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Susan Cowsill - Goin' back to the Crescent City

The way Susan Cowsill tells it, she spent much of her life running -- from her past, from her personal relationships, from finding her own voice. She remembers life in Los Angeles when Peter Holsapple, later her husband, asked her to go into therapy, a first. She agreed. The routine

Vassar Clements: 1928 to 2005

Not long ago, fiddler Vassar Clements attended a concert in Nashville of the fictitious heavy metal band Spinal Tap. Vassar was called up onstage to jam. Not realizing that the band was a spoof, Vassar simply dove in and fiddled his heart out. He made real music and the audience

Rosanne Cash - Seven Year Ache/King's Record Shop/Interiors

The re-release of these three remarkable albums provides the chance to hear some true milestones from this artist's surprising, very substantial career -- from the perspective of 15 to nearly 25 years later. Together, they underscore afresh the impact Rosanne Cash has had on both contemporary country music

Crazy Horse - Scratchy: The Complete Reprise Recordings

No one is likely to mistake Billy Talbot and Ralph Molina for Wyman and Watts, but with the right leader (Neil Young, say), their irregular pulse and off-kilter kerplunkety provide crucial warmth and character. Crazy Horse's 1971 self-titled debut, with Danny Whitten, Nils Lofgren and Jack Nitzsche, remains

Daniel Lanois - Belladonna

Put the western strains of a steel guitar in the midst of an ambient soundscape inspired by Brian Eno and you might have the soundtrack to a Cormac McCarthy novel. If you had to categorize this selection of spare and spacious instrumentals, you could call it Country & Existential. The

Willie Nelson - Countryman

When Willie Nelson dueted with Toots Hibbert on "Still Is Still Moving To Me", a tune written by Nelson but performed on Toots & the Maytals' 2004 album True Love, it wasn't merely an occasion to wonder which singer brought better ganja to the session.

Bobby Purify - Better To Have It

Better To Have It is a southern soul summit of sorts, thanks to the reappearance of Bobby Purify, the gathering of such session kings as David Hood, Spooner Oldham and Reggie Young, and the continued re-emergence of Dan Penn, who co-wrote twelve of this disc's thirteen songs and