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The Front Porch Song

By now it’s almost mythological that Lyle Lovett and Robert Earl Keen met as students at Texas A&M in the Seventies. Friends ever since, their appearances together remain rare. That lent last night’s over-two-hour set at the Paramount Theater the feeling of an event. They appear there again tonight and around Texas through Sunday. Read More | Comment »

2:45PM Wed. May. 22, Jim Caligiuri

Praise the Lloyd

While primarily a benefit for KLRU, our local PBS affiliate, and Austin City Limits, last night’s three-hour concert at ACL Live at the Moody Theater celebrated Austin music master Lloyd Maines. Read More | Comment »

12:47PM Fri. May. 17, Jim Caligiuri

Jim James Haiku

Between “The Twist,” the sax, and singing one song to a golden panda, My Morning Jacket frontman Jim James’ first solo Austin City Limits taping last night went exactly as expected. Here’s a brief recap of the “Honest Man” Kentuckian’s performance, rendered in (cough) haiku style in preparation for tonight’s appearance at Stubb’s. Read More | Comment »

2:47PM Mon. May. 6, Jim Caligiuri

Calculated Carelessness

Anyone can throw a CD release party, but Lauren Gurgiolo decided to do something a bit different. To celebrate the new album by the group she leads, the Dialtones’ Calculated Carelessness, she’s organized a multimedia installation at the Museum of Human Achievement. It runs this week only, Thursday through Sunday, three times a night. Read More | Comment »

3:35PM Wed. May. 1, Jim Caligiuri

Tuning Into Old Settler’s

We’ve been getting ready for, and really excited about, this weekend’s Old Settler’s Music Festival. As in the past, its focus remains different strains of Americana. Yet there are a number of surprises thrown in to make this year’s OSMF one of the most diverse ever. Read More | Comment »

3:33PM Wed. Apr. 17, Jim Caligiuri

15 Minutes With Kris Kristofferson

Here’s a conversation I had last week with outlaw Highwayman Kris Kristofferson from his home in Hawaii. He’s part of the Jack Ingram & Friends show at the Moody Theater Friday evening. Read More | Comment »

4:20PM Wed. Apr. 10, Jim Caligiuri

Easter with Willie Nelson

Thanks to an invite by local PR maven Cash Edwards and her husband, KGSR deejay Roger Allen, I was fortunate enough to visit Luck this past Sunday. It’s not exactly a secret, but not really well known ether that the set for Willie Nelson’s 1986 movie Red Headed Stranger – called Luck, Texas – still stands out by the lake near Driftwood. Read More | Comment »

3:07PM Wed. Apr. 3, Jim Caligiuri

Catching Up With Tish Hinojosa

The first person I ever met from Austin was Tish Hinojosa. It was late 1989 or early 1990. With guitarist Marvin Denton, who later reverted to his real name, Marvin Dykhuis, she was touring the Northeast with her debut album, Homeland. One Saturday they visited the Long Island radio station where I worked for some conversation and a live performance. Read More | Comment »

11:17AM Wed. Mar. 27, Jim Caligiuri

10 Minutes With Steve Howe

Bands playing an album in its entirety isn’t exactly a recent development. I recall seeing Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull, and Yes perform Dark Side of the Moon, Thick As A Brick, and Tales From Topographic Oceans respectively when those LPs were new. Yes tweaks the concept tonight at ACL Live at the Moody Theater. Read More | Comment »

2:20PM Wed. Mar. 20, Jim Caligiuri

Meats Puppets Open Sound City Players SXSW Showcase

Don’t overlook the Meat Puppets opening for Dave Grohl’s Sound City Players extravaganza tomorrow at Stubb’s. Sure, they’ve been around more than 30 years, but next month’s Rat Farm, the band’s 14th studio LP, spins one of its best discs, psychedelicized country-punk with the gleaming melodies they’re semi-famous for. Read More | Comment »

