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Various Artists - Come On Beautiful: The Songs Of American Music Club

On the songwriting landscape, Mark Eitzel has been consigned to a dark, shady corner, the result of about a dozen American Music Club records filled with tunes that painstakingly detailed the emotional life of the urban romantic. The artists contributing to Come On Beautiful pledge allegiance to AMC, offering passionate

Rodney Crowell - Diamonds and Dirt

These three reissues -- the first from Legacy's top-shelf "American Milestones" series, the latter two from Lucky Dog's "Pick of the Litter" series -- comprise the "commercial" portion of Rodney Crowell's solo recording career. These albums were preceded

Kris Kristofferson - Self-Titled

"If it sounds country, man, that's what it is. It's a country song." That's Kris Kristofferson talking, just before launching into "Me And Bobby McGee", one of the greatest country songs -- hell, one of the greatest songs -- ever.

Danny Flowers - Vine ripened

Despite coming of age in the late-'60s/early-'70s -- when seemingly every other lead guitar player with a few months of spotlighted solos under his belt would split off to front his own band -- exemplary guitarist and first-rate songwriter Danny Flowers has waited until the

Nevermind the Slackers, Here's the Loafers

While nowadays it's hard to view the latter half of the '70s through anything but the safety-pinned lenses of punk, at the time there were pockets of resistance blissfully unaffected by the Sex Pistols and their unholy spawn. Back then, up in the Smoky Mountains, news from

Rodney Crowell - Born on the Bayou

Rodney Crowell - Born on the Bayou

One morning in the summer of 1956, when Rodney Crowell was not quite six years old, his father rousted him from bed before dawn and hustled him into the back seat of a borrowed 1949 Ford. Three cane fishing poles leaned out the window of the jet-black, white-walled roadster, and

Levon Helm & The Barn Burners - Cat's Cradle (Carrboro, NC)

When Levon Helm was diagnosed with cancer and subsequently had his singing voice burned out by radiation treatments, most people would have expected him to hang it up and call it a day. Instead, Helm -- best-known for his role in The Band, but also with several solo albums to