LSM Throwback Thursday Review Guy Clark: "Dublin Blues" (1995)
GUY CLARK Dublin Blues Asylum/Elektra (1995); Dualtone (2016 vinyl reissue) Guy Clark passed from this world in the early morning hours of May 17, 2016. …
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July 30, 2016 Colvin & Earle, together again for the first time For Steve Earle and Shawn Colvin, collaboration was a long time coming
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July 29, 2016 Michael Corcoran’s Texas Top 50 Rounding up the greatest Lone Star State recordings of all time
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July 22, 2016 LSM Playlist: Singing the Nashville Blues 12 anthems from the "minor leagues" about fighting — or joining — the country music mainstream
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July 22, 2016 The truths and consequences of Charlie Stout’s “Dust and Wind” The West Texas songwriter talks Flatland murder ballads and High Plains hymns
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July 22, 2016 Of Phases and Stages and the great Honky Tonk Masquerade A closer look at how both Joe Ely and Willie Nelson defined — and defied — the ’70s Texas progressive country scene
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Margo Price: “Midwest Farmer’s Daughter”
MARGO PRICE Midwest Farmer’s Daughter Third Man Records Midwest Farmer’s Daughter, the auspicious debut (on Jack White’s Third Man Records) from Illinois native and current …
In Memoriam: Guy Clark Randall Knives, Desperados and Homegrown Tomatoes
By Holly Gleason “If I can just get off this LA Freeway Without getting killed or caught …” It’s 6:42 in the moring, and traffic …
RIP: Guy Clark, Nov. 6, 1941 – May 17, 2016 Legendary Texas songwriter dead at 74
IBy Richard Skanse Guy Clark, the dean of Texas songwriters, passed away early Tuesday morning in Nashville. He was 74. The legendary troubadour, who won …
Willie’s 4th of July Picnic back in Austin for second year in a row Tickets on sale Friday for Independence Day bash at Circuit of the Americas
By Richard Skanse For an annual tradition now into its fourth decade, Willie Nelson’s 4th of July Picnic has always had a funny way of …
Willie Nelson, Gary Clark Jr. to help ACL HOF induct Kristofferson, Raitt, and King Rodney Crowell, Mavis Staples, and Taj Mahal also tapped to perform at October ceremony
By Lynne Margolis Austin City Limits has enlisted Willie Nelson, Mavis Staples, Rodney Crowell, Gary Clark Jr. and Taj Mahal to perform at its third …
Hard Working Americans: “Rest in Chaos”
HARD WORKING AMERICANS Rest In Chaos Melvin/Thirty Tigers After the self-titled cover romp of 2014’s Hard Working Americans, featuring songs by such Americana catnipsters as Hayes …
Rob Baird: “Wrong Side of the River”
ROB BAIRD Wrong Side of the River Hard Luck Recording Company As tired and outdated as the sentiment “Nashville sucks” may be these days, when …
Aaron Einhouse: “It Ain’t Pretty”
AARON EINHOUSE It Ain’t Pretty Vision Entertainment Aaron Einhouse knows that a country songwriter without a pile of tunes mining the depths of painful heartbreak …
LSM Throwback Thursday Review Reckless Kelly: "Under the Table and Above the Sun" (2003)
RECKLESS KELLY Under the Table and Above the Sun Sugar Hill Records (2003) Even though they originally hail from the Pacific Northwest, Reckless Kelly is …
