The well-worn grave marker in a remote cemetery near Eagle Mountain Lake draws thousands of visitors. They leave liquor, or cigarettes, or charcoal or crayons from gravestone rubbings. “To Live’s To ...

March 7, 2024, marks what would have been the 80th birthday of Townes Van Zandt. The acclaimed and respected Texas singer/songwriter died on New Year’s Day in 1997 at age 52 of cardiac arrhythmia ...

Townes Van Zandt lived the life of both an 18th-century byronic hero and a 19th-century cowboy. He was tragically brilliant, broken, and lost too soon. However, everything tragic about Van Zandt’s ...

This continues the series on Texas Musicians. This is Part 2 of two parts on Townes Van Zandt. Throughout the last half of the 1960s and the beginning of the ’70s, Townes Van Zandt spent most of his ...

Welcome to the Texas Canon, a series that dives into the movies, TV shows, books, albums and more that represent us and reach far beyond the Lone Star State's borders. Today, we look at Townes Van ...

Steve Earle told of a failed intervention by his doomed friend and teacher Townes Van Zandt, not exactly reminiscing, at The Egg on Saturday. Earle recounted how Van Zandt had warned him always to use ...

2024 is racing to a close and New Year’s Eve residency season is now in full swing. Last night, Dec. 29, Billy Strings took the stage at New Orleans’s UNO Lakefront Arena, where he set off his third ...