Tuned In

Music can bond father and son, be either a footnote or the only link in a dad-daughter relationship or manage to memorialize a bit of family dysfunction.

Shooter (son of Waylon) Jennings, quietly boasts, "I'm not trying to mimic or even do anything like my father but I'm not scared to play his songs." He seems pretty comfortable living in the shadow of "an outlaw," leaving it to critics to draw the comparisons that could mess up his life, "He was the best at what he did, and I'm trying to be the best at what I do."

Also seemingly comfortable living in a musical shadow is Nancy Sinatra, daughter of legendary Francis Albert. When her first marriage went south, the papa she sorta knew advised head north with music. And that was the path to some pretty fair celebrity, though nothing like Ol' Blue Eyes'.

Not quite living in the penumbra, but just peering through it is Bobbie Jett Williams, out-of-marriage daughter of legendary Hank Sr., a man who mixed a heavenly voice with a hellish collection of personal demons. Jett, born five days after Williams' passing after 29 earth years, claims she only knows that man through his music.

And speaking of country music and dysfunctional families (and, really, who doesn't), a song waiting to be written is surely the sage of the New Jersey 1-year-old who allegedly slopped Tylenol PM into daddy's tea to encourage somnambulatorianism. With her father asleep, she could go escape the house to play with her friends. Except it didn't quite work out that way.

** When and why do the lullabies stop? **