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Kelly Hogan & the Pine Valley Cosmonauts [extended]

  • Misery Loves Company [Scout, 1995] **
  • Salute the Majesty of Bob Wills [Bloodshot, 1998] Choice Cuts
  • Beneath the Country Underdog [Bloodshot, 2000] Neither
  • The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature [Bloodshot, 2002] Dud
  • The Executioner's Last Songs [Bloodshot, 2002] A-
  • The Executioner's Last Songs Volumes 2 & 3 [Bloodshot, 2003]
  • Stranger in My Land [Bloodshot, 2013] *

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Consumer Guide Reviews:

Jonboy Langford and the Pine Valley Cosmonauts: Misery Loves Company [Scout, 1995]
"explore the dark and lonely world of Johnny Cash" with more cojones than Rick Rubin ("Cocaine Blues," "What Is Truth?") **

The Pine Valley Cosmonauts: Salute the Majesty of Bob Wills [Bloodshot, 1998]
"Across the Alley from the Alamo" Choice Cuts

Beneath the Country Underdog [Bloodshot, 2000] Neither

Neal Pollack & the Pine Valley Cosmonauts: The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature [Bloodshot, 2002] Dud

The Pine Valley Cosmonauts: The Executioner's Last Songs [Bloodshot, 2002]
See: Room for the Occasion. A-

Jonboy Langford and the Pine Valley Cosmonauts: The Executioner's Last Songs Volumes 2 & 3 [Bloodshot, 2003]
More songs about transgression and death--two CDs' worth, actually (Jon Langford With Sally Timms, "Delilah"; Skid Marks With Sally Timms, "Homicide"; Otis Clay, "Banks of the Ohio")

Roger Knox and the Pine Valley Cosmonauts: Stranger in My Land [Bloodshot, 2013]
Jon Langford and friends bring Aboriginal "Black Elvis" to Oakland to cherry-pick conscious country songs bogged down in more protest-music mawk than anyone admits ("Took the Children Away," "Steets of Tamworth") *