This is part one of a six-part series. Part two can be found here. Holmes Sterling Morrison carried an empty suitcase into ...

Fran Regan stood near a notch in Buffalo Bayou where the water runs wide and deep. He was an 18-year-old high school dropout, and, on this morning in 1980, he waited to clock in as a deckhand at the ...

The Cedar Door dive bar in Austin provided a midday nest for journalists perched in the offices of the Austin Sun across the street. Among them, Bill Bentley, a typesetter-turned-music-editor who ...

When Velvet Underground guitarist Sterling Morrison disappeared into Texas in August 1971, the rock star launched “the strangest second act in rock ’n’ roll history,” as former Chronicle entertainment ...

Moore recorded his version of “Temptation Inside Your Heart” with three members of his solo group—bassist Deb Googe, multi-instrumentalist James Sedwards, and percussionist Jem Doulton. Googe also is ...