@macg19: Excellent! Now consider giving the album producer’s Buddy Miller a listen (if you haven’t already). He’s a mighty fine singer in his own right, an unusually interesting guitarist (he plays on the War & Treaty album, as well as those of Emmylou Harris), and though not a prolific songwriter has the songs of his wife Julie as material (they did two albums together, and he of course produced and plays and sings of her solo albums), plus he has excellent taste in the songs of others he has recorded.
I love the recorded sound Buddy gets: very "alive", with great immediacy and presence. And you often can hear the sound of the room in which his recordings are made, which I love. He sometimes manipulates the sound, to replicate that heard on old records (as did Dave Edmunds on his fantastic 1970 Rock ’n’ Roll re-imagining of the old Blues "I Hear You Knocking").
