Lyle Lovett stands alongside Willie, George Strait, and Jerry Jeff Walker as artists who played Gruene Hall long before they were famous.
Lyle Lovett was born in Houston and raised in Klein, the unincorporated community just northwest of the city named for his great-great-grandfather, Adam Klein, a Bavarian weaver who came to Texas in the 1840s and '50s. Family legend has Adam Klein leaving Germany, sailing to Cuba and then New Orleans,...
The Kessler Theater has gone from Art Deco movie house to one of Dallas's most trusted live music listening rooms in Oak Cliff.
On October 22, 2006, the Rolling Stones played a historic free-ticketed concert at Zilker Park in Austin, and it was Ian McLagan and his Bump Band who the Stones picked to open the show. It was a fitting bill: McLagan had toured as a sideman with the Stones in 1978...
For roughly a decade after settling in Central Texas, Small Faces and Faces keyboardist Ian McLagan and his Bump Band held down a Thursday night residency at the Lucky Lounge, a downtown club on West 5th Street. It became one of Austin's great standing dates: Mac thumping the piano and...
In 1994, while out on tour with Rod Stewart and reeling from the Northridge earthquake back home in Los Angeles, Small Faces and Faces keyboardist Ian McLagan and his wife Kim bought a two-story wooden house on 15 acres six miles outside of Manor. McLagan loved that the little town...
Kenny Dorham's Backyard is an outdoor East Austin jazz venue at 1106 E. 11th Street, honoring the bebop giant with live blues, jazz, and R&B.
Anderson High School in East Austin is where Kenny Dorham learned trumpet in the 1930s — the segregated school that shaped one of bebop's finest voices.
Fairfield, Texas is the birthplace of jazz trumpeter Kenny Dorham, born here in 1924, who would play with Charlie Parker and co-found the Jazz Messengers.
C-Boy's Heart & Soul on South Congress is Charley Crockett's favorite Austin haunt — a soul club where he unwinds after his biggest nights.
Adair's in Deep Ellum is where Charley Crockett launched his Dallas career in 2014 — leaving free CDs in men's rooms and meeting Leon Bridges.
Charley Crockett Deep Ellum Dallas — where he busked as a teenager on the same corner as Blind Lemon Jefferson, then returned in 2015 to launch his career.