A Weekend in the East Texas Town That Invented the Boogie-Woogie
“Attaboy—ya see the road okay?” Robbie Shoults says in his deep East Texas drawl as he sidles up to my ten-year-old son, Crosby, in Shoults’s side-by-side. Crosby, peering a few inches over th...
A Brief Inquiry Into “Choosin’ Texas”
Like sonnets about death or romance novels about hockey players, there is no shortage of songs about Texas. Some happen to be great. Others are downright offensive to the ear. Some are famous the worl...