Sentimental Family Band Isn’t Hung Up on the High Times

The softie ex-art-rockers arrive at Austin’s honky-tonk revival

"...all around, watching the movement as much as the band. I recognize my old boss from an office job,..."

April 12, 2024 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Keepin' Up With the Jones Family

The Jones Family Singers hear the spirit speak in Austin

"...that a group from Bay City called the Jones Family Singers have just come onstage. An older gentleman with..."

Sept. 20, 2013 Music Feature by Michael Corcoran

Roadside Playboys and Texana Dames

The Hancock Family's long, strange, supernatural musical journey

"...Amid the onlookers crowding before the bandstand, a squat, broad-shouldered man stands slack jawed. He nods,..."

Dec. 31, 2004 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Playback: Smiling Your Way to Heaven

Supernatural advice by West Texas sage Tommy Hancock, tears from Billy Gibbons, and Casual Strangers coupling

"...dangerously witty and casually enlightened 85-year-old patriarch of the Supernatural Family Band. He hit the V.A. hospital, fielded another..."

July 18, 2014 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Freda & the Firedogs Reviewed

"...Freda & the Firedogs(Plug)Supernatural Family BandLubbock Lights (Akashic)The Contenders(Gadfly)Greezy Wheels"Finding Happiness"/"Monkey in the..."

Dec. 13, 2002 Music Review by Margaret Moser

Austin Music Network

"...11:30 Joe Valentine, Blues Family, 95..."

Jan. 10, 1997 Music Feature

Fantastic Fest: From Backyard Movies to Festivals With Hellbender

The Adams family prove that the family that films together stays together

"..."It makes my heart happy that people like our family films," Zelda Adams gushed...."

Sept. 24, 2021 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Rock Around the Biological Clock

Yes Sir, That's My Baby

"...other musicians out there who might be struggling with family or friends to know that you can have a..."

May 7, 1999 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Born Traveler

Traci Lamar Hancock accepts hospice care

"...Dames and the rest of the clan in the Supernatural Family Band. Nevertheless, Conni describes Traci’s plans to visit..."

April 2, 2012 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Texas Platters

"...should meet this record! And that's no insult. The band themselves freely admit that slop has been one of..."

Oct. 4, 1996 Music Feature

Austin Music Awards Show Performers 1983-2016

Every AMA performance lineup of the past 34 years

"...1983: Angela Strehli & Band with special guest Stevie Ray Vaughan, Extreme Heat, Van..."

March 3, 2017 Features Feature

35 Years of the Austin Music Awards

Living in a dream

"...just prior to the date to ask if his band could play a surprise set. The booking, like the..."

March 3, 2017 Features Feature by Doug Freeman

Live Music to See This Weekend

Your cheat sheet for three days of fun

"...In 2013, opening the main stage on the first..."

July 28, 2017 Music Post by The Music Staff

Playback: Red River's Demise Greatly Exaggerated

Red River venues re-entrench and Panchanga Fest once again settles comfortably into Fiesta Gardens

"...duality about him. He's a laid-back music fan describing bands as "fucking awesome," but he's also sponsorship savvy and..."

May 11, 2012 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Lockhart Western Swing & BBQ Festival Kicks Off the Weekend

Texas Western Swing Hall of Fame centers event’s second year

"...people following in those footsteps, but even when my band started doing it in the Eighties, there weren’t but..."

Sept. 27, 2019 Music Post by Doug Freeman

30 Years of AMA Performer Highlights

"...Angela Strehli Band..."

March 14, 2014 Music Feature

SXSW Unpacks Longest Lineup List

Soccer Mommy, Caroline Rose, Alyona Alyona, and 351 more

"...One day after a multifarious keynote speaker announcement that..."

Jan. 14, 2020 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

One, Two, Tres, Cuatro: Carjacked for Christmas

Ruby Jane and her mother are carjacked, plus other holiday tales of need

"...away from the scene of the crime and likely abandoned by the carjackass when it couldn't be sold because..."

Dec. 16, 2011 Music Column by Margaret Moser

Playback: Worst of Both Worlds

R. Kelly dies in performance only, while Tony Offender and Traci Lamar Hancock leave Austin's astral plain for real

"...With producer/multi-instrumentalist Visitante at the controls of an eightpiece band, they rocked an indefinable mix of Latin styles with..."

May 18, 2012 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Esther's Gene Pool

"...The Hugh Beaumont Players (1978) Waterworks (1978-97) Little Big Band (1980- ) D-Day (1980-82) Austin Flops Orchestra (1984) Better..."

Oct. 10, 1997 Arts Feature

The Wind in Your Face

Jaston Williams explains why life in Lubbock blows

"...Kimmie Rhodes and Butch Hancock and all the Maines family and Tommy Hancock and all of that family and..."

May 28, 2013 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Disappointed by Not Being Included

"...Dear Editor, When the Supernatural Family Band moved to Austin from Denver in 1980,..."

Aug. 10, 2010 Postmarks

David Holt

Texas platters

"...Butch Hancock, Billy Joe Shaver, the Sexton Brothers, the Supernatural Family Band, and the group most Austinites probably remember..."

Nov. 19, 2004 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

Fantastic Fest Gets 'Looper' For Second Wave

Stage two sees newbie Joseph Gordon-Levitt join FF veterans

"...Fantastic Fest has always been as much a family as a festival. The second wave of films has..."

Aug. 16, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Green Ghost and the Masters of the Stone

Texas-made luchadores-meets-wire fu playful adventure

"...generic genre fare. A mash-up of películas de acción, supernatural family drama, and light humor, it wears its heart..."

April 29, 2022 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

All My Love

C-Side Records' family values

"...back corner of the South Congress coffeehouse resembles the band's family reunion, as brothers, sisters, and wives congregate with,..."

Jan. 26, 2007 Music Feature by Austin Powell

News Ticker: March 27

All the news that's fit to blog

"...their magic, and Ted Cruz forms a not-so-secret society. Family values are on the News Ticker...."

March 27, 2013 News Post by Brandon Watson

SXSW Adds 102 Movies to 2019 Film Festival Lineup

After Us, what else does the film fest have in store?

"...and mostly lonely small-town driving instructor, must use her supernatural talent to save the daughter of Martin (also mostly..."

Jan. 16, 2019 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Hereditary

Toni Collette's burning inferno of a performance illuminates this extraordinary horror

"...would be great even without any extreme, unnatural, or supernatural component. Take the coming shadow away from Hereditary and..."

June 8, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Announces Features Lineup

Competitive narratives and docs unveiled, plus more

"...finally comes to light in Jesse Moss' doc The Bandit. You'll want to pay attention to the Episodic category..."

Feb. 2, 2016 Screens Post by Josh Kupecki

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