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Hank Williams Jr.'s artistic collapse is among country music's most embarrassing stories, not least of all for its excruciating duration. More than twenty years have passed since Whiskey Bent And Hell Bound, the last of his remarkable 1970s recordings that fused honky-tonk, blues, Southern rock, and

Their sixth album in eight years finds Lambchop finding ever more intricate tapestries in their luxuriously unfolding music. With Is A Woman, the band reached for and has achieved a new level of intimacy. Love and beauty are the substance of both the songs and the sound. Kurt Wagner'

Over the years, Dallas songwriter Brian Burns has built a quiet but impressive career as a Lone Star honky-tonker with a sensitive streak. On his third collection, The Eagle & The Snake: Songs Of The Texians, he has combined his skills in an attempt to tell the history (and future)