Margaret Moser Tribute: Joe Doerr

Pulling out a seat at Austin music’s banquet table

"...Brothers at that point even though my brother Steve [Doerr] and Mike Buck were campaigning for me to be..."

June 30, 2017 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

The Devil, You Say!

Accidental Russian tourist stars in Churchwood video

"...program that came bundled on my computer,” laughs singer/lyricist Joe Doerr about Churchwood’s lo-fi video of “I Have the..."

Aug. 23, 2013 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Reservoir Dogs

Churchwood's Beefheart blues

"...us. Or rather, five fearless local veterans: Bill Anderson, Joe Doerr, Julien Peterson, Adam Kahan, and Billysteve Korpi. Their..."

Aug. 23, 2013 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Playback: Mother Falcon’s Major Label Deal That Wasn’t

Mother Falcon signs to Universal and seconds later terminates the contract

"...Joe Doerr isn't just a lead singer, currently fronting Churchwood..."

Dec. 9, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Check This Action

The LeRoi Brothers at 30

"...Don Leady (later of the Tail Gators), guitarist Steve Doerr, and bassist Alex Napier (now deceased), the LeRois have..."

May 11, 2011 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Poison 13, Meat Purveyors, and Churchwood Guitarist Bill Anderson Loads Out of Town

If not for Austin, “I don’t know if I would have been a musician at all”

"...“I fuckin’ loved them! Steve Doerr was my hero,” Anderson gushes. “If there was any..."

March 29, 2021 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Song Premiere: Churchwood’s “Triptych”

Seventh son island soul drone

"...Singer Joe Doerr, a distinguished poet and professor at St. Edward’s..."

Sept. 2, 2014 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Playback: FREE WEEK!

2014, you're up

"...Songwriter: Joe Doerr (Churchwood)..."

Jan. 3, 2014 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...and Billysteve Korpi, bassist Adam Kahan, and firebrand mouthpiece Joe Doerr, but Plenty Wrong to Go Awry on perennial..."

Oct. 16, 2020 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Churchwood

"...be damned, set the sails to wind!" So rumbles Joe Doerr, Leroi Brother and college poetry professor, on "Keels..."

May 24, 2013 Music Review by Kevin Curtin

If I Had My Way

Guitar hero Evan Johns lives!

"...he was a wild man onstage," says LeRoi's singer Joe Doerr about the group hiring Johns on the eve..."

Sept. 28, 2012 Music Feature by Michael Corcoran

Doing the Continental

The LeRoi Brothers and Pat MacDonald at the Continental.

"...rock like it was 1982. That’s partly because Steve Doerr and Mike Buck have held the guitar and drums..."

Aug. 1, 2007 Music Post by Margaret Moser

100 Local SXSW Music Acts

A-Z list of 100 Austin acts showcasing at the Fest

"...and Billysteve Korpi summon Beefheart-style desert visions, while vocalist/professor Joe Doerr makes language eat its own tail. Fourth album..."

March 17, 2017 Music Feature by The Music Staff

Thursday Picks & Sleepers

SXSW Thursday handicapping by the blurb

"...spurts a mind-opening mix of wisdom and absurdity. Vocalist Joe Doerr is an English professor at St. Edward's University..."

March 20, 2015 Music Feature

SXSW Friday Picks & Sleepers

Friday night blurbage of SXSW

"...Byrds and Johnny Cash to the LeRoi Brothers and Joe Ely, master pianist Earl Poole Ball & the Cosmic..."

March 18, 2011 Music Feature

Sad Stories and Steel Guitars

Tearjoint Troubador Ted Roddy's Country Soul

"...of doing songs written by his friends, as with Joe Dickens' "I Like Whiskey" and Homer Henderson's "Beer Cans..."

Nov. 10, 2000 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

What We're Listening to This Week

Christeene, the Bad Lovers, and Churchwood in this week's worthwhile listens

"...Louisiana swamp rock, and whatever mystic potion published poet Joe Doerr introduces, 6: The Boule Oui shows the 'Wood..."

Dec. 16, 2022 Music Column by Genevieve Wood

99 Austin Acts at SXSW Music

Support the home team!

"...2016's fourth LP Hex City boosted production and boasted Joe Doerr's most trenchant Dadaist growlings to date. If "One..."

March 16, 2018 Music Feature

Seduced by Sound: Austin

Seduced by Sound: Austin – 100 Musicians on Why They Make Music

"...Joe Doerr, scholarly mouthpiece for Churchwood and LeRoi Bros., details..."

Dec. 9, 2016 Music Review by Kevin Curtin

Churchwood

"...odyssey to make "lead," "rhythm," and "fill" irrelevant. Belter Joe Doerr somehow makes his relentless barrage of lyrics not..."

Nov. 25, 2016 Music Review by Michael Toland

Playback: Your Austin Music Poll Ballot

Armadillos for sale, Free Week, and an Austin Music Poll primer

"...Male Vocals: Joe Doerr..."

Jan. 9, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Churchwood

Heaping helping of high-profile local LPs

"...alt-rock, Churchwood remains a band Austin deserves. Poetry professor Joe Doerr channels his wordplay through gravel-gargling magnificence. Based in..."

Oct. 31, 2014 Music Review by Michael Toland

Playback: Forty Nights

Forty nights of live music? Piece of cake.

"...Friedman, Angele Stavron, as well as guest musicians including Joe Doerr, Texacala Jones, Jo Walston, Jesse Sublett, Billy Steve..."

July 11, 2014 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

7&7 Is

7&7 Is

"...catchy flipside, "Better Daze," Trent Reznor enslaved by Billy Joel. Band of Mercy's baby-shit brown vinyl Conquest (Metastasis Records)..."

May 25, 2012 Music Review by Kevin Curtin

Churchwood

Misc 101

"...It's rude, literate, bilingual, unpredictable, and addictive. LeRoi Brothers' Joe Doerr throws his Wolf growl into the gutbucket mix..."

May 13, 2011 Music Review by Margaret Moser

Dead Man Walking

The extraordinary new opera Dead Man Walking takes its audience on a journey from a place of horror and abhorrence to one of comprehension and compassion, a place where we may see the humanity of a murderer, and in Austin Lyric Opera's potent production we feel each step taken on its long and stony way.

"...that it leaves no room to feel sympathy for Joe De Rocher, the man wielding the knife. Witnessing it,..."

Jan. 17, 2003 Arts Review by Robert Faires

HOF Hopefuls

"...Nelson, George Rains, Layton DePenning, Tailgators, Don Leady, Steve Doerr, Jackie Newhouse, Freddie Pharaoh, Little Joe Hernández, Alan Haynes,..."

March 13, 2017 Postmarks

Dancing About Architecture

House of Blues breaks ground at Southpark Meadows where the old stage will be replaced, but not before Willie Nelson's Fourth of July Picnic.

"...including Asleep at the Wheel, Shelby Lynne, Susan Tedeschi, Joe Ely, the Geezinslaws, Kimmie Rhodes, Cadillac Voodoo Choir, David..."

June 9, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck