January 2021 – TikTok Tides
“Texas Music” and the ensuing music scene that springs from its tentacles and ensares everything from Red Dirt to folk to Americana has...
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Brad Beheler
Dec 1, 2020
December 2020 – Timing
“Songs are like tattoos.” – Margo Price Tattoos are permanent. Sure you can pay tons of money to have them covered up or removed, but the...
Brad Beheler
Sep 18, 2020
September 2020: The Value of Music
As a music fan the past two decades have been revolutionary. Any song that has ever been created is now at our fingertips. There’s no...
Brad Beheler
Aug 5, 2020
August 2020: The Music Remains
The one thing that remains constant is music. The entire world has been on fire for the past six months, and the band plays on. One...
Brad Beheler
Jul 6, 2020
July 2020: Defending the Music
“Man, that song sucks!” That was the response I got as I commandeered the state of the art Pioneer cd player in my buddy’s maroon Pontiac...
Brad Beheler
Jul 1, 2020
Best of 2020…so far
What a year 2020 has been. All the optimism that abounded on January 1 was lost by Friday March 13. The world stopped and it hasn’t...
Brad Beheler
Jun 19, 2020
Half in Plain Sight
I came home from kindergarten one day and told my parents that my “girlfriend” had chased me down on the playground and tried to kiss me....
Brad Beheler
May 4, 2020
May 2020: Megan and Paul
When I first moved off to college, I was already a fairly hardcore music fan. But, like most people those first years of true...
Brad Beheler
Apr 22, 2020
April 2020: Giving a Hand, Lifting a Voice
As we continue to navigate this new normal as it has come to be known, a small part of my daily routine has been trying to figure out how...
Brad Beheler
Apr 2, 2020
April 2020: We’ll Do It Live
With all of the uncertainty and changes around us, one thing has remained constant: live music. It’s just that the venue looks a little...
Brad Beheler
Mar 16, 2020
March 2020: The Times They Are Most Definitely Changin’
Well, here we are. The COVID19 virus has caused an interruption in lifestyle like no other moment in memory. Being that this is a music...
Brad Beheler
Jan 14, 2020
January 2020: Fresh Starts
The traditional New Year falls on January 1. But, for Texas Music the calendar doesn’t really reset until MusicFest in Steamboat...
Brad Beheler
Dec 10, 2019
December 2019: How Did We Get Here?
Had a conversation at a show the other night where the opening act was underwhelming. The conversation went something sort of like this....
Brad Beheler
Oct 21, 2019
October 2019: Costumes
Perspective. It’s what just about everything is based on in this life. What’s new. What’s good. What’s old. What’s bad. It’s all a...
Brad Beheler
Sep 23, 2019
September 2019: Leaning on the Music Through the Grief
Grief. It’s a part of life. It’s the part that reminds us how good the living part truly is. I first encountered grief on a major scale...
Brad Beheler
Aug 5, 2019
August 2019: Truly Unique
Music is written and recorded each day all across the globe. Scoring a song that will connect with a wide audience isn’t as simple as it...
Brad Beheler
Jul 10, 2019
July 2019: A Fan Looks at 40
A while back I read an article that claimed one’s music taste and choices caps out at what they dug around age 17. I incredulously tossed...
Brad Beheler
Jun 5, 2019
June 2019: Inventing Songs
Rodney Crowell once famously wrote “I don’t drink as much as I used to, lately it just ain’t my style…”. As I approach midlife, I find...
Brad Beheler
Apr 10, 2019
April 2019: Horses Ain’t the Only Thing in the Back
If Billy McFarland taught us anything it’s that the paradigm of hosting a music festival in 2019 isn’t what it was in 2009, 1999, 1969...
Brad Beheler
Mar 12, 2019
March 2019: The Sun Shines on The Dreamers
The sun shines on a dreamer Shines a light on you when you listen to your heart The sun shines on a dreamer Shines a light on you through...
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