The harder the life, the sweeter the song... That's the tag line for the new Fox Searchlight film "Crazy Heart," starring Jeff Bridges. In the film, Bridges plays Bad Blake, a country musician who ...

His stage name is Bad Blake, but when it comes to singing and song-writing, Jeff Bridges ' character in the Oscar-nominated drama "Crazy Heart" is actually pretty darn good. Well, he was, anyway. It's ...

Yesterday’s honky-tonk hero, Bad Blake, arrives at a Clovis, New Mexico, bowling alley. It’s another in a string of low-pay, low-turnout gigs with pickup bands half his age, grinding the greatest hits ...

Crazy Heart, one of my favorite films of 2009, is in theaters. Bad Blake isn’t striking a pose. His life and his music are all of a piece. To my taste and temperament, most country music sounds ...