IN MEMORY OF LOS(2LP 08/15/2006 Just as six-string stardom was

Just as six-string stardom was handed to him on a silver platter -- by landing a gig with David Lee Roth and appearing on the A Little Ain't Enough album -- Becker was stricken with A

in which Biohazard turns their blaring searchlight of rage upon the disturbing day-to-day realities of post-Cold War America

rather than degenerating his artistic abilities

John Keane (pedal steel guitar)

but the electricity had gone out of it

IN MEMORY OF LOS(2LP 08/15/2006 Just as six-string stardom wasSinger songwriter Nathaniel Rateliff, who hails from a tiny town in Missouri, makes his official solo debut with In Memory of Loss. He started out as part of a band called Born in the Flood before cutting Desire and Dissolving Men, an album of homemade recordings, under the name the Wheel on Denver based micro indie Public Service Records. Nevertheless, Rateliff's Rounder debut marks the first time he has recorded strictly under his own name. Producer