Faron Young

The Rocks Off 100: Miss Leslie, Queen of the Honky-Tonks

Who? Miss Leslie if you're country, Leslie Anne Sloane has played fiddle/violin in both the classical and country/bluegrass styles since age 5. In 2004, she started Miss Leslie and Her Juke-Jointers, which can usually be found once or twice a month at finer roadhouses and honky-tonks in the greater ... More >>

Charley Pride, Major League Legend

Singer was once a minor-league pitcher

Thanks A Lot: An Introduction To The Late Great Ernest Tubb

Today would have been country legend and pioneer Ernest Tubb's 98th birthday. Born in 1914 in Crisp, Texas near Dallas, his hometown is now designated as ghost town. For forty years, Tubb was a mainstay on the country circuit and the charts, with songs like "Walking the Floor Over You", "Waltz Acros ... More >>

Top 10 Louisiana Bands Of All Time

​Pardon the geographical pun, but besides Texas, our neighbor to the east may be the most musical state in these United States. And in terms of per capita, Louisiana, which ranks 25th in population to Texas' second, is probably second to none. Outside Nashville's Grand Ole Opry, the program m ... More >>

Died and Gone to Houston

City is ready for another honky-tonk close-up.

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

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, "Shut up, you Limey sons of bitches, they're playing the Texas National Anthem." "I thought surely s ... More >>

Lonesome Onry and Mean: R.I.P. Vern Gosdin

Foreground: Faron Young (leaning on piano), Tammy Wynette (at piano). Back row (l-r): Unidentified man, Hank Thompson, George Jones, Vern Gosdin, Marty Robbins "Don't you think you should've called To tell me you were coming down Oh, you look so out of place On this troubled side of town" - Vern Go ... More >>

Sole of Houston: Airport Drive, The Finale (Including Unwanted Puke)

And here is the final installment of David Beebe and John Lomax's 20-plus mile hike from Intercontinental Airport to Spanish Flowers restaurant. Part one is here and part two is here.David Beebe's accounts of the same hike are here and here.Airline's furthest reaches are lined by sprawling and run-d ... More >>

A Review of Sing Me Back Home: Love, Death, and Country Music by Dana Jennings

Merle the Pearl

Is the Hag the greatest three-tool talent in country music history?

Playbill: Johnny Falstaff

Down-Home Delights

Ten of the best from Nashville and elsewhere

Letters

Defending the Dirty Thirty

And coping with Yankee slander

Willie Nelson

Crazy: The Demo Sessions (Sugar Hill Records)

Fill 'Er Up

Ten-gallon hats and ten-gallon gas tanks come to mind when BR5-49 plays

It's a Family Affair

Willie Nelson brings along his pals for his annual musical picnic

North and South

Tranquil Canada flavors San Antonian Doug Sahm's rustic music

Another Time, Another Country

Rotation

Rotation

Full Nelson

With a new disc and a boxed history, Willie Nelson wonders who'll buy his memories