Music
‘Texas Flood’ is a Soulful Portrait of Stevie Ray Vaughan
A Sweeping History of Texas Blues Celebrates Little-Known Musicians
More than 50 years in the making, The Blues Come to Texas is an encyclopedic tome stuffed with surprising trivia.
I have a faded copy of the July|August 1965 issue of the magazine Blues Unlimited, which includes an essay, “Working on the Project – T for Texas; T for Toi...Read More
The Encyclopedic ‘Country Music USA’ Tells (Almost) the Whole Story
Laird does a masterful job of showing how, for many performers, the whole question of authenticity has become ridiculous.
Country music historian Bill C. Malone has lived to see the 50th anniversary reissue of his landmark book, Country Music USA. Fellow scholar Tracey E. W. Laird ...Read More
Austin Writer Ed Ward Celebrates the Black Musicians Who Made Rock
Austin’s Ed Ward Celebrates the Black Musicians Who Made Rock ‘The History of Rock & Roll’ pays tribute to some lesser-known pioneers of...Read More
In ‘Without Getting Killed or Caught,’ Guy Clark Defies Categorization
Clark’s acoustic, finger-picked Southwestern-flavored songs were too countrified for folk and too folky for country — and the Nashville hit factory never knew what the hell to do with him.
Honky-tonk musician Guy Clark defies categorization, argues a compelling new biography....Read More
The Texas Miracle #25: The Patron Saint of Corpus Christi
Road trip! The Miracle heads to Corpus for the worldwide launch of Tejana superstar Selena's cosmetics line and discovers Whataburger along the way.
Road trip! The Miracle heads to Corpus for the worldwide launch of Selena's cosmetics line and discovers Whataburger along the way....Read More
Vaya con Dios, Juan Gabriel
Mexico's most versatile singer and composer leaves behind a global legacy.
Gregg Barrio remembers Juan Gabriel, whose "hardscrabble life is the stuff of telenovelas," and who died August 28 while on tour in California....Read More
The 66 Percent: Erasing Mexican Americans in the United States
Why aren’t we going past wanting to educate MexAm children to have ordinary pride in who they are and where they’ve come from?
Why aren’t we going past wanting to educate MexAm children, in their own neighborhoods, to have ordinary pride in who they are and where they’ve come from?...Read More
Boycott Boycotts
It’s easy to boycott a place you visit never, a state you imagine to be full of bumpkins and hicks. Much harder: working to create change in red states....Read More
‘I’ve Been There’
Grady Gaines and Houston’s Rock and Roll Roots
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
