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by Brewing America | Oct 28, 2020 | All, Billy Joe Shaver, Country Music, Music, Texas Music, Waco | 0 |
Billy Joe Shaver, whom Willie Nelson once called the greatest living Texas songwriter, died this morning following a massive stroke at Ascension Providence Hospital in Waco, reports Rolling Stone. He was 81. Shaver, who took a...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Oct 3, 2020 | All, Country Music, In memoriam, lubbock, Mac Davis, Music, The Culture | 0 |
The country singer-songwriter Mac Davis, who died in Nashville this week at age 78, spent most of his life in Tennessee and Los Angeles—but he always loved his hometown of Lubbock. Of the hundreds of songs he wrote over his...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Sep 21, 2020 | All, Country Music, Kris Kristofferson, LGBT, Music, outlaw country, Waylon Payne, willie nelson | 0 |
There’s a well-established precedent in country songwriting for revering the wisdom and character of one’s elders. While Waylon Payne is well aware of the tradition, he deals with matters of inheritance and influence very...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Jul 31, 2020 | All, charley crockett, Country Music, Music, rio grande valley, Texas Music, Welcome to Hard Times | 0 |
Certain details tend to get repeated over and over about Charley Crockett’s life: that the musician is a descendent of Davy, the complicated frontiersman; that he began his musical education in a Los Fresnos trailer park and...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Jul 21, 2020 | All, Country Music, Gaslighter, Music, Natalie Maines, Texas Music, The Chicks | 0 |
Gaslighter, the new album from the Chicks, seems to be so ruthlessly honest about the end of Natalie Maines and (now ex-husband) Adrian Pasdar’s marriage that it might as well have been entitled F**k you, Adrian. The Chicks...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Jul 21, 2020 | All, BBQ, Country Music, gentrification, Music, News, Race, Sam's BBQ | 0 |
Brian Mays, the friendly owner of Sam’s BBQ, is used to people showing up at his legendary East Austin restaurant to snap photos. Inside, the restaurant is an Austin time capsule: the walls are plastered with yellowing...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Jun 23, 2020 | All, coronavirus, Country Music, Dolly Parton, Essay, Music, The Culture, willie nelson | 0 |
This spring, I learned more about Willie Nelson than I ever wanted to know. Over the 22 years I’ve lived in Texas, four of them spent working at Texas Monthly, I’ve only heard snatches of song titles and lyrics. It’s not that I...
Read Moreby Brewing America | May 16, 2020 | All, Brady, Country Music, Hill Country, Music, Texas Music, The Heart of Texas, Tracy Pitcox, willie nelson | 0 |
On a fall evening in Brady, a town with about 5,300 people tucked in the Texas Hill Country, Tracy Pitcox helms the control board at the local station KNEL-FM 95.3, airing his Hillbilly Hits radio program. Barely an hour into...
Read Moreby Brewing America | May 14, 2020 | All, Country Music, Jess Williamson, Music, Texas Music, The Culture | 0 |
Jess Williamson is slowly making her way back home—if not in person, then certainly through her music. The Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter was born and raised in the Dallas suburb of Flower Mound, where she rebelled against...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Apr 29, 2020 | All, Country Music, Music, The Culture, willie nelson | 0 |
View Original PostThe post All 143 Willie Nelson Albums, Ranked appeared first on Texas Monthly.
Read Moreby Brewing America | Mar 23, 2020 | All, Country Music, Dolly Parton, houston, Kenny Rogers, Mickey Newbury, Music, Texas Music | 0 |
In 2013, Kenny Rogers told Texas Monthly: “I’m a Texan. That’s not something you can ever just set aside.” The country music superstar, who died Friday at age 81, grew up on the outskirts of the Fourth Ward in Houston, an...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Mar 21, 2020 | All, Country Music, houston, Kenny Rogers, Music | 0 |
Kenny Rogers, who died yesterday in Georgia at the age of 81, will always be known as a country singer—one who sold more than 150 million albums over a 65-year career. But before the Texan found success as a mainstream country...
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