Richard, who joined the Bugle Boy staff as our talent booker in September 2021, has spent the better part of the last 25-plus years working in a different corner of the music industry—as a music writer. While attending Trinity University in San Antonio (majoring in English and Communications, with a minor in Medieval Studies), he interned at the San Antonio Current and eventually worked his way into being the alternative weekly’s local music columnist. After graduation and a six-month stint bartending in North Wales, he moved to New York City in the mid-90s and landed his first dream job at Rolling Stone, as a features editor for the magazine’s nascent online site. In 2001, the El Paso native moved back to his home state to accept the position as editor of Texas Music Magazine, and nine years later began a decade-long run editing Lone Star Music Magazine and LoneStarMusicMagazine.com. His favorite part about his career as a music journalist has long been having a platform to write about and champion his favorite artists, especially independent singer-songwriters — a passion he now brings to his responsibility booking shows at the Bugle Boy. Richard lives in San Marcos with an embarrassing amount of rescue cats, but comes to every show in La Grange that he can.