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The success of a tribute album rests on three salient points: the artist being toasted, the material being covered, and the talent being assembled. Pearls In The Snow, coming nearly 30 years after Kinky Friedman's debut album was released, succeeds on all counts and in fact is a

She wanted to be Patsy Cline and Patti Smith, but by the second and final Lone Justice album, they had turned her into Patty Smyth. She, of course, is Maria McKee; "they" are executives at Geffen Records, producers Jimmy Iovine and Steve Van Zandt, L.A. writers such

January 1971. The scenario is bleak. Our subjects are a bunch of greasy longhairs from Jacksonville, Florida, who live in tents and catch their own fish for dinner. After slumming it on the Florida club circuit for a couple years, they finally secure some studio time, only to see their

Eighteen years after his debut album, Los Angeles scenester Chuck E. Weiss is out to prove he is still extremely cool. So Weiss, the subject of an old Rickie Lee Jones song, has taken a few pages from the book of his friend Tom Waits, playing the part of a

On their debut disc, Ware River Club moves effortlessly from rockin', stompin' bar-band fare to cry-in-your-beer country, with solid songwriting always a part of the mix. Singer-songwriters Matt Herbert and Matt Cullen have assembled a crackerjack band of veteran musicians from the thriving New England alt-country scene. Drummer

It's easy to get tangled up in this album's tale of two families without ever getting to the music. A primer: Tangletown leader Seth Zimmerman is the nephew of Bob Dylan and cousin to Jakob. The album is the first released on ex-Prince & the Revolution