The fat tomes about Willie, Selena, and Stevie Ray ought to be enough to rate this long-overdue award, but the former Texas Monthly scribe digs deeper in 2019's Austin to ATX: The Hippies, Pickers, Slackers, and Geeks Who Transformed the Capital of Texas and 2020's The Ballad of Robert Ealey and His Five Careless Lovers. Need more proof? Listen in Saturday nights at 7pm for his Marfa Public Radio show Texas Music Hour of Power for the stone-cold truth about the groove.
