Americana Highways brings you this premiere of Garrett Bryan’s “Trinity.” Year after year on the road, songwriter Garrett Bryan struggled to keep the tragic story off his mind, a horrifying reality young women face every single day. What if he came back? What if it wasn’t just a drunken, angry phone call? She never dreamed […]
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My fingers ache as they squeeze the steering wheel. Sweat drips from my palms and forehead as I desperately attempt to stay locked in place. Thirty-mile-an-hour winds bounce semi-trucks left and right, terrifying me as I stare at the mere inches left between my sedan and a concrete barrier. A screaming ambulance blasts past me, […]
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Dusty-white silos and radio towers line the landscape outside of Thurber, Texas. Once a bustling coal mining outcamp, ghost towns and a giant smokestack are all that remain. A golden-yellow flame soars out from an oil pipeline, burning chemical waste into the dark gray fog. The drizzling rain hardly seems to make an impact. Larry […]
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It’s a chaotic scene as the evening band breaks down their equipment, like the dozens of flashing signs and reflective traffic cones blocking what once was a short drive across Lady Bird Lake in downtown Austin. Dizzy patrons shake my barstool like a rickety amusement park ride, their voices like a bachelorette party amongst the […]
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It’s a bitter cold night on the banks of Los Reyes Creek. There’s hardly a street light to guide me down Old Bandera Road northwest of San Antonio. A spotlight shines on a freshly hand-painted sign declaring the “world’s best home-made tamales,” a bold claim likely to cause a riot in these parts. Advertising […]
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I’m passing a giant tan-and-red teepee as I wind through the rocky trails an hour northwest of Austin. Scattered tents and makeshift outposts bustle with attendees at Reveille Peak Ranch, the site of this year‘s Utopia Festival. I can hear applause and laughter creep out through a secluded pathway on the northernmost trail. A staked […]
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McMurtry’s sound makes you feel like you’re passing an Indian reservation in New Mexico on your way to Marfa. It’s that spacey desert feel with lyrics that seem to be passed down from generation to generation.
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Amongst a strip of restaurants, bookstores, vintage clothing trades, and dive bars on Austin’s famous Drag sits Antone’s Record Shop, a collection of rare LPs that archive decades of history that fueled dusty dance halls and dangerous blues clubs along the Gulf of Mexico. It’s not often that you find a brick-and-mortar stocked with Excello […]
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