo album written while trying to get off the sauce. The ass end of being a rock star. 5 (CY) Various Latin Mix USA (Sony) Homogenized Latin grooves that'll make lovers of the genre cringe. Strictly for commercial consumption. 5 (GD)
Mike Oldfield Tubular Bells III (Warner) Call the exorcist! Mikey's possessed by pre-millennial demons and ultralite ethno/techno clichés! 4 (RB)
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