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 …
By Lynne Margolis Texas songwriter Townes Van Zandt will be among the 2016 inductees into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, the organization announced Tuesday. …
By Michael Corcoran We praise our pioneers who’ve found subtle new ways to play their instruments, but rare is the one who invents a new …
By Diana Hendricks (March/April 2013/vol. 6 – Issue 2) This story begins in the summer of 1974. San Marcos had recently voted to allow alcohol …
JUNIOR BROWN Volume Ten JRB Junior Brown has been working his Ernest-Tubb-on-acid schtick for more than 20 years now, and somehow it still works. And …
The biggest honky-tonk in Texas (and the world) celebrates the big 3-0. By Laurie Barker James (LSM May/June 2011/vol. 4 – Issue 3) If there’s …
Texas Country Music Hall of Fame inducts “No Show” Jones (LSM Oct/Nov 2010/vol. 3 – issue 6) He had to wait his turn behind previous inductees …
JAMEY JOHNSON The Guitar Song Mercury Leave it to Jamey Johnson — a hickory-voiced ex-Marine who sings country music like a guy cryogenically frozen in …
By Andrew Dansby April 2003 He was born in Oklahoma. But the similarities between Ray Wylie Hubbard and the protagonist in “Up Against the Wall …
