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Star Room Boys - Why Do Lonely Men And Women Want To Break Each Other's Hearts?

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

Jesse Winchester - Gentleman Of Leisure

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

NRBQ - Self-Titled

This release celebrates NRBQ's 30th year as a band, and as a way of drawing things full circle, it has the same title (er, lack of title) as their debut, released in 1969. It's also their first full studio album since Al Anderson left the band

Anita Carter: 03/1933 to 07/29/1999

At the first, it must have seemed she hardly existed outside the arms of the energetic and surprisingly determined relatives everywhere around her. For a long time Anita Carter did not know that she'd been born (in March 1933) into a family that would be a legend. But

Bob Childers - Travelin' Woody's road

It's Sunday afternoon during the final hours of the five-day Woody Guthrie Folk Festival in Guthrie's hometown of Okemah, Oklahoma. Bob Childers has spent the better part of the week holding court with everyone from journalists to polite town folks, members of the Guthrie family, fellow

Alexander "Skip" Spence - Oar

Chances are you've heard of Alexander "Skip" Spence, but you probably haven't heard him. You have, actually, in a sense at least, if you own either of the first two Moby Grape albums. During his 1966-68 stint in the legendary San Francisco band, Spence

Townes Van Zandt - A Far Cry From Dead

Like Dock Boggs, Townes Van Zandt was obsessed with death. Both men were shadowed by their own mortality, obsessing over it and collapsing under it time and again in song. Both men ran from death in their early years, but accepted its haunting abide later in life. On Boggs'