Loretta Lynn: “Full Circle”
LORETTA LYNN Full Circle Legacy It may be hard for contemporary audiences to grasp just how much of an innovator Loretta Lynn was in her …
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June 4, 2016 Maren Morris finds her truth The independent Texas songwriter steps up to the big time with her bold, genre-blurring major-label debut, “Hero.”
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June 3, 2016 Turnpike Troubadours: “Diamonds & Gasoline” (2010) Fans voted this the best Red Dirt album of the LSM era — and it wears that title well.
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June 3, 2016 Kerrville Folk Festival turns 45 Come rain, shine, or flood, the songs play on at Quiet Valley Ranch
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June 2, 2016 Turnpike Troubadours for the win "Diamonds & Gasoline" comes out tops in our Ultimate Texas Country vs. Red Dirt Album Showdown
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June 2, 2016 LSM Throwback Thursday Review Randy Rogers Band: "Rollercoaster" (2004)
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Chubby Knuckle Choir: “6”
CHUBBY KNUCKLE CHOIR 6 www.chubbyknucklechoir.com “More unique” isn’t a grammatically correct sequence of words, but Austin’s Chubby Knuckle Choir aren’t all that concerned with rules anyway …
The Broken Spokes: “The Broken Spokes”
THE BROKEN SPOKES The Broken Spokes www.brokenspokesmusic.com Some of the leading lights of Texas retro-country have split or faded, and the enduring diehards (Eleven Hundred …
Video: Quaker City Night Hawks @ LSM/KOKE-FM Dillo Mixer Threadgill's World Headquarters, Austin, Texas, March 18, 2016
By Richard Skanse On May 20, Fort Worth’s Quaker City Night Hawks will be releasing what we’re already declaring — having played the ever-living hell …
The Gospel according to Wade Bowen Texas songwriter gets spiritual on new “Then Sings My Soul … Songs for My Mother”
By Kelly Dearmore Over the last five years, Wade Bowen has become as prolific of a recording artist as Texas has seen in quite some …
Video: Uncle Lucius @ LSM/KOKE-FM Dillo Mixer Threadgill's World Headquarters, Austin, Texas, March 18, 2016
Like all the acts featured at Lone Star Music and KOKE-FM’s Dillo Mixer at Threadgill’s World Headquarters (held March 18, 2016 during Austin’s South by …
Video: Javier Escovedo @ LSM/KOKE-FM Dillo Mixer Threadgill's World Headquarters, Austin, Texas, March 18, 2016
By Richard Skanse Punk rock Zero, guitar-slinging True Believer, and life-long “Gypsy Son” Javier Escovedo closed the first annual Lone Star Music and KOKE-FM Dillo Mixer at …
Video: Loose Diamonds reunion @ LSM/KOKE-FM Dillo Mixer Threadgill's World Headquarters, Austin, Texas, March 18, 2016
By Richard Skanse On Friday, March 18 during the height of SXSW week in Austin, Texas, Loose Diamonds performed a rare reunion gig in front of …
The Quaker City Night Hawks’ time is nigh Fort Worth rockers poised for blast off with forthcoming third album, “El Astronauta.”
By Christian Wallace It’s been said that good things take time. Sam Anderson and David Matsler met back in 2003 out on the lonely Llano …
Five minutes with Jamie Lin Wilson Catching up on the fly with the “Holidays & Wedding Rings” songwriter and (sometime) Trisha
By Richard Skanse When the Trishas announced that they were all taking a little hiatus from touring and recording together a couple of years back, …
