“I think I’m the only one in the band who still drinks whiskey, so cheers,” fiddler Caitlin Cary proclaimed during the encore of Whiskeytown’s debut performance in London. Indeed, these shows seemed largely focused on how well leader Ryan Adams […]
Elementary physics applies to band lineups, too: For every reaction, there is an equal and opposite reaction. So while guitarist Steve Howell’s recent departure from the Backsliders is unfortunate and has thrown that band’s future into disarray, the upside is […]
They may come from different parts of the continent and talk with different accents, but as songwriters and performers, Robert Earl Keen and Fred Eaglesmith speak the same language. Whether they’re relating tales of outlaws, losers, dispossessed migrant workers, big […]
Chip and Tony Kinman sure have wandering musical spirits. Initially punk rockers singing “I Hate The Rich” in the Dils, the band helped usher in cowpunk in the early ’80s as Rank & File, who, really, were more pop than […]
Austin-based hillbilly firecracker Wayne “The Train” Hancock has spent a good portion of his 33 years with no fixed address. A rambling family life brought about a childhood spent as the eternal “new kid in school” at all points West […]
It’s really a shame Richard Buckner has to spend so much time playing in bars, which can be a distracting environment for someone whose music depends so much on quiet dynamics. On his previous visit to Raleigh, across town at […]
Taking the stage on the first certifiably oppressive night of the summer — earlier, Central Texas experienced its first 100-degree day of 1998 — in Stubb’s downstairs dungeon of a music hall, the Damnations proceeded to reel off song after […]
There’s somethin’ in a Sunday Makes a body feel alone — “Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down”, Kris Kristofferson The calendar may portray it as the beginning of the week, but in reality, we all know Sunday is the end of the […]
I met John Krajicek purely by chance at a 10,000 Maniacs/Balancing Act show in Dallas eleven years ago. He was a corporate tax accountant who didn’t really belong in such a job; I was a college student with aspirations of […]
“The whole world has got to where if you told ’em, ‘I’ve got an ant, just a regular little ant that crawls on the ground, that can eat a thousand-pound roll of hay, and you can see him do that […]
