John Evans: “Polyester”
JOHN EVANS Polyester Splice Records Veteran Houston-bred, Austin-based musician John Evans may not be one of Texas music’s best-known names, but despite his eclectic style …
JOHN EVANS Polyester Splice Records Veteran Houston-bred, Austin-based musician John Evans may not be one of Texas music’s best-known names, but despite his eclectic style …
SHAD BLAIR Sawdust www.shadblair.com Gifted but obscure, Shad Blair has been knocking around the Austin-area country-folk talent pool for at least a decade, honing a …
TURNPIKE TROUBADOURS Diamonds & Gasoline Thirty Tigers/Onward Music (2010) Whether you’re talking about the Grammys themselves or some Saturday battle-of-the-bands at the dive bar down …
RANDY ROGERS BAND Rollercoaster Smith Entertainment (2004) If you’re a band or artist striving to make your mark, every new album is a chance to …
GUY CLARK Dublin Blues Asylum/Elektra (1995); Dualtone (2016 vinyl reissue) Guy Clark passed from this world in the early morning hours of May 17, 2016. …
RECKLESS KELLY Under the Table and Above the Sun Sugar Hill Records (2003) Even though they originally hail from the Pacific Northwest, Reckless Kelly is …
MICHAEL MURPHEY Geronimo’s Cadillac A&M Records One of the greatest legends of Texas music isn’t a specific artist or band so much as it is …
JACK INGRAM Electric Lucky Dog Jack Ingram may have been the first solo Texas singer-songwriter to pop up in the direct wake of Robert Earl …
THE NEW OFFENDERS Stones to Throw www.TheNewOffenders.com Country and rock ’n’ roll have been borrowing from each other for so long that it can be …
By Mike Ethan Messick Recent converts to the independent Texas country-rock movement might not know this, but for a stretch in the late ‘90s going …