Q&A: Jimmie Dale Gilmore
Lubbock’s most philosophical musical export ponders the mysteries of artistic motivation, songwriting and the joy of making “Heirloom Music” just for the fun of it. …
Posts tagged Hank Williams
Mr. Record Man: Lucinda Williams
By Richard Skanse (LSM March/April 2011/vol. 4 – Issue 2) Now 13 years (and seven albums) down the proverbial gravel road from her irrefutable breakthrough …
Honky-Tonk Halloween: Honky-Tonk Blues
The Eerie History of the Skyline Club By Michael Shane Borden (LSM Oct/Nov 2010/vol. 3 – issue 6) There’s no trace of it today, but …
Jamey Johnson: “The Guitar Song”
JAMEY JOHNSON The Guitar Song Mercury Leave it to Jamey Johnson — a hickory-voiced ex-Marine who sings country music like a guy cryogenically frozen in …
Willie Nelson: “Country Music”
WILLIE NELSON Country Music Rounder Records For his first album on Rounder Records, Willie Nelson and producer T Bone Burnett attempt to do for country …
Q&A: Willie Nelson The most prolific man in Texas music ("I've already forgotten how many records I've done this year," he jokes) talks "The Great Divide," tae kwon do, and his reaction to "What Would Willie Do?"
By Richard Skanse January 2002 Willie Nelson is a man who needs less introduction than the Pope in Rome, but keeping track of the guy …
Q&A: J.T. Van Zandt
By Richard Skanse October 2001 Five years after Townes Van Zandt succumbed to a heart attack at the too-young age of 52 and left this …
