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 […]
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 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 […]
Fred Spears Has Made a Life of the Music Business
First published in the Texoma Farm and Home Magazine, April 2024 issue. Published by the Whitesboro News. Photos by Mary Jane Farmer unless otherwise noted. By Mary Jane Farmer When you sit in a Freddie Lee Spears’ audience, you quickly realize he’s as genuinely classic as the songs he sings. Freddie Lee, or ‘Fred’ as […]
By Mary Jane Farmer for the Van Alstyne News, Scene In Town Note: An indictment is a formal charge, and not proof of guilt. Indictment A local woman Van Alstyne Police arrested February 15 went before the Grayson County Grand Jury Wednesday and that group indicted her on multiple counts of Sexual Assault of a […]
By Mary Jane Farmer for the Van Alstyne News, Scene In Town It blew into town like the winds that accompanied it, the Third Annual Van Alstyne Wine Festival. What didn’t blow in were the heavy rains and thunderstorms that preceded Saturday and which were predicted, although with less chance than the days before, to […]
“Pack Up” Makes the Possibilities Possible.
Texas Nexus / Story and photos by Mary Jane Farmer 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. […]
This is a feature I wrote in 2007 and, crazily, found it on my My Space somehow. It also was printed on the Rockabilly Hall of Fame’s Website of the same name. Roy Head was inducted into the Rockabilly Hall of Fame that year. I am excited to be able to include it now here […]
Van Alstyne is Autumn Town, too!
Story and photos by Mary Jane Farmer, Blog style, not reporting style. More photos on link at bottom, and more will be added on future Sunday drives, so please feel free to check back throughout October and November. Sundays are made for driving around, slowly, and looking at things one misses when moving so fast. […]
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