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MICHAEL MURPHEY Geronimo’s Cadillac A&M Records One of the greatest legends of Texas music isn’t a specific artist or band so much as it is …

STURGILL SIMPSON A Sailor’s Guide to Earth Atlantic If you happened to catch the social media hubbub over Sturgill Simpson’s “In Bloom” video in late …

JACK INGRAM Electric Lucky Dog Jack Ingram may have been the first solo Texas singer-songwriter to pop up in the direct wake of Robert Earl …

HAYES CARLL Lovers and Leavers HWY 87 Records/Thirty Tigers The elevator pitch for Hayes Carll’s fifth album, as sketched out by the artist himself in …

THE NEW OFFENDERS Stones to Throw www.TheNewOffenders.com Country and rock ’n’ roll have been borrowing from each other for so long that it can be …

COODER GRAW Love to Live By Smith Entertainment In the past year or so, new records from many of the artists originally responsible for making …

FLATLAND CAVALRY Humble Folks www.FlatlandCavalry.com The new record from Lubbock-based Flatland Cavalry, Humble Folks, is a well-seasoned, mature mission statement from a band that plays …

JOEL HOFMANN BAND Shop Sessions www.joelhofmannband.com Joel Hofmann is a honky-tonk preservationist on at least two fronts. For starters, under his management, Central Texas landmark …

LARRY HOOPER No Turning Back www.HooperSongs.com Despite a career that’s leaned towards the part-time and the off-and-on, Granbury, Texas singer-songwriter Larry Hooper has steadily built …

PARKER MILLSAP The Very Last Day Okrahoma Records You listen to one too many fire and brimstone sermons as a young ’un growing up in …