James McMurtry took the title of his 2002 song “Red Dress” quite literally while playing a string of concerts earlier this month. The songwriterperformed the song at gigs in Knoxville and Nashville, Tennessee —and, on Friday night, in New Braunfels, Texas —dressed in drag to protest an increasing slate of …
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James McMurtry took the title of his 2002 song “Red Dress” quite literally while playing a string of shows in Tennessee last week. The songwriter — one of America’s greatest living ones, at that —delivered his encore in Knoxville and Nashville dressed in drag to protest the state’s anti-drag legislation. …
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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 …
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