Faster Than Sound: Headlines From a Year in Limbo

A year-in-review of Austin music news

"...blues guitarist Denny Freeman, esteemed folk and country song-crafter Nanci Griffith, poignant punk musician Brandon Hamilton, generous ABGB co-founder..."

Dec. 31, 2021 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Old Austin Magic: Uncle Walt’s Band Live

Performance archive reissued with bonus tracks

"...everyone from Lyle Lovett and Jerry Jeff Walker to Nanci Griffith and Jimmie Dale Gilmore...."

Jan. 18, 2021 Music Post by Doug Freeman

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

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

"...ringing with a calm hearkening to Emmylou Harris and Nanci Griffith. Narratives of domestic struggle, abuse, endurance, and want..."

Aug. 28, 2020 Music Feature by Derek Udensi

Faster Than Sound: Austin Terror Fest Crosses Over

Two birthdays and a dark christening

"...with people like Townes Van Zandt, Blaze Foley, and Nanci Griffith," explains Minor. "It followed the energy of the..."

June 14, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Uncle Walt’s Band

"...plenty of fans arguing the former, like Lyle Lovett, Nanci Griffith, and Jimmie Dale Gilmore, all of whom gleaned..."

April 6, 2018 Music Review by Doug Freeman

Playback: Best Austin Music Controversies of 2017

The year in quarrel

"...songs were recorded by Johnny Cash, Guy Clark, and Nanci Griffith, died Saturday at age 75...."

Dec. 22, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Blaze Foley's Lost Muscle Shoals Recordings

Cult songman keeps thwarting his own success – even posthumously

"...death, covers have transpired from John Prine, Lyle Lovett, Nanci Griffith, Avett Brothers, and Ryan Bingham. Foley even inspired..."

May 5, 2017 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Jim Caligiuri Exit Interview

Ten minutes, 20 questions, and 20-plus years of Americana chronicles

"...Nanci Griffith 2005 cover story..."

April 13, 2017 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Guy Clark Biographer Tamara Saviano

“He shared things with me he didn’t share with other people”

"...Seventies, but in the mid-Eighties when Lyle [Lovett] and Nanci [Griffith] and those people were coming up, Steve Earle..."

March 30, 2017 Music Post by Doug Freeman

35 Years of the Austin Music Awards

Living in a dream

"...1990’s more acoustic turn rounded up Townes Van Zandt, Nanci Griffith, and James McMurtry. All that and Daniel Johnston..."

March 3, 2017 Features Feature by Doug Freeman

Austin Music Awards Hall of Fame Inductees 1983-2016

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

"...Nanci Griffith (95)..."

March 3, 2017 Features Feature

Music Covers

"...Nanci Griffith photo by Señor McGuire Feb. 25, 2005..."

March 1, 2017 Photo Gallery

Page Two – BFI: Blaze Foley Inside

11 verses in search of a song

"...artists covering Foley's songs, which already includes Lyle Lovett, Nanci Griffith, Merle Haggard, Joe Nichols, Lee Ann Womack, the..."

Oct. 14, 2016 Column by Louis Black

Adult Audio Coloring Book Sampler

A look back at illustrated album covers old and new

"...eventually grace albums by Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris, and Nanci Griffith. – Doug Freeman Jimmy CliffStruggling Man (1973)..."

July 29, 2016 Music Feature by Michael Toland

Laughing It Up with Kelly Willis

Well Travelled and lovely still a quarter-century down the road

"...out of the earliest days of South by Southwest. Nanci Griffith, already an MCA act, sang Willis’ praises. Suddenly,..."

Jan. 29, 2016 Music Post by William Harries Graham

Sarah Pierce

"...A tranquil listen comparable to early Nanci Griffith, the eighth album from Sarah Pierce strikes pay..."

Dec. 4, 2015 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

Playback: Hole Lotta Rent

The historic Hole in the Wall is in danger of closing. So who's to blame?

"...The statement portrayed HITW as a financial underachiever and Tanner as doing a poor job of..."

Sept. 18, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Carson McHone Record Review

Goodluck Man (Good Horse)

"...Girl" reveals something deeper, however, echoing Emmylou Harris and Nanci Griffith in the soft, wistful portrait that McHone paints...."

July 31, 2015 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

We're Not Like Everybody Else

The 2014-15 Austin Music Awards, an alumni free-for-all

"...state and local standards as the elders once did; Nanci Griffith decades ago at the Hole in the Wall,..."

March 13, 2015 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Stephen Doster

"...work with Bill Carter, Will Sexton, Lyle Lovett, and Nanci Griffith, or from compositions he's had cut by Willie..."

Nov. 21, 2014 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

Groover's Paradise

The Hole in the Wall has seen it all

"..."Nanci Griffith came in and asked to play," remembers Cugini...."

June 20, 2014 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

30 Years of AMA Performer Highlights

"...Nanci Griffith..."

March 14, 2014 Music Feature

Passionate Kisses

2013/2014 Austin Music Awards: Lucinda Williams plants one on Margaret Moser

"...triumphs? Like Paul Ray mis-announcing the Crickets instead of Nanci Griffith. My fault...."

March 7, 2014 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Rough Trade Talk with Lucinda Williams

Onetime Austinite reflects on her milestone recording

"...Emmajoe’s in the rising company of Townes Van Zandt, Nanci Griffith, Lyle Lovett, Blaze Foley, Joe Ely, and Butch..."

Sept. 13, 2013 Music Post by Margaret Moser

We Were From Texas

Texas Triangle: Guy Clark, Susanna Clark, Townes Van Zandt

"...Willie Nelson's Stardust, and albums by Emmylou Harris and Nanci Griffith. She also began writing songs, penning the 1975..."

July 19, 2013 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Gram Parsons Hoot Night

Patterson Barrett pays tribute to godfather cosmic cowboy

"...for Hal Michael Ketchum, performed with Al Kooper, accompanied Nanci Griffith on Austin City Limits, toured with Lou Ann..."

Nov. 5, 2012 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Off the Record

Celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Kerrville Folk Festival one year at a time

"...Carolyn Hester, Guy Clark, Michael Martin Murphey, Lucinda Williams, Nanci Griffith, Robert Earl Keen, and Jerry Jeff Walker...."

May 27, 2011 Music Column by Austin Powell

Carrie Elkin

Saturday

"...Reminiscent of the winsome beauty created by a young Nanci Griffith, the local singer-songwriter creates a space that's ragged,..."

March 18, 2011 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

Emmylou Harris

At 63, Emmylou Harris still drives a 'Hard Bargain'

"...Jay Joyce, who's worked with the like-minded Patty Griffin, Nanci Griffith, and Gillian Welch. Veteran handyman Giles Reaves provides..."

March 18, 2011 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Top 10 Media Stories

KUT and the Statesman expand their portfolios

"...Austin City Limits Presents stage – singing backup to Nanci Griffith – Lovett headlined the final taping of the..."

Jan. 7, 2011 News Feature by Michael King

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