By Kelly Dearmore It’s been 15 years since the release of the Drive-By Truckers breakthrough fourth album, Southern Rock Opera. More than “just” an ambitious …
By Richard Skanse From a glass-half-empty point of view, maybe 11:30 a.m. on Day 3 isn’t the most ideal time slot for a band to …
By Richard Skanse Rachel Laven will be playing things a bit rogue during her first-ever trip to the Americana Music Festival & Conference next week …
By Richard Skanse It’s high summer in the Hill Country, and the deer are as plentiful as ever in San Marcos, Texas — but sightings …
By Holly Gleason “The land lady just realized what these guitars are worth, and she said she’d pay for it,” Steve Earle explains, getting back …
By Thomas D. Mooney The ’70s and ’80s were boom times for the West Texas music scene, with songwriters and bandleaders like Joe Ely, Butch …
By j. poet “Since I graduated from college, I’ve developed a deeper awareness of what a song can be and a stronger sense of where …
By Michael Corcoran After parting ways with Columbia Records in 2013, Band of Horses, whose last alternative chart hit was “Laredo” in 2010, decided to …
By Holly Gleason “My definition of country music is — in so many words — sheer beauty delivered with ugly honesty,” begins Maren Morris, trying …
By Chris Mosser Me and Rob Baird, we’re neighbors. Central Austin is desperately clinging to the fading traces of humble, quirky, hippified and “weird” Old …
