Randy Travis

Randy Travis Really Doesn't Want Anyone to See That Video of His Drunken, Naked Arrest

Randy Travis, the wiry, multi-platinum-selling country crooner with a golden voice that carries enough bass to rattle your silverware, had a tough 2012. In February, he was cited and arrested for public intoxication in front of a Sanger church during the wee morning hours. Later that year, he strode ... More >>

Randy Travis Proved He Hasn't Lost a Step at Billy Bob's Texas

On the main stage of Billy Bob's Texas, past the mechanical bulls and the neon lights and the line-dance floors throbbing to the "Cha-Cha Slide," Randy Travis, the reed-thin king of country, looked out onto the crowd of thousands he still drew in the twilight of his career. Through the mid-80s to t ... More >>

The Ten Must-See Concerts in DFW This Week: March 21 to 27

We're changing it up here a bit, guys. For the past several months you've seen two blog posts outta me each week, breaking up the area's best concerts into two separate blog posts: Freakin' Weekday and Freakin' Weekend. Starting today, you'll get just one: Freakin' Week; which is a go-to guide for w ... More >>

The Fifteen Worst Make Out Records Ever

It's a classic Valentine's Day dilema -- you've planned ahead, made the sweeping gestures, made eyes across a white tablecloth and now you're ready to express yourself with some good old fashioned parts-rubbing. Whatever you do, don't play any of these records.

Burn It All Down

Buzz looks back on 2012 before the memories go where they belong: up in smoke.

In Court This Morning, Randy Travis Pleaded Not Guilty to Assault Charge, Says Not to Believe All That Drinking-Problem Stuff

August was a wild month for Randy Travis, what with the naked arrest in Greyson County followed two weeks later by a scuffle in the parking lot of a Plano church that resulted in a citation for misdemeanor assault. On that first point, the country singer says he's now sober as a judge. As to the se ... More >>

My Oh Yes

"Big D" both song and city, is earning big laughs at Lyric and the Wyly.

Randy Travis, This Time Fully Clothed, Arrested Cited This Morning at Plano Church

Update at 11:47 a.m.: The AP has a few more details. Travis apparently knew the woman who was arguing with her estranged husband. No one was injured, but Travis and another woman were both ticketed for simple assault, a Class C misdemeanor. The police report does not indicate that alcohol was involv ... More >>

Randy Travis Hospitalized After Cited For Fight In Church Parking Lot [UPDATED]

Update: 12:10 p.m.: Plano PD's David Tilley relates that just two citations for simple assault were issued, Class C misdemeanors, and no one appeared to be intoxicated. The altercation actually happened around 10 p.m. last night, and people were gathered at Prestonwood Baptist because a "field trip" ... More >>

Naked Randy Travis Arrested in Grayson County

It wasn't long ago that we found country singer Randy Travis drinking wine in front of the First Baptist Church in Sanger. But the man has topped himself. Pretty much everyone is now reporting that Travis walked naked into a Grayson County convenience store to buy cigarettes last night, crashed his ... More >>

Shooter Jennings On Fitting in With Nashville: "I Just Know I Don't Want to Do It."

Since the 2005 release of his modern outlaw coming-out party, Put the "O" Back In Country, Shooter Jennings has proudly waved the banner his mother and father, Jesse Colter and Waylon Jennings, had helped design decades ago. After the surprising release of his 2010 concept album, Black Ribbons, Jen ... More >>

Good Friday: 35 Denton Isn't the Only Thing To Do This Weekend

​It would be slightly unfortunate to have scheduled a concert on the same weekend as 35 Denton, but it's not like everyone's going up there, right? [Crickets chirping; the entire office is headed North on I-35.] But, for those of us left behind, there are still plenty of things to do around town, ... More >>

Randy Travis Takes a Pretty Decent Mugshot

Denton County Sheriff's Department​An old Friend of Unfair Park directs our attention to, of all things, TMZ, which says Randy Travis was "arrested in Dallas this morning" for drinkin' some wine in front of the First Baptist Church in Sanger ... which is in Denton County. But, sure enough, there i ... More >>

Three Solid Shows Worth Your Time Tonight

Indie folk, post-rock and hardcore honky-tonk are the order of this evening's musical offerings.

Good Friday: The Walkmen, Alejandro Escovedo, Trashcan Sinatras, The Virgin Wolves, Young The Giant, The Hope Trust, Nmperign, Sundress, Randy Travis, Remy Le Boeuf & More!

