Subject: John Prine

• In His Prine

  July 10, 2006

• Summer Mix Tape

  July 24, 2007

• Going to the Chapel, Going to Jail

  April 28, 2008

• Neither Rain, Nor Sleet, Nor Dark Of Night Shall Keep Me From Stealing a $100 Gift Card

  August 21, 2008

• The Coffeehouse Kid

  Stardom might be cool for Adam Carroll. But mainly he just wants to be your friend.

  June 21, 2001

• Freeloader

  Saturday, December 15

  December 13, 2001

• John Prine with Iris DeMent

  Friday, December 6

  December 5, 2002

• Lonesome Onry and Mean: Good Trouble for Hayes Carll in 2008

  We freely admit we are homers, as big a fans of Hayes Carll as Milo Hamilton is of the Astros, but the Press isn't the only media outlet in the country impressed by Carll's first Lost Highway album, Trouble in Mind. The album, which featured the Americana Music Association's song of the year, "She Left Me For Jesus," was Amazon.com's #1 country album, R&R Americana album of the year, and Amazon's #9 album overall. It also scored a #2 in the annual poll of No Depression writers, as well as a #2 i

  January 30, 2009

• Rotation

  November 6, 1997

• Rotation

  November 20, 1997

• Rotation

  January 8, 1998

• Reason to Roam

  April 9, 1998

• Under(ground) Achievers

  May 28, 1998

• Lonesome Onry and Mean: A Brief Chat With Mickey Clark

  Unless you were around here almost 30 years ago and traveling in the music scene, Mickey Clark probably means nothing to you. But the inside liner sleeve on Clark's new album, Winding Highways, is the Anderson Fair music calendar for March 1980. Nanci Griffith and John Grimaudo both had two-day stands that month, Lucinda Williams played the 13th and 29th. Lyle Lovett played the 20th, then opened for Eric Taylor the 21st and 22nd. Clark headlined the 23rd. So suffice to say that he traveled i

  March 12, 2009

• SXSW: Scott Miller

  Photo by clared23 "I've been drunk all around this town, from the downside up to the upside down...." So sings Scott Miller in "Drunk All Around this Town," which he calls "the most beautiful ballad I have ever written." That might not be true but it is a most apropos song for SXSW, and it never sounded better than it did Thursday night at Waterloo Ice House. Like John Prine, Miller is not just a funny songwriter, although can be one of the most humorous out there. He can also come up with line

  March 23, 2009

• Another Rock Mag Bites The Dust: Performing Songwriter Says Goodbye

  Print publications focusing on music continue to fall like pine trees in a hurricane. The latest to close its doors is 16-year-old Performing Songwriter. Editor/publisher Lydia Hutchison announced Wednesday that the June issue would be the last. The magazine joins No Depression, Blender and Country Standard Time, all of which ceased print operations in the face of a bad economy, shrinking record industry, and heated competition for a dwindling advertising base. Decatur, Georgia-based Paste ma

  June 5, 2009

• Texas Music on Sirius/XM's Outlaw Country

  December 4, 2008

• Scott Miller & The Commonwealth

  Thus Always to Tyrants (Sugar Hill)

  July 5, 2001

• Scene But Not Heard

  Houston's student shortage forces the indie scene to go the blue-collar route

  June 7, 2001

• Nothing Happening Here: Protest Music, Then and Now

  October 18, 2007

• Todd Snider

  The Devil You Know

  September 7, 2006

• Online Confessions

  An alleged killer bares all on MySpace

  July 20, 2006

• Prine Time

  A folk-country legend returns to the city that saved his life

  June 8, 2006

• Never Go to a Party in Friendswood

  Where does your town rank in the Houston-area good-taste stakes?

  February 2, 2006

• Farewell to the Twenty Nickel

  Looking back on the '05 and dreaming in the '06

  December 29, 2005

• Darrell Scott

  Live in NC

  August 11, 2005

• Greg Trooper

  Saturday, April 30, at McGonigel's Mucky Duck, 2425 Norfolk, 713-528-5999.

  April 28, 2005

• Karachi Rock

  Haven't heard of Junoon? They've sold 20 million albums, and they're at the Meridian this week.

  April 14, 2005

• Richard Dobson

  Friday, April 1, at the Old Quarter Acoustic Café, 413 20th Street in Galveston, 409-762-9199. Dobson also appears Saturday, April 2, at Anderson Fair, 2007 Grant, 713-528-8576.

  March 31, 2005

• Hold Me Closer, Tony Danza

  Here are a bunch of hilarious misheard lyrics. Now send us more.

  March 17, 2005

• Rotation

  February 24, 2005

• Playbill

  September 23, 2004

• Classics Rock

  Which Greek god is your favorite musician?

  September 2, 2004

• Adieu, Monsieur Mojo

  ...And other SXSW adventures

  March 25, 2004

• Todd Snider

  Saturday, March 6

  March 4, 2004

• The Bottle Rockets and Lucinda Williams

  Saturday, February 28

  February 26, 2004

• Coal Miner's Brother

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

  September 18, 2003

• David Brake and That Damn Band

  Lean, Mean Texas Machine (Westerland Records)

  September 11, 2003

• Pull Your Load

  Get with Scott Miller right now

  August 28, 2003

• Greg Trooper

  Tuesday, August 5

  July 31, 2003

• Everything Old Is New Again

  What do punks the Dropkick Murphys have in common with soulful Norah Jones? More than you think.

  July 31, 2003

• Lucky Boy's Confusion

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

  July 10, 2003

• The Boob Scotch Tour

  Staying abreast of modern trends in blues with Bob Log III

  March 6, 2003

• This Is It

  Will Kimbrough makes a living making the records he wants

  April 4, 2002

• John Prine

  Souvenirs (Oh Boy)

  December 21, 2000

• Easy Does It

  Todd Snider returns to folk from a rock experiment gone haywire

  July 20, 2000

• Lonesome Onry and Mean: "Killing the Blues" with Plant and Krauss

  Led Zeppelin shouter Robert Plant and country/pop vocalist Alison Krauss seem like a highly unlikely duo. When I heard they'd made an album together called Raising Sand, the pairing seemed so odd I didn't really even want to hear it. I thought their two voices would clash like Lucinda Williams and Robbie Fulks. But the woman in my life, a pretty fair vocalist in her own right, kept telling me I had to listen to it. Now she and I don't exactly listen in lockstep; she likes Rufus Wainright and Jul

  May 4, 2009

• Aftermath: Bonnie Raitt at Verizon Wireless Theater

  Photos by Craig Hlavaty For someone with such a deep California/New England pedigree - daughter of Broadway/Hollywood actor John Raitt, schooled at Radcliffe and the Northeast coffeehouse '60s folk scene, now living in Northern California - Bonnie Raitt sure gets Texas music. She could almost be the female Delbert McClinton, in fact, except that Delbert's songs generally don't get made into Julia Roberts movies. Thursday night at Verizon Wireless Theater, Raitt was talkative and congenial - very

  May 15, 2009

• Lonesome Onry and Mean: "OD'd In Denver" and Other Drug-Addled Americana Songs

  A group of us were sitting at our regular table at the bar the other night when one of our number reported that he had to fly to Denver the next day. LOM never hears the word "Denver" that we don't think of Hank Williams Jr.'s "OD'd in Denver." We wonder if Sarah Palin, whom Bocephus schlepped for on the campaign trail last year, has ever heard that one. Anyway, this set off a long discussion about drug references in Americana music. Before long, we were making a list. It kept growing. 1. Hank

  August 21, 2009

• Ghosts of Washington Avenue

  September 10, 2009