Summer Sunday flashback, oldies reaffirmation in a preview-profile I wrote long ago for Charlotte Creative Loafing: “Can’t we-uns all jest git along” ending now with added novelty value! Keep Texas Beautiful Jerry Jeff Walker, still swingin’ on a Lone Star […]
It’s about time I again feature the finest recent work of ND’s crack photographers. However, this time I’m trying something just a bit different. I lead with the Bonnaroo photos of Chris Griffy, who also filed daily reports (4) and […]
Clad in a black hat onstage at Seattle’s Tractor Tavern on Thursday night, Sunny Sweeney remarked that she’d move to the Pacific Northwest in a heartbeat, just so she could wear a hat every day. But that wouldn’t feel quite […]
As you will see, promoter Bill Wence has been in the music business a number of years and he’s worked with some of the greatest. As long as I’ve known him he has always treated me and everyone with a […]
David Bromberg had had enough. The only problem was he didn’t know it. Being on the road for two years without going home for two weeks straight was taking its toll. Bromberg can now look back and realize he was […]
I’m not the biggest fan of Ray Wylie Hubbard’s music. I mean, I’m a fan, just not the biggest. Therefore, when I tell you that his economical, cleverly structured memoir, A Life…Well, Lived (Bordello Records, 174 pages, with Thom Jurek […]
This summer has been a tumultuous one for the nation. As our birthday approached it seemed like tragedies were only piling higher, due to the racial tension across the south and police brutality seemingly everywhere it didn’t feel like there […]
Without Getting Killed or Caught: The Life and Music of Guy Clark traces the life of music pioneer Guy Clark, who, with his wife Susanna, shaped the contemporary folk and American roots music scene much like F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald […]
Imagine you’re in Austin about 30 years ago and you hear music coming from a little bar. You step inside this hole in the wall and see one of the most deservedly acclaimed singer/songwriters on the Texas music scene performing […]
