Review: Zach Theatre's Hershey Felder as George Gershwin Alone

A masterful tribute to the father of the Great American Songbook

"...What exactly is American music? A century ago, long before rock & roll,..."

Sept. 22, 2023 Arts Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

The Best Things We Saw at Austin Psych Fest 2023

Toro y Moi, Automatic, and more highlight homegrown festival’s return

"...set smartly smothered any remaining avant-impulses from the Tumor songbook with the accumulated might of flaming-tongue-style rockstar idiom. No..."

May 1, 2023 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

Faster Than Sound: Bevis M. Griffin Teaches Austin Youth the Evolution of the Blues

School of Rock students play two events this weekend, and Stubb's sells to C3 and Live Nation

"...Rock & Blues," teaches young students about integral African American cultural contributions to the evolution of rock & roll...."

Feb. 18, 2022 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...2010, Austin's prime Stratoblaster Jimmie Vaughan recorded the Great American Blues Songbook, his idea of the genre encompassing both..."

Nov. 27, 2020 Music Feature by Derek Udensi

Playback: Walter Tragert Rises Up Singin’

Musician with MS finds hope in a songbook, Margaret Moser passes, and last shots at Bull McCabe's

"...can make magic, such as his latest album, July's American Folk Songs for the Family, Volume One...."

Sept. 1, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

The Passion & Paradox of Father John Misty

Charged Austin City Limits taping rivals a TED talk

"...John Misty persona dismantled the abject sincerity of that folk-rock outfit, calling bullshit on the seriousness of the entire..."

Aug. 23, 2017 Music Post by Doug Freeman

Kris Kristofferson

"...from the Brownsville-born author's dirty red bandanna, the freedom-fighter folk anthem might have had to settle for a country..."

Sept. 23, 2016 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Page Two: Sitting on the Dock of the Bay Watching the Tide Roll Away

The Chronicle at 35

"...from ocean to ocean. The driving idea was that American exceptionalism was moral and philosophical, and inherent in the..."

Sept. 2, 2016 Column by Louis Black

Paul Simon Makes History

PBS concert staple nets two hours of soul-stirring standards

"...Austin City Limits checked off another American music treasure from its bucket list Thursday night. Paul..."

May 13, 2016 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Playback: Altered States

Three Austin artists that are changing their tune

"..."It doesn't make any sense that the 'Great American Songbook' closed 40 years ago, never to reopen," Warden..."

April 1, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Black Sheep Boy Will Sheff

Okkervil River folksinger reflects on the past decade

"...know Black Sheep Boy was based on Tim Hardin’s folk song of the same name. Do you still find..."

Dec. 11, 2015 Music Post by Abby Johnston

Bob Dylan & The Band

Out of the basement and under the tree!

"...every imaginable style of America's musical past – blues, folk, spirituals, country, pop – in search of inspiration. Dylan's..."

Dec. 12, 2014 Music Review by Scott Schinder

The Big Picture

Taking stock of Austin music's female legacy

"...former's Central Austin home to perform original and traditional folk tunes without amplification. Take in an Erin Ivey gig..."

Nov. 28, 2014 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Top 10 National

One hundred lines of album art

"...6) Patty Griffin, American Kid (New West)..."

Jan. 3, 2014 Music Feature

Suzy Bogguss: Staying True to the Impulse

‘American Folk Songbook’ channels its inner child

"...When Suzy Bogguss titled her recent CD American Folk Songbook, she wasn’t kidding. The Illinois-born country singer-songwriter..."

Oct. 15, 2013 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Bill Carter

"...and the "Devil in Evilin." An expert weave of folk and blues led by Carter's expressive tenor – think..."

April 5, 2013 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Off the Record

Electric Lounge's second act on the Eastside, catching up with Scratch Acid and Austin's other Voice contestants

"...songwriter working in a genre she calls "post-brontosaurus indie folk/crunk."..."

Sept. 9, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass

Old Settler's Music Festival preview

"...Zen cowboy, finds sacred middle ground in the early American songbook of Appalachian folk music. The group's debut collaboration,..."

April 15, 2011 Music Feature

SXSW Saturday Picks & Sleepers

Last night of SX handicapping

"...a delicacy and subtlety that is sometimes lost on American folks. – Melanie Haupt BettySoo..."

March 18, 2011 Music Feature

SXSW Lists

SXSW groupings: Metal, Austin jazz, Polish acts, plus everything else

"...Americana with as much Sterling Morrison as Scotty Moore...."

March 18, 2011 Music Feature

The Sound and the Fury

Monsters of Folk drummer Will Johnson continues demonstrating monstrous musical and compositional gifts

"...Keeping beat for the Monsters of Folk at a sold-out Stubb's on a November night, Johnson..."

Oct. 8, 2010 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Off the Record

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss raise sand in Dallas, Lick Lick goes big in Japan, Dutch hip-hop sprouts in Austin, and a homecoming for Doyle Bramhall II

"...notion of Dutch hip-hop is that it made its American debut here in Austin via local imprint Beats Broke..."

July 11, 2008 Music Column by Austin Powell

Moby Grape

Gift Guide

"...songwriter, all five Grapes composed from deep within the American songbook – folk, blues, country, Owsley – while weaving..."

Dec. 14, 2007 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Robert Plant

Gift Guide

"...Pictures at Eleven, synthesized the thrust of rock's immortal folk-blues juggernaut into a remarkably lithe, elegant extension of Zep..."

Dec. 8, 2006 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

The Biscuit Brothers: Live From Symphony Barn

Allen Robertson and Jerome Schoolar, better known as the Biscuit Brothers, have carved a vigorous musical stage show out of their Emmy-nominated PBS program

"...as a pair of comfy denim overalls and as American as apple pie, that number that sings in the..."

Aug. 18, 2006 Arts Review by Patti Hadad

Saturday Sleepers

SXSW picks & sleepers

"...Kate X MesserTHE BONES11pm, Emo's Jr. No one recaptures American rock & roll glories like international bands, Sweden's Bones..."

March 18, 2005 Music Feature

Wednesday Picks

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...on a follow-up to his widely praised 2003 album, American Breakdown. – Jim Caligiuri ELIZABETH MCQUEEN9pm, Latitude 30 Only..."

March 11, 2005 Music Feature

Our Country Mapped in Music

The Austin Symphony's concert with Grantham's Southern Harmony, Copland's Appalachian Spring Suite, and Gershwin's Second Rhapsody gives audiences a chance to hear how some composers describe an American sense of place through music

"...March 19-20 concert (along with Maurice Ravel's not technically American but decidedly American jazz-inspired Concerto for the Left Hand..."

March 19, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Blurbing SXSW 04 music – Wednesday only

"...Ellington smile; "Crystal Blue" is from Brian Wilson's lost songbook; and crunchy "Bodyslam" is a blow to the head...."

March 12, 2004 Music Feature

SXSW Picks and Sleepers

"...a breathtaking debut it is. Part of the new anti-folk movement that started in New York, Blakeslee bears a..."

March 14, 2003 Music Feature

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