Texas music gets its own hall of fame … finally
By Lynne Margolis (Nov/Dec 2011/Vol. 4 – Issue 6) Though efforts to create a high-profile Texas Music Museum have so far been unsuccessful, a group …
By Lynne Margolis (Nov/Dec 2011/Vol. 4 – Issue 6) Though efforts to create a high-profile Texas Music Museum have so far been unsuccessful, a group …
SLOWTRAIN Bound to Find You Out theslowtrainband.net Adoniran Lipton and the rest of the boys in Austin’s Slowtrain play a highly melodic blend of Americana …
SIDESHOW TRAMPS Tramps and Freaks ZenHill Records Perhaps no band represents the eclectic, free-ranging musical tastes of Inner Loop Houston more than the Sideshow Tramps. The …
HALLEYANNA The Country Cheatham Street Records When you’ve spent most of your formative years in a place that rightly bills itself as a museum to …
By Richard Skanse (Nov/Dec 2011/Vol. 4 – Issue 6) Although it was hard to keep up with The Simpsons’ seemingly endless arsenal of big gun …
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 …
BECK & CAUTHEN Sons of Fathers www.beckandcauthen.com Though Beck & Cauthen’s debut album was produced by Lloyd Maines and features string-wizard Corby Schaub (Ryan Bingham …
Friendly Advice on Just About Anything from the Hill Country’s Happiest Songwriter By Al Barlow (LSM Sept/Oct 2011/vol. 4 – Issue 5) Dear Al, Some time back …
TOM RUSSELL Mesabi Shout! Factory El Paso-based troubadour Tom Russell has been on one hell of a roll over the last decade, from digging deeply …