The Five Amigos or The Walkmen​After kind of a dud last weekend, we've got a pretty solid list of shows to see this weekend. And topping the list for some of us here at DC9 headquarters is The Walkmen concert at The Granada Theater on Saturday night. In this week's paper edition, we ran a piece ab ... More >>

Sure, Gene Simmons Was At His Fair Park Party Last Night. But So Too Were Burton Gilliam, Randy Travis and Other Familiar Faces.

Photos by Danny HurleyBurton Gilliam with some of the many soldiers invited to attend the Aces & Angels fund-raiser at the Fair Park Centennial Building last night​Our Danny Hurley skated down to Fair Park last night for Gene Simmons and Shannon Tweed's Aces & Angels poker tourney, concert ... More >>

Show Announcements: Tobacco, The Adicts, Yelle, The Black Angels, The Submarines, Stone Sour, Katy Perry, The Raveonettes, Joe Pug, Keith Urban, Yes, South by So What? & More!

Tobacco​Less than a year ago, Tobacco, the Pennsylvania-born electronic musician and frontman for the experimental group Black Moth Super Rainbow, released his latest solo album, Manic Meat, a dark and seedy work that outshone its 2008 predecessor, Fucked Up Friends. As a solo artist, Tobacco ... More >>

Show Announcements: British Sea Power, Band Of Horses, Randy Travis, Dawes, Devotchka, The Kills, Cut Copy, Ice Cube, Guster, The Crystal Method, Appleseed Cast, Warpaint, Freelance Whales, Helmet & More!

British Sea Power​Brighton's explosive British Sea Power are fresh off the release of their fourth studio album, Valhalla Dancehall, which, unfortunately, doesn't quite match up to the power chord anthems on their previous record, Do You Like Rock Music. Rather, the new album hearkens back to thei ... More >>

The 15 Worst ...and Friends! Albums Of All-Time

​It's hard not to remember Santana's 1999 album Supernatural. Besides just the Rob Thomas collab "Smooth," which we've spent the past decade trying to erase from our memories, the album received a lot of attention at the time for being one of those records that featured a different collaboration w ... More >>

Gig Alerts: Jon Wolfe at House of Blues' Voodoo Lounge and Kevin Deal at the The Ranch in Los Colinas

Jon Wolfe​Fans of Americana and country have a nice choice of singer/songwriters to choose from this evening.Hailing out of Tulsa, Jon Wolfe has the looks to be easily dismissed as (yet) another Garth Brooks wannabe. But don't let the big black hat and tight fitting jeans fool you. Wolfe has a kil ... More >>

Country Hunks And The Women Who Love Them.

Danny Balis Offers Up A Gem On His Solo Debut

Ben Kweller On His Own Sound: 'The Mix Of Eagle, Edge and Young Country'

Years ago, area legend Ben Kweller was dubbed a wunderkind by nearly every music publication in the country. Today, the child has grown into a husband and father--and says he's eager to reconnect his family and career to the place he still calls home: Texas.His fourth major solo album, Changing Hors ... More >>

Sonny Burgess

Thursday, February 21, at Glass Cactus, Grapevine

Chris Knight

Thursday, July 26, at Suede Bar & Grill

Getting Randy

Fall in Step

2005 Dallas Observer Music Awards

Case Solved: Killer musicians captured, thanks to your tips

Been There, Done That

For supporters of an improved and expensive Trinity River, everything old is new again

Holidaze

Unwrapping our annual roundup of musical season's greetings--and beatings

Please kill me

A handy guide to the worst local records of the '90s

Taking the Wheel

For the second time this decade, Ray Benson pays tribute to Bob Wills

The music man

Lenny Waronker is a rock-biz legend, but is that enough to make DreamWorks Records a success?

Back in black

Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash are still our greatest Storytellers

A stink over 'Think'

A local housewife-songwriter claims country hunk Collin Raye stole her song

Honky-Tonk Man

He had 78 hits spanning five decades and revolutionized country music. Now, Fort Worth's Hank Thompson gets a new green light.

Strait to hell

George Strait saved country music. Then he killed it

Two-drink minimum

The Enablers take Nino Rota and Dick Dale out for cocktails

Thank God he's a pretty boy

Ty Herndon is country music's latest hunk of the month. But is he for real?