Tim OBrien

“We wrote the song a couple different ways before we hit on a kind of defiant, Loretta Lynn-like stance."

The song's story came to Burns while he was writing in his mother's kitchen in Donegal, Burns' hometown in the northwest part of Ireland.

"I like to do things here that you're not gonna get anywhere else."

They've written songs for the Dixie Chicks and Garth Brooks, but Darrell Scott and Tim O'Brien, are also known for their distinctive solo albums As well as for stints in high-profile bands. Now they are combining forces for a live album...

Grammy-winning artist Tim O'Brien addresses the age-old question of "which came first" with the simultaneous release of both 'Chicken & Egg,' the multi-instrumentalist's 13th solo album, out this week on Howdy Skies Records. Labeled a "master of American folk music, Irish music, Scottish music" and "a fine songwriter and one of my favorite singers" by legendary gu