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103 humid degrees of bug-bitten fun: That was the promise held along with this evening's entertainment on the second night of the annual Dixie Fried Festival, brought to you by your friends at Shangri-La Records. Despite the fact that the air conditioning blew in some remote

R.S. Field represents one of the great hopes for Nashville. He is a maverick producer/performer/songwriter who is not afraid or ashamed to integrate Nashville's past sounds with its present. In an era where most major-label country is either overproduced ballads or southern-slanted rock,

If you're reading this magazine, you almost certainly own at least one album Brian Paulson has produced. He's been pretty hard to avoid in '90s alternative country circles, and the genre is unimaginable without such Paulson-produced landmarks as Uncle Tupelo's Anodyne, Son

"It's Just That Simple", John Stirratt's high lonesome moment on Wilco's debut, suggested that singer-songwriter talent in the band ran deeper than frontman Jeff Tweedy. Further recorded proof was a different matter, at least until Stirratt and bandmates Jay Bennett and

Editor's note: A few months back, I made my first visit to New York's modest, humble, yet quickly-becoming-famous Lakeside Lounge, a bar co-owned by Eric Ambel, who's profiled elsewhere in this package of articles about producers. Ambel was gone that day,