Born on Highway 61

Famed superharpist James Cotton settles into Austin.

"...Antone's in early January, Austin's newest celebrity resident James Cotton is playing to a standing-room-only audience. He's seated center-stage..."

Feb. 2, 2001 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Politics Gift Guide

Curios for current-events connoisseurs

"...Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemptionby Jennifer Thompson-Cannino,..."

Nov. 26, 2010 News Feature

Urban Tejano

Tortilla Factory pulls down a Grammy nomination as Best Tejano Band as the almost four-decade-old local institution gets ready to reinvent the genre

"..."Ham" Guerrero's story begins in San Angelo, the real cotton fields of Western songs. Its chapters are soundtracked by..."

Dec. 24, 2010 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Who's Texas?

The story of Texas history says a lot -- about the storytellers

"...are longtime Texans.) There'll be Indians, log cabins, vaqueros, cotton-farming, high school football. Modern-day Texas is represented by an..."

Sept. 6, 2002 News Feature by Lucius Lomax

Small-Town Drama, Small-Town Hospitality

Austin director Tyler Russell gets help picking some Texas Cotton

"...a repeat offender. In 2017, his short film "Texas Cotton" played at Austin Film Festival. A year later, he's..."

Oct. 26, 2018 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Theatrical Fuse

Writer and performer Zell Miller III is an incendiary device waiting for a match, and once he flicks an ember into the hidden dry undergrowth of text, there is nowhere to hide. And the good news is that he has only begun to explode.

"...anybody they didn't want to last night. You're not picking cotton, your brother's not picking cotton. You can basically..."

Feb. 9, 2001 Arts Feature by C. Denby Swanson

Salt of the Earth

Local activists remember Cesar Chavez on the seventh anniversary of his death.

"...and raised in nearby Lockhart, Monsignor Reyes grew up picking crops with his brothers in North and South Texas...."

April 28, 2000 News Feature by Paul Ciavarri

The Christian Life

Billy Joe Shaver's Victory

"..."In the Forties, Corsicana was a cotton gin town and the railroad surrounds it," he recalls...."

Aug. 14, 1998 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Just an Old-Fashioned Cat

Eartha Kitt is one funny dame

"...From humble beginnings – raised in the cotton fields of South Carolina, then sent to live with..."

July 21, 2006 Arts Feature by Kate X Messer

Howlin' Wolf Does Not Wear Panties

Walter Daniels' punk blues stirs up a whole new generational ilk, like Black Joe Lewis

"...may be the feeling of the blistering sun while picking cotton like Hubert Sumlin and James Cotton. Hear gutbucket..."

Nov. 18, 2005 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Parallel Universe

Ruben Ramos: El Gato Negro's

"...young, we used to migrate from field to field, picking cotton," says Ramos. "Toda la familia. I did that..."

Feb. 6, 1998 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Day Trips

P.J. Hornberger's Folk Art Gallery looks like a doll house beside U.S. 290 in Carmine

"...coolest people in the world." For a city girl, picking cotton looked like picking stars out of the field...."

May 18, 2007 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Crossing Literary Borders

Rolando Hinojosa-Smith

"...writing is the most difficult thing in the world. Picking citrus is," he says, raising his eyebrows, "you've got..."

Aug. 29, 1997 Books Feature by Barbara Strickland

After DEI Cuts, This Sixth-Gen Austinite Is Losing Access to UT

“It feels like Jim Crow”

"...a few miles east of the city, in the cotton farming town of Webberville. It was her great-great-great grandfather,..."

April 5, 2024 News Post by Maggie Q. Thompson

Children’s Authors Jarrett and Jerome Pumphrey on Finding Hope While Taking Things Slow

Wondering how to talk to kids? Try pictures.

"...own family. Years ago, their great-grandmother worked extreme hours picking cotton at low wages in Louisiana to eventually buy..."

Aug. 7, 2020 Arts Feature by Selome Hailu

Recommended Live Music for the Weekend

Garage rock, indie-pop, funk, and more

"...Survival” chronicles a hardscrabble North Carolina upbringing that included picking cotton with his family to keep food on the..."

June 22, 2018 Events Post by The Music Staff

Council on CodeNEXT

Four CMs lament inequitable land use standards throughout city

"...development approved by Council some years ago. Renteria recalls picking cotton as a youth in the fields of what..."

Aug. 25, 2017 News Feature by Michael King

Aggies Hook Horns, Astros Land Lee

"...national champions will be spending their 2007 bowl season picking Cotton. As Adam Sandler once said, "Whoopity doo!" At..."

Nov. 25, 2006 Sports Post by Christopher Gray

Calling Mom

An essay on the author's mother and her generation of African-American women

"...hard row to hoe, and even if she wasn't picking cotton, some days it must have seemed just as..."

Aug. 1, 2003 News Feature by Lucius Lomax

Naked City

Beyond City Limits

"...At least he didn't reminisce about contented darkies picking cotton for ol' Massa. That's about the best to..."

Dec. 13, 2002 News Feature

King of the Swing Fiddle

Honoring country music's second most famous fiddle player, Johnny Gimble

"...got spoiled. Because I was never very good at picking cotton, and then I only made fifty cents or..."

April 5, 2002 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

In Person

"...that they survived a hard life without much bitterness. Picking cotton as young kids, hounded by the law even..."

April 17, 1998 Books Feature

Story of an American Music

Hector Galán's Songs of the Homeland

"...that farm laborers, predominately Tejanos, followed looking for work picking cotton...."

Sept. 15, 1995 Arts Feature

Chairman of the Board

Antone's Blue Monday boss Derek O'Brien keeps the music alive and blue

"...chairmen of the board – blues guitar division. James Cotton's Colored Socks..."

April 25, 2014 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

End of the Line

The Passing of Grey Ghost

"...father, Williams moved to Taylor, a major rail and cotton center, where he was raised by his mother, stepfather,..."

July 26, 1996 Music Feature

Texas Tropes

Is Don Graham Really Texas' Literary Curmudgeon?

"...neighbors. For the book browser who is aware of picking up a book by a professor with as grandiloquent..."

Aug. 7, 1998 Books Feature by Clay Smith

Coach's Corner

Coach on the couch: A long, dreary series of bowl games is a lousy way to start the new year, isn't it?

"...impossible to quantify. But you wouldn't go too wrong picking the day's first offering, Oklahoma vs. Arkansas in the..."

Jan. 11, 2002 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

There's a Light Beyond These Woods

An unrestrained celebration of Nanci Griffith

"...up ingredients. We were living in a large old cotton plantation house in the middle of acres of cotton..."

Feb. 25, 2005 Music Feature by Louis Black

Double Jeopardy

The state of Texas jailed Cuban exile Carlos Lavernia for 16 years for a crime he did not commit. Now the INS might send him back to Cuba.

"...passed you going the other way," the woman said, picking up her pace. "Why are you walking so fast?"..."

Feb. 23, 2001 News Feature by Amy Smith

The Full Monte

"...and talk centered around Joe and Linda playing the Cotton Club later that night and a much-drooled-over trip to..."

Feb. 12, 1999 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

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