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Little Feat has really been a series of different bands with only two constants, keyboardist Bill Payne and drummer Richie Hayward, and a long shadow cast by the late Lowell George. Hotcakes And Outtakes allows for some perspective on the band's three-decade career. It also demonstrates how fragmented

Gram Parsons gets heavy credit as one of the pioneers and true talents of country rock. In the 27 years since his death, no one has matched the beautiful fragility of his voice or his novelistic sense of country songwriting (i.e., "$1000 Wedding"). Though Parsons may not

Bob Wills is in the Country Music Hall of Fame, and when there's a tribute to his music and memory, it's no surprise to see Merle Haggard or Willie Nelson or Marty Stuart taking part. But did his bands play much country music? He had the

By now we're all aware of the profound role played by Bear Family in the documentation of vintage country music, and of the first-rate nature of their compilations when measured by recording quality, comprehensiveness, and annotations. But this may be their most important box set yet. The Jimmie

Eliza Gilkyson has been making records for nearly two decades, but Hard Times In Babylon is a revelation, a bracing song cycle about the challenges of balancing art and eros. Like Lucinda Williams, she sings with a scratchy, wounded sensuality, suggesting a wise and generous soul beneath a rough and

Reputations can be hard to shake. Jerry Joseph, now based in Portland, Oregon, after bouncing around various western cities, sometimes is written off as a "hippie rocker" stemming from his days with jam band Little Women, or dismissed as noisy and raw from his more recent work with