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**Below you will find my complete story on my trip to Mile 0 Fest and Key West.  If you want to skip the prologue and jump straight to the music section, scroll to the portion titled  “MILE O FEST“. … Read the rest

Tomorrow, we will descend on the infamous community of Key West, Florida for an inaugural Texas/Red Dirt festival.  What happens when a bunch of Texans and Oklahomans hit the land of Buffett and Hemingway? Well, we plan to document it all. … Read the rest

When I was first getting into this scene many moons ago, two of my favorite acts both live and on record were Rusty Wier and Jerry Jeff Walker.  THey were a touchstone to the past formations of the current movement and (at the time) still on their A game. … Read the rest

As Steamboat wraps up for another year, we are on the cusp of another year of Texas Music pandemonium…or something.  The more things change, the more they stay the same.  Watching the events of MusicFest unfold from Texas I was reminded of the old Mike McClure lyric from The Great Divide’s “Yesterday Road”.… Read the rest

Songwriting is a wide and varied art form that takes on many different personalities depending upon the writer and the subject matter.  Drew Kennedy is one of the best songwriters on the planet and has been for some time.  He’s good because he’s honest, even when making the story up about something from the ether of his imagination, a high school anecdote or a gig routing trip through the vastness of west Texas.… Read the rest