Grant Britt

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

Dale Watson is a man with no country. He believes that country music has been so homogenized and transmogrified that he wants nothing to do with it. He's invented his own name for the genre formerly known as classic county — Ameripolitan, which he defines as “original music with

They call themselves The Dip, but their sound is more like an immersion, a baptism of soul. The seven-piece Seattle group got their name from the barbecue sauce they concocted for their backyard cookouts and sell at shows. But when they crank up, it’s a soul throwdown in the

Back in the day, he was a white soul prince with a top ten hit that still gets airplay on the classic oldies wavelengths. Today, Lee Michaels is a shrimp mogul, proprietor of Killer Shrimp, a sprawling 5,000-square-foot restaurant in Marina Del Rey Harbor that serves as the anchor