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Previous attempts to blend hip-hop and country-rock have ranged from the amusing (Kid Rock) to the embarrassing (Bubba Sparxxx), but now someone has finally done it right. There's nothing gimmicky about Everlast's new album; he's blending the genres not to be cute but to

Like Joe Henry, onetime Green On Red stalwart Chuck Prophet has evolved since his alt-countryish beginnings into a refreshingly unlabel-able artist who, in mixing and matching genres, thrives on offbeat textures and carefully etched moods. One difference is that while Art has been whispering a little too loudly in Henry&

Unlike Louisiana's po' boy -- an overstuffed sandwich that lingers in the memory -- Po' Girl is a trio of women with acoustic instruments and a bent for lyrical poetry. It's a sparse affair, with soft melodies drifting along warm harmonies that sound as

Those familiar with Gatemouth Brown or black string bands such as the Mississippi Sheiks will recognize this album's concept. Though he has never recorded an all-out blues album and is largely known for his hillbilly jazz workouts, Clements, like every country or bluegrass fiddler worth his or her

The bouncy, bluesy jazz of the first track "Pony" notwithstanding, Wayward Angel finds Kasey Chambers, Australia's #1 import to Americana music in recent years, working pretty much the same territory as on her first two releases. That's a good thing, at least for the

There must be a special tincture of anguish reserved for parents who outlive their child, especially when that child is taken by wanton or self-destructive circumstances. And if an equally bitter draught exists for the loss of other loved ones, then Billy Joe Shaver has drunk deep of that, as