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"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

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

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

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

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

David Childers latest disc is much more closely representative of the brilliance that radiates from the big man at his live shows than any of his previous releases have been. Produced by Don Dixon, Room 23 is country flavored, with occasional elements of roots-rock and English pop. Childers plays his