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By wedding old-school country melodies and lyrics to the dance rhythms and textures of modern electronica, Greg Garing has managed to create one of the most innovative country-flavored albums in quite some time. Garing brings plenty of rock-solid country credibility to the project. He played fiddle with Peter Rowan and

Since 1992, Toni Price's musical realm has been anchored by a happy-hour gig she plays every Tuesday evening at the Continental Club in her home of Austin. Accompanied by some of that city's finest players -- for the past couple years guitarists Jud Newcomb and Casper

Way back at the dawn of his career, a shocking 15 years of hair loss ago now, Dwight Yoakam looked to be crossover big. Riffing on Buck Owens and Don Rich, Yoakam and longtime collaborator Pete Anderson were presented as hard-core country traditionalists who had simultaneously been blessed with the

On the surface, the solo debut by Jon Dee Graham is certain to conjure comparisons with early Springsteen and later Tom Waits -- if one can imagine either of those urban artists transported to the border culture of the Tex-Mex cantina. Beneath the surface, however, is where the richness of

An unkempt romantic streak runs through the last two decades' worth of Texas songwriting, identifiable by its occasionally bombastic representations of violence and its more pervasive attempts at inflating even trenchantly average characters to the status of archetypes. As a lyrical tendency, it least serves those who insist on

While most American record companies seem content to let languish in their vaults countless classic performances from even the most well-known country legends, the British label Krazy Kat has once again dug up some long-buried musical treasures and compiled them on a couple of fascinating new collections. Jitterbug Jive features