If you grew up in Texas, chances are your family took a trip to San Antonio to visit that shrine to Texas Independence, the Alamo. For many, the next stop was the Buckhorn Hall of Horns, home to the world’s […]
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Awhile back I wrote something about coming from an itchy footed people, and I guess you could say I’ve been scratching a good bit lately. Here’s where the road has taken me these last two months: From Los Angeles to […]
Cry in your beer: But renew your subscription I hated to let my subscription expire. I always look forward to receiving your magazine. But I’ve been so broke my life would’ve made a good country song. My girlfriend was pregnant […]
To describe The Ranch as unlike any other place on earth would be misleading, for it was in fact very much like a great many other places: It was a country music bar. Like every country bar, the Double-R Bar […]
PASS THE SAUCE: Longtime musical compadres Joe Ely, Terry Allen, Butch Hancock, the Maines Brothers and Jesse Taylor were among the musicians who played a benefit concert in Lubbock, Texas, on April 18 to raise money for a bronze statue […]
The sign reads “Haircuts $6″, painted across the window so boldly as to obscure the interior and with no especial concern for aesthetics. Inside, the salon is decorated much like the back room of a thrift shop at the edge […]
Joshua trees silently pass the window, the sun’s glare stealing their color. Distant mountains glisten in the tear-filled eyes of Claudette Colbert. Her smartly bobbed hair bounces lightly against the headrest as the train pulls to a stop. She walks […]
A certain post-modern confluence of backgrounds typifies the latest roots rock scare. Deliberate Strangers singer-guitarist-mandolinist Tom Moran is a veteran of the 1980s Boston punk scene, having spent years as a guitarist for The Five. Bassist-vocalist Stephanie Vargo (who has […]
I had heard such sounds before, heard them as a little boy lying in bed in the wiregrass country of south Georgia, heard the sounds of animals crying far off in the woods, heard the sounds the black woods hands […]
Conspicuously absent during these recent years of country-rock renewal — and all the debt it owes to the renegade blending of Southern R&B and hillbilly music — has been the one man who virtually originated and defined that melding of […]
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