PITTSTON TWP. — Back in October 1980, Jumpin’ Jeff Walker packed everything he owned in a 1969 Chevelle and headed to Northeast Pennsylvania to help launch a new radio station, 98.5 KRZ. All these ...

The singer-songwriter, who came up with Lone Star heroes like Randy Rogers and Wade Bowen, makes his long-awaited return with a dazzling EP ...

Longtime Ohio high school swimming coach and ASCA Hall of Fame inductee Jerry Holtrey died on Dec. 23. He was 86 years old. Holtrey spent more than 45 years as the coach at Hawken School in Cleveland ...

I had just done a shoot in Jamaica for British Vogue when I met Antony Price—it was the blue swimming cap cover from May 1975 by Norman Parkinson. Antony and Bryan Ferry had seen these photographs, ...

When Texas Standard first spoke with Bob Livingston about his new memoir, “Gypsy Alibi: A Gonzo Memoir,” it was before news about the passing of Texas music legend Joe Ely had become widespread. In ...

Beloved in Texas, Ely left enough of a national footprint that Rolling Stone eulogized him as a "progressive Texas country legend" and Variety as a "Texas country-rock hero," accurate if somewhat ...

“Life’s too short to worry / Life’s too long to hate,” the late Todd Snider wrote in “Ballad of the Devil’s Backbone Tavern” in 2000. Snider’s life proved shorter than his many admirers hoped. He died ...

Jeff Kent, whose 377 home runs are the most by a primary second baseman in baseball history, was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame on Sunday, Dec. 7. He received 14 of the 16 votes by the ...

ORLANDO, Fla. – It was a side of Jeff Kent that no one had really seen Monday afternoon, struggling to speak, breaking down several times, and overcome with emotion at his Hall of Fame press ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — Elected to baseball’s Hall of Fame more than 17 years after his final game, Jeff Kent couldn’t control his emotions. “Absolutely unprepared. Emotionally unstable,” he said after Sunday ...