Webb Wilder

Lonesome, Onry and Mean: The Death of Honky-Tonk? (Part 1)

Can't Get It Out of My Head: "Ain't Livin' Long Like This"

Waylon Jennings, "Ain't Livin' Long Like This," live in 1980 Rocks Off is a big musical-phase guy. It's not unusual for him to get stuck - if "stuck" is indeed the proper word - listening to an artist or genre for weeks or months at a time. This summer it was Tom Petty (which he's still& ... More >>

Rotation

Waylon Jennings, "Ain't Livin' Long Like This," live in 1980 Rocks Off is a big musical-phase guy. It's not unusual for him to get stuck - if "stuck" is indeed the proper word - listening to an artist or genre for weeks or months at a time. This summer it was Tom Petty (which he's still& ... More >>

Press Picks

Waylon Jennings, "Ain't Livin' Long Like This," live in 1980 Rocks Off is a big musical-phase guy. It's not unusual for him to get stuck - if "stuck" is indeed the proper word - listening to an artist or genre for weeks or months at a time. This summer it was Tom Petty (which he's still& ... More >>

Unbroken Chunk

Waylon Jennings, "Ain't Livin' Long Like This," live in 1980 Rocks Off is a big musical-phase guy. It's not unusual for him to get stuck - if "stuck" is indeed the proper word - listening to an artist or genre for weeks or months at a time. This summer it was Tom Petty (which he's still& ... More >>

Wilder Thing

Webb's Commandment: You Got to Move

Critic's Choice

Surf's Up

New Band, Old Country

The Hollisters rise from the Rounders' ashes, and head for the honky-tonk

All the Wilder

The Hollisters rise from the Rounders' ashes, and head for the honky-tonk

Lonesome Onry and Mean: New Albums from Webb Wilder and Commander Cody

Sometimes Lonesome, Onry and Mean flat dreads going out to the mailbox. Why? Because there's no telling what musical mediocrity or aural atrocity lies ticking like an Al-Qaeda dirty bomb inside those bubble-packs with faraway foreign addresses like Saginaw, Michigan or Sausalito, California. I ... More >>

First Film Thursdays at Dean’s: Austin FilmWorks

Get a sneak peek at what Steve Mims has to offer

Mando Saenz: Bucket

Get a sneak peek at what Steve Mims has to offer

Like Fine Wine...

The Hollisters keep getting better with age

Leaving the Wolfe Pack

It's Johnny Falstaff's time to "Shine"

Webb Wilder, with Opie Hendrix and the Texas Tall Boys

Friday, March 18, at Dan Electro's, 1031 East 24th, 713-862-8707.

Middle-Age Angst

Webb Wilder is in search of a label and a way to restart his rock 'n' roll career

1998 Houston Press Music Awards Winners

Webb Wilder is in search of a label and a way to restart his rock 'n' roll career

Fall In

Webb Wilder is in search of a label and a way to restart his rock 'n' roll career

Lonesome Onry and Mean: This Guitarist Really Does Rip the Strings Off

You hear people say guitarists "ripped the strings off it" all the time. Well, travel out to the 2:30 mark on this great Webb Wilder video and, if you look close, you'll see the inimitable Donny Roberts take both hands and just rip all the strings off. By the way, the cool cat playing bass is Houst ... More >>

Lonesome Onry and Mean: Three Never-Before-Heard (Almost) Webb Wilder Demos

Photos courtesy of www.webbwilder.com​ Recalling the sessions for Webb Wilder's albums Hybrid Vigor and Doo Dad, former Wilder guitarist Donny Roberts (above left, with the REO Speedwagon hair) forwarded some demos of songs that that never made it to the studio due to time and money limitations. " ... More >>

Lonesome Onry and Mean: Nashville Scene Critics' Poll Lauds Brad Paisley's So-Called Edginess

Lonesome Onry and Mean didn't vote in Houston Press ex-sister paper Nashville Scene's annual Best of Country Music poll, but that doesn't mean we won't comment on the results. This year's poll essentially boils down to the Big Four: Brad Paisley, Taylor Swift, Miranda Lambert and Jamey Johnson. Com ... More >>

Lonesome Onry and Mean: Two Top Producers Recall Their Earliest Musical Memories

Two of the better known roots producers on the scene have radically different memories of the first music of their childhoods that gripped them by the ears and heart. Gurf Morlix, whose notable production credits include Lucinda Williams' Grammy-winning Car Wheels on a Gravel Road as well as stella ... More >>

What Every Musician Needs: Better Shut Up Lines

We all hate the trope "Houston, we have a problem," but we do have a problem in Houston with talkative, inattentive crowds at live shows. Scanning back over reviews from the past two years, at least 20 percent of them mention crowd noise. So what do the musicians think and, more importantly, what ... More >>