Kevin Oliver

Best-known for his songs that were recorded by others (including Jimmy Buffett, Arlo Guthrie and David Allan Coe), Steve Goodman released a long string of excellent albums of his own before dying of leukemia in 1984. Many of them have now been reissued on his Red Pajamas label through John

The last of a five-box Ernest Tubb series from the wonderfully completist folks at Germany's Bear Family Records, Another Story encompasses the stretch from an April 4, 1966, session for one of the Tubb-less Texas Troubadours albums to the final Decca/MCA session on June 18, 1975. There

This live recording of Ernest Tubb captures the country music legend well past his commercial peak of the 1950s, but still completely in charge of his distinctive voice. A year later he would be diagnosed with emphysema, a disease that took his life in 1984. Originally released in a shorter

From the opening rhythmic vibe that bursts into a New Orleans funeral-march horn section, it's apparent that what follows is not your average singer-songwriter fare. Maybe it is the voice -- a resonant, nasal, keening, disarming warble that's inclusive of a hundred years of recorded music.