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On January 7, Susan Cowsill opened her monthly Carrollton Station show with Lucinda Williams' "Drunken Angel", dedicated to her brother Barry. He had remained in his longtime home New Orleans as Hurricane Katrina bore down on the city, and he left messages on Susan's voice

The world of roots music lost one of its most ardent supporters on January 11 when Red House Records president Bob Feldman died at his home in St. Paul, Minnesota. Though Feldman had been battling health problems for some time, none of his ailments were believed to be life-threatening, and

History has not been particularly kind to Bobby Bare, at least so far, and in some ways this is hard to figure. After all, he stayed on the country charts from the early 1960s to the mid-'80s, a great run by anyone's standards; from '50s

Today's breakthrough female singer in country music, Gretchen Wilson, is celebrated and promoted for her up-from-down-home midwest background, for her blunt and direct way of holding herself and singing, and for R&B-influenced rock elements in her music that give way to moving, traditional honky-tonk ballads. In