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One decade's oddity is the next decade's institution. Or at least that's been the case with Lyle Lovett. The Lone Star eccentric emerged in the 1980s ostensibly as a country artist, but it became clear pretty quickly that a Southern accent and a pair of cowboy boots does not a Nashville favorite mak...

More than two decades ago, former Ralph Stanley and Emmylou Harris sideman Ricky Skaggs found mainstream stardom by reconfiguring bluegrass to make it accessible to a broader audience. Trends come and go but Skaggs, who never abandoned traditional bluegrass even during his peak hit-making years, had...

1. Can't You See 2. Statesboro Blues 3. Funny How Time Slips Away/Crazy/Night Life 4. Mississippi Queen 5. Lady Luck 6. Down Home Blues 7. Keep On Smiling 8. The South's Gonna Do It...

Dwight Live, with its generous helping of 17 songs, provides a useful summary of Yoakam's career thus far. He's recorded all but one of the songs before, but the six numbers from the '80s are deepened by everything Yoakam and his terrific band have learned from their years on the road, and the six n...

Always ... Patsy Cline: Live At The Ryman Auditorium (1995 Original Nashville Cast)...

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The American Farewell Tour...

Dwight Yoakam live from the Austin City Limits TV studio. Taped in October 1988, this CD features many of Dwight Yoakam's signature songs and includes many songs not included the original broadcast....

Listening to this New Year's Eve 1999 lovefest, it becomes clear very quickly just how influential the Judds were in shaping country music of the 1990s. In fact, their combination of '70s-style soft rock, '80s-style monster ballads, snarling Southern soul, and basic neotraditional two-steppers serve...

Live in London...