Sammy Allred Dead at 84

Geezinslaw Brother and institutional ATX deejay passes

"...Sammy Allred, singer and mandolin player in hillbilly humorists the Geezinslaw Brothers and longtime local deejay, has died at..."

May 10, 2018 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Austin Music Awards Hall of Fame Inductees 1983-2016

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

"......And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead (11)..."

March 3, 2017 Features Feature

10 Freaks and Geeks to Redefine Austin Music

Local passion projects with singular visions

"...Attic Ted Once upon a time in the Nineties, San Marcos artist Grady Roper bought a Hammond..."

Sept. 2, 2016 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Honky-Tonk Heaven

13 things to love about the Broken Spoke

"...It’s not quite as dense as the Louvre, but the Broken Spoke packs as much museum..."

Aug. 2, 2013 Music Post by Margaret Moser

The Town Was Hoppin'

Austin's music scene of the Fifties lives on in Ray Campi

"...rockabilly veteran Ray Campi wrote his first song on the last day of 1949 and left Austin at the..."

March 30, 2012 Music Feature by Michael Corcoran

Hurd Is the Word

Cornell Hurd, Austin's most prolific C&W songwriter? It's no joke.

"...some of you are gonna dance. Holy mackerel, it's the Cornell Hurd Band!"..."

Nov. 3, 2006 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Country Mile

Country mile

"...God love the Geezinslaws. They're corny and cranky as ever on The..."

April 29, 2005 Music Review by Christopher Gray

Genuine Austin Christmas

Gift guide

"...Austin's fertile honky-tonk fields. Established breadwinners like Pat Green, the Geezinslaws, Jack Ingram, and Rick Trevino are accounted for,..."

Dec. 24, 2004 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Broken Spoke Legends

James White counts down the Broken Spoke's greatest hits

"...Surveying the auto-repair shops, apartment complexes, and shopping centers that surround..."

Nov. 12, 2004 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Compile This!

Our resident Marshmallow Peep relates the news and hearsay in and around the Live Music Capital...

"...Benson & Flaco Jimenez, Roy Heinrich & Elizabeth McQueen, the Geezinslaws, Libbi Bosworth, Monte Warden and the LeRoi Brothers..."

July 26, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Dancing About Architecture

Checking up on SIMS and their $216K, checking in on Lyle Lovett's broken leg, and Tyler Harwood checks out of the Zulu as Kono and the Peenbeets.

"...Being for the Benefit Of ......"

April 5, 2002 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Dancing About Architecture

A flood of weather (and music) following SXSW

"...left-handed on an upside-down right-hander axe is what had the guitarist-formerly-known-as-God stumped, but you can read all about it..."

March 30, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Jimmy LaFave

Acts Playing South by Southwest

"...Jimmy LaFave Texoma (Bohemia Beat) If we took the Geezinslaws' song "$5 Fine for Whining" and applied it..."

March 2, 2001 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

Dancing About Architecture

SXSW wristbands go on sale with the news that Dr. Demento will be attending this year's festival. Also, the passing of the Victory Grill's Johnny Holmes, and the expansion of Emo's.

"...are special people, we all know that. That's why they always get first crack at the wristbands for South..."

Feb. 23, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Dancing About Architecture

Christmastime comes to Austin.

"...... And hopefully he's not doing it where the old Pocket FishRmen song suggested. Much more refined holiday..."

Dec. 8, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Texas Music Group

TMG label rises from the ashes of Watermelon and Antone's.

"...7, 2000, caused a bit of a stir in the Austin music scene. It announced the "launch" of the..."

Sept. 29, 2000 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Dancing About Architecture

Adios Antone; A wild and Willie Fourth.

"...And he doesn't say a whole lot back, but the look in his eyes speaks volumes. With Antone's 25th..."

July 7, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

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.

"...Blues in the Big House..."

June 9, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Decade Awards

"...Musician of the Decade1. Stevie Ray Vaughan 2. Davíd Garza..."

March 17, 2000 Music Feature

Dancing About Architecture

Another club bites the dust, the first happy bands of 2000, the Greatest Band in the World comes to SXSW, more people do stuff

"...comes to South by Southwest, and sometimes I'll badger the staff to put a little extra work into getting..."

Jan. 21, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

California Dreamin'?

"...Last year, the state of California enacted the strictest anti-smoking law in..."

Oct. 8, 1999 News Feature by Mike Jasper

Dancing About Architecture

"...The Lunch is dead! Long live the Lunch! Such an..."

April 9, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Dancing About Architecture

Pushing the Envelope

"...The Austin Music Awards has finalized its musical lineup for..."

March 5, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Tribute Records

Tammy Wynette Remembered

"...cheek and bombast. Rosanne Cash, for her part, drew the ace card by getting a crack at "D-I-V-O-R-C-E," so..."

Jan. 1, 1999 Music Review

A World in Which All Worlds Fit

"...Don Walser at the granddaddy of South Austin live music venues, the Broken..."

Dec. 4, 1998 Music Feature by Jay Hardwig

The Winter Classic

South by Southwest 1998

"...Johnny Winter on the outdoor stage at Stubb's Saturday, March 21 photograph by..."

March 27, 1998 Music Feature

Picks & Sleepers

Sxsw

"...five nights, divided by you. And that's not counting the attendant acts the conference sweeps in every year. If..."

March 20, 1998 Music Feature

Record Reviews

"...THE GEEZINSLAWS..."

Dec. 26, 1997 Music Review

Postscripts

"...out to judge a book by its cover at the Harry Ransom Hxumanities Research Center's new exhibit entitled Modern..."

Sept. 5, 1997 Books Column by Clay Smith

Dancing About Architecture

"...ACL on the Record or: Heard But Not Seen..."

Sept. 5, 1997 Music Column by Ken Lieck

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