Liner Note Author: Chuck Young. Track Listing: It's a Cheating Situation; Hank Williams, You Wrote My Life; I Cheated Me Right out of You; Till I'm Too Old to Die Young; She's Not Really Cheatin'; It Was Always So Easy; ...

Brantley Gilbert fits into the neo-outlaw, Steve Earle side of country, and he probably has more in common with heartland rockers like Tom Petty and John Mellencamp than he does, say, Randy Travis. Born outside of Athens, Georgia, he grew ...

Five years after he released the ambitious four-disc These Days in 2006, Vince Gill returns with another new album of original material, the striking Guitar Slinger, which was recorded at his home studio and features contributions from his wife Amy ...

The Amazing Rhythm Aces' Their Very Best does a better than average job of presenting the group's biggest hits, selected tracks from five albums, and two solo cuts by bandmember Russell Smith. Alongside the hits "Third Rate Romance," "Amazing Grace ...

The follow-up album to 2008's Jet Black & Jealous, which yielded three Top 40 singles, 2011's Life at Best immediately gave the Eli Young Band another fast-rising hit, the Liz Rose and Lee Brice-penned "Crazy Girl." Recording information: Dark Horse Recording, ...

Old School New Rules, which features guest appearances by Brad Paisley and Trace Adkins, is the first release for Hank Williams Jr. on his own Bocephus Records, an independent label based in Nashville, and the new album is indicative of ...

EAST TENNESSEE CHRISTMAS has a distinctly warm and serene ambiance. Chet Atkins' smooth guitar sound and lyrical touch--together with the silken voices of a (mostly) female choir and the lush outline of a string orchestra--make this an out of the ...

The series of Icon releases from UME are budget-priced compilations by pop legends, as well as younger artists who've scored on the singles charts. The Billy Currington volume selects two cuts from his self-titled debut in "I Got a Feelin'" ...

Recording information: Aimeeland Studios; Ocean Way Nashville; Sound Stage Studios. Photographer: Mark Anthony Jeffries. Personnel: Jake Owen (acoustic guitar); Kenny Greenberg, Tom Bukovac (acoustic guitar, electric guitar); Ilya Toshinsky (acoustic guitar, dobro, banjo); Jerry McPherson, Adam Shoenfeld, Brent Mason (electric guitar); Glen ...

Don Williams' easy flowing and folky approach to country, really as much pop in execution as it was down-home, gave him an impressive run of chart hits, particularly in the 1970s, when his versions of 1973's "The Shelter of Your ...

Dierks Bentley's sixth album, Home, his first since the bluegrass-themed Up on the Ridge from 2010, features a dozen new songs that the singer road-tested on tour, and it's an eclectic and varied affair, with guest spots from Little Big ...

There's nothing particularly Appalachian about this set, other than the cover, really, but it is a graceful and balanced holiday album featuring Mark O'Connor's brilliant fiddle playing on several Christmas classics, along with friends and guests Renée Fleming, Alison Krauss, ...

Josh Turner had number one hits prior to Haywire but that 2010 set had two chart toppers -- the swinging "Why Don't We Just Dance" and "All Over Me" -- and not long after its release, American Idol contestant (and ...

Sony/Legacy continues its compelling and welcome The Johnny Cash Bootleg Series with this fourth volume, The Soul of Truth, which collects sides (some previously unreleased) Cash recorded in the 1970s and '80s in a faith and gospel vein. Recording information: Hendersonville ...

For the better part of two decades, Little Feat have been a touring band that occasionally records, surviving the rough and tumble of the road and of life itself. Founding member Richie Hayward passed in 2010, by which time Gabe ...

On the cover of his 2010 debut, Love Like Crazy, Lee Brice looked a little bit like an everyday bro in his T-shirt and backwards baseball cap but on its 2012 sequel, Hard 2 Love, he cuts a slightly more ...

Legacy's 2012 set The Essential Alan Jackson is a retitled reissue of 2010's 34 Number Ones, containing the same songs in the same sequence but bearing a different title and artwork. Upon its release, three of these cuts -- "Ring ...

Crossover country and pop singer left her longtime label RCA for Republic Nashville, where her 2011 album Eleven was released. Her former label has assembled a definitive 20-track hits collection that begins with her first charting single for RCA 1993's ...

A honky tonk album filled with religious themes may sound a bit incongruous, but if you know the Bellamy Brothers, it's just business as usual. The duo have always gone their own way, ignoring trends and making the kind of ...

Country music singer and songwriter Dustin Lynch, born and raised in Tullahoma, Tennessee, honed his songwriting skills at Nashville's famous Bluebird Café, where he learned the ins and outs of the trade from some of the town's best writers like ...

Recording information: Bayou Recording Studio, Nashville, TN. Personnel: Reggie Young (electric guitar); Joe Spivey (fiddle); Mike Chapman (bass guitar); Randy Hardison (drums); Tim Hunley, Kenny Hunley (background vocals); Mark Casstevens, B. James Lowry (acoustic guitar); Larry Byrom (electric guitar); Sonny Garrish, ...

Justin Townes Earle's 2010 effort Harlem River Blues sounded like he'd found his way as a singer/songwriter amid the spidery, criss-crossing lines of Memphis' long and sometimes fractious musical heritage. Earle moved to London, but the sound of Nothing's Gonna ...

This single-disc, 14-collection features several hits by George Jones & Tammy Wynette including "Golden Ring," "We're Gonna Hold On," and "Two Story House." This is a perfect set for casual listeners on a budget. ~ Al Campbell Liner Note Author: John ...

"Give My Love To Rose" won the 2003 Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance. When the first volume of Johnny Cash's AMERICAN series appeared in 1994, it would have been difficult to predict its critical and commercial success, much ...

This 2012 Time/Life budget-line compilation rounds up ten sides from George Jones' '60s recordings for Musicor. This means the version of the big hit "White Lightnin'" is a re-recording, but it's a good one and it's surrounded by a bunch ...