If you recognize Butch Hancock’s name, you probably know him as a member of the Flatlanders, the legendary trio from Lubbock that is now a cornerstone of Texas country music. What you may not know is ...

Joe Ely, a native of West Texas, absorbed the honky-tonk, western swing and rock ‘n’ roll of his youth. He ran away from home at age sixteen to see the world and play music. He later returned to ...

Three years is a good long spell to be working on an album. And yet when reached out at Joe Ely’s ranchland studio south of A-Town late one evening back in January, neither Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Butch ...

Hayden Pedigo’s isn’t the only voice from the echoing expanse of the Texas Panhandle that’ll be heard at the Big Ears Festival this March. Pedigo’s Amarillo angst is probably impossible without the ...