Natalie Weiner

Sep 12, 2024 | texasmonthly.com | Natalie Weiner

Miranda Lambert grinned as she stood on the smallest stage she’s played in years. She’d just debuted an irreverent, rowdy hook—“Are we in love, or are we just drunk?” from “Bitch on the Sauce (Just Drunk)”—to the thrilled screams of 180 dedicated fans, who were mostly decked out in Miranda shirts, sparkles, fringe, or all three.

Aug 6, 2024 | udiscovermusic.com | Natalie Weiner

The roots of Little Big Town‘s signature soaring harmonies run decades deep – more decades, in fact, than encompass the band’s many years recording on Music Row. Karen Fairchild and Kimberly Schlapman first met in 1987, when the Georgia natives were both attending Samford University in Alabama. Both separately moved to Nashville and reconnected in Music City almost a decade later, where they decided that they wanted to find some men to sing with to flesh out those harmonies.

Jul 11, 2024 | udiscovermusic.com | Natalie Weiner

Country music’s relationship with cowboy hats ebbs and flows – they’ll spend a decade in vogue before the next generation deems them passé, after which credibility-seeking revivalists will start wearing them on stage. But cowboy cool was never a trend for Chris LeDoux, the most uncompromising of the ’90s hat acts and – by the strictest possible definition – country music’s most successful actual cowboy.

Jul 11, 2024 | udiscovermusic.com | Natalie Weiner

The “First Lady of Outlaw Country” is a title that can make it seem like Jessi Colter married into her esteemed position among the 70s rebels who turned Nashville upside down. But Colter had been making country music for nearly a decade when she met Waylon Jennings, writing hit songs under her first married name, Mirriam Eddy, and touring alongside her first husband Duane Eddy.

Jul 4, 2024 | texashighways.com | Natalie Weiner |Danielle Lopez

Kincaide Stadium in South Dallas might be best known as the home to Carter High School football, one of the programs immortalized in Buzz Bissinger’s book Friday Night Lights. Now, however, spring Saturdays are also etched in the 15,000-seat stadium’s lore. Last fall, the racetrack that circles the football field at Jesse Owens Memorial Complex was named the Sha’Carri Richardson Track after the world’s current fastest woman, who started running there at 9 years old.