Townes Van Zandt

Dawn Richard Makes Local Appearance and Reaches Top 10

This is not your everyday Billboard chart. Each week, we'll tell you which bands are selling in the fine record shops in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, where we consumers of music have impeccable taste. Lance Price, CD Source owner, was exhilarated to have Dawn Richard make an appearance at his s ... More >>

Waltz Around Our 100 Best Texas Songs

The 100 Best Texas Songs: The Complete List

100. Tripping Daisy, "Sonic Bloom" Before this album, the band had a grunge-pop affectation, but this song, from 1998's Jesus Hits Like the Atom Bomb, was more heartfelt than anything they'd done before. - Daniel Hopkins 99. Pleasant Grove, "The Plaque at 16ft" Bret Egner wrote "The Plaque at 16ft, ... More >>

The Best Texas Songs of All Time: #39-20

Best Texas songs, #100-80 Best Texas songs, #79-60 Best Texas songs, #59-40 The Spotify playlist for songs #39-20 39. Billy Joe Shaver, "Live Forever" "Live Forever" is an emotional experience. The line, "Don't let the darkness take them" is tear-inducing, given that his own son, Eddy, was take ... More >>

Happy Birthday, Townes Van Zandt

The great Butch Hancock will be at AllGood Cafe tonight, kicking off a March residency and the cafe's fist annual Townes Van Zandt birthday tribute. Hancock does a similar yearly jam at the Cactus Cafe in Austin, and he's a master storyteller, especially when talking about Townes. He's even more rev ... More >>

"Rehearsal Spaces Are Designed For the Kind of Bros Who Apply Band Stickers to Urinals" and Other Wisdom From Indian Jewelry's Tex Kerschen

Some bands just like to be mysterious. Take Houston's Indian Jewelry for example. Although the band has been around for a little over a decade, very little biographical material is available. Various articles on the band list five members, but some list only two, and even then, pseudonyms are used. ... More >>

Just Cuz of the Day: The O's Covering Townes Van Zandt

Because any time is a good time to listen to Townes Van Zandt, here's a video of local duo the O's covering "Waiting 'Round To Die" outside of the original Poor David's Pub, where Van Zandt often played. They're currently touring with the Old 97's, but they'll be back in town February 4 at the Kes ... More >>

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: Townes, Guy and Ray Wylie at the Three Teardrops

​Whenever I drive down this stretch of IndustrialRiverfront, which is often, I think about what used to be there: the Three Teardrops Tavern, the honky-tonk that served as home-away-from for old-timers (Boots Bourquin was a regular), newcomers (Ed Burleson got his start there) and those in-between ... More >>

Get To Know Your DOMAXXIII Nominees: Best Solo Act, Best Alt-Country/Roots Act, Best Country Act

​Welcome to our 2011 Dallas Observer Music Awards breakdown, wherein we'll use the weeks leading up to the DOMA showcases on Saturday, October 15 (which is also when voting ends), to explain the nominees in each category Today, we look at the nominees in the  Best Solo, Best Cou ... More >>

Top 100 Reasons Texas Is Twice as Awesome as Any Other State

Merritt MartinOh, you can damn well bet this is on the list.​By now most of you dear readers are well aware of the Gawker-produced list of the 50 Worst States In America. Gawker placed their home base at 50, and the Lone Star State at 13. Sure sure, our placement could be worse, but instead of ... More >>

Sons of Hermann Hall to Erect Plaque Honoring The Fallen Musicians Who've Played The Venue

Patrick PerezMany greats have played Sons' stage.​Mike Snider is sick of area musicians dying. Worse, he's sick of seeing how the whole community comes together in the wake of a death -- not because there's anything wrong with that, he's quick to say, but because he doesn't understand why we can't ... More >>

Justin Townes Earle Could Live up to his Legacy, but He's Not Promising Anything.

Extended Q&A: Justin Townes Earle On The Importance of Fashion On Stage

Justin Townes Earle​Justin Townes Earle is making quite a name for himself. Sure, he has a couple of pretty famous names already -- his father is Steve Earle, and his middle name comes courtesy of Townes Van Zandt. But the younger Earle has been making headlines all on his own the past few months ... More >>

Dude Food Takes On Kincaid's

​Kincaid's Hamburgers4901 Camp Bowie Blvd.Fort Worth, TexasDude Factor: 9, or Roger Miller, on a scale of 1 (Mark David Chapman) to 10 (Townes Van Zandt)It seems that every time someone does a survey of metroplex burgers (or a statewide survey, for that matter), the name "Kincaid's" seems to come ... More >>

Rollin' Them Sevens

Chris Knight, Justin Townes Earle

Saturday, February 6,at the Granada Theater

Steve Earle

Townes (New West)

Hayes Carll, Band of Heathens, Jason Eady

Monday, December 29, at the Granada Theater

Justin Townes Earle, Bruce Robison, Kelly Willis

Friday, December 12, at the Granada Theater

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, Sharon Little

Monday, July 7, at Nokia Theatre, Grand Prairie

Can Justin Townes Earle Live Up To His Name?

Misery Mixtape for Those Bummed by the Recession

Is the recession getting you down? If misery loves company, this mixtape is for you

Q&A: Texas Legend Joe Ely

Sundancing As Fast As We Can

Viva La Revolución!

This weekend, Southfork becomes The Range

Our top DVD picks for the week of March 14.

Oh, Norah

Townes' Town

Fort Worth Blues

The Modern hosts a weekend of Townes

Cowboy Junkies, Milton Mapes

Saturday, February 18, at Granada Theater

Live and Well

Just because bands are cashing in on live albums this Christmas season doesn't mean they can't get it right

Scott H. Biram

Saturday, November 19, at Gypsy Tea Room

Marah

If You Didn't Laugh, You'd Cry
A Christmas Kind of Town Yep Roc

Susan Gibson, Adam Carroll

Friday, July 29, at The Horseman Club

Bosque Brown

Plays Mara Lee Miller (Burnt Toast Vinyl)

Best Radio Station

KHYI-FM (95.3), The Range

Dead, Not Buried

Townes Van Zandt left behind great songs for people to fight over

Pat Green

Wave on Wave (Republic/Universal)

The Sound of Violence

In a world at war, there was still plenty of beauty to be found

Various Artists

Poet: A Tribute to Townes Van Zandt (FreeFalls Entertainment)

Some things he did

Roxy Gordon was "one of the great outlaw artist misfits" and so much more

Guy Clark

Day for Knight

Ray Wylie Hubbard is no longer up against the wall, redneck mother

Events for the week

Card sharp

Twenty years without bluffing at Poor David's Pub

Farther along

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

Ed Hagan, 1919-1996

Another true original leaves us

His work is never done

Robert Earl Keen would like nothing better than to save country music

Events for the week

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