Michael Corcoran’s Texas Top 50 Rounding up the greatest Lone Star State recordings of all time
By Michael Corcoran The ranking of Texas songs is not a new idea. I think the first person who took on the task held back …
By Michael Corcoran The ranking of Texas songs is not a new idea. I think the first person who took on the task held back …
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 …
By Thomas D. Mooney Lubbock singer-songwriter Randall King is a revivalist of sorts. While many songwriters in the state are pushing Texas Music off in …
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 …
By Holly Gleason I didn’t like country music. Truth is, I probably didn’t really know what it was at all. Whiny, nasal, twang twang twang …
By Richard Skanse Country music has done right by Monte Warden, and for most of his life, the Austin singer-songwriter and band leader has been …
VARIOUS ARTISTS Dreamer: A Tribute to Kent Finlay Eight 30 Records Although he was a prolific songwriter and no stranger to performing onstage, Kent Finlay …
RANDY ROGERS BAND Nothing Shines Like Neon Tommy Jackson Records/Thirty Tigers While it’d be a stretch to call the very (very) good Nothing Shines Like …
By Kelly Dearmore On March 2, 2015, the Texas music community was hammered with a tremendous loss when Kent Finlay, iconic founder and keeper of …