Dale Watson goes full rockabilly in "The Dumb Song," the first taste of a new album that he will release in February of 2019. With sonic overtones of Johnny Cash and a healthy dose of tongue-in-cheek ...

Country and rockabilly stalwart Dale Watson often takes inspiration for his songs from the lives of real people and interactions he has with his fans. Such is the case in "David Buxkemper," one of the ...

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.” ...

Dale Watson can drink you under the table and still play your request — as long as it’s a country song. A real country song, as the title of one of Watson’s own songs once put it. Monday night at ...

In 1998, when Dale Watson released the first album of his “Truckin’ Sessions” trilogy, he was mining a sub-genre of classic country music that was hugely popular during the 1970s when CB radios and ...

Over his lengthy career, honky-tonk artist Dale Watson has found songwriting inspiration in real-life situations and his interractions with fans. A chance email Watson received from Texas fan David ...

Dale Watson evokes the sprawl of the Southwestern plains on his loping new track “David Buxkemper,” an ode to a West Texas fan from his upcoming Call Me Lucky LP. The song was inspired by a letter ...

Dale Watson is a leading voice in one of country music’s most-beloved niches: songs about 18-wheel road warriors. The subject came naturally to Mr. Watson, who is the son of a trucker—his father also ...

From the same kindred spirit that birthed Willie & Waylon comes Dale & Ray, a not-exactly-new classic-country duo. The musical partnership between Texas troubadours Dale Watson and Ray Benson, the ...

With a voice as deep and unapologetic as Dale Watson's, you simply cannot sing pop music. Or rap. Your destiny, should you choose to pursue it, is to traffic in hardcore honky-tonk. Which is what ...

As Dale Watson tells it, he wasn't planning on making this album. On the way to what he thought was a scheduled gig in Memphis, Tenn., he was informed he wasn't booked. So the defiant local dialed up ...

Brothers From Another Mother: Dale Watson and Ray Benson Credit: Photo by Lisa Pollard/Courtesy of Shock Ink It’s no great stretch to say that Dale Watson and Ray Benson are two of the more ...