It's a cry as somber as the one Americana artists often sing about: "The business of music sucks the reason you even started to play music out of you," says Rebecca Scott, wife and manager for Dallas-based Americana artist Jay Johnson. Her husband, along with fellow area music vets Merrol Ray and Darryl Lee Rush, helps make up an overlooked realm that can best be described as an awkward, country-focused, Middle Earth that lies above the indie-approved, local honky-tonk core and just below the upper crust of... More >>>