Sammy Allred Dead at 84

Geezinslaw Brother and institutional ATX deejay passes

"...The Geezinslaw Brothers, later billed simply as the Geezinslaws, were among Austin’s first breakout musical acts. The group,..."

May 10, 2018 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

The Town Was Hoppin'

Austin's music scene of the Fifties lives on in Ray Campi

"...at Saengerrunde Hall before popular play The Drunkard. The Geezinslaws, another group modeled after satirical hillbilly duo Homer and..."

March 30, 2012 Music Feature by Michael Corcoran

Broken Spoke Legends

James White counts down the Broken Spoke's greatest hits

"...that's good. Write another verse and we'll record it.'" GEEZINSLAWS "Right when we first opened up here, Sam and..."

Nov. 12, 2004 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

A World in Which All Worlds Fit

"...stalwarts as Lee Roy Parnell, Kinky Friedman, and the Geezinslaws, he might know. Yet one suspects it's more than..."

Dec. 4, 1998 Music Feature by Jay Hardwig

Record Reviews

"...THE GEEZINSLAWS..."

Dec. 26, 1997 Music Review

Dancing About Architecture

¿Agua Fest?

"...acts for their nights (among those: Cornell Hurd, the Geezinslaws, La Tropa F, Jay Perez, John Berry, David Lee..."

May 30, 1997 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Texas Platters

"...THE GEEZINSLAWS..."

April 11, 1997 Music Review

Austin Music Awards Hall of Fame Inductees 1983-2016

Never before published list of all Austin Music Awards Hall of Fame inductees

"...Geezinslaws (06)..."

March 3, 2017 Features Feature

10 Freaks and Geeks to Redefine Austin Music

Local passion projects with singular visions

"...skewer the form than salute it: Kinky Friedman, the Geezinslaws, even the Hickoids. Famously claiming Panhandle origins, these pornographic..."

Sept. 2, 2016 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Honky-Tonk Heaven

13 things to love about the Broken Spoke

"...The Bus Crash Bar. It’s true, in 2005, the Geezinslaws’ tour bus crashed through the northeast corner of the..."

Aug. 2, 2013 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Hurd Is the Word

Cornell Hurd, Austin's most prolific C&W songwriter? It's no joke.

"...music used to be tongue-in-cheek humor," admits Hurd. "The Geezinslaws go there. That's a band that plays funny songs...."

Nov. 3, 2006 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Country Mile

Country mile

"...God love the Geezinslaws. They're corny and cranky as ever on The Eclectic..."

April 29, 2005 Music Review by Christopher Gray

Genuine Austin Christmas

Gift guide

"...fertile honky-tonk fields. Established breadwinners like Pat Green, the Geezinslaws, Jack Ingram, and Rick Trevino are accounted for, as..."

Dec. 24, 2004 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Compile This!

Our resident Marshmallow Peep relates the news and hearsay in and around the Live Music Capital...

"...& Flaco Jimenez, Roy Heinrich & Elizabeth McQueen, the Geezinslaws, Libbi Bosworth, Monte Warden and the LeRoi Brothers..."

July 26, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Dancing About Architecture

Checking up on SIMS and their $216K, checking in on Lyle Lovett's broken leg, and Tyler Harwood checks out of the Zulu as Kono and the Peenbeets.

"...along with Slaid Cleaves, Cornell Hurd, Alvin Crow, the Geezinslaws, Casper Rawls, Karen Poston, Floyd Domino, Elana Fremerman, Paul..."

April 5, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Dancing About Architecture

A flood of weather (and music) following SXSW

"...is going down with Jack Ingram, Owen Temple, the Geezinslaws, and others supporting headliner Waylon Jennings, starting at noon..."

March 30, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Jimmy LaFave

Acts Playing South by Southwest

"...Jimmy LaFave Texoma (Bohemia Beat) If we took the Geezinslaws' song "$5 Fine for Whining" and applied it to..."

March 2, 2001 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

Dancing About Architecture

SXSW wristbands go on sale with the news that Dr. Demento will be attending this year's festival. Also, the passing of the Victory Grill's Johnny Holmes, and the expansion of Emo's.

"...guests will pop in as well. (Wonder what the Geezinslaws will be doing that night?) As a Sunday show,..."

Feb. 23, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Dancing About Architecture

Christmastime comes to Austin.

"...Double Trouble, Bruce Robison, Jim Franklin, Kerry Awn, the Geezinslaws, Damon Bramblett, Gulf Coast Playboys, A-Town, Red Eye w/..."

Dec. 8, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Texas Music Group

TMG label rises from the ashes of Watermelon and Antone's.

"...albums by Ray Wylie Hubbard, Steven Fromholz, and the Geezinslaws, among others...."

Sept. 29, 2000 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Dancing About Architecture

Adios Antone; A wild and Willie Fourth.

"...all participation requests from the artists, who included the Geezinslaws, Mark David Manders, Kimmie Rhodes, Titty Bingo, Rodney Hayden,..."

July 7, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Dancing About Architecture

House of Blues breaks ground at Southpark Meadows where the old stage will be replaced, but not before Willie Nelson's Fourth of July Picnic.

"...the Wheel, Shelby Lynne, Susan Tedeschi, Joe Ely, the Geezinslaws, Kimmie Rhodes, Cadillac Voodoo Choir, David Allen Coe, Ray..."

June 9, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Decade Awards

"...10. "Help, I'm White" by Sammy Allred for the GeezinslawsBand of the Decade1. Storyville 2. Joe Ely..."

March 17, 2000 Music Feature

Dancing About Architecture

Another club bites the dust, the first happy bands of 2000, the Greatest Band in the World comes to SXSW, more people do stuff

"...hale and hearty following a series of strokes), those Geezinslaws (did Sammy Allred appear "pro bone-o"?), and a buncha..."

Jan. 21, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

California Dreamin'?

"...ban kill the live music scene? KVET personality and Geezinslaws band leader Sammy Allred, an ex-smoker, equates a total..."

Oct. 8, 1999 News Feature by Mike Jasper

Dancing About Architecture

"...week, with 81*2 Souvenirs today, Tosca Friday, and the Geezinslaws Sunday, all 6:30-9pm, and Connie Leaverton Saturday at noon......"

April 9, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Dancing About Architecture

Pushing the Envelope

"...nationwide epidemic of blah, blah, blah courtesy of the Geezinslaws last Monday. No, the group's album of that name..."

March 5, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Tribute Records

Tammy Wynette Remembered

"...than the material itself, Asleep at the Wheel, the Geezinslaws, and Chuck E. Weiss also wind up handling their..."

Jan. 1, 1999 Music Review

The Winter Classic

South by Southwest 1998

"...between our countries. Just try to imagine how the Geezinslaws' humor would play in Hamburg, and you'll know that..."

March 27, 1998 Music Feature

Picks & Sleepers

Sxsw

"...THE GEEZINSLAWS: Texas' answer to Homer and Jethro have been pumpin'..."

March 20, 1998 Music Feature

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