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Building the Arizona Inn in Tucson kept Isabella Greenway busy for a while after she left Congress. She filled it with furniture bought from an organization she founded to provide work for disabled war veterans. Although she had hundreds of staff in several states, she personally attended to resolving issues

Following the release of their marvelous 1995 disc Dog Days, Oxford, Mississippi, band Blue Mountain looked to be on the verge of becoming one of the cornerstone bands of alt-country. Their particular blend of roots-rock holds the kind of broad appeal that could potentially connect with an audience the size

Back in the early '80s, when hardcore drove me from punk rock for the first time, a savvy Seattle DJ took to playing a live cut called "Jazzman" from Tom Rush's Late Night Radio. His was a warm, expressive, soothingly sad voice, and the song

The guitarist strums a simple instrumental figure; he's soon joined by the fiddler sawing an age-old melody. The duo then assay an uneasy vocal harmony, one voice pinched and reedy, the other (rendered "normal" only by comparison) lower, more controlled, but marked by distinctive rough edges.

The last of a five-box Ernest Tubb series from the wonderfully completist folks at Germany's Bear Family Records, Another Story encompasses the stretch from an April 4, 1966, session for one of the Tubb-less Texas Troubadours albums to the final Decca/MCA session on June 18, 1975. There

The late John Hammond is credited with discovering and/or signing artists including Count Basie, Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and Stevie Ray Vaughan. Among others. For 60 years or more, this Vanderbilt heir set about making and changing musical history. Amid all that, little was as striking in