In Which We Kill The Messenger.
It started off as an innocent enough joke. We'd heard of some folks mailing unwrapped bananas to their friends, and we wanted t...
Grateful Dead's Deep Elem Blues.
Like Lead Belly's "Take a Whiff on Me," a song we featured early on in this column, the song "Deep Elem Blues" has s...
Datahowler Shoots To The Top Of Our List.
Each week, we take a survey of the local music scene each and try to determine which bands in town are really putting...
You're So Much More Than Just Another Grocery Store, Fiesta Mart. You're The Life Of The Party, And You Don't Get Nearly The Credit You Deserve.
What's up, Fie...
It's Worth A Shot.
For those playing along at home, two revelations came during last week's Can You Mail It?: 1.) It is getting apparent that the USPS is getti...
Carlene Carter's Goodnight Dallas.
There are a ton of songs about or inspired by Dallas, and they say a lot about who we are. So each week, in this space,...
Looking Back At Our Initial Six Months Of Local Music Buzz Rankings.
For the past six months, three Central Track music writers have been surveying the local m...
Are You Ready For Some Kelly Clarkson?
Each week, we take a survey of the local music scene each and try to determine which bands in town are really putting in...
Double-Bagging It.
No good scientist tries an experiment just once and calls the results conclusive. And because we like to think of what we're doing as import...
Waylon Jennings' People In Dallas Got Hair.
In 1972, Willie Nelson left Nashville to permanently relocate to Austin, Texas. There, he became one of the fi...
Cory Graves is the Associate Editor at Central Track. He enjoys not only writing about Dallas and its local music scene, but being a part of it as a member of the band Vandoliers. Courtney Love once referred to him onstage as “my fucking therapist,” which he immediately put on his resume.
