One of the best music blogs ever has signed back in to take a trip to Cardiac Country. Thank you, Petal Motel! ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

If you're in Austin, TX, or know someone who is, I'll be playing a Cardiac Country record release/happy hour show this Saturday from 5-7 at the Aristocrat Lounge. I drew a cute flyer too.

It is 100% coincidence that I scheduled this the same weekend as the Austin Record Show. I would never intentionally detour my life & drive 2 hours to buy records from some of the best dealers in the world.

Don't let me wishing you a Happy New Month stop you from enjoying my name on this Top Tier Tastemaker's list for the cruelest month. (See... inside here I'm called a "literate" songwriter, so I just made a T.S. Eliot allusion...)

Frozen Hearts for everyone! Thank you, RO. 🧊❤️‍🩹

Some of the best Seger analysis I've ever read right here. I celebrated his birthday by going to see Walt McClements last night.

Ride on, RD&TRHB!

New video. "Old Hat" Written & recorded a few weeks before OHS. Final song on Cardiac Country. Video by RNR HERO, Brother JT. youtu.be/eu2PTpJIH6E

This is what I sound like when I talk & pace. SOPHOMORE LOUNGE thetonearm.com/one-from-the-h…

i am so happy that my dogs love me

I'm hitting the road next month & I'm taking a pedal steeler & singer with me. JDD trio will be visiting these fine towns. Greg Cartwright & Styrofoam Winos & Matt Rowan will show us up on select dates. Hope to see you. Please tell your friends.

This is my favorite party trick, right after balancing a salt shaker on one corner of the shaker on just one grain of salt. Thx for the sweet review!!

Happy to be included in SPIN list w so many peers & pals. Last time I was in Spin, it was 2007 & I was pictured w my shirt off. Of course, I was swimming but it still counts.

HBD Raphael Ravenscroft, the man behind the legendary vsax break on Gerry Rafferty's "Baker Street".

This was last week, but I just logged in to this place again. 😛

"[H]e has a peculiar way of guiding you into his world." Live review: Bill Callahan / Smog, Jerry David DeCicca at Liverpool's Arts Club Liverpool. 𝕯𝖗𝖆𝖌 𝕮𝖎𝖙𝖞 sun-13.com/2025/07/07/bil…

Jerry David DeCicca, Bill Callahan support, very good Jerry David DeCicca National Concert Hall

Thank you!! I just got home from tour & saw this, so I'm going to celebrate right now. 😍

He won't have to ask me twice.

The Tejano and conjunto music community is grieving the loss of one of its most beloved and pioneering figures, Flaco Jiménez, who passed away on July 31, 2025, at the age of 86. Known as a master of the accordion and a cultural ambassador for Mexican-American music, Flaco's