Cactus Lee’s New Phase of Folk Realism

With Perfect Middle Hall, songwriter Kevin Dehan steps out of honky-tonk confines

"...fills out Cactus Lee's hippie folk sound – more Gene Clark than Gene Autry, more Jackson C. Frank than..."

Jan. 6, 2023 Music Feature by E. Ryan Ellis

Faster Than Sound – Austin Radio: “We Never Stopped or Went Off the Air”

Austin radio stations stay on-air and spirited during COVID-19

"...off her first show back in the station with Gene Autry's "Back in the Saddle Again." After seven weeks..."

May 8, 2020 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

“Cowboys in Space” Exhibit Finds the Frontier in the Stars

Exploring the infinite plains at the Bullock Museum

"...collection – has assembled for the show would delight generations of science-fiction buffs. Here, there's an early edition of..."

Oct. 11, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Faster Than Sound: Willie and a Movie

The Red Headed Stranger rides again at Luck Cinema's kickoff, thriving Austin rapper Ladi Earth can't be categorized, and more music news

"...I'd react a lot," "I grew up singing with Gene Autry and Roy Rogers and all those guys –..."

July 12, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Future Imperfect: Our Favorite Dystopian Films

VOTE: Deadly roller derby, sad clones, and a Road Warrior duke it out

"...a free hand, it argues, and you don’t get Gene Autry putting on a white hat and picking tunes..."

Sept. 28, 2017 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Exploring the Auteurs of Early Black Cinema

AFS screens rare and influential selections from the Pioneers of African-American Cinema

"..."If there had been a black character in a Gene Autry Western, or a Republic Pictures Western, he would..."

Feb. 17, 2017 Screens Feature by Kahron Spearman

Gift Guide 2016: Coffeetable Books

Big books give heft to big success stories about women in business, Flatbed Press, UT’s collections, Pan Am, and the Spurs

"...these extraordinary holdings. I hope it contributes to the general familiarity with these public resources and inspires pride for..."

Dec. 16, 2016 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Shining Star: Dripping Springs Conquers Light Pollution

Ranch town awarded for outdoor lighting ordinance

"...color field. Terrence Malick filmed it swarming with locusts; Gene Autry even sang about it in the film Heart..."

Feb. 14, 2014 News Feature by Brandon Watson

Short and Sweet From SXSW

The full list of short docs, dramas and animation playing this year

"...a celebrated interior designer loses her eyesight to macular degeneration, she begins to see her life’s work in a..."

Feb. 5, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Bus Stop

"...Echo Ranch, and touring with Tex Ritter, Hopalong Cassidy, Gene Autry, and Hank Williams. Sczepanik worked closely with bandleader..."

Aug. 2, 2013 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Margaritaville

Live Shot of Jimmy Buffet at the Moody Theater

"...and in Buffet’s fire pit singalongs resides just enough Gene Autry to help explain his massive popularity...."

May 31, 2012 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

The Carper Family

Imagine the Carter Family writing songs about texting

"...music popular around World War II, cowboy songs from Gene Autry, honky-tonk by Hank Williams, and original material in..."

March 16, 2012 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Late in the Evening

Live review of Paul Simon at the Cedar Park Center

"...next to Simon standard “Slip Sliding Away,” here in Gene Autry mode, while the sterling new “Love is Eternal..."

Nov. 7, 2011 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

They Went West

Back in the saddle with a faded genre's favorite stars

"...April, Western film stars William S. Hart, Tom Mix, Gene Autry, and Roy Rogers were officially immortalized with the..."

May 28, 2010 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Learning the Game

Learning Buddy Holly's game, 203 tracks at a time

"...These are cowboy songs in the grand tradition of Gene Autry and Sons of the Pioneers, all written by..."

Feb. 5, 2010 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Sometimes Rumble, Sometimes Tumble

Joe Lansdale may be Texas' bloody answer to Mark Twain

"...his East Texas home. "East Texas is a different gene pool, sometimes a mixed gene pool," he says. "I..."

June 26, 2009 Books Feature by Joe O'Connell

Beach House

SXSW showcase reviews

"...Bell" from 2008's still-reverberating Devotion. Legrand plays a modern Gene Autry, her voice layered and distorted yet still heart-wrenching...."

March 27, 2009 Music Review by Darcie Stevens

Luv Doc Recommends: SXSW Screening of 'Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo'

Paramount Theatre, Saturday, March 14, 2009

"...has a reasonable claim on rodeo culture: Will Rogers, Gene Autry, Lane Frost, Freckles Brown. Louisiana? Maybe alligator-skin boots?..."

March 13, 2009 Column by The Luv Doc

Boots, Buckles, & Spurs

50 Songs Celebrate 50 Years of Cowboy

"...disc provides the most interest, wrangling cowboy classics from Gene Autry ("Back in the Saddle Again"), Patsy Montana ("I..."

Dec. 12, 2008 Music Review by Doug Freeman

Page Two: Running in Place

Movie-serial style coverage plagues the most thrilling, genuine, and troubling Democratic contest in decades

"...– Gene Clark, "The Virgin"..."

May 30, 2008 Column by Louis Black

Day Trips

The Texas Musicians Museum in Hillsboro runs the gamut of Texas music history from Gene Autry to ZZ Top

"...lot of musical history into this little house. From Gene Autry to ZZ Top, the displays tell of the..."

Nov. 30, 2007 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Ana Egge

"...with the sublime voice inhabiting and adapting songs from Gene Autry, Stephen Stills, the Kinks, Arcade Fire, Sandy Denny,..."

Nov. 16, 2007 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

Day Trips

The Texas Country Music Hall of Fame & Tex Ritter Museum honors and remembers state luminaries

"...list includes the usual suspects such as Ray Price, Gene Autry, Bob Wills, and Lefty Frizzell. Among the honorees..."

July 6, 2007 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Rock & Roll Books

"...Public Cowboy No. 1: The Life and Times of Gene Autry..."

June 1, 2007 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

TCB

Cowboys and bluesmen at the Alamo Drafthouse's new home, Moose and conjunto on the Eastside, an ailing Crack Pipe, a cranky cigarette company, and other nutty notions

"...Original owner Elmo Hegman couldn't afford top-shelf names like Gene Autry (who appeared instead at the Paramount), so he..."

April 13, 2007 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Day Trips

The Rodeo Heritage Museum in Dublin, Texas, tells the story of the beginnings of the modern rodeo

"...Cowboy movie star and singer Gene Autry revived a sagging career by becoming the first..."

March 23, 2007 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

TCB

Bidding farewell to dandy Don Walser, remembering Jerry Lightfoot, helping Chris Tominaga, and shopping for HAAM

"...Williams and Lefty Frizzell on the radio and watch Gene Autry at the local picture show. Walser left school..."

Sept. 29, 2006 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Sheet Music

"...proficient in the hits of the day, whether by Gene Autry or Peetie Wheatstraw, than his own originals. Because..."

May 28, 2004 Music Feature by Robert Gabriel

'Foxy Brown'

An interview with Antonio Fargas

"...– I saw John Wayne and Cary Grant and Gene Autry – and then for me to be up..."

May 28, 2004 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

TCB

Will Wynn has it in for AMN, as does the Austin Hotel & Lodging Association

"...AMN for drawing down their cash reserves, even though general manager Louis Meyers said the council was fully aware..."

March 12, 2004 Music Column by Christopher Gray

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