One of the founding members of the American country music group Dixie Chicks, Laura Lynch, died in a car crash in West Texas on Friday evening (US Pacific Time), her cousin Michael Lynch told CBS News, according to ‘Variety’.
Lynch, the group’s bassist, shared lead vocal duties on the band now officially known as just The Chicks with co-founder Robin Lynn Macy until Macy’s departure in 1993, at which point she became the sole frontwoman. She was replaced by Natalie Maines in 1995.
Chicks members Maines, Martie Maguire and Emily Strayer (previously Erwin) issued a joint statement on Lynch’s death: “We are shocked and saddened to learn of the passing of Laura Lynch, a founding member of The Chicks. We hold a special place in our hearts for the time we spent playing music, laughing and travelling together.
“Laura was a bright light … her infectious energy and humour gave...
Lynch, the group’s bassist, shared lead vocal duties on the band now officially known as just The Chicks with co-founder Robin Lynn Macy until Macy’s departure in 1993, at which point she became the sole frontwoman. She was replaced by Natalie Maines in 1995.
Chicks members Maines, Martie Maguire and Emily Strayer (previously Erwin) issued a joint statement on Lynch’s death: “We are shocked and saddened to learn of the passing of Laura Lynch, a founding member of The Chicks. We hold a special place in our hearts for the time we spent playing music, laughing and travelling together.
“Laura was a bright light … her infectious energy and humour gave...
- 12/24/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
Laura Lynch, a founding member of the Dixie Chicks (now the Chicks) who played on the country act’s first three albums, has died at the age of 65.
Lynch died following injuries sustained in a car accident on a highway outside of El Paso, Texas, TMZ first reported and the Texas Department of Public Safety later confirmed. Lynch’s former Chicks bandmates also confirmed Lynch’s death in a statement on social media.
“We are shocked and saddened to learn of the passing of Laura Lynch, a founding member of The Chicks,...
Lynch died following injuries sustained in a car accident on a highway outside of El Paso, Texas, TMZ first reported and the Texas Department of Public Safety later confirmed. Lynch’s former Chicks bandmates also confirmed Lynch’s death in a statement on social media.
“We are shocked and saddened to learn of the passing of Laura Lynch, a founding member of The Chicks,...
- 12/23/2023
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Sheryl Crow performs and gets her flowers in the upcoming second half of the 48th season of Austin City Limits, which returns Jan. 7, 2023. The special episode of the long-running live-music program will feature Crow’s induction into the Austin City Limits Hall of Fame and is highlighted by a duet on “Every Day Is a Winding Road” with recent Saturday Night Live musical guest Brandi Carlile.
Backed by the Acl All-Stars band including Lloyd Maines and David Grissom, plus Crow’s guitar player Peter Stroud, the performance begins with Carlile...
Backed by the Acl All-Stars band including Lloyd Maines and David Grissom, plus Crow’s guitar player Peter Stroud, the performance begins with Carlile...
- 12/12/2022
- by Jon Freeman
- Rollingstone.com
It is difficult to envision the moment playing out any other way.
Robert Earl Keen, seated onstage at Floore’s Country Store in Helotes, Texas, had been playing for 3,000 people for nearly two-and-a-half hours. Only a single chorus remained between him and retirement after 41 years of playing shows. The Americana icon is 66 and had spent nearly all of his 2022 I’m Coming Home Farewell Tour playing from a chair after a series of health woes made standing for an entire concert all but impossible. But now, a real goodbye was upon him.
Robert Earl Keen, seated onstage at Floore’s Country Store in Helotes, Texas, had been playing for 3,000 people for nearly two-and-a-half hours. Only a single chorus remained between him and retirement after 41 years of playing shows. The Americana icon is 66 and had spent nearly all of his 2022 I’m Coming Home Farewell Tour playing from a chair after a series of health woes made standing for an entire concert all but impossible. But now, a real goodbye was upon him.
- 9/5/2022
- by Josh Crutchmer
- Rollingstone.com
Two of singer-songwriter Terry Allen’s Eighties-era releases will be reissued by the indie label Paradise of Bachelors this May: 1980’s Smokin’ the Dummy and 1983’s Bloodlines. Both albums have both been long out of print, having last been reissued as a joint single album in 1997 by Sugar Hill Records, and are currently unavailable on streaming services.
The cult West Texas country singer and mixed-media artist has been enjoying a re-emergence in the past several years as his back catalog has been slowly reissued by Paradise of Bachelors, exposing the...
The cult West Texas country singer and mixed-media artist has been enjoying a re-emergence in the past several years as his back catalog has been slowly reissued by Paradise of Bachelors, exposing the...
- 3/16/2022
- by Jonathan Bernstein
- Rollingstone.com
Austin City Limits has announced the 2021 inductees into its Austin City Limits Hall of Fame. Lucinda Williams, Wilco, and Alejandro Escovedo make up the new class. There were no 2020 inductees because of the pandemic.
Williams and Wilco have each appeared four times on Acl, the long-running live-music series, while Escovedo has turned in five performances. Williams first appeared on the show in 1990; Wilco made their debut in 2000; and Escovedo took the soundstage in 1983 (with his band Rank and File).
The new members will be inducted in a musical ceremony on...
Williams and Wilco have each appeared four times on Acl, the long-running live-music series, while Escovedo has turned in five performances. Williams first appeared on the show in 1990; Wilco made their debut in 2000; and Escovedo took the soundstage in 1983 (with his band Rank and File).
The new members will be inducted in a musical ceremony on...
