Henry Carrigan

Jedd Hughes is well-known among Nashville’s finest musicians—he's played with Rodney Crowell, Emmylou Harris, Vince Gill, and Patty Loveless, among others—but he deserves to be even better known outside those circles, too. Nightshades, Hughes’ second solo album, should get him the attention he deserves.A

Any world that includes Willie Nelson singing the songs of Rodney Crowell is a beautiful one, indeed. Nelson’s are still remarkably strong into his ninth decade, and he selects 12 of Crowell’s emotionally resonant songs from the past 50 years — ranging from 1976’s “Banks of the Old

The title of Portland, Oregon-based Ashleigh Flynn & The Riveters’ second album, Good Morning, Sunshine, is perfect. Like their rocking predecessors in the 1970s band Fanny, Ashleigh Flynn & The Riveters deliver joyous, high-octane performances, and the 11 songs on this collection overflow with ebullience and energy. The bright title