LSM Throwback Thursday Review Jack Ingram: "Electric" (2003)
JACK INGRAM Electric Lucky Dog Jack Ingram may have been the first solo Texas singer-songwriter to pop up in the direct wake of Robert Earl …
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July 11, 2016 Round 4: LSM’s Progressive Country/Honky-Tonk Heroes Showdown Willie and Ely make it into the Elite 8 with two albums each, but Waylon, Shaver, Townes and Guy are still in the hunt
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July 8, 2016 Recap: Willie Nelson’s 4th of July Picnic When it’s hot and expensive, what keeps fans coming?
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July 7, 2016 LSM’s Progressive Country/Honky-Tonk Heroes Showdown, Round 3! Jennings vs. Shaver, Van Zandt vs. Ely, Allen vs. Clark and more impossible choices
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July 5, 2016 Q&A: Sean McConnell The prolific songwriter finally tells his his own story on self-titled Rounder debut
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July 1, 2016 The three stages of Ralph Stanley How the late bluegrass legend transcended age, time and trend
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2016 Record Store Day, Americana style … 12 exclusive RSD releases for the Texas/Americana music fanatic
By Richard Skanse As any self-respecting (and/or self-loathing, come pay-up time) vinyl junkie already knows, Record Store Day is Saturday, April 16. Out of the …
LSM State of Mind: Singing the “RSD” blues Why Record Store Day isn’t all it should and was meant to be — and how I’d fix it.
By Chris Mosser Record Store Day! If you dig vinyl, or music of any kind, Record Store Day sounds like a good thing — and …
In Profile: Dolly Shine Stephenville band takes on gritty desert landscape and West Texas lore for forthcoming “Walkabout”
By Thomas D. Mooney It’s early evening on the last Saturday in March, and the five members of Dolly Shine are sitting around an expanded …
Hayes Carll: “Sake of the Song” Superfly's Lone Star Music Emporium, San Marcos, Texas 4-7-2016
Acclaimed Texas songwriter Hayes Carll swung by Superfly’s Lone Star Music Emporium in San Marcos on Thursday, April 7 to perform songs off his new …
Flatland Cavalry: “One I Want” Superfly's Lone Star Music Emporium, San Marcos, Texas, 4-9-2016
The fast-rising Lubbock Americana quintet Flatland Cavalry visited Superfly’s Lone Star Music Emporium on Saturday, April 9, for an in-store performance celebrating the recent release …
Hayes Carll: “Lovers and Leavers”
HAYES CARLL Lovers and Leavers HWY 87 Records/Thirty Tigers The elevator pitch for Hayes Carll’s fifth album, as sketched out by the artist himself in …
The New Offenders: “Stones to Throw”
THE NEW OFFENDERS Stones to Throw www.TheNewOffenders.com Country and rock ’n’ roll have been borrowing from each other for so long that it can be …
Q&A: Matt Martindale of Cooder Graw With the return of this much-loved (and missed) Amarillo band, the Texas country scene just might get loud again
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 …
Texas Country/Red Dirt artists react to the death of Merle Haggard Pat Green, Sunny Sweeney, Kevin Fowler, Cody Canada, Ray Wylie, the Robison brothers and more share their thoughts on the Hag and his influence on their life and music
By Chris Mosser Wednesday, April 6, 2016 was one of those days when something almost imperceptible, but somehow unmistakably palpable, changed. A dramatic shift in …
