Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra
Under the baton of Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra has become a vital musical force in the Southwest, challenging even the Dallas Symphony...
Little Texas
In 1997, I attended Little Texas’ farewell concert at Billy Bob’s Texas and witnessed a good but not great performance by an overblown group...
David Olney
On One Tough Town, David Olney proves, once again, that he’s one of our finest songwriters, capable of offering a variety of styles and...
Sam Sadigursky
It would be wrong to call Words Project III Miniatures a "poetry-jazz" record. To many folks, that description evokes a '50s movie cliché of...
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan’s buzzing drone of a voice is a little deeper today but remains oddly effective.
His songs are still what count. Many people...
The Rivercrest Yacht Club
Imagine if acts like the Beastie Boys, RUN-D.M.C., and LL Cool J had launched from Panther City instead of The Bronx or Brooklyn.
Imagine also...
Chris Knight
Songs pour from Chris Knight like good whiskey from a bottle. He’s an independent-spirited chronicler of existential life in American small towns where there’s...
Ryan Scroggins and The Trenchtown Texans
Listen, elitist music bloggers, we get it.
We know you think ska is terrible, and we know why, but if you’d get over the stereotype...
LaLaLand
In 2004, as Austin singer-songwriter James McMurtry was barricading himself behind a career iron curtain over the Iraq War, a more obscure musical entity...
John-Alex Mason
For more than one generation of fans, the blues "belonged" to old black men with slurred voices.
White fans who cared at all celebrated the...
