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Porter Wagoner is one of the most significant figures in the history of post-Hank Williams country music. Along with host Red Foley, Wagoner was a star on the legendary late-50s radio show Ozark Jubilee, which had Springfield, Missouri, challenging Nashville several years before Bakersfield got on the map. Later, as

The three years covered by this collection were among the most productive and intensely focused of Ralph Stanleys career. In 1971 alone, his band produced four records for Rebel, and in May of that year, Stanley initiated an annual festival at his home in McClure, Virginia. With exception of fiddler

Back at the end of the 50s, about when I was being conceived or born or something, Willie Nelson sold the rights to a song called Family Bible for $50. That was his first break in country music; a singer named Claude Gray made Family Bible a top-10 hit, and

Despite the occasional political prattle that earned this Marietta, Ga. duo the well-deserved "Indignant Girls" tag, the Indigo Girls continue to produce genuinely compelling music, complete with an intellectual spine. After expanding the group dynamics on the electric guitar-laden Swamp Ophelia, troubadours Amy Ray and Emily Sailers return

The booklet inside John Walsh & the Sinkholes' debut CD includes several images of ol' Ike, particularly Eisenhower silver dollar coins. This graphic motif suggests the album contains political diatribes that critique capitalism and the uptight values of 1950s America. Instead, it's a tuneful collection of

Darkly seductive like that preacher's son who smelled of sex and whiskey and spoke redemption back in high school, Jim White's debut album Wrong-Eyed Jesus beguiles the listener into riding shotgun from the git-go: "Big ole car moving fast, watch the world go spinning by/