Greg Barr

He didn't use the cocaine to get high, he just liked the way it smelled.

Presented if you're late to the party and need a primer to one of the coolest bands on the Gulf Coast.

A high-energy fusion that pushes the ex-Gourds singer's Gulf Coast stylings into new territory.

The inside of Kimmie Rhodes' Austin-area home is more like a museum archive these days. Decades-old papers, photos, letters and reel-to-reel tapes occupy various nooks and crannies, material that the Texas singer-songwriter has been digging through for weeks that belonged to legendary KOKE-FM radio disc jockey Joe Gracey, her late...

one time waylon jennings asked me to write him some songs. i said ''what kind of songs?'' he said ''waylon 'goddam' jennings songs. what else, hoss?'' i regret to this day i was unable to empathize in order to do that. -- Ray Wylie Hubbard, from A Life...Well, Lived As...