PrinceRodriguez
Songs from the Sod, the second album from Fort Worth’s PrinceRodriguez, is a mostly enjoyable country-blues-rock romp with a bit of gypsy outlaw in...
Johnny Cash
As a rockabilly pioneer, Johnny Cash sang what some people called the devil’s music.
As a genre-crossing country singer, he sang the people’s music....
girlsRISEwithHEAT
As the technology of musical production keeps progressing, so do the opportunities for artistic experimentation, and some artists continue to mix aspects of different...
Cowboy Junkies
Acknowledging that The Trinity Session was their defining album and that 20 years have passed since it was released, the Cowboy Junkies re-recorded the...
The Juke Jumpers
When I first hit the Fort back in '78, Robert Ealey's New Bluebird Night Club seemed like a hipster utopia, where TCU kids and...
Matt Wilson Quartet
Coming up for air in the middle of a period of obsessive listening to the 1964 Charles Mingus band with Eric Dolphy, I slipped...
Hogpig
It wasn’t all that long ago when the guys in Hogpig were splitting time between two stellar North Texas bands: Little Grizzly, cut from...
Ben Perowsky
Ben Perowsky is a New York-based jazz drummer who's worked with underground godfather John Zorn, film noir-inspired indie rockers Elysian Fields, and the experimental/soul...
The Dangits
I’d resigned myself to the fact that nobody around the Metromess plays real, unhyphenated rock ’n’ roll anymore — you know, that blues-based music...
Guns ‘N Roses
The era of the idealistic and insane rock star is dead, so music lovers who still cling to sincere, non-ironic rock grandiosity, should be...
