I’ll Be Here in the Morning: The Songwriting Legacy of Townes Van Zandt By Brian T. Atkinson Texas A&M University Press By Richard Skanse (LSM …
LINCOLN DURHAM The Shovel [vs] the Howling Bones RP Lincoln Durham’s full-length debut opens with the ominous, funeral-march thump of Rick Richards’ booming drums, followed …
PAT GREEN Songs We Wish We’d Written Sugar Hill It’s been three years since Pat Green released his last album, What I’m For — and …
By BettySoo (LSM Jan/Feb 2012/vol. 5 – Issue 1) I was a 26-year-old proud homeowner, newly married and in graduate school when I decided to “try …
Notes From the Editor By Richard Skanse (LSM Sept/Oct 2011/vol. 4 – Issue 5) I wish I could say, like Gruene Hall talent booker Tracie …
By Mike Ethan Messick (LSM Sept/Oct 2011/vol. 4 – Issue 5) Hard as it may be to believe in the hyper-connected, niche-friendly world of today, there …
BETTYSOO AND DOUG COX Across the Borderline: Lie to Me www.acrosstheborderline.org Spring, Texas, native BettySoo is one of the finest young folk singer-songwriters to emerge …
ROBERT EARL KEEN Ready for Confetti Lost Highway Sitting down to review Robert Earl Keen’s latest, I asked a colleague via instant message if he’d …
CODY CANADA AND THE DEPARTED This Is Indian Land Underground Sound If things had played out differently — or, let’s face it, the way most …
By William Michael Smith (LSM May/June 2011/vol. 4 – Issue 3) Calvin Russell, one of the true Austin outlaws, died early April 3 from liver …
