His ache is real: Bob Dylan and more on the wild genius of honky-tonk hellraiser Gary Stewart

Worshipped by everyone from Willie Nelson to Joe Strummer, the country star with the amazing voice imploded in a blaze of guns, knives, drugs and infidelities. Whats behind his astonishing posthumous rediscovery?He sings like a man arguing with destiny. It sounds like the ache is real, that the ruin is real, Bob Dylan tells me. Theres a cracked truth there. Whats unsettling about him is that he sounds like hes already living in the aftermath. Dylan is talking about the late US singer-songwriter ...