Mike Ethan Messick: “How Close We Came”
MIKE ETHAN MESSICK How Close We Came www.mikeethanmessick.com First, a disclaimer is in order. If you’re a regular reader of Lone Star Music Magazine, and pay …
Posts tagged Texas songwriter
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September 25, 2017 LSM Song Premiere: Mike Ryan’s “Blink You’ll Miss It” Hear the title track from the Texas songwriter's follow-up to "Bad Reputation," out Oct. 20
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August 15, 2017 Ray Wylie Hubbard: “Spider, Snake and Little Sun” Superfly's Lone Star Music Emporium, San Marcos, TX, 8-14-2017
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July 31, 2017 John Baumann: “Proving Grounds”
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June 28, 2017 Q&A: Slaid Cleaves Texas folk music's favorite New England ex-pat talks about his new album, “Ghost on the Car Radio,” his debt to Woody Guthrie (and Jimmy LaFave), writing with purpose, and embracing the Sisyphean task of beating "Broke Down" every time he begins anew.
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June 17, 2017 John Baumann: “Here I Come” Superfly's Lone Star Music Emporium, San Marcos, Texas 6-16-2017
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Bruce Robison: “Bruce Robison & the Back Porch Band”
Bruce Robison Bruce Robison & the Back Porch Band www.brucerobison.com “Wanna punch that one from the bong hit on?” That little nugget of studio chatter — …
Rodney Crowell: “Close Ties”
RODNEY CROWELL Close Ties New West Sixteen years on from the release of his career-rebooting The Houston Kid, Rodney Crowell’s second wind has now been …
Where the bad winds blow … How songwriter Chris Fullerton turned his hellish “Epilepsy Blues” into a stunningly original — and beautifully weird — work of art
By Richard Skanse “The first time’s bad but the second time it’s worst And the third time’s sad and the fourth time it just hurts …
Q&A: Aaron Watson The “Underdog” country music sensation talks about his new album, “Vaquero,” staying the course, keeping the faith, sticking to his independent Texas roots, and why he’s not bothered when some folks call him an up-and-comer after 18 years and more than a dozen releases.
By Mike Ethan Messick In the last decade and a half of independent Texas country music, few artists have been as steadfast and reliable as …
Joe Ely: The Crazy Lemon at 70 The Lubbock legend talks about his Paramount birthday bash, a newly discovered treasure trove of long-lost demos and the artistic freedom of getting to do pretty much anything he wants.
By Richard Skanse As milestone birthdays go, 70 trips around the sun certainly merits a fair amount of fuss. A nice family dinner at bare …
Jonny Burke: “World’s On Fire” Superfly's Lone Star Music Emporium, San Marcos, Texas, 1-31-2017
To celebrate the release of his new solo album, Along Alone Alright, Central Texas singer-songwriter Jonny Burke and guitarist Ben Todd performed a three-song in-store set at Superfly’s …
Terry Allen’s car tunes With “Road Angel,” his new installation at Austin’s Laguna Gloria, the renowned songwriter and visual artist casts music, memory, and the myth of the American automobile into bronze.
By Richard Skanse If you were to somehow stumble upon Terry Allen’s Road Angel unawares in the dead of night, odds are it’d scare the …
Terry Allen: “Wilderness of This World” and “Yo Ho Ho” Superfly's Lone Star Music Emporium, San Marcos, Texas, Nov. 19, 2016
Three years (and 11 months, but who’s counting?) after his first appearance at Superfly’s Lone Star Music Emporium, songwriting legend and acclaimed visual artist Terry …
Terry Allen: “The Juarez Device” and “There Oughta Be a Law Against Sunny Southern California” Superfly's Lone Star Music Emporium, San Marcos, Texas, Nov. 19, 2016
To celebrate the recent re-issue of his first two albums, 1975’s Juarez and 1979’s Lubbock (on everything), Texas songwriting legend and world-renowned visual artist Terry Allen returned to …
