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Paul Brewster - Won't lose Ricky's number

Paul Brewster, tenor singer and guitar player with Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder, wants to be clear -- very clear. "I haven't got any plans to leave Ricky," he says. "I don't want people to get the idea I'm going out

Neil Cleary - A less cautious tunesmith

"I've been around long enough, trying different things, and kind of hanging in the background, watching how things go, and now that I'm finally putting my chips on the table -- it feels cool." So says singer, songwriter and multi-threat musician Neil Cleary, who

Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter - Dark, mossy energy

Shortly after singer-songwriter Jesse Sykes met guitarist Phil Wandscher, they took an off-road trip near Stevens Pass, Washington, getting lost on a rugged logging road in a downpour as darkness fell. "I was scared, but I was so in the midst of falling in love that I didn'

Hank Williams III - The third man

"Lord, honey, you're a ghost," Minnie Pearl said when she first met Hank Williams III. I have the same reaction; he looks so much like his grandfather that it is unnerving. Tall and lanky, with sunken cheeks and keenly intelligent eyes, he is Hank Sr.'

Freddy Fender - The ballad of Baldemar Huerta

You saw my picture in the Corpus Christi Tribune. Underneath it, it said, "A man with no alibi." -- Bob Dylan I'm just a popular singer. -- Freddy Fender El Be Bop Kid is not a kid anymore. "Shit, I'm almost 65,"

Brian Burns - The Eagle & The Snake: Songs Of The Texians

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)

Lambchop - Is A Woman

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'