Press release Ariat, the leader in innovative Western, Work and English footwear and apparel, announced Saturday its partnership with Texas and Country music artist Casey Donahew. Over the last 15 years, Casey Donahew has risen from a favorite on the local Texas music scene, racking up 16 No. 1 singles, to a nationally hot touring […]
Lately, I’ve been listening to Kinky Freidman’s newest CD in about, oh, say, 40-ish years. It’s called Circus of Life and is due out in about three weeks, or July 3 to be more specific. And, believe or trust me, it’s well worth the money. The Texas Jewboy has not lost his touch, not at […]
Short story and all photos by Mary Jane Farmer. Click on the links below for more photos. And BTW, anyone is free to upload any photo. Would just appreciate it if you left the watermark/signature on it. Gary Morris played to a fully-packed Love & War in Texas June 10, and according to the applause […]
Story by Mary Jane Farmer, courtesy photos “Texan by the Grace of God,” is how iconic singer Gary Morris describes himself, and spends as much time as his still-active career allows him to in Texas. And one of those gigs will happen at 4 p.m. Sunday, June 10, at Love & War in Texas, the […]
Story and photos by Mary Jane Farmer.. Click on links below for more photos It was Shiner Sunday again this past Sunday, (May 27, 2018) and fans packed Love & War in Texas’ outdoor stage. Dancers hit the (new concrete) dance floor, friends gathered together to catch up on old-times and break bread (and steaks […]
Kinky Freidman — Still The Kinkster
Lately, I’ve been listening to Kinky Freidman’s newest CD in about, oh, say, 40-ish years. It’s called Circus of Life and is due out in about three weeks, or July 3 to be more specific. And, believe or trust me, it’s well worth the money. The Texas Jewboy has not lost his touch, not at […]
Mary Jane Farmer, Texas Nexus, August 2017 It’s a 3-column list I have worked up — “PACK UP” it’s called. It’s what I have to reference and cling to when getting ready to go to all the music festivals in my life. And there’s a bunch! Me and Hippie Van head out. She has clean […]
9 Stevie Ray Vaughan at Celebrate Austin Music
Because you asked… The Celebrate Austin Music Festival at Zilker Park, circa April 15, 1984, was filled with Austin-based touring acts with generous sprinklings of up-and-comers. A lot of that information is in Rod Kennedy’s book, Music of the Heart, written many years before his 4-14-14 death. It had been a long three-day event, and […]
This was first in Buddy Magazine, August 2016 issue. People ask me a lot — why am I in the music business? OK, I’ll share the secret – it was a guy who got me into all this. While teaching school in El Paso, I met another teacher, a musician, out there and that chance meeting and […]
(I’m sorry, but we got absolutely NO photos of these people.) Ake Pecha — I was told this means “Start fresh, my friend.” It was probably around 1982 when Kerrville Festival Producer Rod Kennedy took a trip to the southeast, where he met a group of travelers from the Scandinavian countries. This was the “International School […]
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