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Produced by Tom Werman (who made records with rock bands from Motley Crue and Molly Hatchet to Cheap Trick and Blue Oyster Cult), 1986's Still Standing was a move toward the mainstream for Jason & the Scorchers. But in retrospect, it seems more like the beginning of the

Hollywood couldn't have written it more perfectly. Singer records a tune titled "The Last Song I'm Ever Gonna Sing" only to die soon afterward. In the case of Brownwood, Texas, native "Little" Joe Carson, it's no carefully-crafted dramatic device. The

Recorded music can serve a variety of purposes. Sometimes it entertains, sometimes it empowers, and sometimes it merely documents the weaving of a particular thread in our cultural fabric. At various points in the last half-century these songs might have done all three. Of course, musically speaking, 1952 wasn'

David Grier has a fine bluegrass pedigree; during the 1960s and '70s, his father, Lamar, played banjo for both Bill Monroe and Hazel Dickens. However, as a member of bands such as Psychograss and Phillips, Grier, & Flinner, his own recent work has often tended toward the avant-garde. This

As the frontman of the J. Geils Band, it seemed Peter Wolf hardly ever made a wrong move. Geils was an R&B-fueled rock 'n' roll powerhouse, and Wolf was at the center of it all, a charismatic singer and showman whose hipster persona wasn't

Mark Knopfler's often beautiful and affecting third solo album is about exile. It's not about the exile forced by war or famine, but by the natural progression of ordinary life. "Why Aye Man", the opening tune, could have anchored a good early Dire Straits