- 7/8/2021
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Collaboration is at the very heart of Randy Rogers and Wade Bowen’s partnership under the “Hold My Beer” name, refined over 15 years or so of live performances and expertly distilled on the friendly duo’s 2015 debut album. But there’s an entirely new type of collaboration on the Texas singer-songwriters’ Hold My Beer, Vol. 2 — one that stretches back across a generation of country-music history and includes the iconic voice of Waylon Jennings.
Midway through the album, released on Friday, “Ode to Ben Dorcy (Lovey’s Song)” gets underway with a scratchy acoustic guitar strum,...
Midway through the album, released on Friday, “Ode to Ben Dorcy (Lovey’s Song)” gets underway with a scratchy acoustic guitar strum,...
- 5/8/2020
- by Jon Freeman
- Rollingstone.com
Texas country duo Randy Rogers and Wade Bowen have announced Hold My Beer, Vol. 2, their follow-up LP to 2015’s Hold My Beer, Vol. 1. The album is set for release on May 8th and available for preorder today. Ahead of the LP’s release, the singers shared the track “Rodeo Clown.”
Produced by Lloyd Maines, the 10-song album will be their first release as a duo since 2016’s live document Watch This.
“Unlike our first record, which kind of happened out of nowhere, this album was really planned,” Bowen said. “We...
Produced by Lloyd Maines, the 10-song album will be their first release as a duo since 2016’s live document Watch This.
“Unlike our first record, which kind of happened out of nowhere, this album was really planned,” Bowen said. “We...
- 2/28/2020
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
When the Dixie Chicks made an appearance on Taylor Swift’s “Soon You’ll Get Better,” from her new album Lover, it felt like a debt repaid. And a way overdue one, at that. The country trio have not released an album of their own in 13 years (although they’re working on one), making only sporadic appearances in a wide array of contexts — from their own side projects and a 2016-2017 reunion tour, to their performances with Beyoncé (on Lemonade’s “Daddy Lessons”) and Steve Martin (on one of the...
- 8/30/2019
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
The idea started with a brush fire, but before long it took on a life of its own. Two lives, in fact: Coal and Flynt Stryker, a pair of mysterious siblings who died in a prison fire, leaving behind a batch of long-lost country recordings. Except that they didn’t. Cole and Flynt never even existed. The Stryker Brothers were nothing more than an excuse for Robert Earl Keen and Randy Rogers to make an album together.
So why did they go to all the trouble?
“I thought it was...
So why did they go to all the trouble?
“I thought it was...
- 1/25/2019
- by Jeff Gage
- Rollingstone.com
Joe Ely and his wife, Sharon, have lived on the same ranch outside Austin, Texas, for 38 years, and in that time they’ve accumulated enough memorabilia to fill an entire building on the property. So it’s ironic that Ely’s latest “lost album,” Full Circle: The Lubbock Tapes, came not from his own personal effects but from those of his longtime pedal steel player, Lloyd Maines.
“He found this record just about a year and a half ago in a cardboard box,” says Ely, sipping a cup of coffee...
“He found this record just about a year and a half ago in a cardboard box,” says Ely, sipping a cup of coffee...
- 10/18/2018
- by Jeff Gage
- Rollingstone.com
Over the next week, your only real duty as a film lover is to see Richard Linklater's Boyhood. Yes, it's almost three hours long. Yes, the reviews are mindblowingly great. Yes, it's the real deal. I attended last weekend's Austin Film Society Q&A screening with Linklater, Patricia Arquette and Ellar Coltrane in attendance and I'm definitely ready to see it again. It's that good.
Speaking of special screenings, Afs is bringing the SXSW hit Road To Austin (Mike's review) to the Marchesa tonight. The documentary examines how Austin became the "Live Music Capital Of The World" and features live performance footage from Kris Kristofferson, Bonnie Raitt, Delbert McClinton, Joe Ely and over 40 other artists. If that sounds up your alley, so will the Sunday afternoon screening of Tommy Hancock: West Texas Muse. Following the leader of West Texas's premiere western swing band, the film features many Texas musicians including Jimmie Dale Gilmore,...
- 7/18/2014
- by Matt Shiverdecker
- Slackerwood
Nashville, Tenn. (AP) — Two members of the Dixie Chicks — minus lead singer Natalie Maines — are preparing to release a new album this year. According to Cmt.com, sisters Martie Maguire and Emily Robison are working on a project to be released on Columbia Records. However, Lloyd Maines, Natalie's father, tells Cmt.com that the three girls are "definitely still an entity." He says the sisters are "cutting some demos" and that Natalie recorded "a little something with them" about a year ago. The Associated Press' attempts to contact their publicist and Columbia Records were unsuccessful. The Dixie Chicks suffered a...
- 1/12/2010
- by Caitlin R. King
- Hitfix
Two members of the Dixie Chicks . minus lead singer Natalie Maines . are preparing to release a new album this year.According to Cmt.com, sisters Martie Maguire and Emily Robison are working on a project to be released on Columbia Records.However, Lloyd Maines, Natalie's father, tells Cmt.com that the three girls are "definitely still an entity." He says the sisters are "cutting some demos" and that Natalie recorded "a little something with them" about a year ago.The Associated Press' attempts to contact their publicist and Columbia Records were unsuccessful.The Dixie Chicks suffered a backlash from fans and country radio over comments Natalie Maines made about President George W. Bush in 2003. The Chicks released their last album in 2006, called "Taking the Long Way."The group has won 13 Grammys and was named the Cma entertainer of the year in 2000.
- 1/11/2010
- Filmicafe
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