Email Author William Michael Smith

2009 Stories by William Michael Smith

• 

  FEATURED STORY

  Lonesome Onry and Mean: A Brief History of "Danny Boy" - Evergreen But Not Exactly Irish

  published Oct 22, 2009

  The Pogues are only one week away, so no time like the present to reflect on Irish music. For many Americans, no song epitomizes Irish music like "Danny Boy." Lonesome Onry and Mean was gently proddin... More >>

• Lonesome Onry and Mean: Our Pal Arty Hill Picks His Favorite Songs About Drunk Women

  published Oct 21, 2009

  Arty Hill is a Baltimore, Md., honky-tonker who has been playing regularly in Austin the past couple of years. He also reads Lonesome Onry and Mean's blog religiously and has already penned a couple ... More >>

• No, It's Not Too Early to Start Posting About the Pogues, As a Matter of Fact...

  published Oct 21, 2009

  A small band of Irishmen frequent Lonesome Onry and Mean's local waterhole, and they are all abuzz about the arrival of the Pogues at House of Blues October 29. Led by the charismatic and erratic Sha... More >>

• Earl Thomas Conley

  published October 22, 2009

  In spite of his string of '80s hits — 30 songs on the Billboard charts, 18 No. 1s — Earl Thomas Conley never truly fit the... More >>

• Houston Women's Festival

  published October 22, 2009

  Hard to believe it's been 15 years since the inaugural Houston Women's Festival, but time flies when you're having fun. This year's local Lilith... More >>

• Lonesome Onry and Mean: Steve Young Adds Pasadena House Concert Tonight

  published Oct 17, 2009

  Lonesome, Onry and Mean's buddy Kenny Pipes has been hosting a very cool house concert series at his home in Pasadena for a number of years now. Pipes' "Almost Austin" series has not only featured nu... More >>

• Tonight: Booze-Free Folk With Eliza Gilkyson at NiaMoves

  published Oct 16, 2009

  If you're into no-booze, no-talking, listening-room shows, NiaMoves, the yoga studio/concert venue just north of downtown, has a good one tonight with Eliza Gilkyson. Gilkyson may be a folkie, but sh... More >>

• 

  FEATURED STORY

  Lonesome Onry and Mean: Please Rise for the Texas National Anthem You May Not Have Even Known About

  published Oct 16, 2009

  LOM's dad loves to tell a story about being at the Petroleum Club in London in 1978 when Darrell McCall's "Lily Dale" came on the sound system. Some wiry little guy stood up on a chair and hollered, ... More >>

• Listology: Honky-Tonk Man Mike Stinson Chooses His Favorite Drinking Songs

  published Oct 14, 2009

  Honky-tonk man and recent Houston transplant Mike Stinson knows a thing or two about a bottle. Lonesome Onry and Mean asked him to list his all-time favorite drinking songs, many of which you will no ... More >>

• Steve Young

  published October 15, 2009

  Who is Steve Young? Well, beyond being a kid who spent his teen years in Beaumont, he's a guy who should be in every songwriting Hall of Fame on... More >>

• published Oct 13, 2009

  "American man in the laundry pile/ With the rain check claims and the skateboard child" - Chuck Prophet, "American Man"rWe admit to being full-fledged, card-carrying members of the Chuck Prophet Party... More >>

• Mike Stinson Added to Tonight's Troubador Tuesday at House of Blues

  published Oct 13, 2009

  If you're into song swaps by serious writers, today's Troubadour Tuesdays happy-hour show at House of Blues should be right up your alley. KPFT disc jockey Rick Heysquierdo has just announced that Mi... More >>

• Slide Show: Scenes from the Conroe Cajun Catfish Festival

  published Oct 12, 2009

  When the Conroe Cajun Catfish Festival says "rain or shine," they mean it. The rains poured Friday night and Sunday, but that didn't keep the festival from drawing a huge crowd on Saturday when the w... More >>

• R.I.P. Original Austin Cosmic Cowboy Rusty Weir

  published Oct 09, 2009

  Texas music legend Rusty Wier has passed away according to a post from North Texas disc jockey Shayne Hollinger on the Galleywinter Texas music chat site. One of the original Austin Cosmic Cowboys wit... More >>

• Tonight: Songwriting Legend Mark Germino at Anderson Fair

  published Oct 09, 2009

  Veteran Nashville songwriter Mark Germino will be making a rare Houston appearance tonight at Anderson Fair. The last time Germino played there, no less a fan than Steve Fromholz drove over from Austi... More >>

• Lonesome Onry and Mean: Previewing Saturday's Conroe Cajun Catfish Festival

  published Oct 09, 2009

  Lonesome Onry and Mean has to hand it to those people in Conroe: they know how to book a cool festival lineup. In fact, the list of performers for the Go Texan! Wine & Food stage at Saturday's Con... More >>

• Lonesome Onry and Mean: Right-Wing Gun Nuts Ain't the Only Ones Who Can Reload

  published Oct 08, 2009

  We knew it would happen, we just didn't know it would take so long. The so-called Texas music (and right-wing) lunatic fringe has finally located us and zeroed in on Lonesome, Onry and Mean. They've ... More >>

• Lonesome Onry and Mean: We Are Not Ready for Christmas Music in October... or Ever, Really

  published Oct 07, 2009

  Let the Madness begin. No, not March Madness, nincompoop - it's October. Christmas Madness. Lonesome Onry and Mean doesn't know who officially decides these things, all we know is that it's the first ... More >>

• Tonight: Anderson Fair Vet Vince Bell at Brazos Books and Under the Volcano

  published Oct 06, 2009

  Vince Bell's Houston roots go way, way back. When Anderson Fair opened its doors in the early '60s, Bell was one of the troubadours who not only played the joint, he also lived in the Montrose. If you... More >>

• Oktoberfest

  published October 8, 2009

  Under the Volcano's Oktoberfest party features Saint Arnold and Hofbrau Oktoberfest seasonal beers, huge bratwurst dogs (with homemade sauerkraut)... More >>

• Lonesome Onry and Mean: Sideman Supreme Rick Shea Hits the Mucky Duck

  published Oct 02, 2009

  Rick Shea is one of the most in-demand sidemen in the Los Angeles area. Seven years on the road with Dave Alvin certainly boosted Shea's profile outside the L.A./SoCal scene, but the Alvin gig is on... More >>

• Lonesome Onry and Mean: R.I.P. Amy Farris

  published Oct 01, 2009

  Fiddler Amy Farris, an Austin native who played most recently with Dave Alvin's Guilty Women band, died last weekend in Los Angeles. Information is still sketchy at this point, but a press release fro... More >>

• 

  FEATURED STORY

  Lonesome Onry and Mean: A New Chuck Prophet Album Is Better Than Christmas

  published Sep 30, 2009

  If there is anything that, in all our glorious jadedness, Lonesome Onry and Mean waits for with bated breath besides the next issue of Saint Arnold's Divine, it is a new album from Chuck Prophet. We ... More >>

• 

  FEATURED STORY

  Take a Little a Whiff on Me: Five Cocaine Songs Listverse.com Forgot

  published Sep 29, 2009

  If you check out ListVerse.com, which has a list for any stupid topic anyone can think of, you'll find a blog titled The Top Ten Cocaine Songs of All Time. Of course, no one knows who decides these i... More >>

• Lonesome Onry and Mean: Townes Van Zandt Sparks Memories of Stax Records and Jack White

  published Sep 25, 2009

  Lonesome Onry and Mean received the following from California record producer/Boronda Records president Charlie McGovern after emailing him John Nova Lomax's blog on Townes van Zandt's old Houston ha... More >>