Eruption

Church on Monday guitarist Jake Langley transcends jazz

"...up the venue's narrow staircase: Dr. James Polk. Jazz bible Downbeat describes him as "an Austin jazz icon who..."

March 28, 2014 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Ain't Messin 'Round

Gary Clark Jr. kisses the sky

"...terms that also apply to Clark's career. He's been striking while bookings are hot, but he knew he needed..."

Oct. 12, 2012 Music Feature by Michael Corcoran

Hosea Hargrove

Ruta Maya, Jan. 28

"...like water dripping onto the same rock for millennia. B.B. King's "Rock Me Baby," closing cover of Hargrove's butter-pure..."

Feb. 4, 2011 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

SXSW Film

Daily Reviews and Interviews

"...undercard. The three-day festival in Zaire paired James Brown, B.B. King, and Bill Withers with top African talent before..."

March 20, 2009 Screens Feature by Thomas Fawcett

Ray Reed

"...Me," stands up well next to choice covers of B.B. King, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, and Frankie Lee..."

April 11, 2008 Music Review by Jay Trachtenberg

Antone's Home of the Blues

DVDnds

"...Sumlin plays Antone's all testify to one God. Clifford talking about the nanny that sang him gospel songs: "That's..."

June 9, 2006 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Austin into what it is today. Clifford was a walking encyclopedia of music and more than likely had a..."

May 26, 2006 Column

T.I.

"...King (Atlantic)..."

April 14, 2006 Music Review by Robert Gabriel

Spotlight: Barbara Lynn

Beaumont's southpaw R&B queen, oh yeah

"...about her early days touring with the likes of B.B. King, Jackie Wilson, Clyde McPhatter, and Stevie Wonder. She's..."

March 17, 2006 Music Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

Renegade

Still mourning the death of Thin Lizzy's Phil Lynott 20 years later

"...of Death" flickers back down into cyber sleep, synthesizer snaking away with a final buzz, Phil Lynott steps out..."

Jan. 20, 2006 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

The Billboard Illustrated Encyclopedia of Jazz & Blues

Gift guide

"...Jabbo Smith and wonderful bluesman Magic Sam get mentioned. B.B. King is cited, but so is the lesser-known, though..."

Dec. 2, 2005 Music Review by Harvey Pekar

Gasoline Dreams

Rounding up 2000 LPs.

"...P.E. detonations, Stankonia douses its "Gasoline Dreams" with enough body-rocking, "bombs over Baghdad" beats to make rave kids Sasha..."

Jan. 5, 2001 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Roger Waters, Alamodome, San Antonio, June 13

"...Crazy Diamond" ("That, of course, was for Syd"), Waters, looking like a distinguished, gray-haired mortician in his handsome black..."

June 23, 2000 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Living on the Air in Austin

Live Music Flourishes in the Studio

"...University of Texas student radio station KVRX bears a striking resemblance to the "Bullpen" on WKRP in Cincinnati; walls..."

April 10, 1998 Music Feature by Greg Beets

The Daytime TV Diaries

TV Eye

"...Limits.... Stevie Ray Vaughan, the Grateful Dead, Loreena McKennitt, B.B.King, Leo Kottke, Benny Goodman, Peter, Paul & Mary... sound..."

Aug. 8, 1997 Screens Column by Margaret Moser

Experience the C.H.A.R.M.?

Marketing the "live music capital of the world"

"...about what it truly means to be living and working in the "Live Music Capital of the World." While..."

Sept. 6, 1996 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Austin Author Ed Ward Revisits Rock’s First Guitar Hero, Michael Bloomfield

“When you heard Mike Bloomfield play, you got the sense this was the real shit."

"...June 16, 1965, New York: Bob Dylan hunkers down..."

Sept. 16, 2016 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Beale Street Dynasty

Historical overview of Memphis' legendary music row

"...Beale Street Dynastyby Preston Lauterbach W.W. Norton & Company,..."

May 29, 2015 Music Feature by Nina Hernandez

I Didn't Go Out for Mardi Gras

One special menu item almost inspired me to break my rule

"...I stopped celebrating major drinking holidays years ago, not too many years after the..."

Feb. 13, 2013 Food Post by Virginia B. Wood

News From Around the World and Down the Street

The Daily Texan makes us all proud.

"...The cartoon – which, as Chronicle News Editor Michael King points out, doesn't even have Martin's first name spelled..."

March 27, 2012 News Post by Cindy Widner

Keeping Up With the Joneses

A century of Austin music in one arrangement

"...Museum, lies the key to Austin's musical history, and unlocking it for just a couple of hours are the..."

June 18, 2010 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Dylan Does Texas

Bob Dylan takes Theme Time Radio Hour down Texas way.

"...ballpark tour last summer. Hi, Darcie! So it was probably inevitable that Dylan's XM radio show Theme Time Radio..."

March 8, 2007 News Post by Christopher Gray

Highway 61 Revisited

"...time I graduated, that six months period, Martin Luther King was assassinated, Bobby Kennedy was assassinated -- two months..."

Nov. 6, 1998 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Confessin' the Blues

Soul Man W.C. Clark

"...music] was (and is) the lament, the comment, often mocking or ironic, of the solitary individual, bereft of the..."

July 31, 1998 Music Feature by Christopher Hess

Nils Lofgren Gets Blue With Lou (Reed)

Songcraft: “Fictional characters with non-fictional emotion”

"...or eight hours and then later on the phone talking about these lyrics [he’d written]. So it was just..."

May 23, 2019 Music Post by Michael Toland

R.I.P. Akwasi Evans, Eastside Writer and Activist

“He spoke his truth”

"...Upward Bound at Huston-Tillotson,” said Travillion, “and I remember talking to him about youth issues.” That was when he..."

April 16, 2019 News Post by Michael King

Austin Film Society Announces 2017 Film Grants

$143,000 in cash and support awarded to 34 filmmakers

"...The Austin Film Society supports Texas filmmaking in myriad ways – workshops, work-in-progress screenings, mentorships –..."

Aug. 28, 2017 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Garner Sloan’s Carnival Folk Utopia

Come one, come all to “Vacationland”

"...a burning drum kit, and some lanky shadow man honking out trombone solos, there’s Austin’s Garner Sloan – decked..."

May 23, 2017 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Shout Into the Wind

The Citizen Review Panel takes public testimony on David Joseph

"...“I don’t see a purpose for this meeting,” said..."

March 11, 2016 News Post by Chase Hoffberger

Patty Griffin Leads Local Grammy Nominations

Lone Star accolades span country, gospel, folk, and R&B

"...Package given the elaborate design of March’s Still the King: Celebrating the Music of Bob Wills & His Texas..."

Dec. 7, 2015 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

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