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Tom Russell has long felt a kinship with the American West, examining its people, land and history. On Indians Cowboys Horses Dogs, his third album in the cowboy/western genre, he explores that tradition and adds to it with a well-executed set of originals and covers. Tonight We Ride mixes

Six years ago, Abra Moore seemed on the verge of a mainstream breakthrough with her Grammy-nominated single "Four Leaf Clover" and the superb album from which that song sprang. As so often happens, however, circumstances conspired to scuttle her burgeoning stardom, even as Moore acolytes such as Michelle

Give Natalie Merchant credit. Freed from a major-label contract, she might easily have elected, with her first independently released solo album, to give full expression to a sense of social consciousness that's sometimes been overbearing. Instead, on The House Carpenter's Daughter, she unfurls interpretations of traditional

Though erstwhile Eagle/Flying Burrito Brother Bernie Leadon has worked with scores of artists, it's been over a quarter-century since his name topped the marquee, on 1977's Natural Progressions by the Bernie Leadon/Michael Georgiades Band. Intriguingly, the self-released Mirror feels out-of-time, touching on styles drawn

"What Would You Say To Me", the leadoff track on Mary Chapin Carpenter's new album, is her blatant bid to get back on country radio for the first time since 1999. The song opens with a fiddle solo, which introduces the perky, bouncy melody Carpenter applies

Since its formation in 1967, NRBQ has been a champion of roots music in the broadest sense of the term, well before the genre had a name. They've covered jazz legend Sun Ra ("Rocket #9") and collaborated on albums with Carl Perkins and Skeeter Davis. That