Between Clay and Dust, however, breaks from convention in its controlled brevity. Told in short, tight chapters, the prose, in the words of publisher David Davidar, whose first offering it is from his ...

The new song, “Purple Strings,” finds the band changing things up from their usual shoegaze vibes in favor of a slow-burning acoustic ballad, with help from Mary Lattimore on harp. It starts out ...

On this day (August 29) in 1980, Alabama released “Why Lady Why”—the tender ballad that would become the group’s second No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Country Singles chart and the second link in a ...