Texas Music

Keen has announced he is retiring from performing

A new exhibit in San Marcos honors 50+ years of contributions to American music by Ray Benson.

One-third of the Texas blues-rock mainstay ZZ Top has died. Dusty Hill, the band's bassist and one of its vocalists, was 72 years old, and according to his bandmates died at his home in Houston.

This interview originally aired on June 11, 2018.A Texan born and raised, singer-songwriter Roy Orbison got his start in a rockabilly band in high school.…

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.

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

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.