Jade Marie Patek Has a Good Song In Her Head, and Great Album On Her Hands
Jade Marie Patek has been on our radar for nearly a decade. She has been a mainstay at our annual River Jam festival and has continued...
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Cody Starr
- Feb 22
Album Review: Matt Hillyer’s “Glorieta” is Sequestered No More
Long time Galleywinter favorite and honky-tonk road warrior, Matt Hillyer, is putting out his first solo endeavor since the 2021...
Brad Beheler
- Oct 4, 2022
Courtney Patton - Electrostatic
Courtney Patton is a force of personality. She makes you feel whatever she is feeling. Most of the time that is a jovial, life of the...
Brad Beheler
- Aug 23, 2022
Bri Bagwell Uses Her Head and Follows Her Heart
Bri Bagwell has carried the torch as the preeminent female Texas Music performer for the last decade. If there’s a festival bill, you...
Brad Beheler
- Aug 17, 2022
Wade Bowen Finds His Truth With a Secret
Six albums into a career can pigeonhole an artist. Throw in a few live offerings and you think you have a pretty good understanding of...
Cody Starr
- Jun 30, 2022
Cody Canada and The Departed – Soul Gravy (2022)
Sometimes the best medicine for a sick world is comfort food, and we’re about to be fed chicken fried steak, homemade biscuits and a big...
Cody Starr
- Apr 1, 2022
Bobby Duncan – Maybe This Time
A lot has changed in the world since Bobby Duncan put out his last studio record, Forever From Here, in 2012. That year Apple unveiled...
Brad Beheler
- Feb 26, 2021
Charley Crockett – 10 For Slim
The first time I ever heard James “Slim” Hand, it was just in conversation at the dusty bartop in Tokio, TX at, what else, the Tokio...
Cody Starr
- Sep 15, 2020
Wade Bowen – The Waiting
Wade Bowen delivered us some joy over the Labor Day weekend by dropping a new EP he’d secretly been working on during the lock downs. At...
Brad Beheler
- Sep 1, 2020
Shaker Hymns – The Ties That Bind
The genre of southern rock had been moribund and dormant until the ascendance of bands such as Cross Canadian Ragweed, Whiskey Myers and...
Brad Beheler
- Jun 26, 2020
Kyle Nix – Lightning on the Mountain and Other Short Stories
Going solo after being in a massively successful band is one of the more difficult propositions in the music business. It has rarely been...
Brad Beheler
- Jun 4, 2020
John Baumann – Country Shade
John Baumann is one of the finest young songwriters plying his trade in Texas and beyond at the moment. He’s developed a knack for...
Brad Beheler
- May 8, 2020
Wade Bowen/Randy Rogers – Hold My Beer Volume 2
The Hold My Beer Volume 1 release from Wade Bowen and Randy Rogers dropped five years ago. It was a rallying testament to the type of...
Brad Beheler
- May 1, 2020
American Aquarium – Lamentations
BJ Barham has carved out a spot among modern songwriters with his a signature brand of hardscrabble songs that evoke the best parts of...
Brad Beheler
- Feb 7, 2020
James Steinle – What I Came Here For
In my recap of Mile 0 Fest 2020, I remarked that James Steinle’s style falls somewhere around if John Prine maintained a residency at the...
Brad Beheler
- Jul 19, 2019
Josh Weathers – Wild Ones
Josh Weathers career can be described in many ways, but mercurial may perhaps be the most fitting adjective. Never one to follow the...
Brad Beheler
- Jun 21, 2019
Koe Wetzel – Harold Saul High
It is impossible to take the rocket ride that Koe Wetzel has over the past three years and not come out a changed man. But, upon...
Brad Beheler
- Jun 14, 2019
Josh Grider and Drew Kennedy: Live at Main Street Crossing
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...
Brad Beheler
- Jun 6, 2019
Ian Noe – Between the Country
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...
Brad Beheler
- Feb 8, 2019
Sean McConnell – Secondhand Smoke
Sean McConnell is an anomaly for our music scene. A Massachusetts bred folk singer with soul overtones that connected to Texas via...
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