“I think I’m the only one in the band who still drinks whiskey, so cheers,” fiddler Caitlin Cary proclaimed during the encore of Whiskeytown’s debut performance in London. Indeed, these shows seemed largely focused on how well leader Ryan Adams […]
For two years in a row now, we’ve managed, quite unintentionally, to schedule our final production weekend for the May-June issue in synchronicity with the final two rounds of The Masters. Some of you may be aware of my occasionally […]
It’s South by Southwest weekend in Austin, Texas, the year’s biggest gathering of up-and-coming musical acts, with more than 800 artists crammed into three dozen or so clubs, bars, coffeehouses and parking lots over a five-day stretch. Daytime parties and […]
For all the stories he could tell — all the adventures he actively sought out or accidentally stumbled upon, all the characters he has known and loved along the way, all the highs and lows flowing through five decades of […]
In recent years, discussion about the PBS series Austin City Limits has often centered on whether the program caters too much to the kinds of already-established Nashville stars seen frequently enough on CMTNN, at the expense of promising new talent […]
It took me a few days to notice the parallel, when I heard around mid-October that Butch Hancock was reviving his old self-run record label, Rainlight, to release his latest album. A little over a year ago, Butch left the […]
“Mostly it’s the spaces between things where I feel comfortable. There are not usually crowded places.” With those words, Picking Up The Tempo: A Country Western Journal was launched more than two decades ago, its debut issue a mere eight […]
Nowadays, Courtesy Move — a side project for Wilco members Jay Bennett, Ken Coomer and John Stirratt — has simply become another outlet of their careers as musicians. In addition to recording several tracks in 1996 without Wilco frontman Jeff […]
By the time you’ll be reading this, the annual Wavefest concert in Charleston, S.C., sponsored by local radio station WAVF-FM will have come and gone — though as I’m writing, it’s still a few days away. Which explains, in part, […]
It all traces back to 30th Street — 406 West 30th, to be precise, to the an unassuming old house directly across the street from Trudy’s Texas Star restaurant, just north of the University of Texas campus in Austin. A […]
