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By Rita Ballou (May/June 2012/vol. 5 – Issue 3) We all complain about them and we swear up and down that we don’t watch them, …
By Rita Ballou (May/June 2012/vol. 5 – Issue 3) We all complain about them and we swear up and down that we don’t watch them, …
By Lynne Margolis (May/June 2012/vol. 5 – Issue 3) To hear John Fullbright sing is to know the sound of existential weariness. His songs sometimes …
By Chris Mosser (LSM Jan/Feb 2012/vol. 5 – Issue 1) Texas music is a unique beast. We are blessed to enjoy and take part in …
ROGER CREAGER Surrender Fun All Wrong Records After nearly 15 years of constant touring, raising the roof at countless honky-tonks, recording five albums, scoring a …
PAT GREEN Songs We Wish We’d Written Sugar Hill It’s been three years since Pat Green released his last album, What I’m For — and …
By Chris Mosser (Nov/Dec 2011/Vol. 4 – Issue 6) Jason Boland is a survivor. The onetime “Bourbon Legend” is now six-years sober, and in recent …
MIKE McCLURE BAND Fifty Billion 598 Recordings THE DAMN QUAILS Down the Hatch 598 Recordings Up the road and down a ways, tucked away in a …
By Laurie Barker James (LSM Jan/Feb 2011/vol. 4 – Issue 1) Ask Steve Rice of No Justice to define the music his band makes, and …
RECKLESS KELLY Good Luck & True Love No Big Deal Records The guys in Reckless Kelly are not known for shying away from a good …
JASON BOLAND & THE STRAGGLERS Ranch Alto APEX Nashville/Proud Souls Ent/30 Tigers Springing out of Stillwater right around the same time as fellow Okie heavyweights …