On the Porch With Barry Corbin
by Kelly Reeves As a kid in the 70s, the only thing more exciting than watching Westerns on television on the weekends, was going outside and playing cowboys and Indians with the neighborhood boys afterward. Sometimes it was lawmen versus the bad guys, readily recognizable by the black cowboy hats and low-slung cap guns they wore. The thing that stayed the...
Randall King – Traditional Country Music from the Heart
by Melissa Carlson & Kelly Reeves “This kid is what country music is all about.”- Garth Brooks When “The King of Country”, George Strait, sang “Amarillo By Morning” in 1983, country music artist Randall King wasn’t yet born. It would be eight years later before Randall King would make it to Amarillo. Born and raised in the small town of Hereford,...
Chris Colston – Music and More
by Kelly Reeves The East Texas town of Noonday is famous for growing the sweetest onions. Grapeland and its sandy soil grows the best watermelons. Tyler is known for its roses. Gilmer and Golden, no doubt, produce the sweetest sweet potatoes ... and Jacksonville is well known as the Tomato Capital of the World. There’s some debate whether it is...
More Than Meets the Eye – Savannah Brooks
by Melissa Fox Savannah grew up living all over the U.S. and later settled near family in East Texas. She always had an interest in the sport of hunting but when she met, and fell in love with, Austin Rohr owner of Superior Outfitters, she subsequently fell in love with hunting as well. What started with her first hunt at the...
Whiskey Myers’ Frontman Cody Cannon – Lyrics and Lures
by Melissa Fox As the lyrics of the famed, and fan favorite, Whiskey Myers song “Stone” refer to - the highway has been Cody Cannon’s home for quite some time. However, when the world seemingly came to a halt as a result of the pandemic several years ago, Cannon, Whiskey Myers’ lead singer and guitarist, found himself off the road...
Sustaining Tradition: Metzger’s Meats – A tale of Family, Farming and Bison.
by Edward Black If you ask anyone in Texas or a surrounding state what they know about Canton, Texas, you’re almost guaranteed to hear the words “First Monday.” The small town between Dallas and Tyler has long been known for its famous monthly flea market. But if Cookie Morkel-Kuntzman has her way, it will soon be known for something else...
