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In Oklahoma City on Friday night I’ll be at The Blue Door (tickets here) and a week later Adam Carroll will be there. I will

I stopped here to use the pay phone, but I guess they took it out. There was a new historical marker posted – I read

My sketch/watercolor of an evening at the Kerrville Folk Festival. My band and I will be playing on Saturday, June 8. (Prints of this watercolor are

Headed out to Kerrville Folk Festival tonight- me and my band’s set isn’t until June 8 but I go out and listen every year I

Ahead of tonight’s A Night for Guy show, listening to his unvarnished but masterful worktapes on the recently released album Truly Handmade Vol. 1, I

If you’ve ever wished you could hear Buddy Holly play songs across the kitchen table from you… in the winter of 1958-59, he made a

I first met Walt Wilkins in Archer City about 22 years ago at a show we played together at the Royal Theater, the same theater

Hank Williams’ second to last show was at Austin’s old Skyline Club. Elvis Presley’s second Austin show was at the Skyline. It was good to

My sketch/watercolor of The Blue Door (print available here), a listening room opened 31 years ago by Greg Johnson in Oklahoma City. Greg’s a champion

Someone asked Townes Van Zandt: why do you sing with your eyes closed? And he said, “If you would close your eyes I wouldn’t have

My attempt to draw/watercolor a scene from a day in March 1957 on the road between Victoria and Corpus Christi, when my grandfather Gene (who

Austin’s Bull Creek Park has a concrete picnic table under the oaks that’s perfect for songwriting (I made a drawing of it here). Walt Wilkins