Happy Birthday to Death Cab For Cutie singer Ben Gibbard (1976), actor Will Friedle (1974), Oasis bassist Andy Bell (1970), guitarist Charlie Sexton (1968), "Fear Factor" host Joe Rogan (1967), Ramones drummer

After two records and a Grammy nomination, Tift Merritt took hiatus with a piano in Paris and was rewarded with an unbridled inspiration and a wealth of her most accomplished songs to date. On February 26, Concord Music Group's Fantasy Records will release Merritt's Another Country.

Happy Birthday to Death Cab For Cutie singer Ben Gibbard (1976), actor Will Friedle (1974), Oasis bassist Andy Bell (1970), guitarist Charlie Sexton (1968), "Fear Factor" host Joe Rogan (1967), Ramones drummer Richie Ramone (1957), British singer Joe Jackson (1954), WWE superstar Hulk Hogan (1953), singer/songwriter Eric Carmen (1949), country singer John Conlee (1946), "Star Wars" Episodes I, II, III, and VI actor Ian McDiarmid (1944), actress Arlene Dahl (1928), and "Roots" author Alex Haley (1921; d. 1992).

With a new Lucinda Williams album this fall, her most rapturously acclaimed and best-selling album to date receives the expanded Deluxe Edition treatment. The two-CD Car Wheels On A Gravel Road - Deluxe Edition (Mercury/Lost Highway/UMe), released October 24, 2006, adds a pair of previously unreleased studio tracks plus an alternate version of "Still I Long For Your Kiss" heard in

Happy Birthday to Death Cab For Cutie singer Ben Gibbard (1976), actor Will Friedle (1974), Oasis bassist Andy Bell (1970), guitarist Charlie Sexton (1968), "Fear Factor" host Joe Rogan (1967), Ramones drummer Richie Ramone (1957), British singer Joe Jackson (1954), WWE superstar Hulk Hogan (1953), singer/songwriter Eric Carmen (1949), country singer John Conlee (1946), "Star Wars" Episodes I, II, III, and VI actor Ian McDiarmid (1944), actress Arlene Dahl (1928), and "Roots" author Alex Haley (1921; d. 1992).