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Ray Charles - Genius & Soul: The 50th Anniversary Collection

When Willie Nelson celebrated his 60th birthday with a televised bash in Austin a few years ago, his musical guests ranged from B.B. King to Bob Dylan to Lyle Lovett. All had come to pay homage to Nelson, but there was one other artist to whom both host and

Merle Haggard - The Land Of Many Churches

Merle Haggard's tributes to Jimmie Rodgers and Bob Wills are well-known to contemporary fans, but few know that in 1971 Haggard recorded another one, an album he called "a sort of tribute to an old friend of mine, who is truly #1. Of course," he went

Nashville's Unwritten Rules / Creating Country Music: Fabricating Authenticity

If a good ol' boy such as Garth Brooks can fill Central Park, clearly the world needs a book (or two) that dismantles the machinery of Nashville, pokes around and finds out exactly how it operates. With his Unwritten Rules, Billboard scribe Dan Daley ponders the schizophrenia of Music

Roy Huskey Jr.: 1956 to 1997

Roy Huskey Jr. died Sept. 6, 1997, in Nashville, Tennessee, of lung cancer, after having been diagnosed with the disease in June 1996. He was 40 years old. His father, Roy M. Huskey (who, ironically, went by the nickname "Junior"), also had been a highly respected Nashville bassist,

I Want To Be a Cowgirl's Restaurant

One benefit of living in New York City is that no one need feel displaced for long. Homes are established, friends made, favorite places found. For those in search of Texas in Manhattan, the Cowgirl Hall of Fame Bar-B-Q restaurant in Greenwich Village is a worthy haunt. Owner Sherry Delamarter

Ricky Skaggs - Going back to old Kentucky

Ricky Skaggs - Going back to old Kentucky

Ricky Skaggs in No Depression? I can already see some readers scratching their heads -- or, more likely, flinging their copies across the room. Skaggs, after all, has been a NashVegas mainstream country fixture for years, and though his latest country album (Life Is A Journey, on Atlantic) is doing

Various Artists - The Inner Flame: A Tribute To Rainer Ptacek

The most striking credit on this tribute to Tucson's Rainer Ptacek reads "Executive Producers: Robert Plant and Howe Gelb." That Led Zep's preening pretty boy and Giant Sand's desert visionary should find common bond in the musical inspiration of Rainer attests to