Tameca Jones

Jess Williamson’s fifth LP, Time Ain’t Accidental, lays both heavy and liberating. The June record winds through heartbreak with a devastating longing and emerges with a newly empowered, if searching, sense of self. The songwriter (and half of exceptional Americana duo Plains) returns to Texas to headline SIMS’ Lone Star-studded fifth Music for the Mind benefit, also featuring Taméca Jones’ soul-stirring R&B as she comes home after a year in L.A. and prepares to release her debut album. San Antonio psych-cowboy Garrett T. Capps launches his NASA Country while Dallas’ Angel White showcases his powerful ballads and DJ Boi Orbison keeps the tables turning. – Doug Freeman