Location: Marfa

Marfa is renowned as an immersive, highly curated destination for avant-garde, indie, and alternative soundscapes. Rather than a mainstream recording hub, the remote high-desert town serves as a unique sanctuary where musicians collaborate across mediums to create site-specific, experimental art.

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Marfa: Miranda Lambert and The Marfa Tapes

Two Microphones, a Campfire, and Something Extraordinary

Miranda Lambert recorded The Marfa Tapes in Marfa, Texas — a stripped-down acoustic album with Jon Randall and Jack Ingram, made around a desert campfire.

Categories Artists Miranda Lambert

Marfa: Planet Marfa

Marfa’s Outdoor Desert Bar and Live Music Stage

Planet Marfa is Marfa's beloved outdoor bar — an adobe-walled desert oasis with live Texas roots music on weekends and the most eclectic crowd in West Texas.

Categories Clubs-Dance Halls

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