Release Date: 1998-08-08, Audio CD, Lyric Street

Somewhat remarkably, the youthful trio Rascal Flatts has an uncanny ability to sound 20-something going on 13. They are often dismissed as just another slick, contrived "boy band," though that hasn't kept them from chart-topping...(more)

First single and leadoff track "I Want to Live" sets the tone for <I>American Idol</I> castoff Josh Gracin's self-titled debut fairly and honestly, as befits the shucks-y'all persona of this country-steeped Marine....(more)

Release Date: 2003-07-22, Audio CD, Lyric Street

Country music's hottest boy band really doesn't do anything that hasn't already been done just as well or better by earlier country-pop "all-guy" bands like Diamond Rio and Restless Heart. Yet Rascal Flatts' pretty...(more)

Muscle man Aaron Tippin is a two-trick pony. If it's knee-jerk patriotism you want, or even redneck cheek (though not chic), he's your man. On <I>Stars & Stripes</I>, he plays both themes for all they're worth but never...(more)

Perhaps no female group marketed out of Nashville is as puzzling as Shedaisy, the Mormon siblings who named their trio after an American Indian word for "my sisters." Wrongfully compared to the banjo-and-fiddle-driven Dixie Chicks upon the...(more)

Release Date: 2002-04-23, Audio CD, Lyric Street

Though the late Bill Monroe is generally acknowledged as the "father of bluegrass music"--he literally forged this strident musical hybrid from earlier mountain string-band styles in the 1940s--his musical legacy has reached far beyond...(more)

Release Date: 2001-10-02, Audio CD, Lyric Street