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Toast & Jam with Donnell Ballard
Donnell Ballard was 16 when he participated in his first civil rights protest in Fort Worth. Now 49, he is still marching. As president...
Starting to Roll
It’s an almost comical understatement to say that local musicians can’t compete for people’s attention right now. With the myriad profound and life-altering circumstances...
They Travel the Spaceways
They had me at “Arkestra.”
Fort Worth’s Rage Out Arkestra will always tickle me for being named after one of my favorite artists of all time....
Poly’s Pure Heart
Owning his own record label, barbershop, and fashion line –– his own sneaker, no less –– doesn’t mean Everett George doesn’t roughen his hands....
Still Raging Against the Machine
Back when I was an even bigger pretentious a-hole than I am now, I wrote that musicians looking to make a political statement should...
Toast & Jam with Dana Deatherage
In early April, Dana Deatherage snail-mailed a copy of his album, Songwriter: Volume I, to Fort Worth Weekly. One of the songs -- “420...
All Clean’s Invisible Hand
Zachary Edwards has had enough. Contrary to his friendly, nice, smiling personality, his band All Clean may make you want to burn shit down, pretty appropriate...
Toast & Jam with Sheran Goodspeed Keyton
For the past decade, Sheran Goodspeed Keyton has entertained children at schools, libraries, and elsewhere as Mrs. Dipsworth, a boisterous English-accented educator who relies...
A Songwriter’s Pilgrimage
In April 2019, Joe Savage carried his Martin backpackers’ guitar and walked across the north of Spain for 500 miles in solitude for 31...
Worried and Woke
Court Hoang was a couple of weeks into the pandemic lockdown and feeling disconnected. Hunkering down wasn’t the problem. The software developer works from...
