A playlist by Phil Bailey that takes a wrong turn into the funny and un-PC (even for the ’60s-‘70s) pastures of classic country music

A young ne’er-do-well meets a magical guitar that cleans him up and takes him far.

Three women find success in Nashville after fleeing abusive men.

The Kudzu Ranch. Review by Carl F Gauze.

Tin Can Trust (Shout! Factory). Review by Carl F Gauze.

Author Jimmy McDonough is no stranger to tortured artists, difficult personalities, and musicians in hopeless thrall to their muses. Tammy Wynette was long dead by the time McDonough pondered this book, but Matthew Moyer thinks the distance makes it even more special and sacred.

Crazy Heart - Original Motion Picture Sound Track (Fox Search Light / New West). Review by Al Pergande.

Dolly (Sony Legacy). Review by Matthew Moyer.

Get a glimpse of America, captured in Kagarise’s photos and stories of the big country and bluegrass heroes of the ’60s playing in obscure music parks.

Don’t you dare close the book on 2007 yet! Carl F Gauze reviews the Top 19 celebrity deaths of the year that was, and you’re not likely to see these folks in soft-focus pinups in People Magazne.

With Walk The Line behind us, and Hollywood spoof Walk Hard yet to come, Matthew Moyer takes a look at this latest biography of June Carter Cash, this one by her son.

Listening to Kasey Chambers’ debut album, The Captain, it’s not hard to believe that she grew up in the South. The kicker, though, is that her incredibly authentic country music originates from the South of Australia! Sean Slone talks with the gifted young artist about the roots of her music and life in the outback.