Scott Sean White Builds A Foundation On His Songcraft And His Truth With Debut Album Call It Even being released on April 23 Hear “Dad’s Garage And Mama’s Kitchen” today Note: Scott Sean White will be playing these and many other of his songs at El Patio Escondido, 495 W Van Alstyne Parkway, in Van Alstyne, […]
Micky & The Motorcars, Long Time Coming. Thirty Tigers First printed in Buddy Magazine, December 2019 issue It’s been out about a month now, this new record from Micky & The Motorcars called Long Time Coming. And the songs on this project will be around for a long time. Long Time Coming is the Idaho-turned-Texans’ first […]
First appeared in The Paris News, Nov. 10, 2019, edition “Resurrection,” Kinky Friedman, Echo Hill Records Listening to the Kinky Friedman of today is like getting an in-depth look at his soul, and that easily transfers to in-depth looks inside oneself as well. Long gone, it seems, is the Kinky of his youth, when his music was […]
Ian & Sylvia, The Lost Tapes, Stoney Plain Records — First printed in September 2019, in The Paris News. Imagine being returned to the folk music era of the 1960s and 70s, the time when musical instruments were played to compliment the singers’ voices, not over-power them, and songwriters wrote songs with meaning and substance behind […]
Kevin Fowler, “Barstool Stories,” Kevin Fowler Records — Also appeared in September 2019 issue of Buddy Magazine Kevin Fowler has gone and done it again — released a great album. Barstool Stories, this project is called, released Some of the songs have already been major hits, not only in Texas, but across the national charts […]
One Indictment and Police Arrests for August
By Mary Jane Farmer, Scene In Town, for the Van Alstyne News Note: Names are not used until or unless a suspect is indicted for the offense. Indictment On Aug. 31, the Grayson County Grand Jury indicted Van Alstyne resident Scott Nelson Bass on a charge of accident involving serious bodily injury. The vehicle crash […]
Assault, family violence results in one arrest
By Mary Jane Farmer, Scene In Town, for the Van Alstyne News Van Alstyne Police received a domestic disturbance call about 5:45 p.m. Tuesday (Aug. 30). The incident took place at a home, occupied by at least two members of the same family, in the 700 block of Nash Street Police Lt. Steven Hayslip said […]
By Mary Jane Farmer, for Van Alstyne News, Scene In Town, Photos courtesy of Van Alstyne Police A two-vehicle crash Wednesday evening (July 20) caused one car to go up in flames and the driver of the second car to go to jail on numerous felony charges. Van Alstyne Police Lt. Steven Hayslip said the […]
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. […]
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, […]
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