Artist: Don Walser
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #67 Jan-Feb 2007
Don Walser & The Pure Texas Band – Texas Legend
I sure hope the late Don Walser — with his seamless and joyous fusion of cowboy, western swing and honky-tonk musics — is not remembered primarily as a great yodeler. However well-intentioned, that would still be selling him short — as he himself often claimed, he was a singer who did some yodeling. To which [...]
Farther Along - Obituary from Issue #66 Nov-Dec 2006
Don Walser: 1934 to 2006
Born September 14, 1934, in the small west Texas town of Brownfield, and raised in nearby Lamesa, Don Walser was just 11 years old when his mother passed away. As he told it, his widowed father had to work nights while he was left to raise himself, with only the family radio for solace. In [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #26 March-April 2000
The Texas Plainsmen With Yodelin’ Donnie Walser – Self-Titled
Watching Don Walser perform with his Pure Texas Band on Christmas night at the Broken Spoke a couple months ago, Spoke owner James White and I got to talking a little bit about the history of South Austin’s grand old country dance hall. Much of that history is documented in a little “hall of fame” [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #24 Nov-Dec 1999
Don Walser – Here’s To Country Music
One of the oldest rules in the book is show, don’t tell — which makes the declarative chest-thumping of Don Walser’s new album rather curious. For an old hand like Walser, the self-conscious roots move implied by the title Here’s To Country Music is redundant. It’s not like he was doing Backstreet Boys covers before…although [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #15 May-June 1998
Johnny Bush – Horse Opera
The hardest part of this assignment was deciding where to meet for lunch, somewhere that would be equally convenient for Don Walser from his home in Austin and Johnny Bush from his in San Antonio. Once the decision was negotiated to dine at the Guadalupe Smoked Meat Company — just down the street from Gruene [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #4 Summer 1996
Don Walser – Texas Top Hand / Dale Watson – Blessed or Damned
Don Walser and Dale Watson are both bringing classic country music into the ’90s, and while these two Austin-based singers may differ in musical approach, their new albums offer hope for those yearning for more traditional country sounds. Walser’s new album, Texas Top Hand, is comprised of the kind of music he’s been singing for [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #1 Fall 1995
Don Walser and the Pure Texas Band – The Archive Series, Vols. 1 and 2
Who is the best country music vocalist working today? Well now there’s a question to spur endless debate. But of course, it’s fairly predictable which names will immediately surface — Johnny Cash, George Jones, Dwight Yoakam, Don Walser …. wait. Don who? Unfortunately, there are still too many country fans who aren’t yet in the [...]
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