Chris Knight

Rotation: Trailer Tapes

Live Shots: The Faint

Last Night: Chris Knight at the Mucky Duck

MySpaced Out: A MySpace Mixtape

Tonight and Wednesday: Chris Knight at McGonigel's Mucky Duck

Lonesome Onry and Mean: Sounds of Texas Music Series Announces 2009 Season

Guy Clark, "L.A. Freeway," live in Utrecht, The Netherlands, 2006 In response to last week's feature on the Conroe/The Woodlands/Montgomery County Americana scene, we've just received word from the Sounds of Texas Music Series people regarding their 2009 season. Quote-unquote, "Season ticket ... More >>

Under(ground) Achievers

Can Nashville's creative underbelly save country from Music Row?

Saturday: Chris Knight at Conroe's Crighton Theater

Update: Sounds of Texas is giving away ten pairs of tickets to this show. Call 936-441-7469 ext. 201; mention you saw the offer on houstonpress.com to win. Perhaps no artist in Americana other than Steve Earle has been compared to Bruce Springsteen as much as Kentuckian Chris Knight. Knig ... More >>

Texas Music on Sirius/XM's Outlaw Country

Update: Sounds of Texas is giving away ten pairs of tickets to this show. Call 936-441-7469 ext. 201; mention you saw the offer on houstonpress.com to win. Perhaps no artist in Americana other than Steve Earle has been compared to Bruce Springsteen as much as Kentuckian Chris Knight. Knig ... More >>

In the Pines of Houston

Americana prospers in the northern suburbs

Chris Knight

Trailer Tapes star sings about loss

Chris Knight

Tuesday, July 18, at McGonigel's Mucky Duck, 2425 Norfolk. Call 713-528-5999 for more info.

Roots Redux

Dan Colehour's Midwestern musings get their day in the Texas sun

Playbill

Dan Colehour's Midwestern musings get their day in the Texas sun

Playbill

Dan Colehour's Midwestern musings get their day in the Texas sun

Coal Miner's Brother

Chris Knight extracts songs from the same ravaged west Kentucky earth he once rehabilitated

Lucky Boy's Confusion

Ignoring hometown neglect, Mando Saenz signs a Nashville publishing deal and ponders his next move

Bowling for Bands

Pinmonkey scores a strike against Nashville's solo-singer system

Chris Knight

Pinmonkey scores a strike against Nashville's solo-singer system

Alamo Heights

San Antonio's the Krayolas steam into their second act.

Lonesome Onry and Mean: "Nowhere Man" and Houstonian-Turned-Superproducer Frank Liddell's Other Early Favorites

Houston native Frank Liddell, whose Nashville production credits include roots-rocker Chris Knight, Texas music phenom Jack Ingram, budding megastar Miranda Lambert, and his wife Lee Ann Womack, has a surprising set of early music impressions. "I can't remember the first one but there were a lot of ... More >>

Upcoming: AA Bondy, Built To Spill, Chris Knight, Ra Ra Riot, Etc.

​2Cents, Season's After, Taking Dawn: Sat., July 31. Warehouse Live. AA Bondy, JBM: Sat., Aug. 14. Mango's. Andre Williams: Sat., Aug. 21. Continental Club. Anthony Hamilton, Kem, Jaheim & Raheem DeVaughn: Sat., Sept. 4. Toyota Center. A.R. Rahman: CHANGED Fri., Sept. 17. Toyota Center. ... More >>

Mickey Newbury: Houston's Forgotten Genius

"Hank Williams' pain songs, Newbury's train songs/ And 'Blue Eyes Cryin' In the Rain' - Willie Nelson & Waylon Jennings, "Luckenbach, Texas" ​Lonesome, Onry and Mean was sitting around having a few cold pops the other night when we put on The Best of Mickey Newbury. It wasn't long before the ... More >>

Americana Pioneers Wagoneers Reuniting, Playing Houston

​Overnight, Lonesome Onry and Mean received word that the Wagoneers, one of Texas' earliest alt-country bands, are coming back from the dead. The hard-twanging roots band that was essentially a precursor to the Americana movement will perform for the first time in 22 years at the Austin Chroni ... More >>

Bar Light, Bar Bright: Beer Signs & Songs That Light Them Up

Photos by Jason WolterChris Knight at the Firehouse Saloon, August 3​Rocks Off has a bad habit of what some people refer to as "honky-tonkin'." Single, childless and a lifelong Lone Star drinker, we have no reservations about staying out till all hours, even if sometimes it does make us feel l ... More >>

Chris Knight

Photos by Jason WolterChris Knight at the Firehouse Saloon, August 3​Rocks Off has a bad habit of what some people refer to as "honky-tonkin'." Single, childless and a lifelong Lone Star drinker, we have no reservations about staying out till all hours, even if sometimes it does make us feel l ... More >>