Some criticize that there’s not enough talk around here about the Texas music scene, and I couldn’t agree more. There’s some great music going on down there, and unfortunately I just don’t have the time to sink my teeth into it all. That was one reason I set up the Saving Country Music message board, [...]
To learn more about the fight between Ronnie Milsap and Capitol Records Nashville, click here. A lot of people have been curious why I championed the fight of Ronnie Milsap against Capitol Records, from my core readers to Milsap fans. Normally I cover artists here that nobody else does, and this doesn’t really pertain to [...]
All you Wayne “The Train” Hancock fans, you have just been delivered a gift on a silver platter. The blog A Truer Sound has just made available for download a compilation of Wayne Hancock music that includes a set recorded LIVE at the KUT Studios in Austin, TX on October 9th, 1994, as well as [...]
Want to hear something scary to get you ready for Halloween? No, I’m not talking about Taylor Swift without her Pro Tools auto tuners. Hell, I’d rather have a suburban angster take a baseball bat to my head like it was Jack-O-Latnern on Nov. 1st than to listen to that banshee yawp. What I’m talking [...]
Never mess with perfection. . . unless you can make perfection better. Don’t know if I’m the first ever to say that, but after watching the .357 String Band with their new mando/dobro player Billy Cook, I believe in it wholeheartedly. The .357 String band was perfect circa this last Spring. That’s why it was [...]
The Music City madman Joe Buck Yourself, former bass player for Hank III and former member of Th’ Legendary Shack Shakers, has signed a record deal with Century Media Records. In an interview with the one man band before his show Thursday night (10-22-09) with The .357 String Band, Joe talked to about signing the [...]
The Hank Williams female reincarnation known as Rachel Brooke and Lonesome Wyatt of Those Poor Bastards have just finished up a tour through the Midwest, Texas, and Florida in support of their duo record A Bitter Harvest. All the eyewitness accounts I have come across have had nothing but glowing things to say, and as [...]
TONIGHT (10-20-09) none other than Hank Williams III will be on Outlaw Radio Chicago, having granted Jashie P. an ever increasingly rare interview. You can hear it LIVE on punkandbeansradio.com at 9 PM CENTRAL, and because a Hank III interview has been known to crash servers from demand, they are going to rebroadcast the entire [...]
I really cherish the few opportunities I have writing this thing to laugh a little, and today is one of those days. They say all good humor is rooted in truth, and what is more true than the joke that is actors and 80′s pop stars slipping on a pair of boots to “Go Country” [...]
It was 35 years ago today, or tonight, that Austin City Limits, inspired by Jan Reid’s book The Improbable Rise of Redneck Rock and the exploding Outlaw country music scene in Austin, aired their first episode. And who better to book for the first show than the Improbable Willie Nelson. It was 1974; two years [...]
That’s right, I said it. And I’ll say it again, even though it will probably relegate me even more to being the black sheep of the country music blogsphere: Jamey Johnson is Pop Country’s “black friend.” No, this has nothing to do with race, and this really has very little to do with Jamey Johnson, [...]
Lately so much music has been coming out from oldtime artists I follow, I can hardly keep up. Hopefully in the future I will have features or reviews on all of these projects, but in the meantime here they all are to bring you up to speed. If there’s one album you like to see [...]
The dirty ol’ one man band from Texas, Scott H. Biram has just released a new video for the single “Still Drunk, Still Crazy, Still Blue” off his latest release Something’s Wrong/Lost Forever. CLICK HERE TO SEE THE VIDEO. It was put together by Blake Judd of Judd Films, Todd Tue of Milk Products Media, [...]
I know that some, if not most do not know Rusty Wier or his music, and this is a tragedy beyond the fact that the legendary Austin, Texas songwriter died Friday at the age of 65 from Cancer. He was one of the original Austin Outlaws; a founder of the scene. He was a great [...]
Over his career Kid Rock has done quite a remarkable thing. No, I’m not talking about bridging the genres of rock, rap, and country. I’m talking about being able to make a successful career out of being a glorified trailer park king, while at the same time besmirching the image of trailer park kings all [...]
Helldorado of hank3.com has announced that Hank Williams III will be playing a series of free concerts at the legendary Layla’s Bluegrass Inn on Broadway in Nashville at the end of the year. Layla’s is one of the last true honky-tonks on Nashville’s music row, and Hank III is one of a very small stable [...]
Last night Outlaw Radio Chicago interviewed Bob Wayne who dropped a few very tantalizing nuggets about some upcoming tours he will be involved in. Wayne, who is currently bivouacked at Andy Gibson’s house near Nashville helping him do some recording, remarked on plans to tour opening for the Northwest-based bands The Supersuckers and Zeke in [...]
Of all the rough characters the Outlaw Country music scene can boast, only one has a glass eye and is a former gang leader and pimp. Only one when asked once by a 20/20 reporter if he carried a gun, and if so could he see it answered, “Which one?” because he notoriously carried two [...]
Dear Capitol Records Nashville, When firefighters came to protest at your building in support of Ronnie Milsap and Bleve Music, you forced them away. My guess is they would have not met the same reception if the building was on fire, and you or your family were inside. Yet your actions are precluding dollars from [...]
To read about the conflict between Ronnie Milsap and Capitol Records Nashville, click here, and to read about Milsap’s first protest click here. I know some of you might be tired of this story, and others might think that the Milsap/Adkins song is not worth defending. But this might be the most important story I [...]
