Michael Corcoran

"Dallas Rag" and Other Stomps

Be Like Mark. Or Mike. Or Both.

The Best Just-Turned-21-Year-Old Singer-Songwriter in Town

Sad News Travels Fast

Farewell from Cracker Eden

Texas journalism loses a great writer and friend in Grover Lewis

Letters

Texas journalism loses a great writer and friend in Grover Lewis

Fading star

Michael Jackson tells HIStory to whoever is left to listen to it

Retro cool

A.J. Gonzales emerges from the '80s time warp with ever-stellar cheese enchiladas

Deep six: The ungrateful dead

A.J. Gonzales emerges from the '80s time warp with ever-stellar cheese enchiladas

Letters

A.J. Gonzales emerges from the '80s time warp with ever-stellar cheese enchiladas

Letters

A.J. Gonzales emerges from the '80s time warp with ever-stellar cheese enchiladas

Letters

A.J. Gonzales emerges from the '80s time warp with ever-stellar cheese enchiladas

Letters

A.J. Gonzales emerges from the '80s time warp with ever-stellar cheese enchiladas

Getting the business

With the new Jesus Hits Like The Atom Bomb, Tripping Daisy has made the best record of its seven-year career. So what took so long?

Listen up

1998 was not a very good year, but it's still worth the bother

Tom Waits for no one

Or: Looking for the heart of South by Southwest

The Dixie Chicks

What's Not To Like?

Dixie Chicks

What's Not to Like.

Last Night: Lucinda Williams at the House of Blues

Lucinda WilliamsHouse of BluesFebruary 19, 2009 Better than: sitting on my couch trying to (badly) play Lucinda Williams' "Drunken Angel" because it has easy chords (as opposed to "Crescent City" which has harder ones). Patrick MichelsWord was that folks at the House of Blues were fairly blue--ti ... More >>

Scene, heard

Darlingtons bass-less again; Vibrolux takes the stage once again; Deep Blue Something cracks the top 50

SXSW: Catching Up With Floyd Dakil and Announcing Erykah Badu and The Cannabinoids' Free Auditorium Shores Performance

Robert Wilonksy just directed my attention to this little blog entry by former Dallas Morning News music critic and current Austin American-Statesman scribe, Michael Corcoran, on Dallas' own Floyd Dakil, who, despite retiring from music in 1984, will be heading down to Austin for a SXSW performance ... More >>

Bang to Hype

At SXSW, it's all about the buzz, not the Buzz Band

Gave the People What They Had

Sometimes, the best new music is the best old music

Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble

SRV (Epic Records/Legacy)

Emily Does Dallas

Dixie Chick Emily Robison riffs on Fly, high-fives, and why you need to check your tube top before you sing

Waylon Jennings

Dixie Chick Emily Robison riffs on Fly, high-fives, and why you need to check your tube top before you sing

Out Here

Dixie Chick Emily Robison riffs on Fly, high-fives, and why you need to check your tube top before you sing

Roadshows

Dixie Chick Emily Robison riffs on Fly, high-fives, and why you need to check your tube top before you sing

This Week in Dallas Music History: Stevie Ray Vaughan's Out of Rehab and Ready To Rock.

​Guitarists from all over tend to cite Stevie Ray Vaughan as their primary influence. He may very well be the "Pride and Joy" of the Dallas area, even if Austin claims him as its own.Back on March 26, in 1987, Michael Corcoran profiled the Dallas blues guitar icon for the Observer. At this point, ... More >>

The Great Floyd Dakil, Who Taught Dallas to "Dance, Franny, Dance," Has Died at 63

The great Floyd Dakil, at far left, died over the weekend.​David Dennard just sent some devastating news: Floyd Dakil is dead. Circumstances remain a little murky, but his bandmates in both Floyd Dakil and the Pitmen and the Floyd Dakil Combo confirm that the man behind the quintessential Dallas r ... More >>

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: The Full-Custom Gospel Sounds of Arizona Dranes

​I've considered retiring this weekly feature many times in recent weeks; we're about out of the good stuff, I fear -- unless you're just dying for a ladies-choice between Linda Ronstadt at Reunion in '82 or Courtney Love and Hole at Deep Ellum Live in '94, which I'd briefly considered last night. ... More >>

Get On Board With The Relatives

The Relatives, back when Channel 39 was the best station in town​While I finish up what's sure to be the most scintillating story you read all day about a famously failed real estate development, allow me to direct your attention to a vintage clip I discovered a few days ago on the Texas Archive o ... More >>

Why Saturday's Cowboys Game Is the Most Important Game Ever (This Week, Anyway)

Davynin, Via.​[Editor's note: For those who might have forgotten, Michael Corcoran is formerly of the Austin American-Statesman and Dallas Morning News, a one-time Observer contributor and one of my favorite writers in the history of ink. This morning, he dispatches this preview of Saturday night' ... More >>