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Over a recording career that dates to 1990 and now spans nine full-length albums, the gleeful gadfly of Athens has proven himself both a songwriter of immense talent and a slave to a particularly restive muse. These traits have yielded a handful of minor masterpieces -- darkly comic records that

"We will sell no wine before its time," Orson Welles once proclaimed in a commercial.  J. J. Cale appears to have adopted a similar attitude toward live recordings. Thirty years after the release of Naturally, his debut album, the 62-year-old singer-songwriter has issued his first

Nanci Griffith doesn't quite cut it as an adult-contemporary star, and that's no insult. Certainly, she possesses some of the necessary qualities: adept backing musicians, tasteful production and arrangements, and an immediately pleasant and memorable voice. Like the majority of her recent output, any song

In the late 1960s, Tony Joe White came up to Music City from the Louisiana Delta and, for a brief time, became a star. His swamp-rockin' "Polk Salad Annie" spent the summer of 1969 in the pop Top 10, his "Rainy Night In Georgia"

During his 30 years and counting as a professional musician, Nick Lowe has never shied away from blurring boundaries or bouncing around the musical landscape. With Brinsley Schwarz -- the guitarist and the eponymous band -- he blended rock, country, R&B, New Orleans music, and soul to create the blueprint

Nashville musical eras are defined as much by dominant session players as they are by producers or labels. These musical mercenaries are as much part of the continuing country tradition as is the Opry. Players love to play, and they love to listen to whatever is out there, be it