Brian T. Atkinson

Brian T. Atkinson is the author of I’ll Be Here in the Morning: The Songwriting Legacy of Townes Van Zandt (Texas A&M University Press, 2012), The Messenger: The Songwriting Legacy of Ray Wylie Hubbard (2019), Looks Like Rain: The Songwriting Legacy of Mickey Newbury (2021), True Love Cast Out All Evil: The Songwriting Legacy of Roky Erickson (2021) and Love at the Five and Dime: The Songwriting Legacy of Nanci Griffith (2024) as well as the forthcoming East Nashville Skyline: The Songwriting Legacy of Todd Snider (due fall 2025) and Always Chasing the Sun: The Songwriting Legacy of Judee Sill (2026). Additionally, he is co-author with Jenni Finlay of Kent Finlay, Dreamer: The Musical Legacy behind Cheatham Street Warehouse (TAMU Press, 2016). Atkinson’s work is archived at Texas State University’s Wittliff Collections in San Marcos, Texas as well as the Woodson Research Center at Rice University in Houston.