Jay Farrar - Stone, Steel & Bright Lights
Jay Farrar's appeal has always been as much in his sound as his songs. It's a sound that has remained remarkably consistent through several bands and settings. Over his career, the musical backdrops have varied from traditionalist country to naked acoustic folk to raging, feedback-drenched
Dave Dudley: 1928 to 2003
For 40 years, Dave Dudley was the accidental voice of truck-driving music. After an injury to his pitching arm forced Dudley to sideline his dreams of a professional baseball career, he financed the 1962 recording session that produced "Six Days On The Road" with the insurance settlement
Riley Baugus - Down from Cold Mountain
"As an old-time musician, I hope to take old-time music to a much broader audience," Riley Baugus says. "If you notice, everyone who ever hears a banjo or fiddle stops and listens, usually tapping their foot and smiling. Most people like it I think, but
Grey DeLisle - A remembrance of things past
Grey DeLisle has a dream: She is performing with Loretta Lynn when Wanda Jackson comes onto the stage. Somehow a plastic "Roy Rogers type guitar from the '50s" materializes in DeLisle's hands and her first thought is to find a marker so Jackson can autograph
Finding Hank on the Lost Highway
Fifty-one years after his death, at the age of 29, my wife and I decided to spend New Year's doing a self-made tourist jaunt across Hank Williams' Alabama. I know, the idea of "Hank Williams Heritage Tourism" smacks of inauthentic commercialism. But we
Gary Stewart: 1945 to 2003
Thirty years ago, Gary Stewart's crazed intensity sparked and glowed like a neon bar sign across a Nashville struggling to cope with Outlaws, long-haired men, loud guitars and blue jeans. His voice was a serrated nerve ending; his leonine mane and lithe presence stood out in a