Cheri Knight - The Northeast Kingdom
From start to finish, Cheri Knight's second solo album (and first for E-Squared) brilliantly bounces back and forth from Emmylou Harris-like ballads to Liz Phair-esque rock, touching on everything in between. This album arguably defines the moniker "alternative country" and at the same
J.D. Crowe & The New South - Live In Japan
J.D. Crowe & the New South were, simply put, one of the most important and influential bluegrass bands of the 1970s, but only their self-titled 1975 Rounder debut has remained in print (though Crowe's previous band released three albums on the tiny Lemco label). The reissue
Ricky Skaggs - Going back to old Kentucky
Ricky Skaggs in No Depression? I can already see some readers scratching their heads -- or, more likely, flinging their copies across the room. Skaggs, after all, has been a NashVegas mainstream country fixture for years, and though his latest country album (Life Is A Journey, on Atlantic) is doing well
I Want To Be a Cowgirl's Restaurant
One benefit of living in New York City is that no one need feel displaced for long. Homes are established, friends made, favorite places found. For those in search of Texas in Manhattan, the Cowgirl Hall of Fame Bar-B-Q restaurant in Greenwich Village is a worthy haunt. Owner
Mount Pilot - Pickin' & swingin'
In Chicago these days, a band's mere admission of Uncle Tupelo influence is an act of defiance worthy of respect. Critics and cognoscenti sniff, "Yeah, I've heard 'em," meaning: "Heard one; heard 'em all." But Mount Pilot's recent
Roy Huskey Jr.: 1956 to 1997
Roy Huskey Jr. died Sept. 6, 1997, in Nashville, Tennessee, of lung cancer, after having been diagnosed with the disease in June 1996. He was 40 years old.
His father, Roy M. Huskey (who, ironically, went by the nickname "Junior"), also had been a highly respected Nashville bassist,