Waylon Jennings

The O's Beat Out Phoenix at Local Record Stores

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. Record Store Day is still having an effect on the sales at local independent record shops; how ... More >>

Texas Television Troubadour Matt Caldwell Shuffles His iPod For Us.

Texas Country, or Red Dirt, or whatever one wants to call it, has become big business these days. So, it's not really shocking that a couple of television shows dedicated to artists fitting into the Lone Star-loving realm have popped up and are shedding light on the talent all over the state and int ... 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: #59-40

Best Texas songs, #100-80 Best Texas songs, #79-60 The Spotify playlist for songs #59-40 59. Tum Tum, "Caprice Music" For years, the Dallas hip-hop community's had a love affair with the Chevy Caprice Classic. Tum Tum's "Caprice Music" was an ode to that car culture, illustrating the unique trend ... More >>

The Best Texas Songs of All Time: #100-80

"Between the Hank Williams pain songs And Jerry Jeff's train songs And blue eyes cryin' in the rain Out in Luckenbach, Texas Ain't nobody feeling no pain" - Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson, "Luckenbach, Texas" With that introduction, welcome to the first in a five-part series, in which we attempt ... More >>

Support Local (Country) Music: Four North Texas Albums You Need

In recent months, the North Texas country community has produced some solid albums, and future months will witness the release of anticipated records from Somebody's Darling, Grant Jones and Ronnie Fauss. While vets like Eleven Hundred Springs, Tejas Brothers, the King Bucks, Nate Kipp and Mo Robson ... 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 >>

Billy Joe Shaver, Naptime Shake

Friday, November 11, at the Kessler Theatre.

Grant Jones Names His All-Time Top Five Non-Texan Country Artists

Grant Jones​Regular readers of DC9 and regular drinkers at just about any North Texas honky-tonk are likely familiar with Grant Jones & The Pistol Grip Lassos by now. Between celebrating a great victory in the 2009 Shiner Rising Star Contest (where they won a recording contract) and suffering ... More >>

News and Notes: [Daryl] Reunites, ZZ Top Gets Covered, Badu Gives Birth (Kinda) and More!

That two-year-old listening to KKDA-104.5 FM K104 in Dallas (local tie!) in the clip above is cooler than all of us. But we've got some cool news to share about some artists with local ties -- among them Erykah Badu, ZZ Top, Kelly Clarkson, [Daryl], Teenage Cool Kids and Big hud -- so that's a start ... More >>

Penny Lazo Works For Universal Records and Gets Celebrities To Pose for Pics With Her Taco.

Welcome to Local Music 'Mericans, where we meet the people in the local music scene that you don't see on stages. Penny Lazo. With LMFAO. And a taco. No, the taco isn't real.​Penny Lazo is a DFW-based rep for Universal Records. Despite being very rock 'n' roll in appearance, her main beat is coun ... More >>

Tonight, Tonight: Senses Fail at Lola's Saloon, Dylan Sneed at the Kessler Theater and Willis Alan Ramsey at Poor David's Pub

Not a bad selection of shows for a Wednesday night, especially if you're into poppy punk or prime Americana.

Gypsy Songman

A View From the Judges Table: Week 4 of The Shiner Rising Star contest.

​Shing Rising Star Competition: Week 4August 12, 2010City TavernAnother Thursday night in the Metroplex meant another evening of the Shiner Rising Star contest last night. Whereas the majority of the competing bands in the previous weeks have been North Texas products, last night featured a couple ... More >>

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: Waylon at the Tarrant County Convention Center in '76

​Been thinkin' about Waylon Jennings quite a bit this week; can't imagine why. Even went home Wednesday night and dug out the re-release of the 1976 classic Waylon Live, fleshed out years later to 42 tracks of can't-beat-it country music recorded in Austin and at The Western Place, "a classy, up-t ... More >>

Clearing Out The Mailroom: Thursday, June 3, 2010.

​We've got quite a backlog of CDs we've never gotten around to, so we're going to try to chip away at the pile with this regular feature. The plan: to take a few at a time and play each CD for as long as I can stand it.Los Lobos (Los Angeles, California)Los Lobos Goes Disney (Disney Sound)It's har ... 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 >>

Crazy Heart

Dethklok, Mastodon, High on Fire

Wednesday, November 11,at House of Blues

Forth Worth Native Stephen Bruton Has Died at 60

Renowned musician and Fort Worth native Stephen Bruton passed away on Saturday after complications from throat cancer. He was 60 years old.Over a nearly 40-year career, Bruton worked with the likes of Alejandro Escovedo, T. Bone Burnett, Bonnie Raitt, Johhny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings  ... More >>

Veggie Girl: The Cock & Bull

Last weekend, I set off on my bike. I would save gas, stay close to home, and kill like three birds with one stone by brunching at the promising-sounding Garden Café, on Junius Street in Lakewood. I'd been there as a pre-vegan, and I remembered a lovely garden in the back. The garden, as it tur ... More >>

Poster Of The Week: 100 Damned Guns, Blackland River Devils And Whiskey Folk Ramblers

This week's winner promotes 100 Damned Guns, Blackland River Devils and Whiskey Folk Ramblers Saturday at The Double-Wide. Clearly, the guys in 100 Damned Guns are in no need of an ego massage if they boast the "Heart of Hank Williams," "Brain of Waylon Jennings" and "Muscles of Jimmie Dale Gilmore ... More >>

The Rap Up: The Beat Behind Damaged Good$

How to Be a Good Cover Band

Clearing the Air: Clear Channel's Dallas Boss Dials Up KZPS, KDGE Issues

Billy Joe Shaver Navigates Heartbreak

The musician proves to be a true Texas cowboy

Ode to Billy Joe

A Texas treasure returns to Dallas

Waylon Away

White Trash

There's nothing good about this remake of an awful ol' show.

Hard-Core Honky-Tonk New Year´s Eve

Friday, December 31

The Wurlitzer Prize

Square One (Jeez Louise Records)

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

For Our Homies

Plus: Kaboom, Edited for Content

Ode to Billy Joe

Billy Joe Shaver has a stunning new album in stores. But he can't enjoy it.

Maybe Baby?

Buddy Holly raves on, four decades after he received a second chance

Waylon Jennings

Put up a fight

With bands like these, who needs Austin anyway?

NIGHT & DAY,

1998 December 3-9

Vote the rock

Just call these the Old 97's Observer Music Awards

Roadshows

Town and country

Whiskeytown and No Depression pour into town

Little mascara

The wages of Lollapalooza's sin is Metallica and make-up

Events for the week

Out There

Roadshows

More a legend than a band

Sloppy and perfect, Golden Smog is the best of all worlds

Lone Star State of disgrace

Tributes to Buddy Holly and Willie Nelson are anything but

Thank God he's a pretty boy

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

Roadshows