By Lynne Margolis Texas songwriter Townes Van Zandt will be among the 2016 inductees into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, the organization announced Tuesday. …
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 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 Richard Skanse (LSM Oct/Nov 2014/vol. 7 – Issue 5) Lee Ann Womack won’t name names, let alone pinpoint the scene of the crime. But …
From roadhouses and dancefloor shuffles to concert halls and sophisticated, string-laden standards, the great connector was country music — and Texas music — incarnate. By …
By Scott Schinder (March/April 2013/vol. 6 – Issue 2) At 76, Kris Kristofferson is currently making some of the best music of his career. The …
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 Richard Skanse (March/April 2012/vol. 5 – Issue 2) By the time Jerry Jeff Walker came sliding sideways into Luckenbach, the 31-year-old freewheeling drifter already …
BUDDY MILLER The Majestic Silver Strings New West Records The steel guitar has a natural ache in its tone, an otherworldly quality, like the sound …
Snapshots, soundtracks and tall tales from Texas and beyond By Bob Livingston (LSM March/April 2011/vol. 4 – Issue 2) First Time For Everything I didn’t …
