Singer -songwriter Eric Taylor’s roots run deep in Texas soil even though he began life in Atlanta, Georgia. But, most of his life has been lived out in Houston, Texas. His first musical love was rhythm & blues. However, he […]
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Completed after his death in 2002, Blue To This Day is nonetheless of a piece with the rest of Mickey Newbury’s splendid catalog. It affords one final chance to enjoy the studio presence of this quintessential American singer-songwriter, but it […]
“Do you still have your dreams?” Mickey Newbury drops this question about halfway through his new album’s title track, one of two songs on the disc that clock in on the long side of ten minutes. Newbury has sketched plenty […]
On March 2, 1988, Mickey Newbury walked into Master’s Touch Studio in Nashville, bearing something called a photon guitar and a satchel of songs that Elektra had long before allowed to go out of print. He was accompanied by violinist […]
Songwriters held in high esteem by fellow artists while remaining largely unknown to the masses are common in Texas music. From the late, legendary troubadour Townes Van Zandt to wordsmith extraordinaire Butch Hancock to psychedelic prophet Roky Erickson to simpleton-savant […]
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