By Richard Skanse Much like the fitness zealots who run every marathon actively looking forward to their next 26-mile endorphin binge, there are some people — a whole lot …
By Nichole Wagner “What would Willie do?” That was the question actor Matthew McConaughey asked the crowd at Austin’s Frank Erwin Center near the tail-end …
By Richard Skanse As of this Tuesday morning, Joe Ely has just 48 hours left in his term as the Texas State Musician of 2016 …
By j. poet Dale Watson loves real roots music, especially old time, hard-core honky-tonk rockers and ballads that tug your heartstrings hard enough to make …
By Lone Star Music Staff Headed out to Zilker Park Oct. 7-9 for the second weekend of the 15th annual Austin City Limits Music Festival? …
By Lone Star Music Staff When the very first Austin City Limits Music Festival was held way back in 2002, the two-day-only lineup boasted a …
HARD WORKING AMERICANS Rest In Chaos Melvin/Thirty Tigers After the self-titled cover romp of 2014’s Hard Working Americans, featuring songs by such Americana catnipsters as Hayes …
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 …
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 …
By Bob Livingston (LSM March/April 2014/vol. 7 – Issue 2) I had just finished playing a set at a benefit show in Dripping Springs. I …
