WHERE THE GIRLS ARE
by Michael Devers
There's an old exercise in logic that goes a little something like this: Imagine you flip a coin 100 times in a row and on each one of those flips the coin turns up heads. What are the odds that the coin will land on heads on the one hundred and first flip? The logical answer is . . .

FIRST SEAT AT THE BAR
by Zach Jennings
Lone Star Music is celebrating its 10th year of existence in 2010. What began as a simple yet ambitious undertaking by Chad Raney in late 1999 as a solo, in-house (literally) Texas Music e-commerce site has now evolved into a multifaceted brand. With a little help . . .

ROADHOUSE RANT
by Chris Mosser
As we begin 2010 (which isn’t the first year of a new decade, but the last of the old, by the way, but I digress), here at KVET-FM in Austin we’re now about sixteen months into our Roadhouse experiment. KVET has catered to the Texas Country scene to varying . . .

MEAN-EYED CAT
by Michael Shane Borden
Ask anyone in Austin to name their favorite beer joints and, likely as not, the Mean-Eyed Cat will fall somewhere in their top five. In a town where old beer joints and taverns are gradually being replaced by martini bars and hip-hop dance clubs, the Mean-Eyed Cat , . . .

LSM MAG STREET TEAM
There are people in every town who help us "spread the dirt." If there is a venue close to you that is not stocked with LoneStarMusic Magazine, please let us know. If you are interested in being a street team member, you would be eligible for freebies and invitations to special events.

JAMES MCMURTRY
by Dale Martin
James McMurtry recently released his second live album, ‘Live in Europe,’last month, with songs recorded during his first European tour. It contained a CD and bonus DVD. I spoke with James on November 15th from his hotel room in Biloxi, MS. He was on tour . . .

AVETT BROTHERS, SUMNER
BROTHERS & SEAN MCCONNELL
by Don Henry Ford Jr.
Joshua, my 30 year old son called me last month to ask if I’d heard of the Avett Brothers. Josh has an ear for good music—I think back to his school days when it was Counting Crows and Pearl Jam he identified before most noticed . . .

LONESTARMUSIC AWARDS
NOMINEES - VOTE NOW!
After a fantastic launch year of the LoneStarMusic Awards in 2009, we are proud to present the 2010 LoneStarMusic Awards. We have expanded the Awards to include two new categories, as chosen by voters last year: Best Vocal Performance
– Female and Live Music . . .
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RICHIE ALBRIGHT & PAUL ENGLISH
by Dale Martin
It was July 4, 1976 at the Willie Nelson picnic in Gonzales Texas that I first saw Paul English, the legendary drummer of Willie Nelson’s band. Not only was English the drummer, he was also Willie’s best friend, band leader, road manager and all around badass . . .

A WRITER"S BIO & COUNTRY MUSIC PAST & PRESENT
by Robert Neal
First of all, a little about my background... I grew up in North Central Arkansas in the forties and fifties. Our highlight of the week was tuning in a battery-powered radio on Saturday nights to listen to the Grand Ole Opry. Somewhere . . .

NEW RELEASE
Reviews
Chris Knight, Robert Earl Keen, Will Hoge, Jason Eady, Jack Ingram, Sam Baker, Levon Helm, Drive-By Druckers, Matt King . . .