Country Standard Time, the COUNTRY MUSIC MAGAZINE

Just in!
Martina McBride: pump down the volume!
Dale Hawkins fails to inspire rockabilly crowd.
Chicks hit top of singles chart.
Garth gets ready to release band, management, newspaper reports.
[\ Watermelon owes PR firm $50K.
Del McCoury Band wins top bgrass awards.
Jimmie Dale Gilmore readies to sign new record deal.
CD Reviews of the Week: The Tractors plow ahead.

Last updated Nov. 3, 1998

Country Music Features

Heather Myles: third time lucky?
Connie Smith: resurfaces.
Son Volt swings wide.
Allison Moorer: hopes "A Hard Plce to Fall" leads to a rise.
Two Dollar Pistols: gets to heart of honky tonk.
Deke Dickerson: makes "Number One Hit Record!"
Eric Royer: one man machine, er, bluegrass band.

Stories from the past: BR5-49, Gary Allan, Dwight Yoakam, Dave Alvin, Patty Loveless, Joe Ely, Mike Ireland, The Derailers, The Mavericks, Chris and Cherie Knight, Buck Owens, Wade Hayes, Dixie Chicks, Del McCoury and dozens more.

CD Reviews of the Week: The Tractors plow ahead plus Billy Ray Cyrus, Ray Charles, Danni Leigh, Sara Evans, Don Williams, Josh Graves, Ramblers Choice. Ruthie and the Wranglers, Hayseed, Travis Tritt, Confederate Railroad and LOTS MORE!
Relics from the closet
From Trace Adkins to The Zeftrons, this contains dozens and dozens of CD reviews with artists listed alphabetically.

Upcoming CDs
Coming down the pike soon: Garth Brooks live

In Concert
Martina McBride: pump down the volume!
Dale Hawkins presents rockabilly as cabaret.
Bruce Robison, Kelly Willis, Richard Buckner defy tour name.
Lucinda Williams gets better with age.
Dale Watson, Jimmie Dale Gilmore show strange bedfellows make strong music.
Michael Martin Murphey's Westfest:puts western before country.
Junior Brown: shows off numerous talents.
Check out concert reviews from around the country of Lucinda Williams, Randy Travis, black country, Leon Russell, Kim Lenz, The Possum, Winterhawk, Iris Dement and others.

Country music news
Chicks hit top of singles chart.
Garth gets ready to release band, management, newspaper reports.
Watermelon owes PR firm $50K.
What do Del McCoury Band wins top bgrass awards.
What do Jim Lauderdale and Ralph Stanley have in common?
Bruce Robison looks to second album.
Jimmie Dale Gilmore readies to sign new record deal.

Editorial
Thanks Dixie Chicks, Shania, For different reasons, they shed light on the state of country, October 1998.
Country Musings: Loving lumber by Robert Loy, October 1998.

Book Reviews
Elvis Presley: A Life In Music (The Complete Recording Sessions), everything you wanted to know about Elvis in the studio.
The No Depression anthology: warm portraits, but could use more objectivity.

Rock-A-Billy: A Forty-Year Journey: tells fun stories of rockabilly lover, though facts could use checking.

Like a Moth to a Flame: The Jim Reeves Story by Michael Streissguth isn't very definitive.
Plus books about Johnny Cash, Lorrie Morgan, the Nashville music industry ("Three Chords and the Truth" and "Nashville's Unwritten Rules"), Eddie Arnold, Garth Brooks, Jimmy Bowen, Tanya Tucker, Rose Maddox, Waylon Jennings, Ernest Tubb, George Jones, Crook & Chase and others are reviewed.

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