Rich From the Journey

The crazy quilt career of Kimmie Rhodes.

"...2001. Together, they wrote and directed the musical review Hillbilly Heaven that was performed at Willie Nelson's western movie..."

Feb. 1, 2002 Music Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Waylon Jennings

Reissues

"...to Satisfy You." There's even "The Stage (Stars in Heaven)," a creepy recitation along the lines of "Hillbilly Heaven,"..."

June 21, 2002 Music Review by Jerry Renshaw

Starting Over

For Tuna creators Jaston Williams and Joe Sears, the fourth time is the charm

"...musician Kimmie Rhodes on the musicals Small Town Girl, Hillbilly Heaven, and Windblown. Williams could be seen onstage at..."

Oct. 26, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Secret History of Tuna

Tuna isn't the only Texas town with which actor-writers Jaston Williams and Joe Sears can be closely identified. Austin has played a significant role in the development of their town, and in return Sears and Williams have changed the face of the capital city.

"...Small Town Girl starring Joe Ely; co-writing the musical Hillbilly Heaven with Rhodes and directing a production featuring himself,..."

April 12, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Johnny Bush Lost Highway Saloon (Lone Star)Johnny BushJohnny Bush Sings Bob Wills (Lone Star)

"...honky-tonk fantasy about meeting the long-gone old-timers, à la "Hillbilly Heaven," the power of Bush's voice bringing it on..."

Nov. 24, 2000 Music Review by Jerry Renshaw

The Gospel of Eureka

Restore your faith in humanity with this documentary about LGTBQ acceptance in the Ozarks

"...you’re loving,” he sagely notes, adding, “We’re like a hillbilly Studio 54.”..."

March 8, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Other Janis

Saying goodbye to Janis Martin.

"...Alice would go on to play with El Vez, Hillbilly Frankenstein, and Clouseaux before she started teaching Spanish at..."

Sept. 7, 2007 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Bill Malone & Rod Moag

Record review

"...Remember Me (Hillbilly Dreams)..."

Feb. 10, 2006 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

Punky Tonk Blues

Wayne "the Train" Hancock

"...shoots back, preferring to think of himself as a "hillbilly" singer...."

Nov. 24, 1995 Music Feature

Scott H. Biram: No Regrets/Yes Regrets

Q&A about gritty bluesman’s new ‘Nothin’ But Blood’

"...recording process, considered his new tattoo, and imagined what heaven might be like...."

Feb. 4, 2014 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Thanks, Canada

Blood-soaked nights on the road to punk rock with the Krum Bums

"...to "Hotlanta." The club, the Masquerade, is two stories, Heaven and Hell. We play in Heaven, badass show with..."

July 11, 2008 Music Feature by David Rodriguez

Hey, Hey, Hey!

No. 2 hit from 1965, 'Treat Her Right,' by Roy Head & Gene Kurtz: 'Just one of them songs that hangs around"

"...such as the gator, and its double-entendre lyrics promised heaven "if you practice my method just as hard as..."

Aug. 31, 2007 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

The Pearl King

Formed through irritation, time, and friction, yet gorgeous, imperfect, and universally valued: Oliver Rajamani

"...scholarship to the Sorbonne, only to return playing devotional hillbilly music. But wait, doesn't Rajamani's family like country music?..."

May 4, 2007 Music Feature by David Lynch

High Baptismal Flow

In search of rock & roll's psychedelic pioneers, Austin's 13th Floor Elevators

"...even get to be mighty enough to fall."Kingdom of Heaven 1966 was a good year for music. The British..."

Aug. 13, 2004 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

No Law & Order

"...that reedy voice of his. He sounds like a hillbilly. Soul comes in all colors. (Hole in the Wall,..."

March 12, 1999 Music Feature

Film

Film Reviews

"...that her crazed birth parents, a pair of murdering hillbilly criminals (Carradine, Hannah), are desperate to reclaim her and..."

Sept. 15, 1995 News Feature

Willie’s Picnic Brings the Fireworks, and Beto O’Rourke, to Q2

Old Austin meets new Austin with Fourth of July Concert

"...high-holler struck more as blue-collar Appalachian than the wild-eyed hillbilly shaman from the previous times he’d visited Austin, but..."

July 5, 2022 Music Post by Doug Freeman

Top 10 Festival Films of 2017 You Haven't Seen Yet

From zombie musicals to political scandals, a bumper year

"...feature Resolution. Playing brothers who head back to the Heaven's Gate-esque cult where they grew up, the filmmaking duo..."

Jan. 1, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Dr. Lonnie Smith’s B-3 Love Affair

Getting existential with the organ’s greatest suitor

"...it’s your choice, you understand? You have rock, or hillbilly, or heavy metal, or classical, or jazz, or gospel,..."

Sept. 29, 2017 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

Bill Ham Had My Back

ZZ Top’s onetime manager made rock & roll history

"...the Elevators’ song “Reverberation (Doubt),” I was in second heaven. Now I just had to get the track from..."

June 24, 2016 Music Post by Bill Bentley

Cindy Cashdollar’s Going Away Party

Texas Guitar Women at One-2-One Bar

"...“Slideaway,” which riffs on Freddie King’s “Hideaway,” and the hillbilly swing of Moon Mullican’s “Lonesome Hearted Blues.”..."

Feb. 20, 2015 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Tuesday's Gone

On your marks, get set, Tuesday SXSW showcases!

"...and stomps, all of which explodes into a genuine hillbilly fervor onstage. – Doug Freeman The Sideshow Tragedy11pm, Headhunters..."

March 8, 2013 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Crossroads 3

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

"...Splendor incarnate, last Tuesday evening in Cleveland Heights. A hillbilly wedding in the birdsong mountains of West Virginia had..."

July 2, 2010 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Thursday Showcase Picks

SXSW Music Fest preview guide

"...like an orgy of musical Madlibs. Neo-noise tribal electro-fusion? Post-hillbilly junk punk? Psych-soul art-rock? That just about covers it...."

March 16, 2007 Music Feature

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

Saturday

"...from Austin has been cross-breeding roots-rock with a little hillbilly gas and bluesy fuel. Last year's Songs Our Vinyl..."

March 17, 2006 Music Feature

Friday Picks

SXSW picks & sleepers

"...– you'd have thought he'd died and gone to heaven. After all, how many times have you heard Se–or..."

March 18, 2005 Music Feature

King of the Hillbillies

"...bemusedly, but always affectionately, on the pulse of Appalachian hillbilly culture. One of his first films, American Junkumentary, mined..."

May 7, 1999 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Record Reviews

"...of "Falls the Shadow" is reminiscent enough of a hillbilly "Midnight Rider" that his subsequent version of the Allman..."

Nov. 27, 1998 Music Review

Moon-Shaped Panties & the Saint of White Trash

The Late Lucinda Williams

"...peering through a car window, a woman's glimpse of heaven in the way jeans hang on a man in..."

Oct. 23, 1998 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Texas Platters

"...conditions that keep you wide awake and itching. "Seventh Heaven" contrasts a foreboding bridge of drone with a glorious..."

Sept. 12, 1997 Music Review

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