By Richard Skanse (LSM Aug/Sept 2010/vol. 3 – Issue 5) PART 1 — Kevin Welch The Great Emancipation Songwriter’s songwriter Kevin Welch spent 30 years …
By Lynne Margolis (LSM Aug/Sept 2010/vol. 3 – Issue 5) If Sahara Smith becomes the next big star to glow beyond the Lone Star State, …
By Rob Patterson June 2006 Even if he had only written “Redneck Mother” — the anthem of the Texas progressive country movement of the 1970s …
By Richard Skanse December 2004 If you had to categorize Alejandro Escovedo as a glass-half-full or half-empty person based solely on his song catalog, odds …
By Richard Skanse July 2001 The guitar had seen better days when Ray Wylie Hubbard happened upon it. It was an old Regal — far …
