Michael Corcoran’s Texas Top 50 Rounding up the greatest Lone Star State recordings of all time
By Michael Corcoran The ranking of Texas songs is not a new idea. I think the first person who took on the task held back …
Posts tagged George Strait
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October 21, 2016 Q&A: Zane Williams The breakout “Troubadour TX” star talks about how he first discovered country music — and his commitment to bringing it back.
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September 22, 2016 Isbell, Stapleton take top honors at Americana music awards Past, present and future of roots music celebrated at star-studded Americana Honors & Awards in Nashville
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August 19, 2016 Q&A: Cody Jinks He's "Not the Devil," but he is an outsider of both the Texas country and the mainstream — and he's happy to keep it that way.
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August 10, 2016 For the sake of the songs Townes Van Zandt, 2 other Texas natives to be inducted into Nashville Songwriters HOF
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August 4, 2016 Q&A: Cody Johnson The former rodeo cowboy on carrying on tradition while taking Texas country cross country
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Turnpike Troubadours: “Diamonds & Gasoline” (2010) Fans voted this the best Red Dirt album of the LSM era — and it wears that title well.
TURNPIKE TROUBADOURS Diamonds & Gasoline Thirty Tigers/Onward Music (2010) Whether you’re talking about the Grammys themselves or some Saturday battle-of-the-bands at the dive bar down …
LSM Throwback Thursday Review Randy Rogers Band: "Rollercoaster" (2004)
RANDY ROGERS BAND Rollercoaster Smith Entertainment (2004) If you’re a band or artist striving to make your mark, every new album is a chance to …
Q&A: Randall King Lubbock honky-tonker aims for Strait country bull's eye with "Another Bullet"
By Thomas D. Mooney Lubbock singer-songwriter Randall King is a revivalist of sorts. While many songwriters in the state are pushing Texas Music off in …
Q&A: Matt Martindale of Cooder Graw With the return of this much-loved (and missed) Amarillo band, the Texas country scene just might get loud again
By Mike Ethan Messick Recent converts to the independent Texas country-rock movement might not know this, but for a stretch in the late ‘90s going …
Bourbon ’n’ “Big City” Merle Haggard sings us back home: A personal tribute to a life-changing legend
By Holly Gleason I didn’t like country music. Truth is, I probably didn’t really know what it was at all. Whiny, nasal, twang twang twang …
Monte Warden’s modern sounds in traditional pop music The Wagoneers frontman takes a swing at crooning a brand new tune (bunches of ’em) with new residency at Austin’s Continental Club Gallery
By Richard Skanse Country music has done right by Monte Warden, and for most of his life, the Austin singer-songwriter and band leader has been …
Various Artists: “Dreamer: A Tribute to Kent Finlay”
VARIOUS ARTISTS Dreamer: A Tribute to Kent Finlay Eight 30 Records Although he was a prolific songwriter and no stranger to performing onstage, Kent Finlay …
Randy Rogers Band: “Nothing Shines Like Neon”
RANDY ROGERS BAND Nothing Shines Like Neon Tommy Jackson Records/Thirty Tigers While it’d be a stretch to call the very (very) good Nothing Shines Like …
Randy Rogers on “Nothing Shines Like Neon” New album finds RRB honoring Kent Finlay and aiming for "Pure Country" sound
By Kelly Dearmore On March 2, 2015, the Texas music community was hammered with a tremendous loss when Kent Finlay, iconic founder and keeper of …
