Austin Finally Gets the Delta Blues

Singing the praises of the latest ice cream flavor to swirl into town

"...decided not to market a flavor that they called Delta Blues in Austin, the bluesiest city in the home..."

April 27, 2007 Food Feature by Mick Vann

Dead Man Blues

7-CD box set contains all anyone could ever want to know about Charley Patton.

"...The Jinx The blues is you're 43 and dead. The blues is when..."

Oct. 26, 2001 Music Feature by Clay Smith

True Blues

Alan Govenar's blues tome doesn't need to correct blues mythos. Blues is myth and vice versa.

"...more prone to tooting its own horn than Texas blues, and with good reason. Alan Govenar's new book, Texas..."

Dec. 5, 2008 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Deep Blues

"...Mugge. Starring: Robert Palmer and Dave A. Stewart. Deep Blues is a project that puts the word “document” back..."

Nov. 6, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Sultry, Aggressive, and No-Bullshit Blues by Margaret Moser

"...If Sue Foley were playing alternative rock instead of blues, the music press would be going to church over..."

June 30, 1995 Music Feature

Blues on the Green Cancels 2024 Season, Citing Cost Hurdles

“Austin, please know that we wish it wasn’t so”

"...Blues on the Green, the long-running free concert series that..."

Jan. 18, 2024 Music Post by Carys Anderson

Blues, Funk, and La Bamba: Antone’s Austin Blues Festival Returns to Waterloo Park

Home of the Blues revives its genre mosh nearly a quarter-century later

"...John Lee Hooker himself headlined the 1st Annual Antone's Blues Festival at Waterloo Park in 1999. Los Lobos did..."

April 30, 2023 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Redd, Write, and Blues

Interview With Louise Redd

"...childhood abuse who has an affair with an African-American blues musician, spends a weekend in the Harris County jail..."

Jan. 31, 1997 Books Feature by Barbara Strickland

Blues on the Green Postpones Zilker Park Shows

Season pulled one day out due to latest COVID-19 wave

"...Austin institution Blues on the Green announced postponement of the rest of..."

Aug. 9, 2021 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

Shooting the 'Hard Time Killing Floor Blues'

Craig Brewer on Black Snake Moan

"...Flow minus a crashing sonic background equal parts howling Delta blues, scaly king-snake preachings, and the implacable iron trust..."

March 2, 2007 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Last of the Delta Bluesmen

Pinetop Perkins goes home to Mississippi

"...the mighty Mississippi River from the mouth of the Delta up through the famed crossroads of Highway 49, into..."

April 22, 2011 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Faster Than Sound: Delta Variant Leaves Venues Between a Rock and the Governor's Orders

The latest on music hubs, festivals, and relief funding

"...you can go check out on how to handle Delta."..."

Aug. 13, 2021 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

'Honeydripper' Blues

Next-generation Austin bluesman Gary Clark Jr. relives 1950 with John Sayles' big-screen blues, Honeydripper

"...presented Gary Clark Jr. with a plaque for Best Blues Band at the 2006-07 Austin Music Awards, the three..."

Jan. 18, 2008 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Beacon Blues

Since 1970 at the One Knite, Jimmie Vaughan's worn the smile of a blues savior

"...clubs Marie's T Room and Alexander's, places where the blues was a life raft for listeners who sometimes could..."

July 16, 2010 Music Feature by Bill Bentley

Blues Lessons with Eve Monsees

Guitarist starts at Jimmy Reed and ends up in New Orleans

"...Man Records, so who better to ask for a blues lesson than Monsees? She says begin in the city..."

Dec. 3, 2015 Music Post by William Harries Graham

The Black Keys Turn Back the Clock With a Set of Raw Hill Country Blues at Mohawk

Thursday’s underplay proved more than a play-through of Delta Kream

"...That strain of trance-inducing, electric hill country blues from North Mississippi was foundational to the young Ohio..."

March 15, 2024 SXSW Post by Kevin Curtin

La Barbecue’s Supper Club, Soup Peddler’s Pride, Hatch at Central Market, Seven Deadly Sins at Higher Ground, and Everybody’s Got Those Delta Variant Blues

All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering

Aug. 6, 2021 Food Column by Wayne Alan Brenner

La Barbecue’s Supper Club, Soup Peddler’s Pride, Hatch at Central Market, Seven Deadly Sins at Higher Ground, and Everybody’s Got Those Delta Variant Blues

All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering

Aug. 4, 2021 Food Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Howlin' Wolf Does Not Wear Panties

Walter Daniels' punk blues stirs up a whole new generational ilk, like Black Joe Lewis

"...what excites him today is working with a young blues shouter named Black Joe Lewis. If it's got anything..."

Nov. 18, 2005 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

See Reverse Side for Title: Part I

If English first-wavers had trouble getting ahold of American roots music, Americans themselves weren't much better off, piecemealing together the foundations of today's national scene

"...for the Yardbirds, anywhere near as good as the Blues Project's Danny Kalb? The question may now seem ludicrous,..."

Oct. 15, 2010 Music Feature by Louis Black

Chili Cold Blood Loves You!

Black & blues cowboy metal

"...music history died with him. Widely credited with introducing Delta blues to generation ADD, Burnside's influence was both more..."

Dec. 23, 2005 Music Feature by Darcie Stevens

These American Lives

Documentarians Bradley Beesley and Sarah Price root out characters in the Mississippi Delta, the streets of Milwaukee, and, soon, summer camp in Michigan.

"...first feature documentary, 1999's Hill Stomp Hollar, about the Delta blues scene...."

March 28, 2003 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Picks & Sleepers

Sxsw

"...reason John Hammond continues telling the story of the Delta blues. With Long As I Have You coming out..."

March 20, 1998 Music Feature

Sheet Music

"...Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues By..."

May 28, 2004 Music Feature by Robert Gabriel

Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music

"...Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters..."

Dec. 5, 2008 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Lightning in a Bottle

Ostensibly a record of one mighty blues show, this film goes beyond the tag of concert film and achieves something more: a living history lesson, tracing the evolving sound of the blues.

"...go, this is heady stuff, full immersion in the blues bath via a February 2003 megaconcert at Radio City..."

Nov. 12, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Scanlines

The American Patchwork Series

"...The Land Where Blues Began: Appalachian Journey Jazz Parades: Feet Don't Fail Me..."

Oct. 10, 1997 Screens Feature

New and Noteworthy

New flavors take us to the top of the taste mountain, but also to the valley of agony and despair

"...year-round. Eat more, and tell everyone you know!Meanwhile, Austin Blues Scene Snubbed by Blue Bell, Sort of I discovered..."

June 30, 2006 Food Column by Mick Vann

Born on Highway 61

Famed superharpist James Cotton settles into Austin.

"...To say that James Cotton has the blues coursing through his veins is to overstate the obvious...."

Feb. 2, 2001 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Fun Fun Fun Fest Preview

"...sound. – Chase Hoffberger Cat Power & the Dirty Delta Blues Band..."

Nov. 2, 2007 Music Feature

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