RIP: Guy Clark, Nov. 6, 1941 – May 17, 2016 Legendary Texas songwriter dead at 74
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 …
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 …
By Holly Gleason It’s been five years since Hayes Carll put out a record, but it feels more like a decade. For the jokester/heart-tugging troubadour, …
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 Holly Gleason Thirty years ago, at a time when Nashville was running on the fumes of Merle, Waylon, Willie, and Emmy, the general state …
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 …
LYLE LOVETT Joshua Judges Ruth Curb (1992) The 1970s wave of “outlaw” country musicians were revolutionary in a ruggedly coherent sort of way: Willie, Waylon, …
From full-on duo albums (Randy and Wade, Emmylou and Rodney, Willie and Merle) to one-off marquee pairings (Robert Earl and Lyle, Pat and Lyle, other …
ROBERT EARL KEEN Happy Prisoner: The Bluegrass Sessions Dualtone Forty-odd years and thousands of miles down that road going on forever, Robert Earl Keen’s career …
By Rob Patterson (LSM Jan/Feb 2015/vol 8 – issue 1) There are, every now and then, occasions in an artist’s career when the things that …
By Richard Skanse (LSM Oct/Nov 2014/vol. 7 – Issue 5) Get ready to break out the confetti again: On Feb. 10, Americana icon and Lone …