Democrats and Their Campaign Teams Train Up to Turn Texas Blue

The Texas Democratic Party focuses on flipping the state as early as 2020

"...Sitting next to Payne was Etta Jones, an STM participant from the Dallas area who..."

Sept. 20, 2019 News Feature by Roxy Bonafont

'Mojo' Recommends

British picks for SXSW by 'Mojo' Editor-in-Chief Phil Alexander

"...no, no!" sings Winehouse, coming on like a latter-day Etta Jones against a deep funk groove provided by the..."

March 16, 2007 Music Feature

Ray Brown Trio Christmas Songs (Telarc)

Xmas Records

"...Town" deadpans the jolly right out of there, and Etta Jones' "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear" won't make..."

Dec. 24, 1999 Music Review by Christopher Hess

Summertime Blues

Auditioning for the blues – at band camp!

"...turn themselves into the 2012 performing band of Fernando Jones' Blues Camp. Say Your Name..."

June 22, 2012 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Spinning Yarns

Tracing generations' worth of jazz and R&B history through the Texas Trumpets

"...horn veterans -- with musical pedigrees including Joe Tex, Etta James, Otis Redding, Count Basie, and even the Motown..."

Nov. 19, 1999 Music Feature by Jerry Renshaw

Strawberry Letter 23

Cult soulman/guitarist Shuggie Otis returns from decades of mystery

"...R&B star, TV host, deejay, bandleader, and producer for Etta James, Little Richard, Big Mama Thornton, and more...."

July 10, 2015 Music Feature by Thomas Fawcett

The Rock Pile

"...The King of Western Swing: Bob Wills Remembered by Rosetta Wills Billboard Books, $21.95 hard..."

Dec. 4, 1998 Books Feature by Margaret Moser

Please Kill Me and other ROCK & ROLL BOOKS of 1996

"...sun is about to pass.) This also explains that jones for documentation, as punk rock's as much an ongoing..."

Dec. 6, 1996 Books Feature

Critics Poll

"...Dick Clark, Brent Grulke, Levon Helm, Davy Jones (Caligiuri)..."

Jan. 4, 2013 Music Feature

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

The Hot Sauce Fest, a Love & Lightstream, and more sounds to check

"..."Amigas de Corazon" in Austin, Tish Hinojosa, Stephanie Urbina Jones, and Patricia Vonne whip up an eponymous full-length debut..."

Aug. 28, 2020 Music Feature by Derek Udensi

1995 Austin Critics' Table Nominations

"...Jill Parker-Jones, Lost in Yonkers..."

May 12, 1995 Arts Feature

SXSW Adds Ho99o9, Kikuo, Sofia Kourtesis to 2024 Music Lineup

243 artists make up the festival’s second artist announcement

"...Teenage Sequence, as well as Garland actor-turned-musician Caleb Landry Jones, round out the Texas section of the bill...."

Dec. 6, 2023 Music Post by Carys Anderson

One Night With Janis Joplin

Zach makes this soulful portrait of the blues-rock queen an exhilarating concert that'll have you on your feet

"...and an energetic trio of "Joplinaires" (Felicia Dinwiddie, Tricky Jones, and Janis understudy Cari Hutson), playwright/director Randy Johnson throws..."

Aug. 2, 2013 Arts Review by Jillian Owens

Stronger With Each Tear: Mary J. Blige

Soul queen slays the Moody Theater

"...Joe Armstrong. Not quite as riot-gear ready as Norah Jones at the miniscule Clay Pit during SXSW 2002, but..."

March 1, 2013 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Austin City Limits: 35 Years in Photographs

Thirty-five years of Austin City Limits images of course equals 35,000 words

"...Vista Social Club pianist Ruben Gonzalez grinning after an unforgettable 2001 taping lenses a stolen shot quality, like the..."

Oct. 1, 2010 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Aural History

Hannibal Lokumbe and his trumpet stand at the crossroads of jazz, blues, and Jimi Hendrix

"...and mother-sanctioned weekends touring Texas with Otis Redding and Etta James when he was 14. "He had these beautiful..."

Feb. 12, 2010 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Steve Van Zandt’s Soulfire

Springsteen henchman and Sopranos boss hits the road and classrooms

"...put together for the blues festival. I liked the Etta James song [“Blues is My Business”] and found a..."

May 24, 2018 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Austin Film Festival Full Slate

Marquee names include Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, Patton Oswalt

"...a string of Steven Spielberg projects (including the Indiana Jones movies), Marshall will be presenting his new documentary Finding..."

Sept. 14, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Friday Picks and Sleepers

"...chanteuse Jenny O. Automechanic lightly, brightly updates Rickie Lee Jones and Joni Mitchell, mixing in a dash of Indigo..."

March 15, 2013 Music Feature

Crossroads 3

I went up to the Crossroads – and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame – fell down on my knees

"...montage, iconic images of Bill Monroe, Manu Chao, and Etta James vs. clips of Roy Orbison, the Flaming Lips..."

July 2, 2010 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

TCB

SXSW News

"...Stone, with Robert Randolph, Rufus Wainwright, and maybe Norah Jones and the White Stripes to follow. Not that it..."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Jimmy Smith

"...virtually off limits to instrumentalists. B.B. King, Taj Mahal, Etta James, Dr. John, and Keb' Mo' are all staples..."

Jan. 19, 2001 Music Review by Jay Trachtenberg

Sea Cruise

Sailing into the sunset on Delbert McClinton's Blues Crusie.

"...Sonny Landreth, Al Anderson, Jimmy Hall, Wayne Toups, Lloyd Jones, Tommy Castro, Anson Funderburgh, and Kenny Wayne Shepherd. Unannounced..."

Feb. 4, 2000 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Live Shots

"...Niemeyer viscerally acting out the song with keyboardist Katey Jones, who appeared happy to oblige. The local quintet's kooky..."

Nov. 6, 1998 Music Feature

Dancing About Architecture

Heaven's Got a Helluva Band...

"...Janis Joplin -- Blues Down Deep are performances by Etta James, Koko Taylor, Tracy Nelson, and Lou Ann Barton...."

May 9, 1997 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Texas Platters

"...aren't this in tune. Definite debt to Billie Holiday, Etta James, and Angela Strehli, but that's no surprise. Nothing..."

April 11, 1997 Music Review

Texas Piano Professors

"...Austin's premiere jazz divas: Pam Hart, Hope Morgan, LaDonna Jones, and Willie Nicholson. Turn the love light low. RETARTED..."

Sept. 15, 1995 Music Feature

Dancing About Architecture

"...beginning of August with the likes of King and Etta James, and which should roll through Austin in September...."

July 21, 1995 Music Column by Ken Lieck