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By the company you keep. If that's how we're judged, consider the lineup on Joe Henry's latest, Scar. Me'shell Ndegeocello on bass, Marc Ribot on guitar, Brian Blade on drums, Brad Mehldau on piano. Each a monster. Each a bandleader in his

Though the terminally brash Steve Wynn has never lacked ambition, he returns with his boldest artistic testament to date. All but forgotten a decade ago when the Dream Syndicate imploded and his solo career failed to spark, Wynn fires back with both barrels blazing on this two-disc set of

Clarence Ashley was a first-generation country music performer whose "Greenback Dollar" became one of the signature songs of the early-'60s folk boom. Born into a family of traditional musicians and singers from Shouns, near Mountain City in eastern Tennessee, he was playing banjo and guitar

From the first note of Young, Guitar Days, you're re-immersed in that Alive On Arrival sound -- a loose, earthy mix of acoustic guitar, piano, pedal steel, and Steve Forbert's wispy, whispery, distinctly Southern voice, an awkward instrument that, through absolute precision, intimacy, and unorthodox phrasing,

Without peer -- absolutely without peer -- as an interpreter of the far-flung American songbook, Ted Hawkins was also a fine songwriter, an indifferent guitarist, and a complicated man. The Unstoppable began life as a board tape from a December 18, 1988, show in London, England, and suffers not in the

Anyone foolish (or impatient) enough to dismiss Jerry Lee Lewis after his 1956-1963 Sun Records tenure is not only selling the man woefully short, they are also denying themselves some of the most satisfying music of his 40-plus-year career. After leaving the famed Memphis label, Lewis continued