By Richard Skanse Although it wasn’t quite on the same scale as the star-studded birthday salute held in Guy Clark’s honor five years ago at the Long …
VARIOUS ARTISTS Highway Prayer: A Tribute to Adam Carroll Eight 30 Records Given that Texas troubadour Adam Carroll is neither dead nor “famous,” some might …
Without Getting Killed or Caught: The Life and Music of Guy Clark By Tamara Saviano Texas A&M University Press By Diana Finlay Hendricks Tamara Saviano …
TERRI HENDRIX The Slaughterhouse Sessions (Project 5.2) Wilory Records In the full 20 years now that she’s been making records, Terri Hendrix has never once …
By Richard Skanse Rachel Laven will be playing things a bit rogue during her first-ever trip to the Americana Music Festival & Conference next week …
By Richard Skanse Singer-songwriter and one-man “AM Country Heaven” preservation society Jason Eady, a champion of old-school musical integrity if ever there was one, has …
By Mike Ethan Messick The strained relationship between mainstream country music’s Nashville epicenter and the relatively left-field artistic frontier of Texas goes at least all …
By Thomas D. Mooney The ’70s and ’80s were boom times for the West Texas music scene, with songwriters and bandleaders like Joe Ely, Butch …
By Richard Skanse As any seasoned “Kerrvert” can tell you, there’s never really a question of will it rain at the Kerrville Folk Festival; it’s only …
By Richard Skanse Anthony “Lucky” Tomblin was 58 years old by the time he released his first full-length album, 2001’s Lucky Club Music (credited to …
