Change is in the air. In early September we gathered in Seattle to celebrate our fifth anniversary, hearing good tunes and toasting good times and remembering all it has taken to get where we are (wherever that is). Then it […]
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Our story begins one sweltering night in the dog days of summer in 1991, at the Hole in the Wall, a dive on The Drag (a.k.a. Guadalupe Street) in Austin where a million stories have begun over the years. I’m […]
Five years, 28 issues, 2,824 pages. It’s far too much to revisit in one sitting with any sense of completion, and entirely impossible to encapsulate on a single page. What follows, then, are simply a few things that made us […]
An outgrowth of the annual St. Louis gathering Twangfest, itself an outgrowth of the internet discussion list Postcard2, this series of compilation discs continues with a collection of 17 tracks taken from musicians associated with the P2 crowd in one […]
Oftentimes the early singles are forgotten, written off as mere training-wheels motions before a band hit its stride and began to glide. On the other hand, art is not like riding a bicycle, nor any other practice-makes-perfect exercise: Sometimes inspiration […]
From her handful of more prominent moments as violinist and backing vocalist in Whiskeytown, one might have surmised what avenues Caitlin Cary might pursue in her own work. Perhaps sassy, twangy country, as on “Matrimony” from the band’s first album; […]
I first got to know Kim Webber through a notorious AOL message board which had a little something to do with the name we chose for this magazine. Kim was part of a small contingent from Knoxville who had stumbled […]
For all the time spent writing and rewriting, learning and relearning, searching and researching, endlessly following that long and winding road traveled by those whose lives are mesmerized by music…it is, ultimately, a matter of the moment. Craft and practice […]
Last June I embarked on one of the more insane road trips I’ve pulled off in my 34 years, leaving the annual Twangfest weekend in St. Louis early Saturday morning and hightailing it down to the Texas Hill Country for […]
Though he’s not among Texas’ best-known tunesmiths, Richard Dobson has been part of that extended community of songwriters for the past three decades. One of his early songs was recorded by David Allan Coe; later he co-wrote a couple tunes […]
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