Grant Britt

It's as advertised, a tribute to the original three members of The Carter Family delivered by a family tree full of Carters, spanning five generations of the first family of roots music's legacy. Scrolling through the list of family contributors is like wading through the begats

Buck Owens and Merle Haggard are the poster boys for the unique sound of their hometown, but wagonloads of musical pioneers were churning up the Bakersfield, California, dust before them two good ol’ boys rode out of town toward brighter lights. For The Bakersfield Sound, 1940-1974, Bear Family Records has

Rick Estrin is a time traveler. Surfing sound waves from the past, the Nightcats' vocalist/harpist pays homage to blues masters like James Cotton, Junior Wells, and Little Walter, incorporating their musical personalities into his own eclectic sound. Clad in suits that look like they might have been all

They don't come through your TV promising to cure your ills for money. But they do claim that if you come to one of their shows or hear their music, there'll be some healing going on. Charleston, South Carolina's Ranky Tanky plays the music

Marc Broussard is an acrobat, a genre-juggling time traveler straddling two very different generations in his fan base, uniting them with the power of his voice. The 37-year-old Carencro, Louisiana, native revives soul with remakes of the classics from icons including Solomon Burke and Otis Redding as well as weaving

Like Johnny Cash channeling Leonard Cohen with lyrics by Charles Bukowski, Tom Russell's latest is a collection of true-life vignettes accumulated over his wild and wooly past. Not all of the adventures are his, but he recounts them with the attitude of a man who's been