The Chronicle’s Favorite Austin Albums of 2023

Ten music writers reflect on the records they loved this year

"...with Transit Damage. Consider, too, that ringmaster Kevin Russell's Gourds logged back-to-back decades of Band-like roots mastery before the..."

Dec. 15, 2023 Music Feature by Carys Anderson

Listen to This: The Push & Shove Takes a Big Rock Swig With “These Times”

Venue and beverage scene vets unite for debut LP The Rookie

"...and Claude Bernard (formerly of the Damnations and the Gourds, respectively); drummer Bill Corsello, who has served as GM..."

June 2, 2023 Music Post by Doug Freeman

This Thanksgiving, Consider Native American-Inspired Dishes

Cooking with Indigenous ingredients

"...importantly, the Three Sisters: corn (maize), squash (pumpkins and gourds), and beans. The trifecta of crops is symbiotic: Beans..."

Nov. 18, 2022 Food Feature by Jessi Cape

Heavy With Tradition, Old Settler's Music Festival Springs Eternal

We talk to Sierra Hull and spotlight favorites for next week’s campout

"...done a dozen Old Sett's between Shinyribs and the Gourds. Peter Rowan has enchanted at 15 – that's tradition...."

April 15, 2022 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

We Have an Issue: Welcome to the Drinks Issue

Beer rankings, women with spirit, and guys with great wives

"...I think it turned out beautifully, though I suspect gourds are not going to be Zeke's preferred canvas going..."

Oct. 15, 2021 Column by Kimberley Jones

Pumpkin Nights Takes the Humble Jack-o’-Lantern to New, Magical Grandeur

Not your grandma's pumpkin patch

"...while also trying to source all the new carvable gourds they need. That's a challenge in itself: Real pumpkins..."

Oct. 8, 2021 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

Faster Than Sound: Love Wheel Records Rolls In

Austin music mainstay Mike Nicolai retails vinyl and Indoor Creature parties at the Ballroom

"...with artists like the Replacements' Slim Dunlap and the Gourds over decades of clever, weathered musicianship at the edges..."

June 18, 2021 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Checking in With Area Musicians Yielded 80,000 Words of Pandemic Realness

Stay TF home

"...months and approximately 80,404 words later – the onetime Gourds-ian knot both christening the exclusively online series and drawing..."

Jan. 22, 2021 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Checking In (Again): Kevin Russell Hasn’t Wavered Amidst the Great Wall of Empty Time

Shinyribs Santa closes the questionnaire circle on No. 100

"...it would be fun to have my old friend, Gourds manager and founding Shinyribs bassist Mike “Stewball” Stewart, take..."

Dec. 22, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Faster Than Sound's Musical Top 10s of 2020

Eleven lists of Austin's best releases, theme songs, livestreams, creative pivots and more.

"...8) Out of Our Gourds: An Evening of Music for the Unwashed and Well-Read..."

Dec. 18, 2020 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Music Industry Rally Called for Monday at City Hall

Advocates turn up the volume for dedicated music funding

"...Council.” Kevin Russell, frontman of Shinyribs and, formerly the Gourds, is one of three musicians slated to speak at..."

Sept. 26, 2020 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Faster Than Sound – Austin Radio: “We Never Stopped or Went Off the Air”

Austin radio stations stay on-air and spirited during COVID-19

"...Vaughan, Christopher Cross, Joe Ely, Kelly Willis, and the Gourds...."

May 8, 2020 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Checking In: Shinyribs’ Frontman Kevin Russell Keeps His Fingers Crossed & Washed

Concern in a quarantine for Austin’s pied pipers

"...late Eighties and early Nineties, which led to my Gourds era stuff. I wasn’t so keen on sharing that..."

March 27, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Austin Music Yearbook: Can You Name These Musicians?

"...Kevin Russell of Shinyribs and the Gourds..."

Aug. 29, 2019 Photo Gallery

Get the Band Back Together

"...living being that can arrange and host a 12-night GOURDS reunion run. Hell, call them Ants on the Melon..."

June 4, 2019 Postmarks

Greezy Wheels Take a Last Bow

Still Greezy after all these years

"...by Greezy Wheels, from the irreverent roots of the Gourds and Bad Livers to the stringing sting of Weary..."

June 23, 2017 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

In With the Old, in With the New

An epic Saturday at Old Settler’s

"...mandatory festival booking since Russell’s previous OSMF favorites the Gourds broke up, the Austin eightpiece hulks superhuman at their..."

April 24, 2017 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Austin Music Awards Hall of Fame Inductees 1983-2016

Never before published list of all Austin Music Awards Hall of Fame inductees

"...Gourds (14)..."

March 3, 2017 Features Feature

Music Covers

"...The Gourds Sept. 23, 2011..."

March 1, 2017 Photo Gallery

Shinyribs

"...hootenanny of patriarch Kevin Russell's previous fire drill, the Gourds. Recorded at Houston's landmark Sugar Hill Studios with Oxford,..."

Feb. 24, 2017 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Dear Glutton: Where to Eat Before a Halloween Party

In search of a respectable dinner before a night of costumed buffoonery

"...will light a candle, throw a couple of decorative gourds on the table, and call it a day, but..."

Oct. 28, 2016 Food Column by Emily Beyda

Playback: Spring Festival Season Evolves

Storms can halt an already truncated spring festival season

"...the stage like a Southern-fried James Brown. The former Gourds singer had the fest so riled up that emcee..."

April 22, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

HAAM Sampler

Health Alliance for Austin Musicians benefit day donations

"...more, one right after the other – the former Gourds co-leader staged a shamanistic master class on melting pot..."

Sept. 2, 2015 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Shinyribs

"...but it's the first since Austin root supergroup the Gourds went on hiatus in 2013. Their co-frontman Kevin Russell..."

May 22, 2015 Music Review by Doug Freeman

Old Settler's Music Festival Blurbs

OSMF baubles by blurb.

"...Pausing two decades for "Gin and Juice" with the Gourds, the twang twister now fronts Shinyribs' highly charged Americana...."

April 17, 2015 Music Feature

Firefighters Box Cops for Charity

Local law enforcement got their proverbial asses whupped Saturday night at Austin's inaugural Battle of the Badges

"...as cowgirls so they could mockingly dance to the Gourds' cover of iconic gangster rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg's "Gin..."

July 18, 2014 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Rock-'Em-Sock-'Em Hotshots

Firefighters box cops for charity in 'Battle of the Badges'

"...cowgirls so that they could mockingly dance to the Gourds’ cover of iconic gangster rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg’s “Gin..."

July 14, 2014 News Post by Chase Hoffberger

Groover's Paradise

The Hole in the Wall has seen it all

"...Universe, Stretford, Damnations TX, Li'l Cap'n Travis, and the Gourds...."

June 20, 2014 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Margaret Moser Plaza

"...Gourds/Shinyribs frontman Kevin Russell..."

May 16, 2014 Photo Gallery

Playback: Margaret Moser Retires

'Chronicle' Senior Music writer Margaret Moser retires after 33 years on the beat

"...in our discussion of Austin bands and her recent Gourds cover story, I confided my aspirations of being a..."

May 16, 2014 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

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