Beyond the Horizon with Denny Freeman

Austin lodestar offered the theories of life through a guitar

"...he heard the early blues and rock & roll records oozing through the radio waves...."

April 27, 2021 Music Post by Bill Bentley

Gift Guide: John Prine

Crooked Piece of Time: The Atlantic & Asylum Albums (1971-1980) (Rhino)

"...Time remasters the folk singer's early Atlantic and Asylum Records output, seven albums on 7 CDs spanning 1971-1980. Prine..."

Dec. 4, 2020 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Eastside Kings Fest Preview: Bobby Rush Talks Pandemic Life, Dolemite & Race

Blues showman appears virtually from Austin on Monday

"...BR: Yeah. That was the Cadillac of joints at that time. That was like uptown!..."

Oct. 2, 2020 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re playing

"...psychedelic guitar across "Rock Gods" and Tennessee rockers the Cadillac Three hit overdrive in scorching "Fast Left Hand."..."

July 17, 2020 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re playing

"...Debut on North Carolina indie royalty Merge Records and third LP overall for the raw, glammy Austin..."

May 29, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Checking In: Ray Wylie Hubbard Heard You Shout Freebird

Wimberley bard misses his band and maybe even that heckler

"...as I still pretty much listen to my friends’ records: Hayes, Gurf, Slaid, Tyler Bryant, Larkin Poe, Ronnie Dunn,..."

April 12, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Pink Floyd's Roger Waters Gets Political With the Chronicle

He should be a prime-time news analyst. Televisions would melt.

"...all their artists, a common accusation leveled at Chess Records. In that situation too, antisemitism clouded the real dialogue:..."

March 20, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Austin's House Music Scene Clings to the African-American Community That Birthed It

House music rose to prominence from Chicago’s black music community and hangs on here in its original form

"...a few years ago and was downtown when this Cadillac rolled up," recounts Thurman Jackson Jr., another longtime Austin..."

Feb. 1, 2019 Music Feature by Dan Gentile

Boz Scaggs Doesn't Mean to Be Argumentative

The Texan parses blues, R&B, and rock & roll ahead of two Austin shows

"..."I've done a couple of jazz standards records [2003's But Beautiful and 2008's Speak Low," reflects 74-year-old..."

Oct. 19, 2018 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Boy George’s New Life

Culture Club frontman relives the Seventies

"...with this beautiful voice making music influenced by Trojan Records reggae and Motown, and things like that. But you..."

July 4, 2018 Music Post by Tim Stegall

Page Two: Dancing at the Revolution With the Radio On!

Louis Black recalls the joys of driving around and falling in love with pop songs

"...another weak program Lester Moran, the old Roadhog, and his Cadillac Cowboys." It was obviously a goof of some sort,..."

June 16, 2017 Column by Louis Black

Space Cowboy Steve Miller's Not Joking

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame guitarist details the pompitous of musical education

"...Chuck Berry days, where if you sold a million records, they gave you a $3,000 Cadillac and no accounting..."

July 22, 2016 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Page Two: In Dreams Begin Responsibilities

Too much noise, too little quiet

"...middle of the night, Lester "Roadhog" Moran and the Cadillac Cowboys came on for a 10-minute run that found..."

May 27, 2016 Column by Louis Black

Folk Music Fireball!

Sixty years ago this month and next, Elvis Presley destroyed Austin

"...a string of hit singles on Sam Phillips' Sun Records label that were then promoted via radio appearances on..."

Dec. 25, 2015 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Whole Lot of Rockin' Goin' On

Linda Gail Lewis received her first piano lesson from her brother at 40

"...made with us. He bought us a brand-new Fleetwood Cadillac, moved us into a really nice house in town,..."

Nov. 20, 2015 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Panhandle Rambler

Walkabout with Joe Ely

"...concludes at a rustic, artsy estate with an ancient Cadillac docked deep in the grass. All cell phone service..."

Sept. 18, 2015 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Bob Johnston 1932-2015

“The grand master waved his magical wand for the last time”

"...nearly 50-year career. As a staff producer at Columbia Records, he’s credited with Johnny Cash’s 1968 breakthrough At Folsom..."

Aug. 15, 2015 Music Post by Chase Hoffberger

After the Flood, Before the Flood

As the area recovers from the Memorial Day flood, El Niño looms

"...receded, my uncle documented what remained: My aunt's beloved Cadillac was pinned to the ground by a neighbor's truck,..."

Aug. 14, 2015 News Feature by Nina Hernandez

Chairman of the Board

Antone's Blue Monday boss Derek O'Brien keeps the music alive and blue

"...a Grammy with Robert Cray for the joint Alligator Records recording Showdown!..."

April 25, 2014 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Prince Charming: Adam Ant

King of the Wild Frontier returns to Austin – tonight

"...offices of his new, self-owned independent label, Blueback Hussar Records. The first two-thirds of the label’s moniker doubles as..."

July 26, 2013 Music Post by Tim Stegall

Fusebox Festival

Beaming down to Fusebox and charging it up are Captain Kirk and the King

"...Road into a drive-in theatre, where the King's pink Cadillac (the Elvis Rose) will cruise from Elvis' boyhood home..."

April 27, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

SXSW 2012 Tuesday Picks & Sleepers

"...terrifically active, still riding the wave from 2009 Bloodshot Records career high Girl of the Century and producing the..."

March 9, 2012 Music Feature

You Just May Be the One

A Monkees playlist of Michael Nesmith country rockers.

"...I discover that unlike most Nesmith vocals on Monkees records, he didn’t actually write the tune. Now I’m gonna..."

Feb. 18, 2011 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Darkness on the edge of Springsteen

"...Lost in translation from black, 12-inch vinyl records to 4¾-inch aluminum compact discs beginning in the mid-1980s..."

Dec. 17, 2010 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Beat Box

Beat Box

"...The GuudThe Guudness MSG CrewThe Giants (BR Records) RX Family and Diamond MineDiamond Minds Ramon RamirezVolume One:..."

Oct. 23, 2009 Music Review by Chase Hoffberger

I Built My Girlfriend's iPod

Stranded on a desert island? At least you have your iPodSolar.

"...Rhino Records' regal 4-CD hatbox, 2003's One Kiss Can Lead to..."

Sept. 11, 2009 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Obsessed

Idris Elba and Beyoncé co-star as a married couple whose happy life is disrupted by a stalker.

"...singing actress roles in The Fighting Temptations, Dreamgirls, and Cadillac Records. With Obsessed it’s now time for her Sasha..."

May 1, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Little Walter

"...destiny's child played the first lady of soul in Cadillac Records and then serenaded the president and his wife..."

April 24, 2009 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Screens Top 10s

The Chronicle's film critics talk about their favorite movies of the year

"...The Pool, U2 3D, Cadillac Records ACTING KUDOS (MALE)..."

Jan. 2, 2009 Screens Feature

Critics Poll

"...HOFFBERGER Cadillac Records..."

Jan. 2, 2009 Music Feature

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