Jon Randall News

Staff photo by Bob Hammerstrom Restaurant owners Jon Randall, left, and Camille Lebbos remodeled the Country Tavern, changing the menu and decor.

For years I've been curious about the CMA Songwriters Series in New York City and since it coincided with this trip, I caught the early show last night at Joe's Pub .

Patty Loveless has enjoyed great success in country music, but always held a love for the mountain music she grew up singing in her native Kentucky.

Fans of roots music have asked Patty Loveless for years to reprise the Appalachian sound of her 2001 Mountain Soul CD, and now she has.

Out September 22 on NGDB Records, distributed by SugarHill, the new album finds the band at their laid back, ramshackle best, eschewing the large collaboration approach here for a set of songs anchored by the remarkably deft musicianship, and diverse songwriting and vocal styles of the core band of Jeff Hanna, Jimmie Fadden, Bob Carpenter, and John ...