By Richard Skanse Jimmie Dale Gilmore recalls the night — or at least that particular moment — from more than half a century ago like …
By Richard Skanse As the guys from No Dry County told writer Thomas Mooney when he interviewed them for an episode of his New Slang Podcast back in …
By Richard Skanse What a difference two years — and a helluva lotta dedicated hard work — can make. Back in January 2016, when Diana Finlay …
By Richard Skanse As milestone birthdays go, 70 trips around the sun certainly merits a fair amount of fuss. A nice family dinner at bare …
By Richard Skanse “Hey, do you know anything about bubble machines?” Amanda Shires is on the phone from her home in Nashville, wrapping up a …
By Christian Wallace When the brain is asked to communicate “Southern rock” to the mind’s eye, it’s a safe bet that those first neural signals …
By Thomas D. Mooney Last summer, Lubbock singer-songwriter Charlie Stout headed out into the New Mexico desert, hunkered down in the abandoned Presbyterian church of an …
By Don McLeese There are no losers here. From the start, even before I knew who the 64 slotted contenders were, my critical pick to …
Our readers have spoken — or rather, clicked and voted — and the verdict is in: The self-titled 1977 debut by Lubbock-reared roots rocker Joe Ely …
Let’s be honest here … did anyone really want to have to choose between Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark? As hard as many of …
