According to this, the Love and War in Texas benefit show for Rusty Wier was a success. With a heavy lineup of bands and singers including Eleven Hundred Springs, Darryl Lee Rush, Max Stalling and a ...

Texas music legend Rusty Wier has passed away according to a post from North Texas disc jockey Shayne Hollinger on the Galleywinter Texas music chat site. One of the original Austin Cosmic Cowboys ...

Best known for nine hit singles and a platinum hit with Bonnie Raitt's version of his "Don't It Make You Wanna Dance" from the Urban Cowboy soundtrack, Wier is a forefather to one of country's better ...

It’s a heavy, tragic day in Austin music. Original cosmic soulman Rusty Wier, who held a Thursday residency at Saxon Pub for nearly 15 years, succumbed to liver cancer this morning after a two-year ...

'Only the necessities" was the mantra my father had trained me to recite as I sorted through the mountainous boxes of personal belongings I had packed. Now, in the dark early hours of the morning, as ...