One of the quirkier aspects of the Austin music scene circa 1990 — and likely in other towns as well, to a certain extent — was the quality of music being released only on cassette. Compact discs were not yet […]
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To the right, to the left, to the front, to the back — everywhere you looked in the giant field at the foot of the Watson Stage, there were endless throngs of people, eagerly awaiting the Merlefest debut of Dolly […]
Is it comin’ around again? These “next-big-thing” waves tend to flow in cycles, you know. There was clamor circa 1995, when Gavin magazine’s now-relocated Americana chart made its debut, as did our 32-page first issue, and when Son Volt and […]
“I’d never done anything like that before — just wrote a straightforward love song for this woman.” A rare breed indeed is the artist who could make such a statement. Ask the majority of songwriters what the majority of their […]
More than a year after it went on sale at Waterloo Records in Austin — where it eventually sold more than 10,000 copies, at a single store — Lonelyland finally received a nationwide release via Universal in March. The ultimate […]
It’d be pretty easy to resent these carpetbagging Brits on grounds of blatant musical mimicry. The spirits of the Posies’ Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow loom large in the harmonies of “I Know Without Asking”, while the power-pop punch of […]
An advance copy of The Earth Rolls On arrived in my mailbox just before I left town for the holidays, as Grant and I were in the midst of pondering what to put on our next cover. Shaver was among […]
“People will be like, ‘God, I don’t ever wanna see that Scott McCaughey guy again!’” Scott McCaughey is discussing his band’s — or rather (and more to the point), his two bands’ — upcoming West Coast tour, wondering if perhaps […]
Driving west on I-10 from Austin, the desert creeps up on you, gradually revealing itself mile after mile after mile until the entire landscape has changed. The winding rivers, lazy lakes, scrubby trees and colorful flowers of the Texas Hill […]
“Some gotta wiiiiiin, some gotta loooooose…” When Danny O’Keefe stretches out those words in the classic chorus to his 1972 hit “Goodtime Charlie’s Got The Blues”, it can settle a chattery barroom to a reverent hush, his soaring tenor floating […]
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