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The 100 Best Texas Songs
Two are by Willie. Which songs, exactly? And what about the remaining 98? You’ll have to check our list to find out.
Who's Next?
San Antonio's Marshevet Hooker is not just any old high school sprinter; she's an Olympic gold medalist in the making. Meet her and nine other women we're betting will lead the new Texas—and the world.
Illinois Jacquet Recommended Recordings
Hall of Justice
Although Texans from Scott Joplin to Jack Teagarden have made noteworthy contributions to the history of jazz, a music form that may be our country's greatest artistic achievement, they are all but forgotten now. It's high time Texas did something about that.
Pitching Josh Beckett
He throws a 95-mile-an-hour fastball, strikes out 2.1 batters per inning, and could be the number one pick in June’s big-league draft. Meet suburban Houston’s new teen sensation.
Columns | Miscellany
Independent's Day
With the record business in the doldrums, what's a talented, ambitious band to do? If you're Austin's Grupo Fantasma, you make it on your own.
The State of Illinois
At eighty, most of us would be off our feet, not out on stage. But Illinois Jacquet, the great Texas tenor, keeps blowing his sax—and tooting his own horn.
The Thirty-Year Itch
After pursuing solo careers, the members of the Flatlanders have reunited and released the long-anticipated CD Now Again. Was it worth the wait?
All Grown Up
Twenty years ago the Butthole Surfers—those unspeakably named punk rockers—first turned up their amps in San Antonio. What keeps them going? Chalk it up to, er, clean living.
The Collector
Being a corporate lawyer pays Dean Blackwood's bills, but running an obscure record label keeps him in tune with his true passion.
Sax and the Cities
Financial success may have eluded Dewey Redman, whose career as a jazz journeyman has taken him from his hometown of Fort Worth to San Francisco and on to New York, but happiness hasn't.
Color Commentary
With this year’s induction of Seguin native Smokey Joe Williams, one fourth of the Negro Leaguers in baseball’s hall of fame are Texans. Unfortunately, there may not be any more.
My Hero, Dorough
He jammed with Miles Davis, enlivened Saturday morning children’s TV, and signed his first major-label record deal at 73. Meet jazz giant Bob Dorough.
Jazzed
Can yet another independent label survive in today’s rough- and-tumble music business? The young founders of Dallas’ Leaning House Records sure hope so.
Chrome, Smoke & BBQ
The Bandwagon
Just an American Boy: The Audio Documentary
Essence
Jeff McCord on Lucinda Williams
Step Right Up
Jeff McCord on Charlie Robison
A Man Under The Influence
Jeff McCord on Alejandro Escovedo
Just What Time It Is
Reporter
Amy Cook
On her new album, Summer Skin, and more.
Grandfather Child
A new album by Grandfather Child.
Funky Was the State of Affairs
A new album by Fergus & Geronimo.
Jon Dee Graham
On his new album, Garage Sale, and more.
Believe
A new album by the Cookers.
Shakedown
A new album by Hacienda.
Mary Karr and Rodney Crowell
On their new album, Kin, and more.
Big Station
A new album by Alejandro Escovedo.
Heroes
A new album by Willie Nelson.
Norah Jones
On her new album, Little Broken Hearts, and more.
The Grifter’s Hymnal
A new album by Ray Wylie Hubbard.
Nootropics
A new album by Lower Dens.
Way Down Low
A new album by Kat Edmonson.
The Body Wins
A new album by Sarah Jaffe.
Lyle Lovett
On his new album, Release Me, and more.
Meltdown
A new album by the Mind Spiders.
Black Radio
A new album by Robert Glasper.
Animal Joy
A new album by Shearwater.
Arrow
A new album by Heartless Bastards.
Craig Finn
The lyricist and lead singer for the Hold Steady on recording his first solo album in Austin, working with producer Mike McCarthy, and writing a song a day.
Rocket
A new album by Danny Barnes.
For the Good Times
A new album by the Little Willies.
Houston Might Be Heaven: Rockin’ R&B in Texas, 1947–1951
The Monument Singles Collection (1960–1964)
A collection of early recordings by Roy Orbison.
This One’s for Him: A Tribute to Guy Clark
Exits and All the Rest
A new album by Girl in a Coma.
