John T. Davis is an American music journalist and author based in Austin, Texas. He is the author of Austin City Limits: 25 Years of American Music.
History Currently based in Austin, Texas, John T. Davis' family roots are in New Mexico. In The Best of No Depression, John T. Davis was described as a "journalist, author and music historian." As a journalist, Davis' work has been published in Billboard, Newsday New Mexico Magazine, the Austin Chronicle, the Austin American-Statesman, Texas Monthly, and Texas Highways. In 2014, Davis published The Flatlanders: Now It's Now Again, a biography of the country band from Lubbock, Texas. The University of Texas Press wrote that Davis "traces the band’s musical journey from the house on 14th Street in Lubbock to their 2013 sold-out concert at Carnegie Hall. He explores why music was, and is, so important in Lubbock." John T. Davis has co-authored five mystery novels with Brent Douglass and James R. Dennis under the nom de plum Miles Arceneaux.
The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin holds an archive of Davis' papers, interviews, and recordings.
Bibliography
Non-fiction
The Flatlanders – Now It’s Now Again, University of Texas Press – 2014 Austin City Limits: 25 Years of American Music, Billboard Press – 2000 Austin: Lone Star Rising, Towery Publishing – 1994
Fiction As co-author
Hidden Sea, Miles Arceneaux – 2016 North Beach, Miles Arceneaux – 2015 Ransom Island, Stephen F. Austin University Press – 2014 La Salle’s Ghost, Stephen F. Austin University Press – 2013 Thin Slice of Life, Stephen F. Austin University Press – 2012
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