Editor’s Note: LoneStarMusicMagazine.com is honored to present the following excerpt from Woman Walk the Line: How the Women in Country Music Changed Our Lives, edited by Holly …
By Holly Gleason Joe Ely, hair white and posture ram-road straight, leaned into the mic and half-whispered, half-sang, “I ain’t looking for trouble, I can’t …
By Don McLeese Was Ralph Stanley ever young? We have no recorded evidence that he ever sounded young, that his vocal style was once boyish. …
By Holly Gleason Thirty years ago, at a time when Nashville was running on the fumes of Merle, Waylon, Willie, and Emmy, the general state …
By James McMurtry (LSM May/June 2013/vol. 6 – Issue 3) [EDITOR’S NOTE: On the first night of this year’s SXSW, I cornered Tamara Saviano, producer …
By Richard Skanse (LSM Sept/Oct 2011/vol. 4 – Issue 5) Are you a hat, or a Robert Earl Keen? According to Rich Brotherton, that was …
By Lynne Margolis December 2007 “Songwriting is all I really have. It’s the only thing that can’t be taken from you. In the grand scheme …
By Richard Skanse March 2006 At a glance — and even on closer inspection — Walt Wilkins really doesn’t fit the profile of your everyday …
