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[gallery ids="17037,16956"] Poet and Lannan Writer-In-Residence CAConrad joins us in the studio to talk about his latest work. CA is the author of…

Stockholm and Roswell-based indie rock group Secret Circus dropped by the station this morning for an impromptu acoustic set in the studio. Band members…

[gallery ids="16989,16988"] Electro-pop trio Sphynx returned to Marfa this weekend for another live gig at Padre's. Clad in fur and spandex, the group…

On this week's Rambling Boy, Lonn Taylor talks about David K. Langford, who used to make a living photographing other people's livestock. He later widened his scope to western wildlife and landscapes. Langford joined Lorie Woodward Cantu, a professional agricultural writer for Brahman Breeder-Feede, to produce a beautiful book, Hillingdon Ranch: Four Seasons, Six Generations, about land stewardship over six generations on a Texas Hill Country ranch.

In 1955, Patrick Dennis wrote the american novel, Auntie Mame. The book is about a boy who was raised by a madcap Aunt who turns his life into a series of delectable adventures. Lonn's mother had an Auntie Mame who went by Emily Keen. Lonn's mother went to live with her in Denver at the age of 14, and she changed his mother's life.

Texas has numerous historic roads that started as an indian path and were later widened and paved into a highway. Lonn's favorite historic Texas road is a little known backroad that runs at the bottom of the Colorado river between Austin and Bastrop.

A few weeks ago, Rambling Boy's Lonn Taylor was in San Antonio at his favorite meeting -- the Texas State Historical Association. 600 or so historians spend 3 days of trading stories about Texas history. This year, Lonn read a paper about Ima Hogg's contribution to the Texas Historical Preservation Movement. Due to the constraints of academia it was pretty dry, but on this week's Rambling Boy, Lonn Taylor takes the opportunity to give Ima Hogg's story some justice.

On this week's Rambling Boy, Lonn Taylor talks about another historic site along the Webberville Road. Just 6 miles East of Austin City Limits was a sign that resembled the outline of a greyhound above the words "Coasting Park." A dirt path lead to a pasture, where on Sunday afternoons, greyhound racing took place.

On today's Talk at Ten, Alberta-based poet Doris Dailey speaks with us about her work, her origins as a poet, the tradition of cowboy poetry and the…

Los Angeles-based band The Far West comes to Padre's in Marfa tonight. They stopped by the KRTS studio to talk about their upcoming album "Any Day Now" which comes out on Tuesday, February 25 on Medina River Records.