AN ALRIGHT GUY : TODD SNIDER’S SARDONIC HUMOR INFLECTS THAT WAS ME
Free Times (Ohio)   12/28/2005
WHEN SINGER-SONGWRITER TODD SNIDER actually sat down to write the liner notes to That Was Me 1994-1998 the new compilation of songs from his first three albums he set himself up for what proved to … 
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BURN UP THE STAGE
Fort Worth Star Telegram   12/25/2005
Rising country and western star Miranda Lambert threw some more Kerosene on the growing bonfire of her budding career Friday night at Billy Bob's Texas.

STRINGS ATTACHED WELCOMES JAMES MCMURTRY FOR NEXT CONCERT AND LIVE BROADCAST ON
Top 40 Charts   12/22/2005
James McMurtry is one artist who has earned his solid singer/songwriter/guitarist reputation.

DUKE OF EARLE
Fort Worth Weekly   12/21/2005
Fort Worth-based singer-songwriter Jason Eady rediscovered his passion for Americana music that hard-to-define but scrumptious stew of country folk blues and Southern rock in an unlikely place … 
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WILLIE NELSON HEADLINES LAST LEG OF GUTHRIE'S KATRINA TOUR
kgbt4.com   12/19/2005
Texas country singer Willie Nelson and folk singer Arlo Guthrie gave about 800 New Orleans residents some much-needed good times during a benefit concert last night.

BEST BETS: WELCOME BACK TO AUSTIN
The Statesman   12/17/2005
Patricia Vonne has been a busy woman in 2005.

TERRI HENDRIX - CELEBRATE THE DIFFERENCE
AmericanaRoots.com   12/17/2005
I first saw Terri Hendrix when she opened for Guy Forsyth at the Cibolo Country Club.

ROBERT EARL KEEN RETURNS FOR ANNUAL MCALLEN SHOW
The Monitor   12/16/2005
What does Texas offer Robert Earl Keen that he can’t find elsewhere?

YOUNG TEXAS MUSICIAN TAKING INDUSTRY BY ‘RED DIRT’ STORM
Country World News   12/15/2005
Seventeen-year-old Johnny Cooper is not a traditional country artist, nor is he a rock artist. He calls his music “Texas Red Dirt Country” which is “a little country mixed with some rock.”

HUGS & MISSES: MICHAEL O'NEAL & JON RANDALL REVIEWED
AmericanaRoots.com   12/13/2005
This week Stephen Hug reviews the latest from Michael O'Neal called "Dark Side of a Small Town" as well as the new release from Jon Randall "Walk Among The Living".