By Richard Skanse The Texas music community awoke Thursday morning to the terrible news that one of its brightest young stars, singer-songwriter Kylie Rae Harris, …
By Holly Gleason “My definition of country music is — in so many words — sheer beauty delivered with ugly honesty,” begins Maren Morris, trying …
DIXIE CHICKS Wide Open Spaces (1998, Monument; 2016 vinyl reissue on Sony Legacy) Fly (1999, Monument; 2016 vinyl reissue on Sony Legacy) Home (2002, Open …
By Chris Mosser Me and Rob Baird, we’re neighbors. Central Austin is desperately clinging to the fading traces of humble, quirky, hippified and “weird” Old …
By Michael Corcoran The Grammys are tonight, so it’s time to trot out my Grammys story. This was from 1995, when I talked my way into …
Stars align onstage to celebrate 40 golden years of live music on TV — and to add one more name to Austin City Limits’ new …
By Lynne Margolis (LSM May/June 2014/vol. 7 – issue 3) As he sliced through a throng of people nibbling hors d’oeuvres and sipping cocktails at KLRU-TV’s …
WILLIE NELSON To All the Girls … Legacy Willie Nelson loves his duets and loves the ladies. But as with many of his collaborations, the …
By Richard Skanse (LSM May/June 2013/vol. 6 – Issue 3) Don’t call Steve Earle’s 1995 album Train a Comin’ a “comeback.” Oh, it certainly met …
Various Artists The Lost Notebooks Of Hank Williams Egyptian Records/Columbia When Nora Guthrie first came up with the idea of having musicians breathe life into …
