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Notes From the Editor By Richard Skanse (May/June 2012/vol. 5 – Issue 3) In the fall of 1994, a couple of months into my junior …

By Scott Schinder (May/June 2012/vol. 5 – Issue 3) Alejandro Escovedo’s new Big Station continues the incredible creative roll that began with 2006’s The Boxing …

By Rita Ballou (May/June 2012/vol. 5 – Issue 3) We all complain about them and we swear up and down that we don’t watch them, …

Friendly Advice on Just About Anything from the Hill Country’s Happiest Songwriter By Al Barlow (March/April 2012/vol. 5 – Issue 2) Dear Al, Have you …

By Rita Ballou (March/April 2012/vol. 5 – Issue 2) Remember “back in the day” — that is, approximately four years ago — when, if you …

By Gary P. Nunn (March/April 2012/vol. 5 – Issue 2) January of 1972 was a turning point in my life. Having left the University to …

Notes from the Editor By Richard Skanse (March/April 2012/vol. 5 – Issue 2) For all the great music that’s come out of the Lone Star …

By Richard Skanse (March/April 2012/vol. 5 – Issue 2) By the time Jerry Jeff Walker came sliding sideways into Luckenbach, the 31-year-old freewheeling drifter already …

Friendly Advice on Just About Anything from the Hill Country’s Happiest Songwriter By Al Barlow (LSM Jan/Feb 2012/vol. 5 – Issue 1) Dear Al, Happy New Year! …

By Richard Skanse (LSM Jan/Feb 2012/vol. 5 – Issue 1) In between the platinum-certified Outlaw uprising of the ’70s and the scruffy, punk-infused alt-country movement of …