Two blues enthusiasts an ocean apart spent nearly two decades collaborating on a book they envisioned as the definitive history of the blues in Texas. Robert “Mack” McCormick was a Houston-based ...
NAVASOTA, Texas (KBTX) - It’s impossible to tell the story of Black History without Blues music, and the story of Blues music in Texas has to include the city of Navasota. The Texas Legislature ...
While the presently published reviews of Blues Come to Texas are accurate in their breadth they are not so in their depth. The quixotic tale of blues historians Paul Oliver and Mack McCormick is a ...
Angela Strehli went more than 15 years without releasing an album of her own. With the new “Ace of Blues,” she didn’t just dip her toes back into the water. This album — vibrant and nuanced — finds ...
Texas music is as diverse as its people. Nineteenth-century immigrants to Texas from the American South, from Mexico, and Europe, shaped a variety of sounds unmatched anywhere else in the United ...
Blues musician Sue Foley has spent decades on the road, faithfully carrying Pinky, her pink paisley Fender Telecaster guitar. The pandemic derailed her live performances, but now she is back on the ...
Texas guitarist/singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Carolyn Wonderland, 52, has accumulated quite an impressive resume of recording projects, collaborations ...