The Gobblers Knob

Here's some of Patrick Michels excellent shots for The Dallas Observer from the Ritter show I reviewed recently.

Here’s another one of those, “Sorry, I’ve Been Gone A While, But…” posts. For those still clicking onto this site every so often, I really appreciate it, thanksfully, there’s still plenty of you. Below is a slight recap of what I’ve been doing lately.

• I’ve been judging the early rounds of the Shiner Rising Star contest. Looks like I’ll be a regular at the table for the next few weeks, too, so there will likely be more updates like these from the past two weeks.

• I recently suffered from a Texas-country funk….

• …and thankfully, I’ve been getting out of it, thanks to some really great, new talent.

• Ray Lamontagne’s lead single from his latest album is killer.

• Me and the boys at Twangville have really gotten a kick out of the new Old 97′s EP.

• I got to chat with two of the current kings of folk, and two of my personal favorites, Joe Pug and Josh Ritter.

Tons of new stuff have hit my inbox and I fully intend on sharing some of that with you, sooner than later.