Last month, we introduced our new “LSM Tournament Brackets” feature with a little something we humbly called “The Ultimate Texas Country vs. Red Dirt Album …
By Richard Skanse Anthony “Lucky” Tomblin was 58 years old by the time he released his first full-length album, 2001’s Lucky Club Music (credited to …
By Holly Gleason “If I can just get off this LA Freeway Without getting killed or caught …” It’s 6:42 in the moring, and traffic …
IBy Richard Skanse Guy Clark, the dean of Texas songwriters, passed away early Tuesday morning in Nashville. He was 74. The legendary troubadour, who won …
RECKLESS KELLY Under the Table and Above the Sun Sugar Hill Records (2003) Even though they originally hail from the Pacific Northwest, Reckless Kelly is …
DIXIE CHICKS Wide Open Spaces (1998, Monument; 2016 vinyl reissue on Sony Legacy) Fly (1999, Monument; 2016 vinyl reissue on Sony Legacy) Home (2002, Open …
By Richard Skanse Long before he built his House of Songs, launched an award-winning animation/film company, helped shepherd a Roky Erickson comeback, and dreamed up …
By Richard Skanse “Hey, what ’cha know?” It’s 10:30 a.m., and Joe Ely, his signature West Texas greeting as cheerful as ever, is all coffee’d …
By Tiffany Walker As cowboy poet/master of ceremonies Red Steagall pointed out at the 10th annual Texas Heritage Songwriters’ Association Hall of Fame Awards Show …
By Holly Gleason “We were doing two shows in Philadelphia and somewhere in New Jersey, and we got snowed out,” Lyle Lovett says of his …
