“Fred Eaglesmith in Concert” Schreiner University Bear’s Den Texas Heritage Music Foundation Review by Jack Armstrong When Kathleen Hudson called and asked me to a recent Fred Eaglesmith concert at Schreiner University, I decided to go to see an artist that I had heard about for years but had never experienced directly. I regret […]
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Will Owen Gage – Travelin’ Man
“Travlin’ Man” Will Owen Gage Produced by Will Owen Gage Wailin’ Wolf Creations Review by Greg Forest It wasn’t many years ago a young teenager approached the stage at the Waring General Store and asked if he could sit in for a song or two. “Sure, sonny, come on up.” […]
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“Ghosts of the American Road” Ghosts of the American Road Produced by Mark Addison & Kevin Higgins Little Train Records Review by Greg Forest You hear the term “Americana” bandied about to cover a wide range of musical forms – mostly country songs about lovin’ and drinkin’. What is rare as hen’s teeth in the […]
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There once was a day when the only way to promote your music was by going downtown, printing off 500 postcards, licking 500 stamps and peeling 500 labels. Now, in less than five minutes, artists can compose an email list of the 500 people and send it off with one click. Websites give people all […]
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“Hi, Y’all. I’m Stephanie Urbina Jones,” and the concert begins. This beautiful charismatic songwriter—who was born on the Westside of San Antonio, lives in Nashville, and tours Europe—is a chapter in my book on the women of Texas music. Her story includes a spiritual awakening in San Miguel de Allende and a long road of […]
Read the rest of this entry »A Conservation Notebook – Summer 2014
Jim Stanley, past president of the Hill Country Master Naturalist chapter, gave the conclusive address to the 2013 Master Naturalist program. The address was titled “Land Stewardship.” The author of “Hill Country Landowner’s Guide,” published by Texas A&M Press, Stanley received the Native Plant Society of Texas Carroll Abbott Memorial Award, and for more than […]
Read the rest of this entry »The Good Guys
Texas has long been famous for it’s lawmen. The Texas Rangers are known throughout the world as first class crime fighters but I think the local sheriff had a much more intimate influence on the outcome of how people felt about breaking the law in their own communities. Two Texas sheriffs who became well known […]
Read the rest of this entry »Deep In The Heart of Bandera – Summer 2014
Ask about Bandera, and you will be hard pressed to find someone that has not heard of or been to the town dubbed “The Cowboy Capital of the World.” That’s amazing when you consider this small Texas town has a population of fewer than 900 people. Bandera/cowboy. It has been that way for many […]
Read the rest of this entry »Who Is This Mystery Man?
We in Kerrville use his name every day, and I often think that when we say his name we forget that those letters, those sounds, once represented a person, a living person. The same is true with the subject of this column: although we use his name daily, we rarely remember that it once was […]
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I had lunch the other day at Brick’s River Cafe, a favorite Bandera eating establishment. As is my custom, I chose their always-delicious catfish lunch offering (the catfish platter has more food than I can eat) and thought to myself, “I need a catfishing “fix.” I should call my pal, catfish guide, David Hanson of […]
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