Dan Penn - Nobody's Fool
Dan Penn is one of the great songwriters. His work and his life are what legends are made of, and so is this recording. Penn wrote or co-wrote such '60s classics as "Dark End Of The Street", "Do Right Woman" and "I'
Tom Russell - " But He's Big In Norway"
I met Tom Russell and his longtime guitar accompanist Andrew Hardin in 1981 in a cellar bar in Oslo, Norway. To my astonishment, they did a cover of a Gram Parsons song (at the time I thought I was the only person in Norway familiar with Parsons), and I shouted
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch... In Memory of the Sundowners
To describe The Ranch as unlike any other place on earth would be misleading, for it was in fact very much like a great many other places: It was a country music bar. Like every country bar, the Double-R Bar (which was its official name, printed like a cattle
Porter Wagoner - Essential
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.
Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys - 1971-1973
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
Willie Nelson - Yesterdays Wine
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,