By Nichole Wagner “What would Willie do?” That was the question actor Matthew McConaughey asked the crowd at Austin’s Frank Erwin Center near the tail-end …
By Richard Skanse Over the course of his two-and-a-half-hour, 25-song set last Thursday night in Austin, Rodney Crowell dipped just four times into his pre-1990 …
By Richard Skanse As any songwriter who ever had the experience can surely attest, one did not walk into a co-writing session with Guy Clark with …
By Richard Skanse “The first time’s bad but the second time it’s worst And the third time’s sad and the fourth time it just hurts …
By Richard Skanse Sunny Sweeney does more before 9 a.m. than most late-rising lazy music writers do all day. Granted, so does just about everybody, …
By Richard Skanse If you were to somehow stumble upon Terry Allen’s Road Angel unawares in the dead of night, odds are it’d scare the …
By Lynne Margolis When Lone Star Music recruited me to cover the Austin City Limits Festival’s 15th anniversary weekends, I said “sure,” not realizing exactly …
By Lynne Margolis Some of the people sipping cocktails and schmoozing outside of Austin’s Arlyn Studios Saturday evening weren’t even sure who they were waiting …
Austin’s House of Songs, the cultural exchange program which pairs some of the city’s best songwriters with visiting troubadours from around the world for unique and mutually …
By Scott Schinder Two decades down the road from their stint as unlikely mainstream country hitmakers, the Mavericks have evolved into a singular musical force …
