There’s a certain kind of magic that happens when the stories behind the songs get captured on tape. Not the polished liner note version that a publicist polished… I mean the unfiltered yarns told in smoky rooms under suspect stage lights that flicker like they’re listening too. Those moments when a songwriter stops being a performer and starts being a friend you’re drinking with on your back patio somewhere between midnight and the rest of your life. Hundreds, maybe thousand

"Video Killed the Radio Star" was the first shot fired, and for a while, music videos were the main source of cool. I was a kid raised...

Charlie Robison was a Texan original. Cut from the cloth of Bandera, born in Houston and most at home on the coast. He was wickedly smart,

The mandolin burst out of the busted speaker  like a semi going  a little too fast and passing you on a two lane road.  Just as that...

Damn Charlie Robison. Don’t even know what to say. Life of the Party will always be in my top 10. Thank you for all the great songs and...

1.  Loving County A tale spun so well and so fine that one almost forgets it involves a murder.  The diamonds sparkle and so does Charlie...

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I’ve heard this record, Beautiful Day, described by some industry people as being Charlie’s divorce album. There’s nothing here as dark...