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Despite the silly name, the Ass Ponys whip up a smart literary conceit to accompany the most gripping country-rock you've ever heard.
By Kevin Berger
July 6, 2000
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Versatile country and blues player Doug Sahm goes out with an album of songs dedicated to love -- and Texas.
By David Hill
June 21, 2000
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Steve Earle, once dubbed the "hillbilly Springsteen," learns that back roads "never carry you where you want 'em to."
By David Hill
June 8, 2000
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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.
By David Hill
May 18, 2000
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A Spaniard is arrested for selling passports to a make-believe principality.
By J.A. Getzlaff
April 17, 2000
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Zen cowboy Jimmie Dale Gilmore expresses the beauty of sadness and the perfection of sorrow.
By David Cantwell
March 9, 2000
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"Guarapero: Lost Blues 2" collects Will Oldham's stream-of-consciousness rants and odd tales of sexual dysfunction.
By Seth Mnookin
February 25, 2000
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Forget the heart, this Robbie Fulks collection draws on the singer's
twisted mind.
By David Hill
January 10, 2000
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Two Buck Owens reissues imagine Christmas as a mostly secular holiday.
By Gary Kaufman
December 16, 1999
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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.
By Jeff Stark
December 9, 1999
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Martina McBride owns country's most genuine voice.
By Charles Taylor
December 7, 1999
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For 35 years the country music legend's been kickin' ass and making God laugh -- he don't need no stinkin' sound check.
By Elizabeth Bukowski
November 15, 1999
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In these parts, you meet your neighbors one crisis at a time.
By Mike Perry
November 11, 1999
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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.
By Amy Reiter
November 3, 1999
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Willie Nelson's 20-year-old masterpiece of classic songs, "Stardust," is re-released.
By Seth Mnookin
October 29, 1999
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Bila Fleck and five aces deliver a bluegrass primer live in New York.
By Seth Mnookin
October 26, 1999
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His voice weathered and mellowed, this country legend still sings about living -- and he's got plenty of it under his belt.
By Stephanie Zacharek
October 26, 1999
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"Hello, I'm Johnny Cash."
By Seth Mnookin
October 22, 1999
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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.
By David Hill
October 19, 1999
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Garth Brooks had friends in low places. Chris Gaines is just weird.
By David Cantwell
October 11, 1999
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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.
By Jon Dolan
October 4, 1999
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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.
By Rachel Elson
September 24, 1999
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More than 25 years after country songwriter Gram Parsons died, Emmylou Harris still carries a torch for him.
By David Bowman
August 12, 1999
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"Best of the Vanguard Sessions" introduces John Fahey's chillingly beautiful six-string folk.
By Andy Battaglia
July 30, 1999
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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.
By Charles Taylor
July 28, 1999
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