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Ben Vaughn had a dream. No, he didn't want to change the world, he just wanted to record an album in his beloved 1965 Rambler American. So with an eight-track reel-to-reel in the back seat, an eight-channel mixing board in the front, an isolation booth in the sizable

North Carolina band Whiskeytown is nothing if not prolific. This eight-song EP (nine if you count the hidden bonus track) is just one of a number of recordings building up to this summer's release of their major-label debut album Sorry I Said Goodbye, a torrent that includes a

There will probably be claims that Etta James is making her "country move" here, but in truth, her infatuation with Nashville goes back to the early '60s, when she recorded her first singles on Music Row, and a historic live album, Etta James Rocks the House, there

Darkly seductive like that preacher's son who smelled of sex and whiskey and spoke redemption back in high school, Jim White's debut album Wrong-Eyed Jesus beguiles the listener into riding shotgun from the git-go: "Big ole car moving fast, watch the world go spinning by/

The booklet inside John Walsh & the Sinkholes' debut CD includes several images of ol' Ike, particularly Eisenhower silver dollar coins. This graphic motif suggests the album contains political diatribes that critique capitalism and the uptight values of 1950s America. Instead, it's a tuneful collection of

Despite the occasional political prattle that earned this Marietta, Ga. duo the well-deserved "Indignant Girls" tag, the Indigo Girls continue to produce genuinely compelling music, complete with an intellectual spine. After expanding the group dynamics on the electric guitar-laden Swamp Ophelia, troubadours Amy Ray and Emily Sailers return