Lone Star Jukebox

11/15/2025

Question of the day: WHAT'S AN AMAZING STORY/NARRATIVE SONG OR BALLAD? WHAT SONG TELLS AN AMAZING STORY WITH A PROPER BEGINNING MIDDLE AND END?

11/15/2025

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Aimless, Inc. Headquarters is heartbroken to share that our Founder, our Folk Hero, our Poet of the World, our Vice President of the Abrupt Change Dept., the Storyteller, our beloved Todd Daniel Snider has departed this world. Where do we find the words for the one who always had the right words, who knew how to distill everything down to its essence with words and song while delivering the most devastating, hilarious, and impactful turn of phrases? Always creating rhyme and meter that immediately felt like an old friend or a favorite blanket. Someone who could almost always find the humor in this crazy ride on Planet Earth.

He relayed so much tenderness and sensitivity through his songs, and showed many of us how to look at the world through a different lens. He got up every morning and started writing, always working towards finding his place among the songwriting giants that sat on his record shelves, those same giants who let him into their lives and took him under their wings, who he studied relentlessly. Guy Clark, John Prine, Kris Kristofferson, Jerry Jeff Walker.

How do we move forward without the one who gave us countless 90 minute distractions from our impending doom? The one who always had 18 minutes to share a story. We’ll do it by carrying his stories and songs that contain messages of love, compassion, and peace with us. Today, put on one of your favorite Todd Snider records and "play it loud enough to wake up all of your neighbors or at least loud enough to always wake yourself up.” We love you Todd, sail on old friend, we’ll see you again out there on the road somewhere down the line. You will always be a force of nature.

"Like A Force of Nature"

If we never get together again
Forgive me for these fools I’ve been
See if you can remember me when
I was listening to my better angels

It’s like a force of nature
Coming over me
I can’t keep myself from moving
It’s like a force of nature

May your hope always outweigh your doubt
Until this old world finally punches you out
May you always play your music
Loud enough to wake up all of your neighbors
Or may you play at least loud enough
To always wake yourself up

Todd Daniel Snider
October 11, 1966 - November 14, 2025

11/08/2025

Question of the day: WHAT'S THE BEST PATIO IN HOUSTON? OR, WHERE'S THE BEST PLACE TO ENJOY FALL WEATHER IN TOWN?

10/25/2025

Question of the day: WHAT’S AN INCREDIBLE LYRIC OR ONE LINER IN A SONG? (Make a donation at KPFT.org)

10/25/2025

Join Rick’s Brick Initiative and get a brick adjacent to Rick’s Lone Star Jukebox 8x8 brick.

A $25/month sustaining membership provides you with your own 4″x8″ personalized brick or $50/month for an 8″x8″ brick to be engraved with the image or message of your choosing. These lovely and inspiring messages are installed right in the front garden of our station home at 4504 Caroline Street. Reserve yours today by calling 713-526-5738/Option1 or click "donate" when you go to kpft.org.

10/25/2025

10/25/2025

Rick’s new Business Card

10/25/2025

Y’all Tune In and Help Support KPFT & The Lone Star Jukebox

10/18/2025

A $25/month sustaining membership provides you with your own 4″x8″ personalized brick or $50/month for an 8″x8″ brick to be engraved with the image or message of your choosing. These lovely and inspiring messages are installed right in the front garden of our station home at 4504 Caroline Street. Reserve yours today by calling 713-526-5738/Option1 or click "donate" when you go to kpft.org.

10/15/2025

Support The Lone Star Jukebox

We’re five days away from kicking off KPFT’s Fall on-air membership drive, and every dollar we collect now counts. Help keep the drive short and sweet by pledging at 713-526-5738/option 1 or click the link in the comments to make your tax-deductible donation online today.

10/11/2025

Listen. We only have 4 months to learn Spanish. Here is how you say, “Release the Epstein files.”

“Liberar los archivos de Epstein.”

10/11/2025

Question of the day: WHERE'S THE MOST UNUSUAL OR COOLEST PLACE YOU'VE SEEN A CONCERT? (If you give us permission to use your last name on air, put an ASTERISK * in your comment. Thanks!)