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George Jones - I Lived to Tell it All

Garth Brooks may be country music's answer to Billy Joel, and Travis Tritt its Elton John (check out "Up Against the Wall" off his new album, The Restless Kind), but the beauty of George Jones is that, no matter what he does, he'll never

Iris Dement - The Way I Should

If June and Ward Cleaver had conceived a daughter -- in addition to Wally and the Beav -- and that daughter had been a folk singer, the third Cleaver child very well could have been Iris DeMent. DeMent appears to share many traits with the Cleaver household -- she'

Steve Forbert - Rocking Horse Head

The tenderness and longing expressed on Steve Forbert's new album, especially the way he wraps these emotions up in his warm, sandpapery vocals, at times recalls early Rod Stewart classics such as "Handbags and Gladrags" and "An Old Raincoat Won't Ever Let You

Various Artists - Sweet Relief II: Gravity of the Situation the Songs of Vic Chesnutt

The story goes that on the day Vic Chesnutt recorded the song "Guilty By Association" for his 1995 album Is The Actor Happy?, he asked his pal Michael Stipe to stop by the studio to add backing vocals. The song tells the tale of a struggling artist obscured

Rosanne Cash - 10 Song Demo

10 Song Demo makes the most sense when taken in context with the rest of Rosanne Cash's career. Her country-star status was cemented with the incredible King's Record Shop in 1987; to follow up, she released Interiors, a brutal tour of her breakup with husband and

Jill Olson - The Gal Who Would be King

As bassist and erstwhile leader of San Franciscos finest Tex-Mex-surf-polka-country-pop band the Movie Stars, Jill Olson shared songwriting duties with three diverse writers. Their two indie releases showed the band to be masterful musicians and interpreters but only hinted at their respective songwriting abilities. After the Movie Stars disbanded, Olson

Cracker - The Golden Age

If we are to believe that Cracker was formed as a reaction to the direction Camper Van Beethoven was taking at the end of their career, then we would also have to believe David Lowery when he says The Golden Age is Crackers attempt to veer away from their previous