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Los Angeles-based Cary Baker's Conqueroo is one of the go-to publicity firms for folks in the roots-music game. Baker grew up in Chicago and has been instrumental in keeping the memory of a numbe... Continue reading "Lonesome Onry And Mean: Two Chicago Cats Remember A "Diamond Ring" And "Spanish Harlem"" >

Stevie Newman of the Domino Kings is one of the shredding-est guitarists Lonesome, Onry and Mean has ever seen. Newman plays and sings honky tonk like it's in his DNA, and he can rock with the be... Continue reading "Lonesome Onry and Mean: A Domino King And A Song About A Big Ol' Bear" >

For a country singer who vanished from sight for ten years, Los Angeles songwriter Bob Woodruff has been in the press quite a bit lately. Two weeks ago, the Huffington Post (ahem) compared him to... Continue reading "Lonesome Onry and Mean: Bob "Crazy Heart" Woodruff Reflects on "King of the Road"" >

Houston native Frank Liddell, whose Nashville production credits include roots-rocker Chris Knight, Texas music phenom Jack Ingram, budding megastar Miranda Lambert, and his wife Lee Ann Womack, ... Continue reading "Lonesome Onry and Mean: "Nowhere Man" and Houstonian-Turned-Superproduce r Frank Liddell's Other Early Favorites" >

Two of the better known roots producers on the scene have radically different memories of the first music of their childhoods that gripped them by the ears and heart. Gurf Morlix, whose notable p... Continue reading "Lonesome Onry and Mean: Two Top Producers Recall Their Earliest Musical Memories" >

There is some dispute in LOM's family about what our first favorite song was, but as best we can determine and agree, it was "Kaw-liga" by Hank Williams. That Native American drumbeat just put my... Continue reading "Lonesome Onry and Mean: Memories of Hank Sr.'s "Kaw-Liga" and "The Old Grey Goose Is Dead"" >

​As anyone with a television knows, the new Jeff Bridge's movie Crazy Heart is all the rage. In fact, it is such a rage that even the pseudo-hipsters at Huffington Post are aware of it. A few days... Continue reading "Memo to Huffington Post: Please Stop Ripping Us Off, Douchebags" >

I See Hawks in L.A. are perennial roots-rock favorites in Southern California. Their Shoulda Been Gold 2001-2009 compilation on new Collector's Choice Americana imprint American Beat Records drop... Continue reading "Lonesome Onry and Mean: I See Hawks in L.A. Soar on Shoulda Been Gold" >

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It went without much notice, but jazz/western swing guitar great Jimmy Wyble passed away Jan. 16. Wyble, born Jan. 25, 1922 in Port Arthur, was a popular guitarist on Houston radio during the 194... Continue reading "Lonesome Onry and Mean: R.I.P. Western Swing Guitar God Jimmy Wyble" >

​ Lonesome Onry and Mean has been holding his breath for a few days, keeping a secret. We've been waiting on one last signature on the contracts before announcing one of the biggest shows ever at... Continue reading "Lonesome Onry and Mean: Vince Gill Confirms for Conroe's Crighton Theater" >

For Lonesome, Onry and Mean, they don't come much taller or wiser than Steve Young. Young has been in a love/hate relationship with Nashville and the major labels since he came to town in the ear... Continue reading "Lonesome Onry and Mean: Songwriting Scholar Steve Young Blasts Nashville's "Yuppa-billys"" >

People have often referred to Lonesome, Onry and Mean as a curmudgeon (look it up), as a guy with a permanent hangover, bad temper and well... you get the idea. But compared to Austin-based 3rd C... Continue reading "Lonesome Onry and Mean: John Conquest Turns Both Barrels on Country-Music Poll" >

​Another 30-plus-year vet of Viet Nashville got his bowels in an uproar about the Nashville Scene's country music poll. In a long email to Lonesome Onry and Mean, this denizen of the songwriting t... Continue reading "Lonesome Onry and Mean: "Nashville Phantom" Goes Off on the Scene's Country Music Poll" >

Some people are downright up in arms about the Nashville Scene's Best of Country Music poll. One of LOM's correspondents who went ballistic is a longtime Nashville musician and producer. To say h... Continue reading "Lonesome Onry and Mean: Nashville Veteran Has A Few Issues With Paper's Country Music Poll" >

Lonesome Onry and Mean didn't vote in Houston Press ex-sister paper Nashville Scene's annual Best of Country Music poll, but that doesn't mean we won't comment on the results. This year's poll es... Continue reading "Lonesome Onry and Mean: Nashville Scene Critics' Poll Lauds Brad Paisley's So-Called Edginess" >

​Lonesome Onry and Mean's second early pick for our 2010 best-of list is Ray Wylie Hubbard's A. Enlightenment, B. Endarkenment, (Hint) There Is No C, set to drop this coming Tuesday. Ever since h... Continue reading "Lonesome Onry and Mean: No Wrong Answers on Ray Wylie Hubbard's New Album" >

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The son of music royalty - his father is Willie Nelson guitarist Jody Payne, his mother was Nashville hitmaker Sammi Smith of "Help Me Make It Through the Night" fame - Waylon Payne is one of the... Continue reading "Lonesome Onry and Mean: Nashville Royalty Waylon Payne Plays Mucky Duck Thursday" >

With all the pressure to list the Best Albums of 2009, Lonesome Onry and Mean is going to go ahead and leap forward and make a prediction about our Top 10 list for 2010. We've already received a ... Continue reading "Lonesome Onry and Mean: Now We Have Already Started Our 2010 Top 10 List" >

A few more records from 2009 that deserved more mention than they got. Jesse Winchester, Love Filling Station: At 70 years old, the music industry's most notable Vietnam draft dodger delivered as... Continue reading "Lonesome Onry and Mean: Three 2009 Albums That Didn't Get Enough Love" >

A few more records from 2009 that deserved more mention than they got. Jesse Winchester, Love Filling Station: At 70 years old, the music industry's most notable Vietnam draft dodger delivered as... Continue reading "Lonesome Onry and Mean: Three 2009 Albums That Didn't Get Enough Love" >