Michael Corcoran

From Bad Mutha to Fly-Fishing Expert

April 26, 2024

As the audience at a sold-out show at Club Clearview in Dallas circa 1990 was demanding another encore from Austin funk band Bad Mutha Goose and the Brothers Grimm, the group’s singer had an eye on the backstage exit.

The Top 50 Recordings in Texas History

March 7, 2024

A New Exhibit Goes Inside the Making of ‘¡Viva Terlingua!’

November 8, 2023

When Craig Hillis visited ¡Viva Terlingua! The Big Bang of Texas Music in September, he was more amazed by what he heard than what he saw.

In the Land of Woody Guthrie

October 24, 2023

Reshaping the Town of Panhandle

October 24, 2023

Getaway in Plainview, Where West Texas Meets the Panhandle

October 24, 2023

The Enchiladas at Armadillo World Headquarters Were Shrimply Irresistible

August 22, 2023

The Lasting Legacy of Willie’s Picnic

August 22, 2023

Five Albums That Defined Outlaw Country

August 22, 2023

Recipe: Armadillo World Headquarters Shrimp Enchiladas

August 22, 2023

 
(Makes 12 enchiladas)
Ingredients
24 medium to large fresh shrimp, peeled and deveined
12 corn tortillas
1 cup chicken stock
1 avocado
For the stock
1 clove of garlic (peeled and chopped fine)
12 tomatoes
6 onions
1 pound canned green chile strips
Juice squeezed from half a lemon
1⁄3 pound butter
Cut the vegetables in half and then in quarters.

Looking Back to Luckenbach: 50 Years After the ‘¡Viva Terlingua!’ Sessions

August 1, 2023

It’s considered one of the albums every Texan should know by heart. But when it was released 50 years ago, ¡Viva Terlingua!

Country Singer Kelly Willis Returns with Trio, Performing at Kerrville Folk Festival This Weekend

May 22, 2023

Kelly Willis is feeling liberated. After decades being a wife, mother, and singer always on the verge of mainstream success, she’s ready for something new.

The Return of Dallas’ Legendary Longhorn Ballroom

March 23, 2023

Asleep at the Wheel was getting ready to play the Longhorn Ballroom in Dallas on May 13, 1975, when a reporter knocked on the bus door to tell them that their hero, Bob Wills, had just passed away.

Bobbie Nelson’s Grand Piano Finds a Home at the Bullock Texas State History Museum

February 28, 2023

Radney Foster Reflects on Del Rio, Mentoring Kacey Musgraves, and Induction Into the THSA Hall of Fame

February 23, 2023

From Soap Creek Saloon to Willie Nelson’s Picnic, 1973 Was the Year Austin Music Peaked

February 21, 2023

Back in 1986, while Stevie Ray Vaughan was becoming an MTV guitar hero, three Austin acts—Charlie Sexton, the Fabulous Thunderbirds, and Timbuk3—had Top 20 hits, making the year a great one in touting the Texas capital as a vital music scene.

50 Years Ago, Willie Nelson United Cowboys and Hippies at the Armadillo World Headquarters

August 10, 2022

With the Vietnam War still raging in the summer of 1972, there was a cultural chasm that seemed too wide to cross in Texas: Longhairs weren’t welcome in honky-tonks, and cowboys didn’t mingle with “peaceniks.” But five words built a bridge.

Get Your Fill at Griff’s Grill in Waco

July 28, 2022

A Century of Recorded Country Music Started With Texas Fiddler Eck Robertson

June 30, 2022

His tombstone is inscribed with “World’s Champion Fiddler,” as his virtuosity dominated contests in North Texas since his teen years in the early 1900s.

Fort Worth’s I.M. Terrell High School Has a Legacy of Inspiring Jazz Standouts

January 27, 2022

Bosque County’s Horn Shelter Exhibit Is History You Can Dig

January 13, 2022

Baylor University Spreads the Gospel With New Music Archive and Listening Center

December 21, 2021

When Memphis record producer Jim Dickinson (Big Star, the Replacements) was a lonely freshman at Baylor University in 1959, he spent hours studying in the library every night.

From Ray Benson to Debbie Reynolds, What It Takes to Be a Native Texan

June 8, 2021

For 60 Years, Fred’s Corner Grille Has Kept the Burgers and Ice Cream Flowing in Vernon

May 10, 2021

In the early 1960s, Fred and Loys Ray, a young couple in Frederick, Oklahoma, had a dream to quit their jobs and open a restaurant or ice cream shop.

Galveston-Born Director King Vidor Was a Filmmaking Pioneer

March 25, 2021

Roadside Oddity: Bronze Bust of Knute Rockne in Rockne, Texas

March 4, 2021

Drive on Farm-to-Market Road 535 through the Bastrop County town of Rockne and you may notice a bronze bust on a stone pedestal surrounded by a meditative garden.

Home Sweet Mahomes: East Texas’ Whitehouse Goes Chiefs Crazy Ahead of the Super Bowl

February 4, 2021

The East Texas town of Whitehouse is about 10 miles south of Tyler, but in the weeks leading up to the Super Bowl, it is looking more like a suburb of Kansas City.

Roadside Oddity: The Woody Guthrie ‘This Land Is Your Land’ Sculpture in Pampa

January 14, 2021

New Year, New Marfa: Which Texas Towns Are Ready to Eclipse the Tiny Art Haven?

January 5, 2021

Spontaneity Often Makes for the Best Texas Trips

December 24, 2020

Yellowstone Creator Taylor Sheridan Learned To Cowboy in Small-Town Cranfills Gap

December 24, 2020

Remembering Outlaw Country Singer and Songwriter Billy Joe Shaver

October 28, 2020

Outlaw Country pioneer Billy Joe Shaver died Wednesday in Waco after suffering a stroke. The poet in the blue work shirt, considered “a honky tonk Hemingway,” was 81.

Ballad Hunters Alan and John Lomax Preserved the Work of Little-Known Musicians

September 24, 2020

Yellowstone Star Ryan Bingham Keeps the Wolves at Bay With Songs and Family

May 28, 2020

Prospecting for Musical Ghosts Along Lost Highways and Byways

December 27, 2019