David Card, the owner of Poor David's Pub, just sent me an e-mail that brought a tear to my eye. Card let us know that Rusty Wier, a longtime performer at Poor David's Pub, died Friday of cancer at 65....
Kudos to the legendary Poor David's Pub for back-to-back weekends of terrific shows. I had the pleasure of being at the Jimmy LaFave-Zane Williams doubleheader on Sept. 12 and again on Friday night, Sept. 18, to hear folk music giant...
When it comes to music, we all have our favorites. And Jimmy LaFave has rapidly become one of mine. I first heard his name a few years back from Abby Goldstein, whom I've never had the pleasure of meeting. Abby...
Spring will soon be sprung, and Poor David's Pub is announcing all sorts of cool shows. Brave Combo will appear there March 28, followed by the Wailers on April 4, Scottish-Gaelic folksinger Juliet Fowlis on April 16, the one-and-only Kinky...
It's a sad moment for the devotees of acoustic music. Lynn Adler and Lindy Hearne, co-founders of Crossroads Coffeehouse & Music Co., in the Piney Woods town of Winnsboro in East Texas, announced Friday that they will close the venue...
Eliza Gilkyson is one of those Austin-based singer-songwriters who learned long ago that the late Woody Guthrie knew exactly what he was talking about -- and warning about. Like Jimmy LaFave, Gilkyson celebrates the music of Woody Guthrie as a...
So, I drove to Winnsboro on Saturday night and heard yet another cool concert at Crossroads Coffeehouse & Music Co. Jimmy LaFave was the headliner; the warm-up act, who also lives in Austin, was BettySoo. She has played Dallas...
Cool new concert venues are popping up all over the place. I, for one, have written extensively about Crossroads Coffeehouse & Music Co. in Winnsboro and Music City Texas Theater in Linden. Both are sweet little venues that give...
For those of us who think the best music around these days is the kind you hear in coffeehouses (they don't call me "Gramps" for nothing), why not take a drive to the Texas Hill Country this weekend and...
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