Long-Haul Ryders

IF ROCK & roll were baseball, the Long Ryders would surely receive the Most Improved Players award. Two years ago, the group was little more than an inspired oddity, content to fool around at the edges of country music and collectoritis. Co-frontman Sid Griffin's obvious obsession with various styles of rock and country arcana sometimes made the group seem more a musical version of Trivial Pursuit than a smokin' live act.