By Eric Hisaw (LSM Jan 2014/vol. 7 – issue 1) From Bob Wills to Buddy Holly and Mance Lipscomb to Santiago Jimenez — to name but a …
By Eric Hisaw (LSM Sept/Oct 2013/Vol. 6 – Issue 5) Something was happening in Austin and it was time the rest of the country took …
By Eric Hisaw (LSM Jan/Feb 2013/vol. 6 – Issue 1) Johnny Cash came roaring out of an Arkansas cotton patch, a Jesus-conflicted, lanky black-haired rebel, …
By Eric Hisaw (May/June 2012/vol. 5 – Issue 3) I was a 14-year-old fledgling guitar player that night in 1987 when I piled into a …
By Eric Hisaw (Nov/Dec 2011/Vol. 4 – Issue 6) Exiting this mortal coil at the tender age of 26, Cecil Ingram Connor, known to the …
By Eric Hisaw (LSM July/Aug 2011/vol. 4 – Issue 4) By 1993 Billy Joe and Eddy Shaver were both music business veterans. Billy Joe had …
By Eric Hisaw (LSM May/June 2011/vol. 4 – Issue 3) Bobby Keys, once called the “ruby-lipped essence of Lubbock, Texas” on an LP jacket, stood pokerfaced …
By Eric Hisaw (LSM May/June 2011/vol. 4 – Issue 3) “Well I left my home out on the great high plains, headed for some new terrain …
By Eric Hisaw (LSM May/June 2011/vol. 4 – Issue 3) “Jesse and Lloyd! Lloyd and Jesse!” the woman at the front of the stage repeated …
By Eric Hisaw (LSM Oct/Nov 2010/vol. 3 – issue 6) Waylon Jennings took on the country music establishment armed with a leather-covered Telecaster, a bag …
