Coupland is barely a dot on the map — an unincorporated crossroads in Williamson County founded in 1887 by Theodore Van Buren Coupland on land that once belonged to his uncle, U.S. Senator Morgan C. Hamilton. But for more than a century, the town's identity has run through one building...
Austin's singer-songwriter circuit — the same scene that produced Jack Ingram and Jon Randall, her future Marfa Tapes collaborators — gave Lambert a model for writing and performing.
As a teen, Miranda Lambert went to Dallas to watch Willie Nelson, Jack Ingram, and Wade Bowen and absorb the Texas singer-songwriter scene.
Willis Alan Ramsey was born in Birmingham, Alabama, but was raised in Dallas from age 10 and graduated from Highland Park High School in 1969. He was a prominent baritone in the school's Lads and Lassies Choir, and in his senior year he landed a leading role in the school...
Luck, Texas isn't a town so much as a movie set that stuck around: Willie Nelson built it on his ranch in Spicewood in 1985 for the film version of his concept album "Red Headed Stranger," then liked it so much he kept it standing and built his own home...
Built in 1928 on Mason's courthouse square and opened with a screening of the German silent film "Metropolis," the Odeon Theater is the longest continually operating theater in West Texas. Threatened with conversion in the mid-1990s, it was saved by local residents who formed the nonprofit Odeon Preservation Association and...
Willis Alan Ramsey counts the Redbird Listening Room among his very favorites, calling it "one of my very favorite little listening rooms anywhere." The room was opened by singer-songwriter Dallas Burrow in his New Braunfels hometown, and Ramsey has credited that pedigree directly: it "has not only survived but thrived...
Willis Alan Ramsey has called the Devil's Backbone Tavern "one of my very favorite venues anywhere on the planet," and he means it — he returns to what he calls its "historic stage" again and again. Ahead of a 2025 date there he posted, "I am very much looking forward...
For Post Malone, AT&T Stadium isn't just another arena on the tour — it's the building his dad worked in. From 2005 to 2019, Rich Post was the Dallas Cowboys' Assistant Director of Food and Beverage, running concessions first at Texas Stadium and then at AT&T Stadium when it opened...
Post Malone wasn't born in Texas — he came into the world as Austin Richard Post in Syracuse, New York — but Grapevine is where he became who he is. His family moved here when he was 9, after his father Richard "Rich" Post became the Dallas Cowboys' manager of...
Ray Wylie Hubbard recalls the night good ol’ boys from Cedar Creek Reservoir tried to grapple with a bear and got tossed like sacks of feed.
Lyle Lovett and Robert Earl Keen kept getting thrown out of the Dixie Chicken for playing guitars where they weren't asked. Two blocks away, the porch that inspired "The Front Porch Song" is gone — but Lovett's 1977 photo of it isn't.
