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Born into a Memphis family of prominent heritage, young Jesse James Winchester hightailed it to Canada when he received his Vietnam draft notice. Filled with the sounds of Memphis music in his head, he started writing the songs for his self-titled debut album, which wound up being produced by Robbie

From "Will the circle be unbroken?" to "Why don't you love me like you used to do?" to "Do you think about me?", country music has a long and distinguished history of posing questions -- some rhetorical, but most pleading -- in

Working in relative obscurity, '70s Texas songwriting great Ray Wylie Hubbard has resurfaced in the '90s through a series of fine solo albums, beginning with 1992's Lost Train Of Thought and continuing through 1994's Loco Gringo's Lament and 1997's Dangerous

Ever since their acclaimed late-'80s breakthrough The Trinity Session, the Cowboy Junkies' sound -- underamped instruments, lugubrious tempos and singer Margo Timmins' glacial cool -- has become an alt-cowpoke cliche. The very style that brought them acclaim quickly became the critical stick used to beat up

Listening to Mark Lanegan on a bright, shimmering Saturday afternoon just seems so...wrong. Better to wait until you're half shot-out at 2 a.m. the following Sunday morning and let the guy's somber aura just wash over you. But since my days don't

Call it Moody Blues Syndrome. Or maybe Paul McCartney Disease. Whatever it is, there's something about the lure of a big full-blown symphony orchestra that attracts some rock, pop and country singers who want to prove they know they difference between fiddles and violins. Perhaps they think their