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Alison Krauss & Union Station - Lonely Runs Both Ways

To understand why Alison Krauss is one of the greatest singers of our time -- and not just in bluegrass, not just in country, but in all of English-language pop -- listen to "Goodbye Is All We Have" from her new album, Lonely Runs Both Ways. Sarah Siskind&

Roger McGuinn - Roger McGuinn & Band

Roger McGuinn's first two post-Byrds solo albums were reissued in early 2004. The third, 1975's Roger McGuinn & Band, while inherently flawed, is a marked improvement over its predecessor, the unfortunately titled Peace On You. As its title suggests, the album is built around a cohesive

Elliott Murphy - Lost Generation/Night Lights

Elliott Murphy's early LPs have for years been high on his fans' can't-wait-for-the-CD lists. Now, finally and suddenly, several labels have reissued three of his first four albums, plus five discs of demos and outtakes from the same period. The cream of the crop is

Michael Hurley - Down In Dublin

With his simple three-chord songs, unadorned voice and delivery, and straightforward lyrics, Michael Hurley makes it sound so effortless; his music feels like it has a momentum (albeit off-kilter) of its own, and he's just along for the ride. But it's an easiness that's

Tommy Alverson - Heroes And Friends

Tommy Alverson has nurtured honky-tonk talent in Texas for decades, helping young artists find their voices and bringing vintage performers back to the stage for new audiences. This new disc finds Alverson sharing Fender/fiddle/steel drenched stone cold country with Leon Rausch, Johnny Bush, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Rusty Weir,

Remembering Larry Brown

The soul of the world shrank a bit on November 24, when southern fiction author Larry Brown passed away. He died of a heart attack in his sleep. He was only 53, and left behind his wife, three children, and two grandchildren. He died at home in Mississippi, in his

Skeeter Davis: 1931 to 2004

Near the end of Skeeter Davis' honest, sometimes unsettling 1993 autobiography, Bus Fare To Kentucky, she concludes that "without the valleys, I could not have enjoyed the mountains." True enough. She'd journeyed through poverty, musical triumphs and stumbles, controversy, three marriages, and traumas capped by