Blue as She Wants to Be
Photography by Eric England Curled up like a cat on a bar stool, mahogany hair falling in an Egyptian …
Angaleena Presley
"I've been divorced, broke, and didn’t know what to do,” Angaleena Presley says without pity one not-quite rainy morning at …
Heather Lose
A hank of wavy bronze hair falls across Heather Lose’s face, but even in the falling darkness of her living …
Lilly Hiatt
It’s breakfast time at The Nashville Biscuit House, and there isn’t a parking spot to be found. The scarred Formica …
Ann Powers’ Booty-Licious Tome
"My daughter really hates it when I read this part,” Ann Powers half-apologizes at Parnassus Books. Well over 60 people …
Ain’t Nothin’ Better
When one thinks of Guy Clark, the chiseled Texas songwriter, it is usually the grandeur and brio of “Desperadoes Waiting …
A Little Cherry Tomato on Top
Before Nashville was an “It” city, before Nashville realized fine dining didn’t have to be cream-sauced ’n’ butter-basted, Margot McCormack …
The Food Sheriff
INSPIRATION — LIKE WISDOM — COMES FROM STRANGE places. You have to be open and aware to recognize it when …
Dualtone’s Got Chuck
Paul Roper, president of Dualtone Records, remembers getting the call about — possibly — being the label for Chuck Berry’s …
Wisdom & Poetry
Rodney Crowell has stopped the interview. Mid-sentence. The normally thoughtful Texan has been discussing Close Ties, his 18th album, and when he emphatically picks up, it’s a pivot. “What I’m proud of is the work that I’ve been doing for a while. I am proud of my first album, and of Diamonds & Dirt, but since The Houston Kid, I stand behind a lot of the work — and I don’t cringe. That is a very big deal.”