“I call my music country music,” says Greta Lee. It’s a simple statement that could seem a tad ironic or patently obvious, depending on your point of view. For Lee, it’s more like a hard-won fact of life. Listening to […]
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The rapid rise in the Austin music scene of the Hot Club Of Cowtown is a testament both to a talented band and to the supportive atmosphere among musicians in the city that likes to call itself the Live Music […]
Roughly a decade ago John Casey left Minnesota and crossed the Atlantic to France. The plan was to earn his foreign language requirement and complete his degree in English. Then he figured out that he could play gigs in the […]
In pondering the uniqueness of Robert Earl Keen, let’s compare him with his fellow Texan Lyle Lovett. College buddies and fellow Aggies, the two co-wrote “The Front Porch Song”, which each recorded early in their careers. They shared a circle […]
I’d heard stories for years about how Lyle Lovett had written for the Texas A&M student newspaper, The Battalion, during his college days in the late 1970s. Kathleen McElroy, another former Aggie I’d worked with at the Austin American-Statesman in […]
Five years ago, Minnesota native Mike Nicolai jumped on an Amtrak train departing Minneapolis in search of something new. With only 200 bucks and a ten-song demo tape in his pocket, the former member of Minneapolis rock band the Draghounds […]
It’s a perfect crowd for Mose McCormack — old friends, fellow pickers, crusty bikers hoisting Buds beside their hogs, hippie cowboys and earth mothers, elderly Hispanic neighbors, gaggles of kids running around. There’s several plastic coolers full of beer, a […]
When Paul Burch was growing up, the single record that made the most impact on him wasn’t what is thought of as roots music. It wasn’t an archival folk recording smelling of dust and shellac, though as a kid Burch […]
Star Hustler’s Jason Hatfield may be a springboard for rising starlets. The brother of alt-pop/rocker Juliana Hatfield, he began playing music in Boston with Mary Lou Lord in the band Chupa when she was strumming in subways back in the […]
Sometimes the good breaks are lurking in the midst of disasters. When Tim Easton’s band, Columbus, Ohio, roots-rockers the Haynes Boys, made their first appearance at the South By Southwest Music Festival in Austin, Texas, in 1995, they were eagerly […]
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