Tom Roland

Sugarland Kristian Bush U2 The Dead The English Beat Adam Ant But that run of shows was more than just a personal stroll down memory lane.

As a result, the band — a genre-busting hybrid of bluegrass and hip-hop — revised its itinerary and spent the previous night in Atlanta, creating a dinner menu of grilled salmon, beef, asparagus, mushrooms and sweet potatoes.

It's a harsh fact of life for songwriters that the bulk of their creative output is consigned to a shelf, never to be heard outside a small group of friends and co-workers.

This week's Makin' Tracks column features Lainey Wilson's "4x4xU."

John Anderson will be officially inducted as a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame on Sunday, Oct. 20.

When it comes to songs with similar titles, country radio programmers often handle the perceived problem without stressing about it.

When people think about love, they frequently focus on expensive weddings, flowery poetry or heavy kissing sessions. But the ultimate act of love is arguably less romantic: paperwork.

It's a classic love song, steady and true, delivered so crisply by its A-list vocalists that its unconventionality goes almost unnoticed.

When The War and Treaty ventured into Italy for the duo's second USO tour, a stop in Naples on Oct. 25 led to an unexpected bonus.

This story originally appeared in the November/December 2002 print issue of American Songwriter It is impossible, philosophers tell us, to know joy without pain.