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We are waiting. The light...cuts through the darkened hall, twists, turns...searching for something. It swoops to the rear door, finds its spot. Into the light slides the 13-years-absent Mr. Waits, entourage behind him, pushing up the aisle now, toward the stage, bullhorn in hand, bantamweight champion

In the fall of 1955, Patsy Cline struck up a correspondence with Treva Miller, a teenage country music fan from Tennessee, who wrote offering to set up a fan club. Cline, who'd just released her first single, "A Church, A Courtroom And Then Goodbye", the previous

No matter the circumstance, Michael Hurley is a quintessential practitioner of the less-is-more dictum. As a writer of riveting and timeless songs, his phrases are short and potent, in service to verses at once elegantly concise and mysteriously layered. In conversation he favors one-word answers, though if

A round trip, indeed -- not to mention rather long and a little bit strange. Dale Duncan -- self-proclaimed "art director" of the collective known as Map Of Wyoming, whose self-released debut CD is titled Round Trip -- truly has come full circle. Point A, circa 1984, was when

[Editor's note: Writer and musician Roxy Gordon published a monthly newspaper called Picking Up The Tempo in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the 1970s that covered outlaw-country music. Nowadays he lives in the small West Texas town of Talpa and writes a weekly column for the Coleman County