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 …
HARD WORKING AMERICANS Rest In Chaos Melvin/Thirty Tigers After the self-titled cover romp of 2014’s Hard Working Americans, featuring songs by such Americana catnipsters as Hayes …
By Holly Gleason It’s been five years since Hayes Carll put out a record, but it feels more like a decade. For the jokester/heart-tugging troubadour, …
LORETTA LYNN Full Circle Legacy It may be hard for contemporary audiences to grasp just how much of an innovator Loretta Lynn was in her …
By Cody Oxley Try not to judge singer-songwriter Parker McCollum by his cover. The 23-year-old “Limestone Kid” from Conroe is well aware of the fact …
VARIOUS ARTISTS Dreamer: A Tribute to Kent Finlay Eight 30 Records Although he was a prolific songwriter and no stranger to performing onstage, Kent Finlay …
[Editor’s Note: San Marcos, Texas-based singer-songwriter Victor Holk, who passed away on Aug. 20, 2015 from injuries sustained in a tragic house fire in June, would …
Reunited Skunks Jon Dee Graham and Jesse Sublett recall their Cheatham Street days By Brian T. Atkinson (LSM Oct/Nov 2014/vol. 7 – Issue 5) Legendary …
I Never Met a Story I Didn’t Like: Mostly True Tall Tales By Todd Snider Da Capo Press By Lynne Margolis (LSM July/Aug 2014/vol. 7 …
Musta notta gotta lotta sleep that night! Hall of Famer Joe Ely teams with Reckless Kelly to rock sixth annual Lone Star Music Awards in …
