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KRIS KRISTOFFERSON Broken Freedom Song Oh Boy This collection of fifteen songs, four of them new, was recorded in front of a live audience at the Gershwin Theater in San Francisco in July 2002, well before the war in Iraq, but Kris Kristofferson's song selection was eerily prescient.

Listen up, kids. You know what awaits in middle age: resignation, complacency, compromise, numbing nostalgia, a life sentenced to domestic drudgery. Hope I die before I get old, right? Well, at the ancient age of 53, Rodney Crowell has not only stared into the abyss of wrinkles and gray hair,

West Texas meets Southeast Asia in this reissue of an album long considered an oddball curiosity even within the curious career of Terry Allen. Something of a chicken-fried Renaissance man, the native Texan (long based in New Mexico) has earned acclaim extending from the fine-art galleries that house his paintings,

It's late '89 or early '90. I arrive at the Cat's Cradle in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 45 minutes before the start of a twin bill featuring Philly's Flight Of Mavis opening for Austin's the Reivers to find the club

Carl Sprague wasn't the first singing cowboy, but he was the first to have a hit single; "When The Work's All Done This Fall", his 1925 recording for the Victor Talking Machine Company, reportedly sold 900,000 copies in the years before the Great

Following an artist for any length of time involves putting up with some self-indulgence, since they've got to keep themselves interested enough to keep going. With rock bands, that might be in-concert drum solos or misguided solo projects. Jazz musicians invariably feel compelled to dabble in classical at