Personnel: Anne Murray (vocals). Track Listing: Hey Daddy; Stars Are the Windows of Heaven; Animal Crackers; Hi-Lili Hi-Lo; Why Oh Why; Teddy Bears' Picnic; Sing High, Sing Low; Inch Worm; You Are My Sunshine/Open Up Your Heart; I Can See ...

Audio Remasterer: Richard Dodd. Recording information: Treasure Isle Recording Studio. Editor: Brandon Epps. Photographer: Kristin Barlowe. Personnel: Billy Panda (acoustic guitar); Adam Shoenfeld, Kurt Allison (electric guitar); Michael "Mike Dee" Johnson (steel guitar); Tony Harrell (piano, Wurlitzer organ); Mike Rojas (piano); Tully Kennedy (bass ...

One of the strongest roots of country music has always been gospel, so this collection of country stars delivering gospel tunes live at the Opry seems like a perfectly natural occurrence. From the Charlie Daniels Band's frenetic, Southern-rock-tinged take on ...

Fantastic 2007 UK compilation that features all 23 tracks found on Ronstadt's original Greatest Hits (1976) and Greatest Hits, Vol. Two (1980). Although often overlooked today, Ronstadt was one of the most popular female vocalists throughout the '70s and '80s, ...

Relieving the pressure of delivering her eagerly awaited fourth album, Miranda Lambert formed the Pistol Annies with Ashley Monroe and Angaleena Presley, two similarly minded singer/songwriters whose profile doesn't come close to matching hers. Lambert may be the star, but ...

Colt Ford gets labeled country rap, but he's really closer in tone, spirit, and approach to rhythmic spoken word country records like Hank Williams' Luke the Drifter series, dramatically narrated trucker narratives like "Convoy," or Charlie Daniels' mock-epic "The Devil ...

Joy Williams and John Paul White aren't a couple, but they certainly sound like they're in love, singing together with the sort of familiarity that only seems to exist between couples and siblings. On Barton Hollow, their studio debut as ...

Adapters: Tennessee Ernie Ford; Jack Fascinato. Personnel: Tennessee Ernie Ford (vocals). Arrangers: Tennessee Ernie Ford; Jack Fascinato.

Release Me, Lyle Lovett's final album for Curb Records, the label he's been with since he broke onto the scene in 1985, was produced by Lovett and Nathaniel Kunkel, and features a mix of originals and covers showcasing the singer's ...

Numerous white rappers have combined hip-hop and rock, but the way the Moonshine Bandits do it on Whiskey and Women is unusual: they bring country into the mix. Whiskey and Women favors an unlikely yet successful blend of hip-hop, Southern ...

Like so many country singers from the Music City, Kip Moore got started as a songwriter, penning tunes for the duo Thompson Square. Moore displays a certain commercial savvy throughout his 2012 debut, Up All Night, sculpting his tunes with ...

Lady Antebellum have previously released a holiday EP, but 2012 brings On This Winter's Night, a full-length Christmas album recorded with deliberation and care by the country-pop trio. Working once again with their longtime producer Paul Worley, Lady Antebellum have ...

Hank Williams III and Curb Records had a contentious relationship through most of the 14 years he was signed to the label, and Curb hasn't exactly been going out of its way to get in his good graces since he's ...

Yes, this 2012 release has the exact same 23 tracks as the 2003 anthology titled It Couldn't Have Been Any Better, the songs even playing in the same chronological order. But since the 2003 collection wasn't easy to find almost ...

Old Crow Medicine Show sound like a prewar string band filtered through Uncle Tupelo via Nirvana, and if they aren't bluegrass by any stretch of the imagination, they are every bit as energetic as a breakneck bluegrass combo. They also ...

Jerry Douglas is the undisputed King of the Dobro, a musician with monster chops. He cut his teeth playing bluegrass with the Country Gentlemen, but he's equally adept at almost any kind of music and has played with the top ...

Gloriana recorded their follow-up album, A Thousand Miles Left Behind, without Cheyenne Kimball, who left the band in 2011, and the remaining three members, Rachel Reinert and brothers Mike and Tom Gossin, wrote or co-wrote all the songs on the ...

Not to be confused with the LEGEND box set released around the same time in 2005, THE LEGEND OF JOHNNY CASH is the first single-disc compilation to span the country icon's entire recorded career. Although whittling Cash's massive catalogue down ...

A classic modern country album, THE TRIO is as pretty as music gets. The ethereal harmony vocals of three of popular music's sweetest swingers, Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt, would be enough--their harmonies couldn't have been closer if ...

The studio follow-up to The Foundation, You Get What You Give features songs that the band honed on tour, and the result is a nice mixture of loose jams built around thoughtfully worked-out arrangements. Recording information: 800 East Studios, Atlanta, GA; ...

The Essential by Earl Thomas Conley highlights the gruff-voiced country singer's 20 chart-topping entries from the late '70s and early '80s. These original RCA recordings include "Holding Her and Loving You," "Angel in Disguise," "Chance of Loving You," and his ...

With a sterling cast of backing musicians, Griffith sings the songs that have been a part of his life since his boyhood, when he would attend church faithfully and give voice to them with as much sincerity as he does ...

On his debut album, Clear as Day, released by Mercury Nashville, Scotty McCreery delivers the same sort of easy pop-country that made him the winner of the tenth season of American Idol earlier in the year. Audio Mixer: Derek Bason. Recording information: ...

One of country music's classic Christmas albums, LIGHT OF THE STABLE offers a satisfying mix of seasonal favorites and new compositions, all served up by the most compelling guardian of country music tradition, Emmylou Harris. On this 1979 release, Harris ...

Consciously backpedaling from the all-encompassing embrace of American Saturday Night, Brad Paisley narrows his definition of what constitutes modern country on his seventh collection of new songs, This Is Country Music. Gone are the casual multiculturalism, the allusions to the ...