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Because he writes mostly character-driven songs, it's difficult to know just how much Mark Knopfler imbues a painter who lusts after more vivid colors in "Let It All Go" with his own attitudes and attributes. Yet it's easy to read into the song'

If it weren't for speculation, our cultural imagination would be a far darker place. Moby Grape's debut appeared in 1967, and their final album came in 1969 (they reformed briefly two years later, and continued to do so with varying personnel over the decades). What if

On a hot summer's day in 1945, a 4-year-old boy, bored to death by droning speeches at a political picnic, was instantly entranced and electrified when the afternoon was changed from muted tones to vivid technicolor by a little man with big wiry hair who danced and clowned

What we have here, in 60 tracks on three CDs, is the first career-spanning retrospective of Merle Haggard's hits and near hits, all the way back to "Sing A Sad Song" and "Swinging Doors" at the beginning, and, across labels, all the way up

Exactly twenty years have passed since Dwight Yoakam, playing the Kern County Fair, met his hero Buck Owens and coaxed him back onstage after years of semiretirement, leading to their 1988 #1 duet on "Streets Of Bakersfield" and a lasting, deep friendship. Beyond that, Yoakam consciously avoided recording

Here's how collaborations between name artists tend to go: You do your thing, I'll do mine, we'll try and play to each other's strengths and count on something unique happening. That's not necessarily a formula for failure. There was nothing