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R.S. Field represents one of the great hopes for Nashville. He is a maverick producer/performer/songwriter who is not afraid or ashamed to integrate Nashville's past sounds with its present. In an era where most major-label country is either overproduced ballads or southern-slanted rock, Field knows

If you're reading this magazine, you almost certainly own at least one album Brian Paulson has produced. He's been pretty hard to avoid in '90s alternative country circles, and the genre is unimaginable without such Paulson-produced landmarks as Uncle Tupelo's Anodyne, Son Volt&

"It's Just That Simple", John Stirratt's high lonesome moment on Wilco's debut, suggested that singer-songwriter talent in the band ran deeper than frontman Jeff Tweedy. Further recorded proof was a different matter, at least until Stirratt and bandmates Jay Bennett and Ken