Beyond the Horizon with Denny Freeman

Austin lodestar offered the theories of life through a guitar

"...of the great ones don’t need a lot of words. Maybe that’s because language takes up a lot of..."

April 27, 2021 Music Post by Bill Bentley

The Ransom Center's "Vaudeville!"

This exhibition reveals how the history of that entertainment form is really the history of the U.S.

"...stage plays and other pernicious amusements of the like kind.") It took the nation's first great huckster, P.T. Barnum,..."

June 8, 2018 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Music Lover's Guide to Austin

The essential sounds, sights, and settings of Austin music

"...a T-shirt. Several businesses renting the space have been kind enough not to take it down, including the Asian..."

March 3, 2017 Chronolog Post

Book Review: 'The Last Kind Words Saloon'

Jes' Wyatt and Doc and the setting sun in McMurtry's latest

"...tall as the Wild West’s tales. His latest, The Last Kind Words Saloon, takes a different approach. It’s pared..."

May 22, 2014 Books Post by Jessi Cape

Nacho Daddy

What do Michael Jackson and Manu Chao have in common? Joe King Carrasco.

"...above the heads of patrons at the Soap Creek Saloon waiting to hear Doug Sahm one night in 1976...."

Jan. 25, 2013 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

The Yassine Sixth Street Noir

Legends, rumors, unpaid taxes ... and coke on the side

"...theatre, he lurched from war hero to felon to saloon owner to wanted murderer to peace officer. In more..."

May 18, 2012 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Circle Sky

For your resident Head, the Monkees' Michael Nesmith still lassos 'Circle Sky' country-rock

"...newspaper advance of the latter occasion – at the Last Day Saloon in San Francisco on Feb. 8, 1992..."

Feb. 18, 2011 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Letters at 3AM: The 'Austin Sun' Gets Hung

Old Austin Sun writers may have expected to hang, but not in a museum

"...finally, destroys memory, leaving in its place a bright plastic artifact that pretends to be one's past. Not that..."

Sept. 10, 2010 Column by Michael Ventura

Please, Judge

Roky Erickson's first studio album in over a decade proves Will Sheff and Okkervil River's genius once again

"...a guitar solo during "The Beast" at Soap Creek Saloon in 1981; and most importantly, the sound of what..."

April 16, 2010 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Off the Record

Slow, Stoned, Rugged: A tribute to Austin's original cosmic soulman Rusty Wier

"...He understood the craft of songwriting. He didn't waste words. He'd cut right to it."..."

Oct. 16, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

The Cowboy Song

Thin Lizzy's 'Cowboy Song' comes alive in rodeo vet turned Red Dirt ranger Ryan Bingham

"...It's a smoldering summer night in Marfa, the kind that seems to linger all year long. The sign..."

June 5, 2009 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Last Call With Lou

Remembering actor Lou Perryman

"...You can spill a lot of kind words on the life and times of actor Lou..."

April 10, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Off the Record

Diving into Club 1808, the Real Heroes' Chinese democracy, and Ray Benson on Willie, Wexler, and the Wheel

"...Last of the Breed..."

Feb. 6, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

Coach's Corner

In a Vail sports bar, Coach once again meets up with his old pal Cedrick Trout, and the mad-dog Raiders fan isn't in a good mood.

"...I entered the West Vail bar, the Dancing Bear Saloon, with some trepidation. It's a frigid January night, but..."

Jan. 25, 2002 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Mountain Style

Chatting with Dr. Ralph Stanley, a pioneer of bluegrass music before there was such a thing

"...in the future. Though not a man of many words, he was humble, professional, and kind, the simple power..."

Nov. 30, 2001 Music Feature by Kim Mellen

For the Good Times

The Life and Times of Texas country crooner, Ray Price.

"...the house. The old building was packed to the last row of the highest balcony, mainly with the forty-,..."

Sept. 1, 2000 Music Feature by David Cantwell

Dancing About Architecture

Collapsing Beams at the Mercury, Asleep at the Wheel Beams into Your Home, SXSW Marches On

"...larger home above Jazz in what was known during last year's South by Southwest music festival as the Bon..."

Feb. 4, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

A Walking Contradiction

Exploring the legacy of one of Austin's great, unsung singer-songwriters, Blaze Foley

"...living writing songs in Nashville, but those weren't the kind of songs he wanted to write. There's a gritty..."

Dec. 24, 1999 Music Feature by Lee Nichols

Life A.D.

Former Austin Sun writer Bill Bentley says a prayer for Doug Sahm

"...died to NPR's Morning Edition program, and the first words I heard were, "The flags are flying at half..."

Nov. 26, 1999 Music Feature by Bill Bentley

The Mother of All Texas Honky-Tonks

A look back at the Mother of All Texas Honky-Tonks

"...Bare, all taken from the club's stageside 24-track. Followed last month with live performances from Mickey Gilley and Johnny..."

Oct. 15, 1999 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Rock Around the Biological Clock

Yes Sir, That's My Baby

"...perform up to the eighth month. One of the last things I did was sing the National Anthem at..."

May 7, 1999 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

1999 SXSW Music Festival

"..."modern rock" bands, Spoon delivers the goods live, and last year's dynamic A Series of Sneaks (Elektra) proved they've..."

March 19, 1999 Music Feature

A World in Which All Worlds Fit

"...Thoroughly respectable, in other words, and the country gentlemen in attendance saw no reason..."

Dec. 4, 1998 Music Feature by Jay Hardwig

Roots, Reckonings, and Resolutions

Roots

"..."He was the kind of person you could give an instrument to, and..."

Nov. 27, 1998 Music Feature by Jay Hardwig

Dancing About Architecture

Where There's a Williams, There's a Way

"...they're also what Kamburis sadly refers to as the "last big blast" for such shows at the venue. No,..."

Sept. 18, 1998 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Hot Line to Jesus

Edison's Speaking Phonograph

"...installed the first coin-operated phonograph in his Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco. There were no amplified speakers on..."

Aug. 28, 1998 Music Feature by Jay Hardwig

Texas Platters

"...oughta be just a little nervous at the way "Kind of Green" shuffles into his old barroom turf. The..."

June 5, 1998 Music Review

The Winter Classic

South by Southwest 1998

"...is that he's a man out of time, the last novelty act of the century or perhaps ever. When..."

March 27, 1998 Music Feature

The Waterloo Brewing Company & American Grill

"...Duck Pub, has been one of the most successful saloon keepers in the city for the last two decades...."

Nov. 14, 1997 Food Feature

That Old Revival Spirit

Testifying About Movies

"...moments - the usual. And it all works, every last second. Still, the real reason to see this 1937..."

June 13, 1997 Screens Feature

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