Venue Spotlight: Blanco’s Bar & Grill
Blanco’s Bar & Grill 3406 West Alabama @ Buffalo Speedway, Houston, TX 713-439-0072 / www.houstonredneck.com By Michael Shane Borden (LSM March/April 2011/vol. 4 – Issue 2) …
Posts tagged Houston
Book Review: Rodney Crowell’s “Chinaberry Sidewalks”
Chinaberry Sidewalks By Rodney Crowell Alfred A. Knopf By William Michael Smith (LSM Jan/Feb 2011/vol. 4 – Issue 1) Jacinto City, Texas native Rodney Crowell has …
The Guitar Whisperers When guitars — and their owners — gently weep in agony, these maestros of instrument repair have the magic touch to save the music.
By D.C. Bloom (LSM Jan/Feb 2011/vol. 4 – Issue 1) Lloyd Maines has seen it all over a musical career that’s taken him from Lubbock to …
LSM Cover Story: Jesse Dayton (Honky-Tonk Halloween) The Devil and Jesse Dayton: Don’t be fooled by all that runnin’ ’round with metal misfit Rob Zombie — this prodigal honky-tonk man will never forget his country raisin’.
By Richard Skanse (LSM Oct/Nov 2010/vol. 3 – issue 6) Jesse Dayton was on his way to a show at Gruene Hall when the call …
George Ducas: “Volume Up, Windows Down”
GEORGE DUCAS Volume Up, Windows Down Propel Records Houston-bred singer-songwriter George Ducas has a string of co-written hits for the likes of Radney Foster ( …
Tift Merritt: “See You On the Moon”
TIFT MERRITT See You On the Moon Fantasy The last time we heard from Tift Merritt, the Houston native had become fully introspective, on songs …
Mike Stinson: “The Jukebox in Your Heart”
MIKE STINSON The Jukebox in Your Heart Stag Records Outside of James Hand, Dale Watson and a small cadre of others, there are few artists …
Go Fish! It just wouldn't be a Kerrville Folk Festival without Trout Fishing in America
By Michael Devers (LSM June/July 2010/vol. 3 – issue 4) On an unusually warm evening in early 1983, Ezra Idlet ran into Rod Kennedy on …
Q&A: John Dickson (Dickson Productions, MusicFest)
By Richard Skanse January 2009 I may be asking for a stoning here, but — enough about dancehalls, already. Corner just about any artist even …
Q&A: Band of Heathens
By Richard Skanse May 2008 Under ideal circumstances, any and all interviews with the Band of Heathens would only take place in a single room …
