The recent news that Sam “Lightnin' ” Hopkins might finally get a historical marker in Houston surprised us. Could it really be true that our insecure city — usually so puppy-dog eager to proclaim its ...

Tomorrow, Rocks Off – and, we hope, a lot of our readers – will drag our raggedy asses out of bed and over to Project Row Houses in Third Ward at 10 a.m. to witness something incredible: The ...

Legendary Texas bluesman Lightnin' Hopkins achieved an effortlessly iconic look with shades, a fedora, a cardigan, a dangling cigarette and gold teeth. Hopkins' manner also made for colorful stories ...

The track, “Blues Jumped a Rabbit,” is out this week as part of the new Mack McCormick archive three-box set of 66 songs featuring Hopkins. The project is set for release this summer on August 4. The ...

***** Lightnin’ Hopkins, Mojo Hand: The Lightnin’ Hopkins Anthology (Rhino): To do full justice to the great Lightnin’ Hopkins, who died in 1982, you would need a pretty big boxed set. But although ...

In this edition of ‘T’ for Texas Tuesday, we will highlight a Texas blues legend who, like most blues musicians, was never given his due until he had already passed away. In an effort to, just maybe, ...

For everyone who thinks the wheels of government only turn three speeds — slow, slower and slowest — we respectfully submit the case of one R. Eric Davis. One year ago, Davis was an average Houstonian ...

This summer marks the fiftieth anniversary of the so-called "Electric Dylan" incident at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival -- the moment when 24-year-old Bob Dylan abandoned folk music to play his ...

Country, big band, R&B, blues and pop music all find their way into "Battleground Korea: Songs and Sounds of America's Forgotten War," a new anthology of music and spoken-word recordings from the ...

“This was the last show we did before COVID hit,” acknowledged Ronnie Dunn at the outset of the Texas Heritage Songwriters’ Association Hall of Fame show. With seating at the Paramount still spaced ...

I am Benjamin Crabtree, and I am a Feature Writer for Collider. I am also the creator of CrabtreeCinema.com and cohost of the upcoming Celluloid Noise Podcast. Beyond writing and talking about cinema, ...