Honky-tonk devotee Dale Watson is hardly the first guy to write songs for therapeutic reasons, but on last year’s Every Song I Write Is for You (Audium) he worked out some very personal demons in a ...

Forget concert “protocol” at a Dale Watson club date. At Hangar on The Hudson Sunday night, he was the life of a party where everyone throws down their inhibitions and has a great time, the kind of ...

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, ...

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 ...

Dale Watson’s latest album, Whiskey or God (Palo Duro), appeared to be his swan song when it came out in March: in late 2005 the hard-core honky-tonk singer had relocated to Baltimore from his native ...