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 …
COODER GRAW Love to Live By Smith Entertainment In the past year or so, new records from many of the artists originally responsible for making …
FLATLAND CAVALRY Humble Folks www.FlatlandCavalry.com The new record from Lubbock-based Flatland Cavalry, Humble Folks, is a well-seasoned, mature mission statement from a band that plays …
THE BROKEN SPOKES The Broken Spokes www.brokenspokesmusic.com Some of the leading lights of Texas retro-country have split or faded, and the enduring diehards (Eleven Hundred …
By Kelly Dearmore Though 2016 is still quite young, we may have already seen one of Texas country music’s biggest success stories of the year. …
By Mike Ethan Messick Led by the fevered rock ’n’ roll wail (and left-handed guitar virtuosity) of frontman Hunter McKithan, the New Offenders hang out …
RAY WYLIE HUBBARD Loco Gringo’s Lament Dejadisc (original)/Misery Loves Company/Smith Entertainment (reissues) Most folks have heard the F. Scott Fitzgerald quote about how “there are …
By Thomas D. Mooney Terry Allen was 36-years-old when he released his second album, the double-platter, all-encompassing monolith Lubbock (on Everything). Released in 1979, it …
ZANE WILLIAMS Snapshots Be Music & Entertainment An erstwhile singer-songwriter who got a deserved boost during his tenure as one of the focus artists on …
By Cody Oxley Reared on Appalachian bluegrass, singer-songwriter Lew Card left his native Tennessee for Texas a decade ago, initially finding his niche picking mandolin …
