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In Finally News: Hold My Beer, the album we've been waiting for since before 2008 from Texas Music mainstays and pals, Wade Bowen and Randy Rogers is now available for pre-order.

On Monday (1/12), fans of Jason Isbell were surprised to hear Zac Brown cover his song Dress Blues. Brown performed on ESPN's College Game Day, before the first-ever National Championship college football game between Oregon and Ohio State.

2012 was the last time we heard new music from American Aquarium. Of course that was still a good 14 months before I'd discovered the North Carolina based band, myself. Burn. Flicker. Die, was the name of the project. It was produced by Americana stalwart, and NBC The Voice snubber, Jason Isbell.

If you missed it last night on the tele, and you failed to set your DVR, that's ok! We've got the internet. Check out Wade Bowen making his national television debut, and doin' Texas proud; singin' his multi-week No. 1 hit When I Woke Up Today, from his self-titled album.

With ‘Bury Me in Blue Jeans’ Granger Smith has taken the contemporary country song and turned it on its head in a refreshingly traditional way.

I love seeing this. Love it when our Texas and Oklahoma bands get the national love they deserve. If you recall, back in November Wade Bowen tweeted that he and the boys would be heading to Los Angeles to record a performance for Conan on TBS, well, that day is today.

To wrap up 2014, two of Texas' most prolific singers, Pat Green and Lyle Lovett sat on top of the Texas chart with Girls from Texas, for four consecutive weeks. Well, now it's 2015, and Josh Abbott Band, Kyle Park and Aaron Watson are all looking to start off the new year with a new No. 1 song. Who lands it? Let’s find out.

This week marks the 30th consecutive year that I have not attended Music Fest in Steamboat Springs, Colo. Yup, that's right, I've never been to Texas and Red Dirt's biggest music and ski festival. It's sad. But thanks to the ingenuity of my pal, Rita Ballou, #FlatBuddyLogan will not be suffering the same fate as I...

She doesn't just have one of the best albums of 2014 in Provoked. She isn't merely the first woman to score a Top 10 in Texas in over a decade. Sunny Sweeney has a special place in her heart for military men and women.

Well y'all, for our second Backyard Concert Contest, this time with Texas Country superstar Aaron Watson, we received submissions from all over the country for two full weeks. Now, more than 6,500 votes and four weeks later, we've calculated all of your #ThatLook votes and are ready to announce our #TheUnderdog loser, two runner-ups, and the big grand prize winner of a private concert from Aaron,

Throughout the history of "Texas Music" there have been certain artists that stepped forward as... "leaders" per-say. These leaders made headway for the rest of our favorite artists. In the beginning, we had Pat Green, Cory Morrow and Roger Creager step up, followed by Randy Rogers, Wade Bowen etc etc etc.

When it comes to album art, The Dodd Sisters at Backstage Design are two of the hottest designers in Texas. The duo was nominated for a Grammy in 2011 for their work on Reckless Kelly's Good Luck and True Love, before winning it in 2013 for the artwork on Reckless's Long Night Moon.