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Nearly 90 years after he became one of  Texas’ earliest black recording stars, the life of Blind Willie Johnson remains almost completely shrouded in mystery. The dearth of information on this sightless musician with the startling voice and the ethereal...

Fort Worth’s War Party thankfully acknowledges this on its potent sophomore effort, To Love and Fear It. Instead of mimicking the chaos of the old-school hardcore of Black Flag or Minor Threat, War Party lets the game come to them by embracing everything...

“IN RETROSPECT, I may have been a bit overzealous,” Kathryn Legendre says. “It might have been better to wait, but I was so excited, I just wanted to go for it.”
The amiable blonde-haired songstress is talking about her first record, Old Soul, a 31-minute trek through what basically amounts to Legendre learning how to write songs. “I wouldn’t consider those a batch of my best,” she says, “but after a year into...

The writer responsible for “Wichita Lineman” and many other hits, Jimmy Webb, once wrote a song called “Parenthesis.” The song laments the fate of the songwriter, reduced, it seems, to a minor participant, squeezed on the record label as a tiny name...