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Dwight Yoakam - Reprise Please Baby: The Warner Bros. Years (4-CD box)

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

Marshall Family - The Legendary Marshall Family, Volume One

"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

Don Nix & Friends - Going Down: The Songs Of Don Nix

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

Rock And Roll Doctor: Lowell George

Lowell George's musical career was foundering when he died of a massive heart attack on July 29, 1979. He was only 34 and had lost control of Little Feat, the band he'd created in his image early that decade. Ironically, the group's commercial fortunes

Bashful Brother Oswald: 1911 to 2002

Beecher Ray "Pete" Kirby, known to country music fans as Bashful Brother Oswald, died October 17. He was 90. Oswald was largely responsible for popularizing use of the dobro in country and bluegrass music, though in his long tenure as a member of Roy Acuff's Smoky

Saddlesong - Little by Little

Perhaps it's the voices of brothers Carter and Courtney Little that gain Saddlesong its somewhat unwanted recognition as a country act, especially when their harmony has that distinctive quality of classic sibling pairings. "If you do one song that sounds even remotely country, this town wants to

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Will The Circle Be Unbroken, Vol. III

If you've ever sat to listen in the center of an acoustic session, you know the aural bliss of hearing pure tones straight from the players' instruments and singers' voices. Imagine the sounds possible surrounded by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band -- along with a rotating