The Beat Goes On: R.I.P. Uncle John Turner

Johnny Winter drummer and the power of three

"...the announcement I heard on KUT while driving home, thinking about Uncle John. Jay Trachtenberg was saying that today..."

July 26, 2007 Music Post by Margaret Moser

This Town

The Go-Go's Kathy Valentine takes the Zilker Park train back to her Austin upbringing

"...she's snuggled under a black corduroy coat lined in shocking pink. Outside, the steel gray sky matches the introspective..."

Feb. 9, 2007 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Letters at 3AM

Even though 2002 was an exceptional year for American cinema, American art has never been more marginalized, ghettoized, and controlled, than it is today.

"...Mr. Arkadin (U.S. release), Robert Aldrich's Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, and lesser but memorable works by Peter Ustinov..."

Jan. 10, 2003 Column by Michael Ventura

Trouble Men

The post-SRV trials and tribulations of Texas' most famous rhythm section

"...It was as if he was looking at life through tinted sunglasses, as if everything had..."

Feb. 9, 2001 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Dancing About Architecture

Crammed With Grammys

"...by Jimmie Vaughan, Eric Clapton, Bonnie Raitt, Robert Cray, B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Dr. John, and Art Neville in..."

Jan. 10, 1997 Music Column

Eric's World

The Many Fanastic Colors of

"...around the corner, opens to find the 42-year-old Johnson looking his familiar self: thin, boyish, and smiling. With his..."

Sept. 27, 1996 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

The Year in Rock, Austin Style

Musical Happenings, Celeb Sightings, and Boars

"...Looking for the bad and the dishy in 1995? Well,..."

Jan. 5, 1996 Music Feature

Thursday SXSW Interview: Dion

"...corner a cappella, and Conan O'Brien bandleader Jimmy Vivino's SRV-meets-B.B. King licks, Dion should be playing Antone's. His many..."

March 18, 2016 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Strawberry Letter 23

Cult soulman/guitarist Shuggie Otis returns from decades of mystery

"...recalls Shuggie, born Johnny Alexander Veliotes Jr. "I was probably about 3 or 4 years old and they would..."

July 10, 2015 Music Feature by Thomas Fawcett

The Graceful Dead

Almost 50 years of Jerry Garcia worship comes full circle

"...After a short break, Jerry Garcia, Ron “Pigpen” McKernan,..."

June 30, 2015 Music Post by Bill Bentley

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

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

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

Bright Lights Over Gary Clark Jr.

Heft and heart for the first of three solo hometown gigs

"...approvingly at the lone guitarist, who shed his explosive backing band in lieu of a tender, 100-minute set highlighting..."

Dec. 5, 2016 Music Post by Bryan Rolli

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

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

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

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

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

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