Paul Brewster - Won't lose Ricky's number
Paul Brewster, tenor singer and guitar player with Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder, wants to be clear -- very clear. "I haven't got any plans to leave Ricky," he says. "I don't want people to get the idea I'm going out
Neil Cleary - A less cautious tunesmith
"I've been around long enough, trying different things, and kind of hanging in the background, watching how things go, and now that I'm finally putting my chips on the table -- it feels cool."
So says singer, songwriter and multi-threat musician Neil Cleary, who
Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter - Dark, mossy energy
Shortly after singer-songwriter Jesse Sykes met guitarist Phil Wandscher, they took an off-road trip near Stevens Pass, Washington, getting lost on a rugged logging road in a downpour as darkness fell. "I was scared, but I was so in the midst of falling in love that I didn'
Hank Williams III - The third man
"Lord, honey, you're a ghost," Minnie Pearl said when she first met Hank Williams III. I have the same reaction; he looks so much like his grandfather that it is unnerving. Tall and lanky, with sunken cheeks and keenly intelligent eyes, he is Hank Sr.'
Freddy Fender - The ballad of Baldemar Huerta
You saw my picture in the Corpus Christi Tribune. Underneath it, it said, "A man with no alibi."
-- Bob Dylan
I'm just a popular singer.
-- Freddy Fender
El Be Bop Kid is not a kid anymore. "Shit, I'm almost 65,"
Fourkiller Flats - Not anti-alt-country
Fourkiller Flats is all but belligerently uncowed about wearing its Uncle Tupelo and Whiskeytown influences on its guitar straps. It's a refreshing posture in the wake of the occasional anti-alt-country drift, and besides, on them it sounds good.
The band's self-released debut even includes a cover