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Eighteen years after his debut album, Los Angeles scenester Chuck E. Weiss is out to prove he is still extremely cool. So Weiss, the subject of an old Rickie Lee Jones song, has taken a few pages from the book of his friend Tom Waits, playing the part of a

January 1971. The scenario is bleak. Our subjects are a bunch of greasy longhairs from Jacksonville, Florida, who live in tents and catch their own fish for dinner. After slumming it on the Florida club circuit for a couple years, they finally secure some studio time, only to see their

This live recording of Ernest Tubb captures the country music legend well past his commercial peak of the 1950s, but still completely in charge of his distinctive voice. A year later he would be diagnosed with emphysema, a disease that took his life in 1984. Originally released in a shorter

She wanted to be Patsy Cline and Patti Smith, but by the second and final Lone Justice album, they had turned her into Patty Smyth. She, of course, is Maria McKee; "they" are executives at Geffen Records, producers Jimmy Iovine and Steve Van Zandt, L.A. writers such

The success of a tribute album rests on three salient points: the artist being toasted, the material being covered, and the talent being assembled. Pearls In The Snow, coming nearly 30 years after Kinky Friedman's debut album was released, succeeds on all counts and in fact is a

Songwriters held in high esteem by fellow artists while remaining largely unknown to the masses are common in Texas music. From the late, legendary troubadour Townes Van Zandt to wordsmith extraordinaire Butch Hancock to psychedelic prophet Roky Erickson to simpleton-savant Daniel Johnston, the state's songbooks are strewn