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...

The house band faded out from a mostly accurate cover of a Gary Allan song just in time for Luke Combs “Beer Never Broke My Heart” to...

The genre of southern rock had been moribund and dormant until the ascendance of bands such as Cross Canadian Ragweed, Whiskey Myers and...

Hey folks, it’s been a while. Like most of you, I’ve spent the last several months hunkered down, protecting family, busting my tail to...

The one thing that remains constant is music. The entire world has been on fire for the past six months, and the band plays on. One...

*Charlie Daniels passed away this morning at the age of 83. The 1970’s in the American south was truly a time of innovation, recognition...

“Man, that song sucks!” That was the response I got as I commandeered the state of the art Pioneer cd player in my buddy’s maroon Pontiac...

What a year 2020 has been. All the optimism that abounded on January 1 was lost by Friday March 13. The world stopped and it hasn’t...

June 26, 2020 6/26/20 In light of Governor Abbott’s announcement this morning shutting down both bars and river outfitters due to the...

Going solo after being in a massively successful band is one of the more difficult propositions in the music business. It has rarely been...

I came home from kindergarten one day and told my parents that my “girlfriend” had chased me down on the playground and tried to kiss me....

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...

The first time I heard the name Bleu Edmondson, it came from the lips of a SMU sorority girl who was more well to do than anyone I had...

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...

You know Kyle Nix as the fiddle player from the Turnpike Troubadours, but the entire country music world is about to know him as...

When I first moved off to college, I was already a fairly hardcore music fan. But, like most people those first years of true...

BJ Barham has carved out a spot among modern songwriters with his a signature brand of hardscrabble songs that evoke the best parts of...

As we continue to navigate this new normal as it has come to be known, a small part of my daily routine has been trying to figure out how...

*John Prine passed away on April 7, 2020 from complications related to the Covid19 virus at the age of 73. The first time I heard about...

Two records stood out among the responses. Social media is currently a small, wooden boat carelessly adrift in a sea of fear, anxiety,...