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Let me add my voice to the growing chorus that's applauding the Dixie Chicks new album, Taking the Long Way, and its unrepentant stance against America's continuing drift, what Natalie Manes said about Bush and Nashville's pitifully small-minded crap. Make that the small-mindedness of the mainstream country music establishment and some&#151not all— of its fans.

The always smug Reba McEntire, who entirely made a fool of herself on the ACM award telecast by tweaking the Chicks can only dream of the kind of sales they’ve nailed down: 525,…

While each member was clearly capable of daredevil guitar theatrics, the stunts were always held in check. The Los Angeles Guitar Quartet was all about the beauty of the song, as a whole. Tasteful and controlled, but wild and marvelous. They killed me. These guys kill them all. They kill The Fucking Champs.

I plopped down beside Jon Iverson, an excellent guitarist by most any standards (except maybe his own), and, shaking my head in awe, I spat out: "These…

Call me on your way back home, dear, because I miss you.

It was dark and completely silent — silent — when I walked into the Zu room. I wondered if something was wrong. By the time I'd decided to take a seat in the comfortable couch, however, Ryan Adams was nearly in tears.

The Zu room was remarkably different from all other rooms I visited. Maybe it was the dim lighting that created the quiet mood. Showgoers were hushed; the space was as still as a library or a lecture hall or a…

Welcome to visitors from The Friday Ark and Carnival of the Cats.

I used to work in an extended care facility, where, among other patients, we had many stroke victims who were re-learning to speak, use utensils, and perform other tasks they hadn't even thought about since childhood. It was obviously a long, hard slog, and frustrating as all get-out. Anything that can hasten that will be a mitzvah.

Thanks to John Marks.

Fascinating. Fascinating. Fascinating. I replayed the message a…