Record store band. Sure, it’s not an officially recognized category, yet (patent pending), but it comes in awfully handy to describe bands that you could easily imagine killing hours in a record shop. Two Cow Garage is a record store […]
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Winter’s initial cold spell in early February gave North Carolina residents a chilly yet welcome reminder that seasons still change. A warmer sense of new beginnings was felt in Carrboro music halls. On Monday, Vashti Bunyan had been the artist […]
If there’s one thing pretty much guaranteed at a Raul Malo live show — besides being treated to perhaps the finest vocal instrument in all of contemporary popular music — it’s an overarching demonstration of stylistic variety. Never a natural […]
When they brought his birthday cake onstage, Asleep At The Wheel bandleader Ray Benson couldn’t resist the chance to be disrespectful to his elders. “I’m the youngest guy out here!” he crowed, and, at age 56, he wasn’t kidding. Benson […]
You have to start at the end — where they paid respects to Townes Van Zandt, the songwriter/compadre who captured the essence of life after being on the lam in “Pancho & Lefty” with the snippet, “The desert’s quiet and […]
“This next one was written and recorded by Joe Simon,” said Bettye LaVette, introducing her third song of the evening. Then came the perfect pause before she added, “But I sing it better.” With that, LaVette once again took ownership […]
Nightclubs are not the only institutions in Austin where musicians gather to drink, eat and occasionally play. Las Manitas Avenue Cafe, a cozy Tex-Mex diner on Congress Avenue in the heart of downtown, is considered just as essential to the […]
After years of tilting at windmills, Dale Watson has rechristened his brand of country as “Ameripolitan” — but it’s not a musical change, just a doubling-down on the directness, intimacy, fiddle, steel, guitar and shuffle beats for which he’s known. […]
Folk/blues guitarist Mark Spoelstra died of pancreatic cancer February 25 in Pioneer, California. He ran with Bob Dylan and Phil Ochs in the early ’60s and recorded as a singer-songwriter for Folkways, Elektra and Columbia. He retired from music in […]
Northwest blues guitarist Paul deLay died March 7 in Portland, Oregon, of leukemia. He was 55.
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