Mance Lipscomb

Catfish Reef: Happy Woman Blues

Lomax on Lomax

Day of the Dead at the Graves of Southeast Texas Music Legends

Pack Fair & Square

Bluesman Big Walter celebrates his 87 years with star pupil Jerry Lightfoot

The Anti-Clapton

Rocky Hill hopes to find a smooth patch on his rocky road

Moore to Know

Dave Moore follows a musical trail from Iowa to Italy

Static

Dave Moore follows a musical trail from Iowa to Italy

Sound Check

Dave Moore follows a musical trail from Iowa to Italy

Right Number

BR5-49 lives to see the day when Hee Haw is hip

Burying the Brakeman

BR5-49 lives to see the day when Hee Haw is hip

Artist of the Week: Matt Harlan

Each Wednesday, Rocks Off arbitrarily appoints one lucky local performer or group "Artist of the Week," bestowing upon them all the fame and grandeur such a lofty title implies. Know a band or artist that isn't awful? Email their particulars to introducingliston@gmail.com. It's hard to explain ... More >>

The Collector: The Hoodoo Curse

Bluesman Robert Johnson's shadow stretches long and large

The Collector: Mack McCormick's Huge Archive of Culture and Lore

A great American folklorist has spent a life squirreling away bits and pieces of Texas culture. Now time is running out on him and his inventory.

The Scene Is Dead. Long Live the Scene!

Ideas toward a Houston-style musical Day of the Dead

Eric Taylor

Saturday, January 21, at Anderson Fair, 2007 Grant, 713-528-8576.

2006 Houston Press Music Awards Supplement

Saturday, January 21, at Anderson Fair, 2007 Grant, 713-528-8576.

Make Mine a Guinness

The author discovers his genetic Irishness

Jammin' on the Sabbath

If the Sunday-afternoon concert series isn't enough, there are still 10,000 free reasons to go to the Space Place

Get Back, Honky Cat

Barry Manilow whites the songs. Is that so wrong?

Bluegrass Meltdown, Montrose-Style

Medicine Show, J.W. Americana and Two Star Symphony have the cure for the Monday-night blahs

Change of Beat

Just like the rest of Houston, the local music scene saw plenty of ups and downs

Gardeners of the Music World

Nightclub owners provide a feeding place for musicians

Racket

The Last Concert Cafe has glimpses from its unique history

Long Haul

As the rest of Americana crumbles around him, Guy Clark just keeps getting better

Lost Legends

Tary Owens helped rescue the early roots of Texas music. Then those songs saved Owens from himself.

Screen Plays

Tary Owens helped rescue the early roots of Texas music. Then those songs saved Owens from himself.

A Musical Guide to Post-Secession Texas: Houston and "Brazoria"

The final installment of our Five States of Texas project brings it all back home, to the new state of Brazoria, encompassing all of Southeast Texas from the Brazos Valley to Sabine Pass. ​Patron Saint: Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown. A master of rock and roll, country, Cajun/Creole, blues and jazz, n ... More >>

Steve Earle, Lyle Lovett Praise Houston On NPR

npr.org​Monday around lunchtime, local singer-songwriter and multiple 2010 HPMA nominee Lee Alexander emailed us that Steve Earle and Lyle Lovett were being interviewed together on NPR's World Cafe. Not only that, he added, both men were saying lots of nice things about Houston, where - in cas ... More >>

Last Night: Lyle Lovett & John Hiatt At The Grand

Photos by Jason Wolter​Lyle Lovett & John Hiatt The Grand 1894 Opera House, Galveston June 27, 2011 Coming soon to an Improv near you: The comedic stylings of Lyle & Hiatt! Almost sounds like one of those old-time yukster duos, doesn't it? It certainly played out like that Monday night in Th ... More >>

Peter Cooper: Nashville Scholar, Fake Hillbilly Hater

Eric Brace (left) and Peter Cooper​The senior music writer and columnist for Nashville daily The Tennesseean and a professor of country music history at Vanderbilt University, Peter Cooper also steps out as a performing songwriter when his schedule permits. He rolls into town Friday night at M ... More >>

A God-Fearing Boogie Man

Reverend K.M. Williams says the blues aren't the devil's music.