When is a tribute album not a tribute album? Quite often, actually, depending on exactly how you define the beast. A handful of new releases serve as cases in point of the different approaches that can be taken in assembling […]
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It’s not that Amy Farris lacked the talent to step out on her own. After nearly a decade playing fiddle and singing harmony with some of Austin’s finest artists, including Kelly Willis, Bruce Robison and Alejandro Escovedo, she’d certainly developed […]
It was twenty years ago todayawell, this fall, actually, when I first heard Suzy Elkins sing. Back home to attend the University of Texas as a sophomore after a year of exile at TCU in Fort Worth, I’d yet to […]
As writer Joe Nick Patoski and I were going back and forth about this issue’s feature story on the Resentments, we got to talking a little bit about Mambo John Treanor, the band’s original drummer and one of the quintessential […]
As we were winding this issue to a close, I got a call one afternoon from Van Alston, who was cruising through my old Texas Hill Country stomping grounds on his way to visit Alejandro Escovedo. This was just a […]
Strip away all the pretense, all the rock-star posturing, all the booze-fueled belligerence, all the trash-talking antics, all the profanity-laced ranting and raving…and look at what remains. An artist on the verge of 30, with about a dozen records to […]
Waiting in an airplane on the runway in Denver, ready to depart from a Colorado sojourn that had left things at loose ends. Pushed play on the old Walkman; the guitar slowly creeped in, gradually built, finally crashed into the […]
“I am deeply saddened by the loss of my children’s grandfather and my very dear friend. I loved big John with all my heart. The citizens of the world have lost one of their most enduring guiding lights. As a […]
When that scholarly malady known as writer’s block descends from the muses, it can be helpful to employ a simple little exercise. Particularly in cases where there is lots of ground to be covered and there are lots of stories […]
POR VIDA: Musicians across the country reacted to the news of Alejandro Escovedo’s recent hospitalization from complications of Hepatitis C by organizing efforts to raise funds for the Texas singer-songwriter, who has no health insurance. The Continental Club in Escovedo’s […]
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