Rambling Boy

Living near the border lends lots of opportunities for cross-cultural humor. In this episode of The Rambling Boy, Lonn Taylor tells some of his favorite bilingual jokes and stories.

November in Texas is the month for pecans, according to Lonn Taylor. On this week's episode of Rambling Boy, Lonn talks about the nuts' history in the region as well as his own calamitous foray into commercial pecan growing.

On this week's episode of Rambling Boy, Lonn Taylor recalls the story of Henry “Baldy” Russell, the strangest outlaw in Texas.

What happens when you combine 'Southern pride and a propensity towards violence'? Lonn Taylor has the answers - and some interesting family stories from East Texas - on this episode of Rambling Boy.

This week on Rambling Boy, historian Lonn Taylor discusses the two types of people he sees in the world: the curious and the incurious.

On this episode of Rambling Boy, Lonn Taylor highlights the life and career of Skunks bandleader Jesse Sublett who went on to become one of Texas’s most prolific writers.

In honor of Colombus Day, this week Lonn Taylor discusses the explorer's greatest biographer Harvard history professor Samuel Eliot Morison and the expedition that inspired his work.

Before smartphones and Skype, analog phones were the only means of communicating to the outside world. On this episode of Rambling Boy, Lonn Taylor takes us back to the good ol' days of the (mostly) sturdy and reliable analog phone.

On this episode of Rambling Boy, Lonn Taylor reveals stories from Eddie Wilson and his famous Austin venue Armadillo World Headquarters, "an institution that dominated the Texas musical scene for a decade". Eddie Wilson published Armadillo World Headquarters: A Memoir earlier this year.

On this week's episode of Rambling Boy, Lonn sheds light on the controversial and disputed legacy of Mexican Revolutionary Pancho Villa. This seemingly omnipresent Mexican hero (or thug depending on who you talk to) is also an important figure in the history of Texas, with a number of ties to the city of El Paso.