MUSIC
Luckenbach is a Hill Country Treasure. Can It Be Saved?
A bitter feud is pitting Hondo Crouch’s descendants against longtime locals as well as encroaching developers.
¡Viva Jerry Jeff!: Remembering the Gonzo Country Star
Spoke with Todd Snider, Gary P. Nunn, and others about the scamp behind “Mr. Bojangles.”
[Texas Monthly: December 2020]
All 143 Willie Nelson Albums Ranked
We listened to a. lot. of Willie. And wrote about ’em all.
[Texas Monthly: March 2020]
Or why Billy Bob’s isn’t really a honky-tonk.
One of Allen’s most enduring and enigmatic lines, “Today’s rainbow is tomorrow’s tamale,” sounds like something Beckett might’ve written if he’d hung out with goat ropers and dipped snuff.
High Times at Willie Nelson’s Luck Reunion
Generations of Willie devotees came together to revel in music and good times with the Red Headed Stranger in his own backyard.
[Texas Monthly: March 2017]
Robert Earl Keen and Lyle Lovett Turn Gruene Hall Into Their Front Porch
Reflections on the penultimate stop of Robert Earl Keen and Lyle Lovett’s acoustic tour.
[Texas Monthly: November 2016]
The Dreamer
A fond remembrance of Kent Finlay, the founder of Cheatham Street Warehouse and the “Godfather of Texas songwriters.”
[Texas Monthly: March 2015]
An Interview with Rodney Crowell
On Growing up in Houston, his rise in Nashville, and writing honest songs.
A candid conversation with ”the Houston Kid.”
[Texas Monthly: June 2017]
Guy Clark
November 6, 1941 — May 17, 2016Guy Clark wrote the kind of songs that make roughnecks weep. Songs about streamline trains, hand-me-down knives, heartbroken winos, and homegrown tomatoes. Songs made of sawdust and sweat. Each was meticulously crafted word by word, line by line, tinkered and tightened until every element was durable, dependable, and timeless as an old denim shirt.
Read the rest here.
[Texas Monthly: December 2016]