Friday, September 11, 2026
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A Tribute to Bob Weir

by Neil Reisner The thread that would weave through the ups and downs of my life began to unspool in front of me on November...

A Treasure of the Real South and West

by Neil Crabtree A Treasure of the Real South and West by Neil Crabtree “Tom Russell is Johnny Cash, Jim Harrison, and Charles Bukowskirolled into one. I...

BOOK REVIEW: Riders in the Sky: Romancing the West with Music and Humor by Bobbie Malone and Bill C. Malone

RIDERS IN THE SKY:ROMANCING THE WESTWITH MUSIC AND HUMORBobbie Malone and Bill C. MaloneTexas A&M University Press264 pages “It’s the Cowboy Way.” Riders in the...

BOOK REVIEW: Gary Stewart: I Am from the Honky Tonks by Jimmy McDonough

GARY STEWART:I AM FROM THE HONKY TONKSJimmy McDonoughWolf+Salmon513 pages Jimmy McDonough took more than ten years to complete his acclaimed, behemoth biography of Neil Young,...

RECOMMENDED NEW MUSIC

Joe Bonamassa and various artistsB.B. King Blues Summit 100Joe Bonamassa pays tribute to The King of the Blues, B.B. King, and celebrates what would’ve...

RECOMMENDED NEW BOOKS

The Irish Goodbye: Micro-MemoirsBeth Ann FennellyFrom W. W. Norton: “A new, genre–defying volume that explores family, marriage, motherhood, place, and coming of age with...

THE MONSOON: ESSAY by Eleanor Connolly

I leave work to meet the head of the storm that’s all the village has been talking about for the past few days. Strong winds...

FICTION: Elephant Rock Blues by Jason Marc Harris

You never saw a boy scattered so.–“The Story of the Good Little Boy,” Mark Twain West Texas cold never frosted Hunter Spacks’s eyelashes like working...