Rancho Alto
A new album by Jason Boland & the Stragglers.
Kool & Together
The seventies band of brothers from Victoria on getting into music, staying away from drugs and liquor, and releasing their first album.
Old Mad Joy
A new album by the Gourds.
Robert Earl Keen
The country singer-songwriter on sequestering himself in his scriptorium, learning how to write songs on the road, and answering Toby Keith in a song.
Phantoms
A new album by Ume.
Strange Mercy
A new album by St. Vincent.
Photographs
A new album by Robert Ellis.
Johnny Nicholas
On his new album, Future Blues, and more.
James Pants
A new self-titled album.
Randall Poster
On producing a Buddy Holly tribute album and more.
An American Trilogy
A new box set from Mickey Newbury.
Pint of Blood
A new album by Jolie Holland.
Joe Ely
On his new album, Satisfied at Last, and more.
Follow Me Down
A new album by Sarah Jarosz.
D
A new album by White Denim.
I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive
A new album by Steve Earle.
I Am Very Far
A new album by Okkervil River.
Here We Go Again: Celebrating the Genius of Ray Charles
A tribute album by Willie Nelson, Wynton Marsalis, and Norah Jones.
Apocalypse
A new album by Bill Callahan.
Scandalous
A new album by Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears.
Blessed
A new album by Lucinda Williams.
Edie Brickell
On two new albums, Edie Brickell and The Gaddabouts, and more.
Monahans
Singer Greg Vanderpool on the band's new online song series and more.
Kiss Each Other Clean
A new album by Iron and Wine.
Passage to India
A new compilation by the Zakary Thaks.
Patterns
A new album by the Black and White Years.
7 Walkers
A self-titled new album.
Symbolyc One
On collaborating with Rhymefest and Kanye West and more.
Featuring Norah Jones
A collection of collaborations.
The Laziest Girl In Town
A new album by Elizabeth McQueen.
Buddy Miller
On working with Robert Plant and more.
The Grand Theatre: Volume One
A new album by the Old 97's.
Phosphene Dream
A new album by the Black Angels.
J. D. Cronise
The Sword's singer-guitarist on the band's new album, Warp Riders, and more.
Junky Star
A new album by Ryan Bingham.
Myth of the Heart
A new album by Sahara Smith.
Local Customs: Lone Star Lowlands
Letters in the Deep
Ten
Street Songs of Love
Carrie Rodriguez
Country Music
Americano
Court Yard Hounds
Rhett Miller
St.Vincent
Sewn Together
Townes
Dim the Aurora
Ryan Bingham
Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away . . .
Little White Lies
Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle
Down the Line: Rarities and Memorial Collection
Instead the Forest Rose to Sing
Hills and Valleys
Doyle Bramhall II and Charlie Sexton
Tell ’Em What Your Name Is!
Willie and the Wheel
Gurf Morlix
Changing Horses
The Tiffany Transcriptions
The Truth According to Ruthie Foster
Erika Wennerstrom
Matter and Light
Haymaker!
Seasoned Wood
Bruce Robison and Kelly Willis
hommage à Nesuhi
Warren Hood
Peoria
Exposion
Little Honey
Hayes Carll
The Stand Ins
Earfood
Oh Skies of Grey
Roky Erickson
Fortunately
You Are All My People
Sex & Gasoline
Carl Finch
Two Men With the Blues
Rook
She Ain’t Me
Kat Edmonson
Pinetop Perkins and Friends
Forgiven
La Conquistadora
Frankie Miller
Sonidos Gold
Beautiful World
Real Animal
Ed Jurdi & Gordy Quist
Directions to See a Ghost
Troubadour
One Hell of a Ride
Gavin Tabone
Dog of Love
Just Us Kids
Live Cactus!
Robotique Majestique
What Doesn’t Kill Us
Moment of Forever
Who’s Next
Who’s the next Willie? The new Selena?
