Photos and blog-style story by Mary Jane Farmer — For more photos, click on the links below. It’s still being called “Shiner Sundays,” these 4 p.m. Sunday shows at Love & War in Texas. Shiner Beer is no longer involved, however; but it’s been known by that name since the very first one. Just be […]
Story and Photos by Axton Deary Jerry Jeff Walker performed on March 25, 2018, at Gruene Hall for his annual Texas Bash. On the Dallas dreary and cold morning of March 25, my cousin Kris, and I loaded up our cowboy boots, Stetsons, and a cooler full of longnecks into my pickup and we headed […]
Story by Axton Deary, Photos by Joshua Daughtery Austin’s own Uncle Lucius performed at the historic Kessler Theatre in Dallas on February 28 2018. This was the last performance the band would play in Dallas under the current band name, founding member and lead singer, Kevin Galloway announced the band would seek different destinations back […]
Story and photos by Mary Jane Farmer, first appeared in Paris Life Magazine, March 2018 issue Wynonna asks in one of her songs, “Is It Over Yet?”. The answer is a firm and definite ‘No, it is not over yet.’ Though her career and her life seemed to be on hold for a while, she’s […]
First printed in Paris News, 1.26.18; and in Buddy Magazine, March 2018 issue.Story and photos by Mary Jane Farmer Dustin Perkins is the consummate musician. Singer, songwriter, guitar picker, and working businessman in the industry. Perkins started playing music, encouraged by his parents, while still in high school, and soon found himself hosting the open […]
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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