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Levon Helm - Midnight rambler

Sometimes the circle really is unbroken. Consider that the seeds of Levon Helm's new album Dirt Farmer and the intimate "Midnight Ramble" concerts he performs in his home studio were planted on a cotton farm in Turkey Scratch, Arkansas. Helm's dad, Jason Diamond Helm,

Billy Joe Shaver - Everybody's Brother

Billy Joe Shaver's tenacity is legendary; from parental abandonment, hard farm labor, two severed fingers and an eighth-grade education, he became an outsider songwriter in Nashville and graduated with Waylon Jennings' Honky Tonk Heroes. His perseverance as a performer grew from critically lauded, commercially disappointing solo albums

Arlo Guthrie - In Times Like These

It's not the first time Arlo Guthrie has played with a symphony, but previous attempts at recording the shows haven't proven suitable. In March 2006, Guthrie's patience paid off: With John Nardolillo's University of Kentucky Symphony Orchestra and a live audience, Guthrie

Peter Case - A guitar makes a band

Oh, the excitement Peter Case must have been feeling, staring into a pop star future so bright, he had to wear industrial-strength Hollywood Ray-Bans. It was 1979. His Los Angeles band, the Plimsouls, had been signed to a big-time record deal. His days of scuffling were over. Scuffling? When singing

Steep Canyon Rangers - Asheville cats

Though the Steep Canyon Rangers earned the coveted IBMA Emerging Artist of the Year award in September 2006, the fact is that they'd been emerging -- albeit very slowly -- for nearly a decade. Banjo player Graham Sharp met Woody Platt (guitar and lead vocals) and Charles Humphrey

Various Artists - Just One More: A Musical Tribute To Larry Brown

Larry Brown, the renowned southern writer who passed away in November 2004, loved music. Unlike many writers of his stature, he never forgot where he was from and even celebrated that place in his novels, short stories, and memoirs. Brown is remembered as one of the masters at capturing a

Gene Clark With The Gosdin Brothers - Self-Titled

When Gene Clark died in 1991 after years of substance abuse, obit writers cited his brief period as a founding member of the Byrds. Clark was actually much more. He infused the original band with much of its soul and vision, establishing himself as a pivotal folk-rock innovator, a fact