Holdin’ Our Own and Other Country Gold Duets
Live From Austin TX
Little Grey Sheep
The Struggle Continues
Solos, Sessions & Encores
Patty Griffin: Live From the Artists Den
Live From Austin TX
Atlantic Blues (1949-1970)
Chip Taylor & Carrie Rodriguez Live From the RuhrTriennale
Mescalito
In the City of Lost Things
Home
Everybody’s Brother
Combinations
The Shepherd’s Dog
Washington Square Serenade
Your Town Tonight
Noble Creatures
It’s Not Big It’s Large
The Stage Names
Breakin’ It Up & Breakin’ It Down
Love Is the Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965–1970
Twilight on Sometimes Island
New Moon
Voxtrot
Translated From Love
There’s No Home
Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Palo Santo
You Are Beautiful at All Times
Exciting Opportunity
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Brand New Towns
Red Dog Blues
Woke on a Whaleheart
From the Cradle to the Grave
Future Clouds and Radar
Dial T for This
Life
Diamonds to Dust
Booker T. Jones
WHERE ARE THEY NOW? Sly Stone
Heartbreaker’s Hall of Fame
In My Element
Children Running Through
Not Too Late
The Phenomenal Ruthie Foster
West
Andrew Shapter & Joel Rasmussen
Cold, Cold World
Snowbyrd
Your Biggest Fan
The Legendary Prestige Quintet Sessions and Fearless Leader
Nashville Rebel
Rockin’ Bones: 1950s Punk & Rockabilly
The Complete Atlantic Sessions
Barbara Orbison
Trying to Never Catch Up
The Californian
War and Peace
Dewey Redman
(1931-2006)
Meadow
Texas Thunder Soul
Sound Grammar
Grupo Fantasma Comes Alive
Workbench Songs
These Four Walls
Artist in Residence
Kickin’ Out the Footlights … Again
Movie Monster
Legends of Country Music: Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
Graveyard Shift
Seven Angels On A Bicycle
Sacred
Passover
Twenty Twenty: The Essential T Bone Burnett andThe True False Identity
Spiritual Boy
Springtime Can Kill You
"Nothing Serious" and "Distractions"
The Boxing Mirror
Full
Hurts to Purr
Red Garland Trio at the Prelude
You Don’t Know Me: The Songs of Cindy Walker
Margaret Brown
The Truth Will Set You Free
Sleep Inside This Wheel
The Believer
Heavy Ornamentals
Different Folks
It’s a Game
Big Sweet Life: The Songs of Jon Dee Graham
TexBook Tenor
In the Reins
Lost Horizon
Live in Austin, TX DVD/CD
The Funk Anthology
Snow
Pure Genius: The Complete Atlantic Recordings
Dos Amigos
Canvas
The Real Deal
Cripple Crow
Cruel and Gentle Things
Pajo
Paradise Hotel
Funky Funky Houston
Cost of Living
The Outsider
Weather and Water
The Hustler
For So Long
Pearl: Legacy Edition
Who Is Mike Jones?
Another Day in the Sun
Frances the Mute
Songs for Tsunami Relief: Austin to South Asia
Gimme Fiction
Hotwalker
The Complete Mercury Recordings
Black Sheep Boy
Heard It On The X
Room Noises
Worlds Apart
Send Me Home
Delirium Tremolos
15 More Original Hits
We Can’t Make it Here
Loteria De La Cumbia Lounge
Same Mother
The Late Great Daniel Johnston: Discovered Covered
It Always Will Be
Oval Room
From A Basement on the Hill
Dents & Shells
Blood of the Ram
Together We're Heavy
Here is Nowhere
Dreamland
Live in Aught-Three
Feels Like Home
The Complete Roulette Jack Teagarden Sessions
The Gospel Collection
Growl
Roy Hargrove presents the RH Factor
Lifetime
No Sleep
Flower After Flower
Bolsa de Agua
Earned Dreams
Deep River of Song: Big Brazos Texas Prison Recordings, 1933 and 1934
The Complete Science Fiction Sessions/Skies of America/Dancing In Your Head
Figure 8
The Complete Blind Willie Johnson
Too Much Coffee Man
Blood & Mood
by the Bad Livers, the Hollisters, and Dynamite Hack.
Something Happened
Web Exclusives
Erika Wennerstrom
Bruce Robison and Kelly Willis
An extended interview with Bruce Robison and Kelly Willis.
Warren Hood
A web-only interview with the Austin violinist.
Jeff McCord with Frankie Miller
Jesse Dayton
An extended interview with Jesse Dayton.
The Soul of Rock and Roll
The Hit Parade
Twenty essential recordings by Texas' best jazz musicians.
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