All posts on 2014

Musta notta gotta lotta sleep that night! Hall of Famer Joe Ely teams with Reckless Kelly to rock sixth annual Lone Star Music Awards in …

Steve Silbas, the other half of Casbeers’ “Barb ’n’ Steve,” passes By Richard Skanse (LSM May/June 2014/vol. 7 – issue 3) On April 8, just five …

George Strait: The end of the trail (or so they say) By Holly Gleason (LSM May/June 2014/vol. 7 – issue 3) “Sometimes I feel like Jesse …

By Rob Patterson (LSM May/June 2014/vol. 7 – issue 3) It was a classic music business tale: The Wagoneers blazed out of Austin in 1987 to …

BRUCE ROBISON & KELLY WILLIS Our Year Thirty Tigers After taking forever and a day before finally getting around to making a full album together, …

JOHN FULLBRIGHT Songs Blue Dirt Records The go-to cliché when it comes to praising a truly exceptional vocalist is to say he or she could …

Mr. Record Man: Old 97’s By Richard Skanse (LSM May/June 2014/vol. 7 – issue 3) The year 2014 marks the 20th anniversary of the Old …

By Lynne Margolis (LSM May/June 2014/vol. 7 – issue 3) Radney Foster’s new album, Everything I Should Have Said, opens with a sinister tune about a …

By Richard Skanse (LSM May/June 2014/vol. 7 – issue 3) “We’ve been doing this longer than you’ve been alive …” So begins the first song on …

LESLIE KRAFKA Onward Smallz Records Houston’s Leslie Krafka is proof that it’s never too late to find your true calling. A few short years ago, …