ACL Year 10, loading into Zilker Park Friday through Sunday, bundles into another trademark Chronicle preview through myriad interviews, record reviews, and recommendations. In fact, we recommend a fine-tooth comb.

ACL GALLERY

ACL Music Fest Friday Interviews

• Ha Ha Tonka
  BY JIM CALIGIURI
  Coming down from the Ozark Mountains
• The Secret Sisters
  BY JIM CALIGIURI
  Meet Americana's newest darlings
• Kurt Vile
  BY DOUG FREEMAN
  The Childish Prodigy mellows out, goes hi-fi
• Charles Bradley
  BY THOMAS FAWCETT
  Proof it's okay to dream
• Nas & Damien 'Jr. Gong' Marley
  BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
  Don't worry; be happy
• Mavis Staples
  BY MARGARET MOSER
  Freedom songs for the 21st century

ACL Music Fest Friday Reviews

• An Horse
  BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
• Theophilus London
  BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
• Wild Beasts
  BY DOUG FREEMAN
• Fool's Gold
  BY AUSTIN POWELL
• Smith Westerns
  BY DOUG FREEMAN
• Foster the People
  BY MELANIE HAUPT
• Kanye West & Jay-Z
  BY CHASE HOFFBERGER

ACL Music Fest Friday Listings
The blurbing of ACL 2011

ACL Music Fest Saturday Interviews

• Iron & Wine
  BY AUSTIN POWELL
  Sam Beam on saxophones and subjectivity
• Fitz & the Tantrums
  BY MARGARET MOSER
  Don't call it a comeback
• Wanda Jackson
  BY JIM CALIGIURI
  The party ain't over
• TV on the Radio
  BY AUSTIN POWELL
  The silver lining to Nine Types of Light

ACL Music Fest Saturday Reviews

• Telekinesis
  BY AUSTIN POWELL
• The Moondoggies
  BY MELANIE HAUPT
• Preservation Hall Jazz Band & the Del McCoury Band
  BY JIM CALIGIURI
• The Antlers
  BY MELANIE HAUPT
• Black Dub
  BY JIM CALIGIURI

ACL Music Fest Saturday Listings
The blurbing of ACL 2011

ACL Music Fest Sunday Interviews

• Bomba Estéreo
  BY THOMAS FAWCETT
  Stretching cumbia from Bollywood to Belgian disco-pop
• Manu Chao
  BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
  Greetings from Austin, circa 2008
• Hayes Carll
  BY DOUG FREEMAN
  For the sake of the song
• Randy Newman
  BY JIM CALIGIURI
  The American treasure turns the tables, asks the questions

ACL Music Fest Sunday Reviews

• Yellow Ostrich
  BY DOUG FREEMAN
• The Greencards
  BY JIM CALIGIURI
• Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.
  BY DOUG FREEMAN
• The Head & the Heart
  BY DOUG FREEMAN
• Joseph Arthur
  BY MELANIE HAUPT
• Elbow
  BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
• Gomez
  BY MELANIE HAUPT
• Social Distortion
  BY MARC SAVLOV

ACL Music Fest Sunday Listings
The blurbing of ACL 2011

BMI Stage
BY MARGARET MOSER

ACL Aftershows