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Back in 1995, when Nick Lowe was promoting his last superb album, The Impossible Bird, he was asked during a taping of NPR's "Fresh Air" program if he felt his current songs carried less irony than his previous works. Amid some laughter, he responded that while

According to her autobiography Stand By Your Man, Tammy Wynette was in the middle of a fight with her then second husband, Don Chapel, one August night in 1968 when a recently divorced George Jones showed up unexpectedly at their door. George and Tammy didn't know each other

Few country performers -- few performers, period -- have been blessed with the kind of talent and taste that Marty Robbins had. He could do it all, and thus never saw any reason why he shouldn't. Robbins recorded honky-tonk and postwar country, teen-dream pop, western, rockabilly, Nashville Sound,

Gram Parsons left the Byrds after making Sweetheart Of The Rodeo in hopes of achieving a synthesis of country, soul and rock 'n' roll he dubbed "Cosmic American Music." He realized that vision twice -- first, with the Flying Burrito Brothers, on The Gilded Palace Of Sin,

With the release of this compilation, John Fahey's project label has returned to print the late-'20s recordings of Moran Lee "Dock" Boggs (18981971), the Appalachian singer and banjo player from western Virginia whose voice could curdle strong beer and whose preoccupations with violence and

These 32 tracks of deep, nearly-forgotten hill music represent a curious intersection of rural African-American and European-American sounds. Most folks interested in the roots of American music know that modern banjo evolved from an African gourd instrument, that the clawhammer style of playing can be traced back