Bill Narum

Remembering the artist who helped fuse the worlds of art and music in Austin

"...and music in Austin has painted his last canvas. Bill Narum, who created many a poster for the Armadillo..."

Nov. 27, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

High Lonesome

"...Directed by: Rachel Liebling. Starring: Bill Monroe, Ralph Stanley, Mac Wiseman and Jimmy Martin. High..."

March 25, 1994 Movie Review by Rob Patterson

Hill Country Breakdown

"..."I wish I were as sure about anything as Bill Monroe was about everything," writes Earle in the liner..."

June 4, 1999 Music Feature by Christopher Hess

Take Me to the River

Rock & Roll Books

"...Can't You Hear Me Callin': The Life of Bill Monroe, Father of Bluegrassby Richard D. Smith..."

Dec. 29, 2000 Books Feature by Christopher Gray

Spotlight: Ricky Skaggs

Ricky Skaggs, at home with God, Bill Monroe, and his own music.

"...collaborative tribute Skaggs led to the king of bluegrass, Bill Monroe, and won for his gospel album Soldiers of..."

March 16, 2001 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Driving and Cranking

"...Meat Purveyors guitarist Bill Anderson is not expecting an invitation from the Sons..."

July 30, 1999 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Villains

Delicious black comedy finds bad guys in a battle of the generations

"...Directed by: Dan Berk and Robert Olsen. Starring: Bill Skarsgård, Maika Monroe, Jeffrey Donovan, Kyra Sedgwick and Blake..."

Sept. 20, 2019 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Can't You Hear Me Callin' – Bluegrass: 80 Years of American Music

Gift guide

"...as much by its respect for the forebears – Bill Monroe, Roy Acuff, Charlie Poole – as it is..."

Dec. 10, 2004 Music Feature by Darcie Stevens

Complete Freedom

A profile of Bad Livers banjo player Danny Barnes

"...performers had Tennessee accents. His earliest memories are of Bill Monroe and Lester Flatt records...."

Nov. 5, 1999 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Upsizing the Ante

Old Settlers Bluegrass & Acoustic Festival

"...personal relationships with most of the performers on the bill," says Aengus. "I've been around my share of festivals...."

April 4, 1997 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Sxsw

"...1/100th bad. The rest is Brown pickin' music from hillbilly to hellfire on his custom guit-steel guitar. It takes..."

March 14, 1997 Music Feature

Wood & Wire Hit a High Point in Uncertain Times

After garnering a Grammy nomination, the bluegrassers roll it forward

"...gathered Sunday afternoons like church. Wood & Wire mandolinist Billy Bright used to pick timeless tunes at the South..."

Sept. 11, 2020 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Old Settler's Music Festival Preview

Bluebonnets and bluegrass: the Old Settler's Music Festival, still picking, still grinning

"...his son Samson on stand-up bass, is bluegrass as Bill Monroe intended it. – J.C. Martin Sexton9pm, Hill Country..."

April 18, 2008 Music Feature

The Big Cheese

South by Southwest 1997

"...the convention center ballroom. "You're looking at an old rockabilly who backed out of this for a month." Resembling..."

March 21, 1997 Music Feature

Live Shots

"...the AAA format, though, and no one on Friday's bill disappointed. Don Walser got things going on the main..."

April 10, 1998 Music Feature

10 Minutes With Ry Cooder

Journeyman guitarist yes, ethnomusicologist maybe

"...AC: You both had some interaction with Bill Monroe when you were very young...."

Sept. 17, 2015 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Old Settler's Music Festival Interviews

Talking bluegrass with five OSMF headliners and a Dripping Springs dweller

"...who can't stand anything outside of Ralph Stanley or Bill Monroe," attests Keen. "But I am real particular about..."

April 17, 2015 Music Feature

Blood on the Tracks

The ballad of Griff Luneburg and Cactus Cafe

"...an amazing array of talent over the decades, from Bill Monroe and Townes Van Zandt to J. Mascis and..."

Feb. 6, 2009 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

ACL Fest Sunday Interviews

Enriching the Americana stew

"...even really understand what 'Americana' means. For me, if Bill Monroe isn't in there, then don't put me in..."

Sept. 26, 2008 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Love Is All Around

Tracking Sonny Curtis and his tall, West Texas tales

"...picking, died on the road as a member of Bill Monroe's band. Smokey Mayfield favored the fiddle. Sonny learned..."

Oct. 15, 2004 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

'ACL' Live Shots

"...by pop, alternative rock, and jazz more than by Bill Monroe, which soon became clear in their set. They..."

Oct. 4, 2002 Music Feature by Jerry Renshaw

Mountain Style

Chatting with Dr. Ralph Stanley, a pioneer of bluegrass music before there was such a thing

"...of music in the Country Music Hall of Fame. Bill Monroe was in it, and I believe Flatt &..."

Nov. 30, 2001 Music Feature by Kim Mellen

Grateful Dawg

"...of how they first met in 1964 at a Bill Monroe concert in Pennsylvania, both having made the pilgrimage..."

Nov. 2, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Record Reviews: Reissues

"...his second-hand cockney drawl is likely the source of Billie Joe Armstrong's. But Ness' otherwise taut, raucous, classic songwriting..."

Dec. 8, 1995 Music Review

Festival Fest

Old Settler’s, Austin Reggae, and Convergence converge

"...McCoury earned his bluegrass wings as a vocalist for Bill Monroe, so it was especially fitting that the biggest..."

April 22, 2013 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Good Thing

Q&A with Mark Lindsay

"...ML: People think that Bill Monroe or Jimmy Martin wrote it. I heard Monroe..."

April 13, 2011 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

The Stanley Brothers

In Box

"...– they're considered progenitors of the style along with Bill Monroe and Flatt & Scruggs. Until Carter's death at..."

May 18, 2007 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

Everybody Loves Austin City Limits

"..."Songwriter's Special," featuring Kris Kristofferson, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Billy Joe Shaver, and Kimmie Rhodes...."

Jan. 24, 1997 Music Feature

Texas Titles in Toto

"..."Austin Breakdown," Bill Neely..."

Nov. 28, 2003 Music Feature

Hot Line to Jesus

Edison's Speaking Phonograph

"..."Suddenly," writes Vincent Lynch and Bill Henkin in 1981's Jukebox: The Golden Age, "the jukebox..."

Aug. 28, 1998 Music Feature by Jay Hardwig

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