Given Robert Altman's fondness for working with ensemble casts, it comes as no surprise that his films often provide a shambolic cross-section of a particular institution or locale, whether the titular mobile army hospital of M * A * S * H, the indigenous country music scene in the great network narrative Nashville, or the intersecting lives of 20 - odd Angelenos in 1993's Short Cuts. (slantmagazine.com)
Adkins, a three - time Academy of Country Music Award winner, has sold more than 11 million albums since hitting the country music scene in 1996. (fb101.com)