Country music

Music Critic Ken Tucker reviews Shania Twain’s newest CD Come On Over. (Mercury Records)

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews "The Songs of Jimmie Rodgers: A Tribute." (on Bob Dylan's Egyptian record label)

Rock critic Ken Tucker says he believes that the most popular country music is the blandest, while an underground movement of "alterna-country" performers is more passionate and raw. He'll review two such albums: Robbie Fulks's "Country Love Songs" and Joy Lynn White's "The Lucky Few."

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews "So Long So Wrong," the new album by Allison Krauss and her band Union Station.

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews "Unchained Melody" (Curb) the new collection of early songs by the 14-year-old country singer LeAnn Rimes.

Commentator Milo Miles reviews two new re-releases of singer Tracy Nelson's earlier recordings with the band Mother Earth. Nelson is still making albums today, but Miles says they don't have the same looseness and charm as these reissues.

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews the honky-tonk artist Johnny Paycheck's "The Real Mr. Heartache," a reissue of his recordings from the 1960s.

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews two new collections: guitarist Rick Holmstrom's "Look Out," (Black Top) and Ronnie Dawson's "Just Rockin' & Rollin'" (Upstart).

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews "I Feel Alright" (Warner Bros) the latest release by country-rock artist Steve Earle.

Guest film critic Steve Vineberg reviews "Georgia."