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Tag Archives: Texas music

by Andrea Grimes

The Texas Miracle #9: What is Texas Country Music?

Austin singer-songwriter and 'Texas country sweetheart' Kelly Willis gives us a lesson in Lone Star twang.

Fri, Jun 17, 2016 |

On the podcast, Austin's Kelly Willis gives us a lesson in Texas country, and we'll meet a prof charging back against that racist Mex-Am studies textbook....Read More

James White, owner of Austin's Broken Spoke dance hall.

by Michael Schrantz

Dance Hall Doc Takes Filmgoers to ‘Honky Tonk Heaven’

The film touches on the effects of Austin's economic boom, but focuses on the music that made the Broken Spoke famous.

Wed, Mar 16, 2016 |

A music documentary that touches on the effects of Austin's economic boom, 'Honky Tonk Heaven' is historical and cultural preservation through film....Read More

by Michael Agresta

The Great Mellowing

God, Willie Nelson, and the increasingly thinkable pipe dream of marijuana reform

Mon, Aug 10, 2015 |

Thanks to God and Willie Nelson, marijuana reform is an increasingly thinkable pipe dream....Read More

by Grady Gaines

‘I’ve Been There’

Grady Gaines and Houston’s Rock and Roll Roots

Mon, May 18, 2015 |

In I’ve Been Out There: On the Road with Legends of Rock ‘n’ Roll, saxophone legend Grady Gaines tells the story of his musical journey that stretc...Read More

The Oxford American Turns to Texas Music

by Asher Elbein

Tue, Dec 9, 2014

The magazine’s companion anthology album—always an eclectically curated highlight of the Oxford American's annual music issues, of which the current iterat...Read More

by Jesse Sublett

Powerful Medicine

Fri, Feb 6, 2009 |

The power of music is a strange and wonderful thing: It can make you smile, dance and cry, and it can transport you back in time. One of my favorite buzzes is p...Read More

Bonfire of Roadmaps

by Joe Ely

Fri, Jan 12, 2007

“Laredo East and West” No time to unpack, it’s off to New York The Coast is Clear like the voice of Joan Baez With whom I share a radio show J...Read More

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