Covers records are often a band's attempt to showcase their influences and explain how their...

“I've never really made a lot of decisions...

Colin O'Brien covers a lot of territory within Americana on his latest CD of mostly original songs. Tunes such as “Mountain Stage” could easily fill any sawdust-covered dance floor, while “New Territory” swings like a country-fried Hot Club number

Gram Parsons has long received the posthumous-legend treatment, and the 21st century continues to see a substantial number of reissues, tributes, books and documentaries for the man who . . .