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2000 Stories by David Cantwell

• Loretta Lynn

  published October 12, 2000

  On radio the legends of country music might as well be dead and buried. In the recording studio, though, many of that genre's greatest singers are... More >>

• Merle Haggard

  published October 5, 2000

  It's easy to predict which songs will receive the most attention on If I Could Only Fly, the new Merle Haggard album being distributed by... More >>

• Porter Wagoner

  published September 7, 2000

  In honor of his roots in the Missouri Ozarks, Porter Wagoner is known as the Thin Man from West Plains, but just The Man would be sufficient.... More >>

• Dave Alvin

  published August 31, 2000

  “They are in the public domain,” Dave Alvin writes in the liner notes to his new collection of old folk-song covers. “They belong to nobody. T... More >>

• Marvin Gaye

  published August 17, 2000

  The first thing that must be said about The Final Concert is that it's not. This live album does capture a 1983 Indianapolis show from... More >>

• Hazel Dickens

  published August 3, 2000

  It's commonplace in our cynical world for people to respond to an overabundance of inequality and suffering with an infuriating shrug of the... More >>

• Lee Ann Womack

  published June 22, 2000

  Recent albums by Alan Jackson, Brad Paisley, and Trisha Yearwood have all hinted that commercial country music may finally be resolving its... More >>