Texas Music

Decades after her death, Tejano star Selena is still an icon. She would have turned 50 on April 16, 2021.

Guitar legend Stevie Ray Vaughan was a Dallas native whose turbulent rise to fame in the 1980s led to both success and tragedy. Alan Paul's co-authored book "Texas Flood" takes an inside look back at the life and legacy of the undisputed rock music icon.

We had the privilege to hear from the Texas Piano Man himself, Robert Ellis last November (2019) live at the Lonesome Rose. Ellis crooned his original Texas-style showtunes blending genres from Jazz to Rock and Country.

A San Antonio area band is plowing musical ground that has lain fallow for quite some time, and their latest album is like a window into another era. The…

Gaslighter is country trio The Chicks' (formerly Dixie Chicks) first new album in 14 years. In some ways, the world has finally caught up to the band since it fell out of public favor in 2003.

Long known as firebrands ready to take on abusers, country music and the president, the trio now known as The Chicks is finding – on its first album in 14 years – beauty in loss and lonesomeness.

Like everyone else, singer-songwriter Joe Ely has struggled to find a new normal in the time of the coronavirus pandemic. Playing live is not possible, of…

From Texas Standard : Most Texans have likely experienced some hardship because of the pandemic. But it's hit some harder than others, including those...

From Texas Standard : The Go-Go's' debut album, Beauty and the Beat , climbed to the No. 1 spot on the Billboard chart in 1981. A year later, their...

From Texas Standard : When social distancing and self-quarantine became common practice recently, all kinds of cultural phenomena emerged on social...