Haley Cole has been stealing stages across the state and beyond for the past several years.  Buzz began heating up around Cole several...

Fresh perspectives are hard to come by in this music scene.  Sometimes it feels like it’s all been said and done, then you hear a young...

There are few artists I know as well as Josh Grider and Drew Kennedy. I’ve been lucky enough to have been a fan since their earliest...

Drew Kennedy has been a Galleywinter stalwart for 15 years. His affable humor, immense talent and welcoming nature have been integral in...

Peeling back the curtain is never easy for an artist. They always like to maintain the facade of cool. But, Wade Bowen has never shied...

Often when a band as formidable and accomplished as Uncle Lucius rides into the sunset, there’s a large gap that cannot be filled. Lead...

Jimmy Buffett is a songwriting savior for generations. Admittedly, as a youth my only connection with him was to the two radio standards...

Cut from the sonic cloth of Tom Waits, John Prine, Colter Wall and Bob Dylan, Ian Noe adds some Appalachian flavor to his music to make...

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...

Yep. One more post about Bowen Music Fest for 2019. Wade Bowen started all of this as an excuse to get together and play some golf with...

Wade Bowen is a music fan first and foremost. It’s the reason anyone picks up the pen or guitar in the first place. They find...

In the early spring of 2010, a friend of ours from Stillwater sent us a DM telling us to check out her friend’s band. They had just cut a...

One of the coolest things to emerge from the entire Texas/Red Dirt independent scene has been the notion of giving back in a grand way....

Ten years ago I was in the middle of my two decade stint as an annual LJT devotee. The one set not to be trifled with or missed during...

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...

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...

I hope that life without a chaperone is what you thought it’d be I hope your brother’s El Camino runs forever I hope the world sees the...

Think pieces galore have hit the web today after the triumphant Grammys night for both Kacey Musgraves and Brandi Carlile.  Two artists...

Sean McConnell is an anomaly for our music scene.  A Massachusetts bred folk singer with soul overtones that connected to Texas via...

I want to go home with the Armadillo…. As an iconic phrase as has ever been written in the annals of Texas music.  The man that supplied...