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 Gosdin, "Do You Believe Me Now"
Lonesome Onry and Mean has been lax in his duties, not reporting that one of the greatest country singers of all time passed away April 28. The fact that Vern Gosdin was
Wherever you live, wherever you are/ Just love, love, love" - Tim Krekel, "Love One Another"
It is with immense sadness that Lonesome, Onry and Mean reports that Louisville, Kentucky musician and songwriter Tim Krekel has passed away.
Krekel had a large tumor removed from his stomach in April and seemed to be responding positively to therapy, but according to a message LOM received from Nashville late Wednesday night:
"In the past two weeks the cancer has returned (aggressively) to the point wh
Photos by Chris Gray
At his first proper gig since relocating to Houston last month, suit-clad Mike Stinson raised the bar for honky-tonk around here a little. Maybe a lot. Joined by guitarist Lance Smith and Winfield Cheek on keyboards, steel and mandolin, Stinson sang his way through a jukebox's worth of field notes on various fools on stools in a nasal tone reminiscent of Buck Owens' Bakersfield buddy Webb Pierce.
Stinson, Smith and Cheek eased into the first of their two sets, alternatin
Veteran Nashville songwriter Mark Germino will be making a rare Houston appearance tonight at Anderson Fair. The last time Germino played there, no less a fan than Steve Fromholz drove over from Austin to catch the show.
A songwriter's songwriter, Germino is one of the most revered writers in the Nashville underground. Like anyone who pitches songs in Hillbilly Hollywood, Germino's got war stories, like the day he thought he was finally going to get Vern Gosdin to cut one of his songs.
For so
