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March 17, 2020
It Started With a Road Trip and Ended in a Nightmare
Austin singer-songwriter Walker Lukens often writes songs based on readers’ confessions. This is what he’d own up to.
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December 27, 2019
Jordan Moser’s ‘Long Night’ Is Inextricable From Ballet and a Close Brush With Death
The Wimberley artist's memorable album, released earlier this year, materialized after a life-changing experience.
Music
September 26, 2019
Will Johnson’s Steady Ascent
The inventive Texas musician is back with the seismic ‘Wire Mountain.'
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September 16, 2019
The Making of An Urbane Cowboy
Both before and after Lee Hazlewood wrote hits for Nancy Sinatra and Duane Eddy, he was a Texas musician.
Music
September 11, 2019
Daniel Johnston Will Live on in Ways Few Artists Get To
The artist’s iconic ”Jeremiah” frog mural in Austin is seemingly indestructible, and so is his musical legacy.
Music
April 24, 2019
Otherworldly Singer-Songwriter Chrysta Bell Returns to Texas
Best known for her collaborations with David Lynch, the ‘Twin Peaks’ actress is ready to reclaim her Austin and San Antonio roots.
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February 20, 2019
Ryan Bingham’s Texas Love Song
The singer-songwriter draws on his nomadic childhood and experience on the rodeo circuit to pen socially conscious Americana.
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June 29, 2017
Rodney Crowell on Growing up in Houston, His Rise in Nashville, and Writing Honest Songs
A candid conversation with “the Houston Kid.”
Music
December 12, 2016
Exclusive Premiere: Curtis McMurtry’s Sharp Insight into Loss on “Bayonet”
The Austin singer-songwriter uses the sound of a chamber ensemble to explore the limits of Americana and the darker side of the human condition.
Music
January 1, 1996
Abra Moore
Abra Moore likes herself, a revelation that comes as she grooves to the music piping through an Austin cafe. It sounds good to her—the singer knowing and ethereal, the sound a jazzy, ruminative folk-pop with a fragile ache. But wait: It’s the sound of her own recent solo debut, Sing