From its first song, Dale Watson’s masterful 90 minute set in Woodlands Tavern last night was a celebration of traditional county music that also served as a musical treatise for its worth. Leading ...

Singer, songwriter, and guitarist Dale Watson has been railing against mainstream country music for decades. In a 1995 number called “Nashville Rash,” for example, he complained that “I’m too country ...

His band also has to know Watson’s whole catalog and be able to reproduce it live on demand. “We need to be able to do every song on all my records, in case somebody asks for it,” Watson says. “I want ...

Between his home in Marshall, Texas, his weekly gig in Austin’s Continental Club, running his Ameripolitan Music Awards, owning and operating the historic Hernando’s Hide-A-Way in Memphis along with ...

Texas honky-tonk maestro Dale Watson usually plays places where people can dance. Honky tonks, beer joints. “I’m a honky-tonk guy,” he said from Austin. “My music translates better in a honky tonk.” ...

One recent Sunday afternoon, Dale Watson, the Austin country singer and guitarist with a signature white pompadour, zipped along winding wooded roads near Dripping Springs in his 2012 Mini Cooper. It ...

Even starting a conversation, Dale Watson sounds like he’s reciting lines from a Dale Watson song. “Doing all right,” he says. “Sittin’ on a bus in the middle of West Texas …” Gigs are opening up, ...

For a guy who still piles his hair into a pompadour, who rolls his sleeves and carries himself without regard for time or trend, Dale Watson needed a change. He'd found a haven in Austin a few decades ...