First appeared in Buddy Magazine, September 2018 issue. Photos and story by Mary Jane Farmer Aaron Watson, “Live at the World’s Largest Rodeo”, Big Label Records Aaron Watson is introduced on this recently-released CD as “The man putting ‘cowboy’ back in country music, Texas’ own Aaron Watson.” Watson and his band recorded this latest project live at […]
First appeared in Paris Life Magazine, August 2018 issue. Story by Mary Jane Farmer, Courtesy photos When one mentions Larry Gatlin & The Gatlin Brothers, one person’s mind’s eye might swing over to thoughts of harmonies, tight lyrics, and comradeship among family while others’ envisions California gold and Houston love. Since their first recording in 1973, […]
Story by Mary Jane Farmer, Courtesy photos. Originally appeared in the Friday, June 28, issue of Paris News. Photos from the concert will be posted later. The Eli Young Band is unique in today’s country music. The band of brothers play their own instruments, write many of their own songs, share in harmonies, and so far, no matter […]
Photos and short story by Mary Jane Farmer — Click on link below for more photos. Tony Ramey is a singer/songwriter to be heard, and heard often. And so are his wife, Debbie Money-Ramey, and their daughter, Savannah. And heard all three were heard in solo, in duo, and in trio style at The Texan Theater Saturday night, […]
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 […]
Photography is… No. 2 stimulates imagination
C\ Click here, on this link, to see a few more of my “challenge” photos. No. 2 — Photography requires imagination Each year, lately, I have gone on my own photographic journey, calling it my “Challenge.” I’ll pick a topic and do what I can to photograph items, people, […]
Photography is… No. 1-Immortality
First in a series about photography and why I (Mary Jane Farmer) love it so much. Some of this is ‘borrowed’ from another source, most is uniquely my own. Photography creates immortality — Every Thanksgiving, my family is at my house. It’s tradition. The grandkids take out the old photo albums and go through them, again […]
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 […]
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