Formed five years ago, Clear Path is dedicated to aiding landmine and bomb victims in Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand. Released in recognition of the thirtieth anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, Too Many Years -- which takes its title from a Kaukonen song -- will fund the organization's mission to...

Natalie Merchant is an American original with a corduroy voice and an exalted sense of the everyday, a singer who can conjure rare atmospheres and get on people's nerves at the same time, all without finishing her phrases. Ophelia, Merchant's follow-up to 1995's Tigerlily, replaces the skintight band of that solo breakthrough with a shifting cast of players, reaching out to include brass and...