For more than half of her 76 years, Bobbie Nelson has been making music alongside her little brother Willie by supporting him with a utilitarian piano style that covers the bases from gospel and honky-tonk to rock, swing, and classical. So it should be no surprise that her only sibling helps open and close her [...]

A student of Bob since both ran around Greenwich Village, Maria Muldaur sings Dylan well — not as the Voice of A Generation, but as the Smooth Operator Bob, the Male Sade, or the Romantic with the Pencil Thin Mustache, flowers on the hillside ‘n’ all. Muldaur takes the smooth jazz road, keeping it light [...]

It’s been eight years since Butch Hancock’s last solo disc, and while he’s been busy touring and recording with the Flatlanders, guiding river trips on the Rio Grande (oh, to have been a fly on the canyon wall when he took Ramblin’ Jack Elliot into Santa Elena Canyon backwards), and building a life for himself [...]

Long before he became a candidate for Governor of Texas, a mystery writer, and a Will Rogers for his times, Kinky Friedman was leader of the Texas Jewboys, a band that pretty much existed for one great album. They were outrageous, brilliant and exciting on first listen; the second time, maybe not so much. What [...]