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