3:07PM Wed. Mar. 13, Jim Caligiuri

No Joker: Steve Miller

In the pre-SXSW insanity, I spoke to Steve Miller, who’s in town tonight receiving a Texas Medal of Arts Award from the Texas Cultural Trust at the Long Center. Among the honorees “having positively impacted the creative culture of the state” are Eva Longoria, Texas Monthly, Joe Sears & Jaston Williams, and the Houston Ballet. Read More | Comment »

9:03AM Tue. Mar. 5, Jim Caligiuri

JD McPherson

My favorite album of 2012 was Signs & Signifiers by JD McPherson from Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. The young singer-songwriter evoked the sound of Chess Records in the Fifties (Howlin’ Wolf, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, etc.) with vibrancy. McPherson, playing Antone’s Saturday, admits that’s what he and producer/bassist Jimmy Sutton wanted. Read More | Comment »

10:14AM Thu. Feb. 28, Jim Caligiuri

Final Lineup for Old Settler’s Announced

While we’re all in over our heads with the upcoming South by Southwest, let’s not forget April 18-21 brings another Old Settler’s Music Festival to the Salt Lick. This week, OSMF announced its final lineup for the 26th annual four-day camp out in Driftwood. It’s the most diverse roster ever for the roots music fest. Read More | Comment »

1:30PM Wed. Feb. 6, Jim Caligiuri

Wonder of Weird: The Residents

Tomorrow night, in what could be the most inspired booking of the year, San Francisco’s avant-garde performance troupe the Residents perform at the ornately refurbished Scottish Rite Theater. Read More | Comment »

3:07PM Wed. Jan. 30, Jim Caligiuri

Oye Come Va

Not only did Gregg Rolie help both Santana and Journey become multi-platinum acts, he was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as part of the latter. The keyboardist/singer now calls Central Texas home, so it makes sense his show Wednesday at the One World Theatre differed little from a gig at the Saxon Pub – intimate, bluesy, and tastefully understated. Read More | Comment »

3:39PM Thu. Jan. 24, Jim Caligiuri

Two Beats Hearting As One

We spoke to Dave Wakeling, whose English Beat appears at the Mohawk tonight. Everything you need to know about one of the architects of the late-Seventies British ska revival can be found on last year’s 5-CD box set, The Complete Beat. Read More | Comment »

12:20PM Fri. Jan. 18, Jim Caligiuri

Ten Minutes With Terry Allen

Terry Allen’s new album, Bottom of the World Comes, arrives 14 years after his last disc. He hasn’t been sitting on his hands all that time, either. Music’s a fraction of what he does artistically, so the Lubbock native records when the time is right. Allen spoke from his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He’s appearing at the Cactus Cafe Friday. Read More | Comment »

4:20PM Wed. Jan. 16, Jim Caligiuri

Goin’ Down Rockin’: The Best of 2012, Vol. 2

In the middle of December, I decided 2012 had been a musical dud. Nothing to see here, just keep moving along. That changed last week when I sat down to make the second of my semi-annual review mixes and discovered that I had enough tracks to fill almost two more discs. In the 20 or so years of my doing this, I always have leftovers, but this was something else. Read More | Comment »

2:47PM Wed. Jan. 2, Jim Caligiuri

Record Roundup: Last Gasp 2012

Here’s four new releases any self respecting geezer would love to get for the holidays. Read More | Comment »

1:06PM Wed. Dec. 19, 2012, Jim Caligiuri

Michael Martin Murphey's Cowboy Christmas Ball

Sunday evening, Michael Martin Murphey brings his Cowboy Christmas show to the One World Theatre for two performances, 6 & 8:30pm. He’s been sharing this brand of holiday party for more than two decades, but 19 years ago he discovered the annual Cowboy Christmas Ball held in Anson, a northern suburb of Abilene preserving a tradition that began there in 1885. Read More | Comment »

3:20PM Wed. Dec. 12, 2012, Jim Caligiuri

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