The recent news that Dale Watson had moved to Memphis sent ripples far beyond the Countrypolitan honky-tonk scene he made thrive in Austin. It was seen as the largest domino to fall in the fight to keep Austin what it was. Back in January, I made a trip down to the ATX to see Josh […]
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”. Now the […]
Over the years, I’ve prided myself on always having an answer when asked a variation of the following question. “Who should I be listening to?” “Who’s the next big thing?” “Who’s about to blow up?” This past Sunday at our big Texas Music Flood Waco event, I had no new names when this question was […]
I remember exactly where I was when it happened. Â I had moved away from home to college and was going through the proverbial “finding myself” phase. Â Living in a shabby dorm that hadn’t been updated since campus hero LBJ had been in office (although we suspected maybe not since he was an undegrad at SWT […]
Last week the two hottest tickets in this scene were Sean McConnell and Koe Wetzel. Two acts as divergent as salt and pepper. Â Yet, like those handy seasonings…they both go well over the same morsels. Â McConnell has been mining the soulful singer/songwriter folk path without peer for over a decade now. Â He first rose to […]