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 …
JOEL HOFMANN BAND Shop Sessions www.joelhofmannband.com Joel Hofmann is a honky-tonk preservationist on at least two fronts. For starters, under his management, Central Texas landmark …
LARRY HOOPER No Turning Back www.HooperSongs.com Despite a career that’s leaned towards the part-time and the off-and-on, Granbury, Texas singer-songwriter Larry Hooper has steadily built …
ADAM CARROLL South of Town Down Hole Records If you’re reading this, there’s a pretty good chance that at some point someone’s floated the notion …
CHUBBY KNUCKLE CHOIR 6 www.chubbyknucklechoir.com “More unique” isn’t a grammatically correct sequence of words, but Austin’s Chubby Knuckle Choir aren’t all that concerned with rules anyway …
THE BROKEN SPOKES The Broken Spokes www.brokenspokesmusic.com Some of the leading lights of Texas retro-country have split or faded, and the enduring diehards (Eleven Hundred …
By Mike Ethan Messick Let’s hear it for the part-timers. We’re all walking through an age where the line between a performer and a fan …
By Mike Ethan Messick Led by the fevered rock ’n’ roll wail (and left-handed guitar virtuosity) of frontman Hunter McKithan, the New Offenders hang out …
SLOBBERBONE Everything You Thought Was Right Was Wrong Today New West With all due respect to Gram Parsons (and all humble recognition of what grandiose …
RAY WYLIE HUBBARD Loco Gringo’s Lament Dejadisc (original)/Misery Loves Company/Smith Entertainment (reissues) Most folks have heard the F. Scott Fitzgerald quote about how “there are …
