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Don Nix has been the musical equivalent of a supporting actor in a career that has spanned more than 40 years. He played saxophone with the Mar-Keys, one of the first successful acts on Stax Records; produced albums for Freddie King, Albert King and Delaney & Bonnie; and sang at

"Legendary" is right. "It was an ole time sound but a new sound," Ralph Stanley said after hearing the Marshall Family for the first time in 1974, and so it was. West Virginians by birth, Ohioans by immigration, the group -- mainly Judy and three younger

I gotta hand it to Dwight Yoakam, even if I'm turned off sometimes by what I see as his self-defeating posturing and pretensions (and relax, people, I already know mine's a minority position). I can't think of too many artists in any genre who

After his commercial breakthrough providing the music for the hit TV series "3rd Rock From The Sun", singer-songwriter Ben Vaughn put his solo career on the back burner. Since the success of "Sun," he has written and performed the music for a dozen TV shows and

The hard part to remember now is that this man was once regularly described by many, himself included, as a rough-edged, brawling fight-picker and general maker of trouble. It's hard because the 63-year-old performer we see onstage these days, the man reflected also in this first Billy Joe