Jim White has just released his fourth album, the best of his career and sure to remain, nine months from now, one of the best of 2008. A musically complex collection of 12 distinct songs, ...

Pensacola — a panhandle Gulf town best known for hosting hurricanes, evangelicals, and post-hardcore bands — is a tough home base for a surreally gothic alt-country crooner with a Gram Parsons bent.

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Named for what White calls the strange new sensation of feeling “good to be alive,” ...