Emmylou Harris

Preview: Emmylou Harris at Will Rogers Memorial Center

Saturday, June 2, at Will Rogers Memorial Center, Fort Worth

This Weekend's Best Concerts: KXT's Summer Cut, Meltdown Music Festival, the Avett Brothers, Japanther and More

Summer Cut w/ The Flaming Lips, St. Vincent, Fitz & The Tantrums and moreFriday, June 1, at Gexa Energy PavilionHere we are, fully immersed in this year's summer festival season, and we're already peaking. It's going to be hard to outdo The Flaming Lips, St. Vincent, and everyone else KXT 91.7-F ... More >>

On The King Bucks, and The Importance of Really Connecting With an Audience...

Sarah Jane SemradThe King Bucks​Take The King Bucks, for example. Nothing wrong with their music, and they have chops. They're good lookin'. They have some fine ironic facial hair.But I don't like 'em and I'll tell you why: Because they don't care about me. Not me personally, but me as a member of ... More >>

Last Night: Emmylou Harris at the Winspear Opera House

Emmylou HarrisWinspear Opera HouseJune 23, 2011Better than: Sipping lemonade on the porch swing on a breezy afternoon in May. Emmylou Harris​ Dressed like Stevie Nicks, if Nicks had been a flapper (black headband and all), Emmylou Harris literally danced her way onto the stage at the AT&T Per ... More >>

Emmylou Harris

Thursday, June 23, at the Winspear Opera House

As Animal Rights Group Condemns Zoos for Elephant Treatment, a Nice Word About Dallas

Kevin Todora​It wasn't so long ago that Lily Tomlin, Bea Arthur, Ruth Buzzi and Emmylou Harris were among those demanding that the city of Dallas move Jenny the Elephant to the elephant sanctuary in Tennessee. But the city resisted, insisting that its then-forthcoming Giants of the Savanna habitat ... More >>

Lady Antebellum Isn't Country's First Pop Sensation.

Sherilyn Segrest

Through The Night (EP Self-released)

Good Friday: Acid Mothers Temple, Patty Griffin, Buddy Miller, Robin & Linda Williams, Caroline Herring, Foe Destroyer, Happy Bullets CD Release Show, Owl City, Viking Moses

​I guess everyone is either happy about getting a tax refund or bummed about paying out to Uncle Sam. Either way, the musical plate about town this weekend is sufficiently busy.First, the stuff covered in print: Murder by Death will be rattling listeners' bones at Rubber Gloves on Saturday night a ... More >>

Lilith Fair To Return This Summer With Local Artists And A Dallas Stop

This logo wasn't lying. ​In yet another sign that the '90s are back, or perhaps never really ended, Lilith Fair is returning this summer with a 33-city schedule (including Dallas) revealed so far. Even better news: the lineup is strong enough that you won't have to promise your boyfriend a blowjob ... More >>

Elvis Costello

Secret, Profane & Sugarcane (Hear)

Almost Blue? Hardly, As Elvis Costello Brings His Secret to Grand Prairie on September 2.

I spent way much of the wee small hours of this very morning listening to Elvis Costello's Secret, Profane, and Sugarcane, his country record due June 2 and one produced by Fort Worth's own T Bone Burnett. It's more or less Almost Blue 2, though a wee bit more hushed and rushed--a jingle-jangle ramb ... More >>

Music-Related Mother's Day Gift Ideas

Mother's Day is nigh upon us--and c'mon, you can do better than some crappy (and sappy) card. It's time to give your mom a gift that reflects how you really feel about her. Now, she may not enjoy the following music-related gift ideas, but make sure you throw that gift receipt into the package befo ... More >>

What Do Lily Tomlin, Bea Arthur, Emmylou Harris and Ruth Buzzi Have in Common?

Emmylou HarrisThe Dallas Tea Party isn't the only TV-ready event happening in town today. Far from it -- especially if you were a big, big fan of the Laugh-In and are a big, big fan of ... wait for it, wait for it, wait for it ... Jenny the Elephant. At noon today at the Dallas Zoo, Concerned Citize ... More >>

As Long As You're Asking, Laugh-In's Ruth Buzzi Is Also Concerned About Jenny

Patrick Michels We already mentioned that Jenny the Elephant's got a few new friends trying to spring her from the Dallas Zoo, including the great Emmylou Harris, the irascible Kinky Friedman and Laugh-In star Ruth Buzzi. Buzzi, who lives just west of Fort Worth, joined Concerned Citizens for Jenny ... More >>

How To Put Together A Valentine's Day Mixtape

Pardon, But What New Radio Show?

Where, O Where?

The Inwood displays the Coens' Brotherly love

Hot Burrito No. 2

Chris Hillman visits Dallas

A Reel Angel

Theater Critics Camp, Day 2

Poor, Poor Pitiful Me

Linda Ronstadt and Aaron “AhEeOhAhOh” Neville play the Meyerson

Fort Worth Blues

The Modern hosts a weekend of Townes

Bright Eyes

I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning/ Digital Ash in a Digital Urn (Saddle Creek)

Season's Bleatings

Thanks to these CDs, it's beginning to sound a lot like Christmas

Various Artists

The Old Grey Whistle Test (BBC Video)

Buddy Miller

Midnight and Lonesome (HighTone)

The Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash

Distance Between (Ultimatum Music)

O Patty

Patty Loveless isn't just Down From the Mountain, because she never left

Play It Loud

Scorsese rockudrama remembers The Band

God's Gift

From the Mountain come joyous songs about life and death

Out & About

Richard Buckner

His and hers

For Buddy and Julie Miller, love, God, and country music are all that matters

Rees, in bits and pieces

Long way around

Jon Randall is finally Willin' to make music the way he wants to

Emmylou Harris
   and Linda Ronstadt

Out There

Out There

Harvest time

With rake in one hand and guitar in the other, Cheri Knight gets down on the farm

Every which way but loose

The Dallas scene flourishes beneath the chaos

Rock and roll over

In today's music business, tomorrow's revolution is yesterday's fad

Rave new world

Tom Faulkner explores his musical horizons

Roadshows

Forever, my beloved

Julie Miller makes music for--and of--the ages

Farther along

Emmylou Harris has a new boxed set, but she won't be trapped by that cardboard tombstone

Water from a deeper well

TV special documents the building of Wrecking Ball

Out Here

Out there

At the Palace

The Jayhawks aren't just grieving angels picking at Gram Parson's remains

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