by Christine Duke | Aug 18, 2025
George Strait is the unambiguous “King of Country Music,” having sold more than 105 million albums and counting while earning more than 60 major entertainment industry awards as well as countless nominations and becoming the only act in history to have a...
by Christine Duke | Aug 18, 2025
Don Kirby Cook (born May 25, 1949) is an American record producer and songwriter whose work is mainly in the field of country music. Artists who recorded Cook’s material include Barbara Mandrell, John Conlee, Blake Shelton, Chris Young, Olivia Newton-John, The...
by Christine Duke | Aug 18, 2025
Critically acclaimed groundbreaker/songwriter/superstar Miranda Lambert has defined her multi-faceted career as an artist, entertainer, entrepreneur, advocate and businesswoman with an unflinching quest for excellence, honesty, and conviction. Her 10th solo studio...
by Christine Duke | Aug 18, 2025
Keith Gattis left Texas to become a star. Instead, he became great. Gattis is a favorite songwriter of legends and a patron saint of telecaster disciples. His voice––distinct, smooth, and sad––made believers out of cynics and mined classics out of shadows. “To me,...
by April Mitchell | Sep 23, 2024
Charlie Robison, a seminal figure in the country music scene, is celebrated for his distinctive voice and evocative songwriting. Raised in the Texas hill country of Bandera, Robison initially pursued a path in college football until an injury redirected his focus. The...
by April Mitchell | Sep 23, 2024
Dan Seals was never particularly interested in being correct. He played a right-handed, 12-string guitar—left-handed—and with only eight strings, “upside down, and backwards,” as he used to say. Texas born and raised, he called himself “England...
by April Mitchell | Sep 23, 2024
At the age of 26, fifth-generation Texan Leslie Satcher moved to Nashville in pursuit of a singing career and was quickly recognized for her gift with lyrics and melody. After being mentored by many of the music industry’s legendary songwriters at a smaller...
by April Mitchell | Sep 23, 2024
In an ever-changing music world fraught with people trying to be something they are not, David Lee is nothing but himself—a Wichita Falls-born Texas native and a third-generation musician. The songwriter cut his teeth in Texas honky-tonks, where playing a mix of blues...
by April Mitchell | May 9, 2023
Tried & true Texan, Music City hitmaker, frontman, and multi-instrumentalist are just a few of the monikers Terry McBride has worn in his decades-long chart-topping career. A Lampasas, TX native, McBride spent his teenage summers on the road with his dad, the...
by April Mitchell | May 9, 2023
In the tightknit musical community of Austin, Texas, it’s tough to get away with posturing. You either bring it, or you don’t. If you do, word gets around. And one day, you find yourself duetting with Bonnie Raitt, or standing onstage with the Allman Brothers at New...
by April Mitchell | May 9, 2023
A GRAMMY, CMA, and ACM Award-winner, Jon Randall has seemingly done it all over his three-plus decades in the music business, working as a songwriter, guitarist, and critically acclaimed producer with some of the biggest names in country, bluegrass, and Americana....
by April Mitchell | May 9, 2023
Born in The Woodlands, Texas, Jack Ingram has maintained a reputation for uncompromising, personally charged song craft and energetic, charismatic performances for over 20 years, earning him prominent stature in a prestigious tradition of iconoclastic...
by April Mitchell | May 9, 2023
One of the most outstanding instrumentalists in rock over the past 40 years, Texas guitarist Eric Johnson was already a legend before he recorded his first album. By the early ‘80s, many celebrated guitarists were singing the praises of this skinny kid from Austin...
by April Mitchell | Feb 27, 2023
“If the blues is played right,” says Austin, Texas, native W.C. Clark, “it makes your soul feel clean.” Indeed, master guitarist/vocalist Clark – known as “The Godfather of Austin Blues” – has been playing the blues right and cleansing souls from the east side of...
by April Mitchell | Feb 27, 2023
Born and raised in Gruver, Texas, Rodney Clawson developed a passion for sowing and cultivating the fruits of his labor from a young age. The farmer-turned-songwriter proudly attended West Texas A&M and was honored with the Distinguished Alumni Award in 2014....
by April Mitchell | Feb 27, 2023
The position that Radney Foster enjoys in the music landscape is remarkable. Mainstream Country music, Texas/Red Dirt and Americana tend to occupy separate orbits. Yet for 35 years, Foster has thrived in all three as a songwriter, recording artist, live performer and...
by April Mitchell | Feb 27, 2023
As a founding father of the progressive country music scene in Austin, Texas, in the 1970s, Gary P. Nunn helped change the face of popular music. With a career spanning half a century – and no plans for stopping anytime soon – Nunn is a proud ambassador...
by April Mitchell | Feb 27, 2023
Called a “rock and punk godfather” by Rolling Stone, Alejandro Escovedo has as eclectic a background and body of work as any rock artist of his generation. As comfortable performing with a string ensemble as he is with an amped-up power trio, and as likely to bare his...
by Jason Guest | Jan 2, 2022
Penning some of popular music’s most beloved and enduring songs including the smash worldwide hits “Suspicious Minds,” “Hooked on a Feeling” and multi-Grammy Award winning “Always on My Mind,” Mark James is a songwriting legend. His songs have been recorded in a...
by Jason Guest | Jan 2, 2022
Nanci Caroline Griffith (July 6, 1953 – August 13, 2021) was an American singer, guitarist, and songwriter, born in Segin, Texas, and raised in Austin. Twenty albums now, and none before like this. “Itʼs emotional for me, and itʼs personal, and it makes my heart...
