Every Guy Clark song was a master class in songwriting and emotion. This list could easily be 40 songs long, but here are 12 everyone...

We have lost Guy Clark.  2016 has been extremely rough in this regard.  Guy’s songs will live forever.  He was one of the greatest...

Kevin Russell’s Shinyribs project has shone a light on his songwriting prowess with originals full of gulf coastal Austin wit and soul....

My first memories of having an actual summer revolve around my post-kindergarten summer.  Prior to that, as a toddler, every day is like...

(all photos credit: Natalie Rhea) Year 18 of attending LJT rolled out like so many others.  Not getting there until Thursday, FOMO from...

The past few months have certainly been a whirlwind of loss in the music legends category.  We’ve lost giants.  And all in the same time...

Well friends, the calendar has rolled back around to bring us one of the most magical musical events of the year: Larry Joe Taylor’s...

You will always be my hero. This was one of the best days of my life. #RIPMerleHaggard @merlehaggard pic.twitter.com/QFfNmkmnF9 — Randy...

On a cold fall night in the year 2001 I saw one of my musical heroes in the flesh for the first and, what would end up being, the only...

Merle Haggard is one of the greatest American musicians of all time.  His influence is immense and legendary. The Texas/Red Dirt scene is...

This weekend, someone asked me how a band “nobody has ever heard of” that “doesn’t have a radio presence” could make such a huge debut as...

There’s an infamous viral video from a few years back where a middle aged man at a wrestling convention Q&A in a high school gym is moved...

A few years back, some guys in the northern Hill Country hamlet of Gatesville got together to organize a golf tournament to determine the...

The long revered and hard to find documentary Heartworn Highways featuring Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark, Steve Earle, David Allan Coe and...

If you want to find your passion, surrender to your heartbreak. Your heartbreak points toward a truer north… ~Umair Haque In the linear...

Well I thought the highway loved me . But she beat me like a drum . – Jason Isbell The road is an alluring place.  It’s the stuff of...

“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”  – Ferris Bueller That’s one of my...

As a high school sophomore who didn’t yet have a drivers license, my hours were often filled with amp-fueled 6×9 speakers blasting into...

On this Saturday Feb 27th, I’m going to a concert in a 1930’s dancehall in Columbus, TX where 6 of the best musicians I know will be...

Want to have the ultimate LJT Texas Music Fest experience? Of course you do, and for the 6th straight year, Galleywinter brings you the...