Now It's Now Again (University of Texas Press, 2014); A biography of the musical group The Flatlanders
Austin City Limits: 25 Years of American Music (Billboard Press, 2000); A history of the long-running PBS music series
Austin: Lone Star Rising (Towery Press, 1994); A look at the city in transition
Pickers & Poets--The Ruthlessly Poetic Singer-Songwriters of Texas (Texas A&M University Press, 2016)
The Austin Chronicle Music Anthology (University of Texas Press, 2011)
SXSW Scrapbook: People and Things That Went Before (Essex Press, 2011)
Insight Guides: Texas (APA Publications, London, 2007)
The Best of No Depression--Writing About American Music (University of Texas Press, 2005)
Barton Springs Eternal; The Soul of A City (Softshoe Publishing, 1993)
Hidden Sea (Self-published, 2017)
North Beach (Self-published, 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)
Loser's Gumbo (Bullet Books, 2020)