Josh Grider: “Good People”
JOSH GRIDER Good People Boot Strap Records Singer-songwriter Josh Grider has had a foothold on the Texas independent music scene for years, a reliable if …
JOSH GRIDER Good People Boot Strap Records Singer-songwriter Josh Grider has had a foothold on the Texas independent music scene for years, a reliable if …
EMILY HERRING Gliding Eight 30 Records Choosing to be an alt-country artist is a tenuous career prospect at best. For every Jason Isbell or Lucinda …
COURTNEY PATTON What It’s Like to Fly Alone www.courtneypatton.com For all the ways in which mainstream country music and its more indie-minded alternatives compare, contrast, …
MIKE AND THE MOONPIES Steak Night at the Prairie Rose www.themoonpies.com In a scene arguably most heavily influenced by heartland rock and lyrically-driven folk, real-deal honky-tonk …
WADE BOWEN Solid Ground Thirty Tigers Few artists carry the torch for the modern Texas version of independent country music as reliably and enthusiastically as …
Turnpike Troubadours A Long Way From Your Heart Bossier City Records The Turnpike Troubadours have been on a long, steady climb from humble Oklahoma bar-band …
Woman Walk the Line: How the Women in Country Music Changed Our Lives Edited by Holly Gleason The University of Texas Press By Richard Skanse …
The BlueBonnets Tonewrecker www.thebluebonnets.net If there’s a better rock — as in rawk! — ’n’ roll weapon in Austin’s arsenal right now than Dominique Davalos of …
NEIL YOUNG Hitchhiker Reprise It’s hard to think of an artist who’s benefited more from the archivist impulse of the CD (and post-CD) era than …
DAVID RAMIREZ We’re Not Going Anywhere Thirty Tigers I came pretty late to the buzz-wagon that greeted David Ramirez’s last album upon its release two …