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Michael Hurley - Snockgrass

It's hard to put a finger on Michael Hurley. Emerging in the early '70s with a couple of homemade albums, Armchair Boogie and Hi Fi Snock Uptown (both on the Raccoon label), he appeared in the guise of a crazy backwoods Vermont folkie, singing about werewolves and

Butch Hancock - You Coulda Walked Around The World

Bob Dylan's Time Out Of Mind album has generated some of his best reviews in two decades and earned him the cover of Newsweek; Butch Hancock's self-released You Coulda Walked Around The World isn't likely to cause much of a ripple beyond the clubs

Cheri Knight - The Northeast Kingdom

From start to finish, Cheri Knight's second solo album (and first for E-Squared) brilliantly bounces back and forth from Emmylou Harris-like ballads to Liz Phair-esque rock, touching on everything in between. This album arguably defines the moniker "alternative country" and at the same time stomps on

J.D. Crowe & The New South - Live In Japan

J.D. Crowe & the New South were, simply put, one of the most important and influential bluegrass bands of the 1970s, but only their self-titled 1975 Rounder debut has remained in print (though Crowe's previous band released three albums on the tiny Lemco label). The reissue of

Ricky Skaggs - Going back to old Kentucky

Ricky Skaggs - Going back to old Kentucky

Ricky Skaggs in No Depression? I can already see some readers scratching their heads -- or, more likely, flinging their copies across the room. Skaggs, after all, has been a NashVegas mainstream country fixture for years, and though his latest country album (Life Is A Journey, on Atlantic) is doing

I Want To Be a Cowgirl's Restaurant

One benefit of living in New York City is that no one need feel displaced for long. Homes are established, friends made, favorite places found. For those in search of Texas in Manhattan, the Cowgirl Hall of Fame Bar-B-Q restaurant in Greenwich Village is a worthy haunt. Owner Sherry Delamarter

Roy Huskey Jr.: 1956 to 1997

Roy Huskey Jr. died Sept. 6, 1997, in Nashville, Tennessee, of lung cancer, after having been diagnosed with the disease in June 1996. He was 40 years old. His father, Roy M. Huskey (who, ironically, went by the nickname "Junior"), also had been a highly respected Nashville bassist,