Heybale! / The Cornell Hurd Band

Texas Platters

"..."Honky Tonk Revisited," the all-star Austin quintet featuring pianist Earl Poole Ball, standup bassist Kevin Smith, red-hot pickers Gary..."

May 30, 2003 Music Review by Margaret Moser

TCB

Austin (and its Music Network) will endure, Scandinavia and Interpol invade, and local alt-rock is sweeter than ever on Ear Candy.

"...Lone Star songwriting legends like Billy Joe Shaver, Robert Earl Keen, Lyle Lovett, some guy named Willie, and the..."

Feb. 21, 2003 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Tracks of My Tears

A new documentary, Standing in the Shadows of Motown, signs a light on the men behind the Motown sound, the Funk Brothers.

"...Shakespearian rise and demise (label patriarch Berry Gordy as King Lear), suffered his own inglorious curtain call. As re-enacted..."

Nov. 15, 2002 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Dancing About Architecture

Mars Music store goes the way of Halley's Comet.

"...you wonder," Files bailed out of the Mars ship early and opened his own shop a couple of weeks..."

Nov. 1, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Dancing About Architecture

Another festival weekend, this time jazz; plus Mars Music not going under, and Bill Hicks -- still dead, more CDs.

"...Texas, on Saturday, where the brewery will feature Robert Earl Keen, Collective Soul, the Great Divide, Derailers, Patrice Pike,..."

Oct. 18, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Naked City

"...does not end my advocacy," she said. "I'm just taking it to a different level."..."

Feb. 15, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple

Dancing About Architecture

Butthole Surfers and Austin City Limits suffer set backs while Riverfest marches on.

"...actually happened! Beerland opened last week -- a day early, in fact, if you can really call it that..."

June 29, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Day Trips

"...will be a chance to see the tools of moviemaking. Those that view the Star Wars series simply as..."

March 16, 2001 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...local alt.scene of the mid-Eighties. No matter, Seaman's been making "New Sincerity" sounds ever since, his latest venture taking..."

March 16, 2001 Music Feature

How Robin Got His Groove Back

Musicologist Gillian Anderson has come to the rescue of Robin Hood, taking the 1922 Douglas Fairbanks film Robin Hood and restoring its original score. It's one of two dozen films from the earliest era of motion pictures for which Anderson has recovered, restored, or reconstructed the scores.

"...is one of some two dozen films from the earliest era of motion pictures for which Anderson has recovered,..."

Jan. 12, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Redd Light Special

One right fine Tele-pickin' dude

"...pastures in Alberta, playing in a three-piece band and making a living with the instrument until moving to Southern..."

Nov. 10, 2000 Music Feature by Jerry Renshaw

Dancing About Architecture

The Austin Music Network changes administrations once again.

"...destruction of the Austin Music Network and just started making the rounds. Well, mere weeks ago, Austin Music Commission..."

Nov. 3, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Dancing About Architecture

Microradio back in Austin, Fortune 500 gone.

"...Michael Jackson, because in his own words, he's the "King of Pop," not rock & roll (and besides, he..."

Oct. 20, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Radio, Radio

Satellite radio, the burgeoning technology that may ultimately shake up the broadcast world the most, is right around the corner.

"...cut through the static on AM car radios and Earl and Leroy could listen to it in their pickups..."

Oct. 6, 2000 Music Feature by Jerry Renshaw

Bill & Bonnie Hearne Watching Life Through a Windshield (Back Porch)

Texas Platters

"...Windshield (Back Porch) Bill and Bonnie Hearne have been making music for more than 30 years and show no..."

Sept. 29, 2000 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

Junior Brown, Heybale: Continental Club, August 20

"...ever, rolling his eyes back in his head and making that face like he was chewing on something unpleasant...."

Sept. 1, 2000 Music Review by Jerry Renshaw

Bibliomania

Books We Love and a Few Books We Don't

"...that would include Terry Southern, Robert Sherrill, Larry. L. King, and Dave Hickey. 4. Selected works by Charles Portis..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Books Feature

Rock & Roll Books

Any Old Way You Choose It

"...City Limits"), Lightnin' Hopkins, Ray Charles, Fats Domino, B.B. King, and the time an errant rat blacked out one-third..."

Dec. 31, 1999 Books Feature by Christopher Gray

Dancing About Architecture

Liberty Lunch is finally reduced to dust bin debris even as Mueller Airport hosts the "Airport Rave" and some 6,000 attendees, one of which was NOT Biz Markie, who was a no-show. Who says there are no more live music venues in Austin. Once-local guitarist Evan Johns hospitalized in DC with severe liver problems, just as Bad Livers finish recording a new album. Ken Lieck, King of the Segue.

"...Austin, coming next spring, but other than saying he's looking at a couple of locations (not including Mueller Airport),..."

Oct. 8, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Live Shots

Dianne Reeves, Pam Hart/Austin Music Festival

"...which this year marked a decade of divaship by booking its most expensive and high-profile headliner yet, Dianne Reeves...."

June 18, 1999 Music Feature

Record Reviews

Ibrahim Ferrer

"...had much of an effect on European society, while nearly all the Rock En Español bands were influenced by..."

June 11, 1999 Music Review

Dancing About Architecture

Jazzin' (But Not for Blue Jeans)

"...cognac joint that owner Spiros Karamelegos freely admits is looking to cater to Austin's nouveau mover 'n' shaker set;..."

May 21, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Day Dream

"...and deep "heh heh heh" at the memory. He's talking about the time he spent in New York City..."

April 30, 1999 Music Feature by Christopher Hess

Book Reviews

"...books indicate that McMurtry is indeed alive and well, tracking the lives of his own fictional creations and one..."

Feb. 19, 1999 Books Review

Dancing About Architecture

We Control the Horizontal, We Control the Southwest:

"...the 'ville realized that the directions the band was taking didn't necessarily fit their individual visions, and so it..."

Nov. 13, 1998 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Lyle Lovett

"...tucked under a backwards gimme cap. He holds an early pressing of his new 2-CD set, Step Inside This..."

Sept. 11, 1998 Music Feature by Jody Denberg

Scanlines

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

"...Hayden, George C. Scott, Slim Pickens, Keenan Wynn, James Earl Jones..."

Aug. 28, 1998 Screens Feature

Day Trips

"...alarm had gone off. There he stood with a smoking newspaper torch, his pants at his ankles, and a..."

Aug. 21, 1998 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Recommended

"...showcase, while local punk label Peek-a-Boo Records will be kicking ass at the Bates Motel. Austin indie Watermelon Records..."

March 20, 1998 Music Feature

A Chip off the Auld Sod

Off the Bookshelf

"...time in Ireland. Consequently his major influences include the early Samuel Beckett and Flann O'Brien. He's 46 now, so..."

Oct. 24, 1997 Books Review

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