Subject: The Dixie Chicks

• Top Ten Country Albums, 2006 - Part II

  December 16, 2006

• Dixie Doc

  November 14, 2006

• Tonight: Gary Nicholson at Dosey Doe

  November 8, 2008

• Live Shots

  December 15, 1994

• Musicians Don't Have W. to Kick Around Anymore... So Now What?

  Now that Lil' Bush has shuffled off the Presidential coil - or will in a couple of hours, anyway - and heads off into some Dallas burg to write his memoirs and reflect on his two wild and strange terms as Commander in Chief, it seems that the writers of so many protest songs can call off their guns and put their grudges to bed. With an artist-friendly liberal president in Barack Obama, what will come of all the anger and poison that helped so many musicians write protest anthem after protest an

  January 20, 2009

• Free Tickets for Charlie Robison at House of Blues... Almost

  Charlie Robison has been around. He was born right here in Houston, but grew up alongside equally (if much differently) gifted songwriting brother Bruce in the South Central Texas ranching town of Bandera. In the '80s and '90s, he spent time in two of Austin's best-known and longest-running country/roots ensembles, Two Hoots and a Holler and Chapparal. By the end of the latter decade, Robison had landed a major-label deal with Sony Nashville on the strength of songs like "Barlight," which a

  February 25, 2009

• Tonight: Toby Keith at Reliant Stadium

  Just think, if not for September 11, Toby Keith would probably still be as bland as dry toast and just as exciting. The horrific events of that day, and our nation's rapid retaliation, suddenly sprung the Oklahoma-born Keith into action - he soon began a whole new career as a political firebrand, a sort of Lee Greenwood on steroids. Keith already had a decade of numerous pop-country hits like ""A Little Less Talk and a Lot More Action" and "How Do You Like Me Now?", but it wasn't until

  March 10, 2009

• Texas Music 1998: The Year That Wasn't

  December 31, 1998

• The Refugees

  March 26, 2009

• Makeup Punk

  Three young fems and one aggressive 'tude, the Eyeliners prove to be more than cosmetic

  August 31, 2000

• Bruce Robison: The New World

  September 4, 2008

• Christmas Songwriters Showcase

  December 20, 2007

• 2007 Music Year in Review

  December 13, 2007

• Tony Bennett

  August 23, 2007

• Houston Music Map

  Queen Norah reigns, Josh Groban pains, and lots of Natalie Maines

  June 5, 2003

• Bob Schneider

  One genre isn’t big enough for him

  July 26, 2007

• Odd Couples

  Strange musical pairings

  June 14, 2007

• Chick Flick

  February 22, 2007

• Song Title Scrabble

  Mixed-up monikers

  March 1, 2007

• Jim Lauderdale

  Jim Lauderdale performs Tuesday, November 28, at McGonigel's Mucky Duck, 2425 Norfolk, 713-528-5999.

  November 23, 2006

• Radical Chick

  You can't tell Natalie Maines to Shut Up & Sing

  November 9, 2006

• blacktopGYPSY

  blacktopGYPSY appears Thursday, September 28, at Mojo Risin' Coffeehouse, 1600 Shepherd, 713-426-1505.

  September 28, 2006

• Sierra Swan

  Thursday, August 31, at Warehouse Live, 813 St. Emanuel, 713-225-5483

  August 31, 2006

• Cowboy Up

  We just can't quit this countrified Karaoke

  April 13, 2006

• Yee-Haw

  He's married to a Dixie Chick and signed to a major label... Charlie Robison is charmed

  June 29, 2000

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  August 5, 2004

• Bash-ing the Bigwigs

  Come Super Bowl week, you can still party downtown, even if you're not very important

  January 22, 2004

• Shock and Awe

  The dark Buffalo Soldiers may be one of the year's best

  August 7, 2003

• Letters

  April 17, 2003

• Hissin' Dixie.

  Country stars battle it out on the eve of war

  March 27, 2003

• Game, Set and Match

  Former tennis player Melinda Mones serves up an ace with her self-titled debut

  March 20, 2003

• Change of Beat

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

  December 26, 2002

• The Mystery of Monsters

  Kiss the Dome good-bye at this weekend's Monster Jam

  November 14, 2002

• Age-Old Axiom

  The Axiom can't seem to shake its past

  March 14, 2002

• Sevendust

  Monday, February 25

  February 21, 2002

• Ruffled Feathers

  The Dixie Chicks and other musicians are fighting for their rights -- and a bigger check

  February 7, 2002

• Love, Americana-Style

  Buddy and Julie Miller's rings don't burn their fingers

  December 13, 2001

• Jesse Dayton

  Hey Nashvegas! (Stag)

  November 8, 2001

• Racket

  In his first 24 years of life, Brad Turcotte has already become a music-business veteran

  September 6, 2001

• Playbill

  The Groobees

  March 22, 2001

• RodeoHouston: Some 'Splainin to Do

  Secret correspondence from the rodeo

  January 25, 2001

• Hear Them Tweet

  The Dixie Chicks get spunky

  August 10, 2000

• Wide Open Shot

  The Groobees piggyback on the success of a song

  June 15, 2000

• Rotation

  New Releases Reviewed

  October 28, 1999

• Playbill

  Coming This Week

  September 16, 1999

• The Strait Dope

  Gettin' jiggy with George Strait at his country music festival

  April 15, 1999

• Aftermath: Fleetwood Mac at Toyota Center

  Photos by Jay Lee Every night the band goes onstage, Fleetwood Mac faces a concert onus only a handful of other groups need worry about: Are its songs too iconic? Is the rush of watching Stevie Nicks twirl out "Landslide" or "Rhiannon" live any match for the lifetime (or decades, anyway) of memories, associations and emotions those songs bring forth? Of course not. It's a trick question anyway. For one thing, only a fraction of Saturday night's nearly sold-out Toyota Center crowd - twenty- to si

  May 4, 2009

• Lonesome Onry and Mean: My Son, the Guitar-Slinger

  William Michael SmithLance Smith (left) and Mike Stinson​ LOM grew up in the oil patch, made a good living in it, saw the world because of it. So it made sense to want our son, Lance, to grow up to be a petroleum engineer. Alas, it was not to be. Now he's a guitar player. Two years into the petroleum engineering program at University of Houston, LOM and the wife pulled the plug on Lance's financing. The logic? Exxon doesn't hire engineers with C averages who majored in frat party and skirt-cha

  August 5, 2009

• He Said, She Said: Get Your Ass In Shape Workout Songs

  Unlike our male counterpart, we aren't seeking to purge our inner demons when we work out (and some of us - shudder - purge something else before working out anyway). Instead, we're looking for something fun, upbeat and beat-heavy. Something that makes you want to shake your ass while you're whittling it down on the stairstepper, or run with confidence next to the cute guy on the treadmills. We've got you covered, babies. Below is our playlist of the best workout songs to download to

  August 27, 2009

• Oh, Great: Nashville Songwriters Name Redneck Doofus Toby Keith Artist of the Decade

  We beg to differ, jerkwad...​Sadly, it's official: Toby Keith, that big redneck doofus who is always threatening to put his boots up somebody's ass or feuding with the Dixie Chicks, has been declared by Nashville Songwriters Association International the top songwriter/artist OF THE DECADE. Man, Lonesome Onry and Mean bets Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw, among others, are pretty pissed, although none of them will ever say so. You know what they say about Nashville: "Nobody ever says anything ba

  September 16, 2009