By Mike Ethan Messick When Oklahoma singer-songwriter Brandon Jenkins died on March 2, 2018, after several harrowing days of fighting for his life in the wake of …
As Lone Star Music celebrates our 17th year in business covering the Texas/Red Dirt scene, we present to you, the fans, our very first just-for-fun …
By Mike Ethan Messick The early to mid-1990s were a time of recalibration and resurgence for what it meant to be a Texas musician. Outlaw …
By Richard Skanse (LSM July/Aug 2011/vol. 4 – Issue 4) The heat was brutal — both outside and especially inside Gruene Hall — but that …
By Rita Ballou (LSM May/June 2011/vol. 4 – Issue 3) I guess the question you are asking yourself right now is, “Who is Rita Ballou?” …
By Lynne Margolis December 2007 “Songwriting is all I really have. It’s the only thing that can’t be taken from you. In the grand scheme …
By Michael Devers August 2007 Bleu Edmondson has always been something of an enigma in the Texas music scene, a fact that even he acknowledges …
By Richard Skanse February 2006 Not that we’ve kept an official record or anything, but here’s an off-the-top-of-our-head rundown of some of the things that …
