In the end, Nashville’s neo-trad young guns — BR5-49, Greg Garing, Paul Burch, and their many collaborators — may have done little to change the face of country music, but much to alter the architecture of Lower Broadway. Nothing cements […]
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By all accounts, this is a time of rebirth for the Cowboy Junkies: new album, new label, new phase to a 15-year career. So given the fresh beginning, it might seem like an odd time to release an album that’s […]
The first thing that strikes you is her voice. You could listen for hours to its clear, steady tone, her gentle, distinctive phrasing, the way she delicately anticipates or lingers behind the song’s pulse, the slight whisper of a “sh” […]
David Childers has always been a true believer, throwing himself into his music with such fire-and-brimstone gusto that broken guitar strings and sweat-heavy clothing are de rigeur. Childers walks and pounces around the stage like the bear he is, squeezing […]
One night last fall Rhonda Vincent looked across the dark chairs at the Station Inn in Nashville and invited a couple friends to the stage. A moment later, she and Valerie Smith were joined around the microphone by Gail Davies. […]
A singer-songwriter who isn’t that kind of a singer-songwriter, Greg Trooper has finally come to know how the music industry doesn’t work. So it kinda figures that by moving to Nashville, he’d find the type of record deal he spent […]
“I have nothing in common with perfect people,” says Grey DeLisle. “I’m not interested in them.” Likewise, DeLisle — who made her recorded debut last year with the Hummin’bird Records release The Small Time — has no interest in perfect […]
Sometimes the best part of SXSW is those letters on the opposite edge of the compass: the trip home. I can cannonball from Chicago to Austin in 17 hours via expressways, but the trip back along the blue highways takes […]
It has been said that you can’t swing a dead cat in Austin without hitting a good musician. Even so, it would take quite a few swings to tag an artist the likes of Justin Trevino. Blind since birth, Trevino […]
It probably won’t surprise anybody to learn that Lucinda Williams drives a truck. A big ole truck — Chevy Silverado with a king cab and hard-shell bed-cover. She doesn’t take up much of the wide bench seat and sits close […]
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