Longtime Arlington blues club closes
Back when I was a music writer for the Star-Telegram, I spent a lot of time at Stumpy’s, a...
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Tag: Local music
Travis Django Wade makes guitars the old-fashioned way: by hand, 2014
Any savvy, 21st-century business owner will tell you: If you don’t have a Facebook page, a Twitter...
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Nirvana once played this small club in Fort Worth
Open for only a year, The Axis hosted some of the most important bands in punk/underground music...
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Interview: William Clark Green, 2021
Texas-born country-rocker William Clark Green sat down with me for a long, in-depth interview that...
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Interview: The Toadies revisit their million-selling debut album, Rubberneck
Few Fort Worth bands have achieved the level of success attained by the Toadies, the Fort...
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Obituary: Robert Spray, KNON DJ
Originally published June 29, 2001
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Music columns 1993
My first music column, with the unfortunate name “The Dallas Deal,” ran in the Star-Telegram Jan. 29, 1993 – the first of 700 or so columns to come. Under names that would change over the years, this weekly...
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About me
I’m a Fort Worth native who’s been writing about my hometown since 1992, when I joined the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Over a 26-year career there — 14 years on staff and 12 as a freelancer — I traveled across town, the state, and the country, writing about music, pop culture, food, and people, both famous and unsung, from Billy Joel to a young high school couple in love in a small Texas town.
My work has appeared in the Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun, Orlando Sentinel, American Way, Texas Music, Pop Culture Press, and MTV.com. I currently freelance for Fort Worth Magazine and CultureMap.
This site is an ongoing work in progress, updated regularly with new stories and older work spanning my now 30-year-plus career.