Email Author William Michael Smith

2010 Stories by William Michael Smith

• Suburban Warfare

  published January 14, 2010

  Suburban Warfare is one of those young bands you stumble on that give you hope for the future. Led by singer/rhythm guitarist Cari Quoyeser, the... More >>

• Darden Smith, Dan Navarro

  published January 14, 2010

  Darden Smith and Dan Navarro have been out on the folk-rock circuit so long they have become elder statesmen. In 2009, his 25th year of... More >>

• Lonesome Onry and Mean: No Wrong Answers on Ray Wylie Hubbard's New Album

  published Jan 07, 2010

  rLonesome Onry and Mean's second early pick for our 2010 best-of list is Ray Wylie Hubbard's A. Enlightenment, B. Endarkenment, (Hint) There Is No C, set to drop this coming Tuesday. Ever since he st... More >>

• Lonesome Onry and Mean: Nashville Royalty Waylon Payne Plays Mucky Duck Thursday

  published Jan 05, 2010

  The son of music royalty - his father is Willie Nelson guitarist Jody Payne, his mother was Nashville hitmaker Sammi Smith of "Help Me Make It Through the Night" fame - Waylon Payne is one of the bes... More >>

• Charlie Robison

  published January 7, 2010

  For a while there, Houston-born Charlie Robison was everybody's favorite country-music bad boy, the guy who would say anything at any time, the... More >>

• The Wailers

  published January 7, 2010

  While in some sense it is a shame that Bob Marley's band has splintered into rival touring acts the Wailers and the Original Wailers, it does... More >>

• R.I.P Former Sugar Hill Studios Chief Engineer Mickey Moody

  published Jan 04, 2010

  Former Sugar Hill Studios engineer Mickey Moody, who - unlike his boss Huey P. Meaux - was a quiet, behind-the-scenes man, died in Fort Worth over the weekend. Moody, chief engineer and right-hand ma... More >>

• Lonesome Onry and Mean: Now We Have Already Started Our 2010 Top 10 List

  published Jan 04, 2010

  With all the pressure to list the Best Albums of 2009, Lonesome Onry and Mean is going to go ahead and leap forward and make a prediction about our Top 10 list for 2010. We've already received a numb... More >>

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  Lonesome Onry and Mean: Three 2009 Albums That Didn't Get Enough Love

  published Jan 04, 2010

  A few more records from 2009 that deserved more mention than they got. Jesse Winchester, Love Filling Station: At 70 years old, the music industry's most notable Vietnam draft dodger delivered as sou... More >>