You want to talk first-rate pedigrees, the Rite Flyers have connections to some of Austin’s biggest and best bands of the past two decades. The group’s genealogical chart goes all the way back to key 1980s-era Austin acts including Big […]
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Like so many songs by the Old 97’s over the years, the last song on their new record Blame It On Gravity spins a yarn about a love affair, but this love doesn’t go bad, and for once, the object […]
“I have to keep growing, keep evolving. Not very many musicians make it big enough to retire, and I didn’t want to think about having to do something else….If you’re lucky, you get to do this for the rest of […]
Hope Nunnery has a name, a voice and a story that all seem in their own ways too good to be true. At least until you hear her talk about them. Then, like the songs on her first album, Wilderness […]
Sure enough, he’s a rambler and a gambler and a sweet talkin’ ladies man. Well, Hayes Carll is a musician, and from Texas, so all that goes more or less with the territory, at least by tradition. But he is […]
Pedal steel guitar is a lot like a movie soundtrack in that the more you notice it, the less effective it is. In its overwrought variation, waves of pedal-steel weeping is one of country music’s hoariest cliches. But if wielded […]
It is difficult to imagine any man three months shy of his 95th birthday looking more regally insouciant than Pinetop Perkins does from his backstage perch at an out-of-the-way roadside joint known as Circle B Recreation in Cedarburg, Wisconsin. You’d […]
It’s Saturday morning at Merlefest in late April 2007, and the main stage is a whirlwind of rapid-fire musical collaborations. Leonard Podolak of Canadian string band the Duhks is playing ringmaster to what has been billed the “New Generation Super […]
Performers billed by a single name are often over-the-top: Madonna, Cher, Liberace. But not Thao. The Virginia-bred songwriter isn’t the sort to swoop out from the wings with a crystal chandelier on her head. Nor does she clutter up songs […]
British writer and researcher Tony Russell has been authoring history-making contributions to our knowledge and understanding of American roots music since the 1970s, including his ground-breaking re-examination of interracial, cross-genre music history Blacks, Whites And Blues, and the recent, monumental […]
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