A Johnny Cash song has two components: Cash's deep, gravelly baritone, and that distinctive chicken
pickin' guitar and bassline. But as 16 Biggest Hits demonstrates, it's what Cash managed to do with those two simple ingredients that makes him a ...
Classics, Vol. 1: The Jealous Kind is a ten-track, budget-priced collection that features a good
cross-section of highlights from McClinton's Curb and Capitol recordings, including Shotgun Rider, I Can't Quit You, Going Back to Louisiana, Take Me to the River ...
Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard first teamed up on record for Pancho & Lefty in
1983, a record released some 20 years after both singers began their careers. Back then, they were both hovering around 50, already considered old guys, ...
Hard to believe, but Rodney Crowell has topped himself. Fate's Right Hand is every bit
as personal as his gripping 2001 memoir and comeback hit, The Houston Kid, but rather than the ghosts of a rough childhood, it examines a ...
Just prior to his death in 2002, Waylon Jennings headed over with some regularity to
the home studio of his longtime friend and producer Robby Turner. Featuring nothing more than Waylon's own guitar and Turner's bass, these recordings were spare ...
Johnny Cash’s distinctive baritone and boom-chicka-boom guitar rhythm powered scores of songs that spoke to
his deep, personal convictions of truth, faith and justice the world over. Released in 1971, not long after The Man In Black became a household ...
The soundtrack to Honeysuckle Rose is an anomaly in the genre. It is really a
collection of songs by Willie Nelson and his Family band as well as a host of friends like Jody Payne, Johnny Gimble, Amy Irving, Hank ...
As strong as Joe Ely's self-titled solo debut was, his second album, 1978's Honky Tonk
Masquerade, actually managed to top it, and the album remains one of the great creative triumphs of the Texas singer/songwriter community, as well as a ...