Country Music

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Johnny Cash never killed a man just to watch him die, but he forged a career of love, God and murder.
Sealand -- too good to be true
A Spaniard is arrested for selling passports to a make-believe principality.
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Zen cowboy Jimmie Dale Gilmore expresses the beauty of sadness and the perfection of sorrow.
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"Guarapero: Lost Blues 2" collects Will Oldham's stream-of-consciousness rants and odd tales of sexual dysfunction.
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Forget the heart, this Robbie Fulks collection draws on the singer's twisted mind.
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Two Buck Owens reissues imagine Christmas as a mostly secular holiday.
TV party tonight
Commercials feature the best music on television, but that hasn't gotten in the way of more soundtracks from "Friends," "Buffy," "Ally," "The Simpsons" and more.
Sweet "Emotion"
Martina McBride owns country's most genuine voice.
Merle Haggard
For 35 years the country music legend's been kickin' ass and making God laugh -- he don't need no stinkin' sound check.
Backwoods E.R.
In these parts, you meet your neighbors one crisis at a time.
Oops-O
Farrakhan's calypso days come back to haunt. Plus: Lewinsky, art lover; Regis gets aggro; and Hasselhoff, Hasselhoff, let down your trunks ... Knight Rider leaves "Baywatch" in the dust.
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Willie Nelson's 20-year-old masterpiece of classic songs, "Stardust," is re-released.
Five-string serenade
Bila Fleck and five aces deliver a bluegrass primer live in New York.
George Jones
His voice weathered and mellowed, this country legend still sings about living -- and he's got plenty of it under his belt.
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"Hello, I'm Johnny Cash."
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On "Cruel Moon," Steve Earle and Emmylou Harris back Buddy Miller, an unheralded singer-songwriter establishing a graceful link between country and soul.
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Garth Brooks had friends in low places. Chris Gaines is just weird.
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Thug rapper Eve's assertive female raps would sound even more radical at the top of the charts if the countrified Dixie Chicks weren't telling the exact same stories.
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For "In Spite of Ourselves," John Prine enlisted Iris DeMent, Lucinda Williams, Trisha Yearwood and others for a set of great country love songs.
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More than 25 years after country songwriter Gram Parsons died, Emmylou Harris still carries a torch for him.
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"Best of the Vanguard Sessions" introduces John Fahey's chillingly beautiful six-string folk.
Nashville charm
On a Saturday night in New York, Mandy Barnett evoked the soul of Patsy Cline, and Billy Joe Shaver won over a crowd that was already his.
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"Come on, baby, let me pay your rent": Songwriter Jack Logan wrote the year's most romantic verse.
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"Cold Hard Truth" is peppered with dark ballads about lost love and regretful decisions. George Jones, country's greatest living voice, knows his subject well.
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Lyle Lovett and His Large Band offer a bracing live set of cosmopolitan country -- and an alternative to all that Nashville pap.
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