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Our year-end look at Austins best records of 2021 includes critics picks among albums and EPs, plus more high-profile and noteworthy releases.

Our music writer Craig Havighurst looks at 2021's rich outpouring of albums and picks 30 that made news, changed artists' trajectories and were just undeniably great.

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In C&I's June 2011 issue, we featured singer-songwriter and actor Ryan Bingham as he was making his way to the top.

Those three releases returned the Flatlanders to their rightful place as one of Americana music’s most important and accomplished bands

Beloved singer-songwriter Nanci Griffith died on August 13 at the age of 68. To many, the Americana of the Grammy-winning Griffith embodied the integrity of the lifelong singer-songwriter.

John Jobs guest column on Rodney Crowell who performs a free concert in Oak Ridge on Saturday night at A.K. Bissell Park.

Texas Music Magazine You know that philosophy espoused by organizational guru Marie Kondo, about improving your life by getting rid of everything that doesn’t “spark joy”? Sure, it may help tidy up your home and closet space, but hoarding can have its rewards, too — at least if you’re Joe Ely. Ever since launching his Rack ’em Records label back in 2007, the Lubbock-reared roots rocker and founding member of the Flatlanders has been mining pure gold (or “Pearls from th...

Joe Ely, Butch Hancock and Jimmie Dale Gilmore — together known as the Flatlanders — are not only bandmates, but friends, who have known each other for more than five decades. They share various common interests; they trade book recommendations. But, when you get right down to it, its music thats the basis of their strongest bond. "Its more than just the music, but the love of the music is the real core," says Gilmore. "And its its still there as much now as it was when we first started....

Daily Times July 10, 2021 Never has the tremulous twang that is unmistakably Jimmie Dale Gilmore been more welcome than after a year and a half of pandemic strangeness. Listening to The Flatlanders´ “Treasure of Love” is like strolling into a corner honky-tonk and discovering an old friend on the next barstool. Maybe a little grizzled, telling the same stories, but who cares? You´re together again. Gilmore, Joe Ely and Butch Hancock first hooked up almost 50 years ago. They’ve since per...