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"...too many more allow Hood to achieve an expert jazz/blues/bluegrass fusion. One obvious influence is Austin's Uncle Walt's Band,..."
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Oct. 31, 2008 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri
Smells Like Teen Spirit
Austin's bands of tomorrow are already here, they're just U18
"...spectrum of training from classical to rock blends with bluegrass and won the Old Settler's Music Festival Youth Talent..."
Oct. 24, 2008 Music Feature by Margaret Moser
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
"...old lion, locks a-flowing to match those of golden-haired bluegrass chanteuse Alison Krauss, kicked the Raising Sand revue into..."
Oct. 3, 2008 Music Review by Dan Oko
Abigail Washburn & the Sparrow Quartet
"...use ancient instruments, but their fusion of traditional folk, bluegrass, classical, and music from China moves forward at every..."
Oct. 3, 2008 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri
Awaken the Sacred
A new documentary explores Sacred Harp singing
"...“It once was lost, but now it’s found,” offers bluegrass legend Jim Lauderdale about Sacred Harp singing in his..."
Oct. 2, 2008 Music Post by Doug Freeman
ACL Sunday Picks
The blurbing of ACL 2008
"...to a trio now, the band replaced the happy bluegrass with songs that are more easygoing and supremely melodic...."
Sept. 26, 2008 Music Feature
ACL Fest Saturday Interviews
Meeting at the crossroads of American music
"...like a caged lion, yearning to roar, while the bluegrass belle and Union Station conductor, dressed in a long,..."
Sept. 26, 2008 Music Feature by Austin Powell
Harmonic Convergence
Threadgill's perfectly weds Austin's music and food cultures
"...Bluegrass Sunday
Brunch Buffet: 10am-1pm Threadgill's World Headquarters..."
Sept. 26, 2008 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood
Kasey, Shane, and a Monkey on a Wire
Kasey Chambers and Shane Nicholson get animated
"...Rattlin’ Bones (Sugar Hill), released next Tuesday. More acoustic bluegrass than anything either of them have done in the..."
Sept. 10, 2008 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri
Off the Record
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss raise sand in Dallas, Lick Lick goes big in Japan, Dutch hip-hop sprouts in Austin, and a homecoming for Doyle Bramhall II
"...and subtle seduction between the Mighty Rearranger and the bluegrass belle. Harmonizing halfway between his Delta blues and her..."
July 11, 2008 Music Column by Austin Powell
Mario Matteoli
"...easygoing and rarely gushing. Gone are his Weary Boys alt-bluegrass days, replaced by a sunlit vibe that recalls the..."
June 13, 2008 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri
Green Mountain Grass
"...Flies, is its first since moving to Texas, steadfast bluegrass with a skilled mix of American music styles, from..."
June 6, 2008 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri
Off the Record
The battle for Townes Van Zandt's legacy wages on, Willie and the Doggfather get Half Baked in Amsterdam, and Pinetop Perkins gets his mojo working
"...Settler's Music Festival than Ralph Stanley. On Saturday the bluegrass patriarch, flanked by son Ralph II and grandson Nathan,..."
April 25, 2008 Music Column by Austin Powell
Earle Grey
Steve Earle keeps it real
"...alienated no more people than going out with a bluegrass band did. To keep my core audience interested, I’m..."
April 24, 2008 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri
The Waybacks Reviewed
Loaded
"...travel a vast range of Americana, not only the bluegrass they've been unfairly pigeonholed with but also gypsy jazz,..."
April 18, 2008 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri
Online Integrity
Music criticism 2.0
"...foldings of magazines like Harp, No Depression, Resonance, and Bluegrass Now, which have either closed shop or switched to..."
April 11, 2008 Music Post by Doug Freeman
Don't Look Back
Why the crush at the Hole in the Wall on Wednesdays?
"...easily as the insurgent attitude of American Graveyard, hellbent bluegrass of the Electric Mountain Rotten Apple Gang, or the..."
April 4, 2008 Music Feature by Doug Freeman
If That Ain't Country ...
"...the Brokeback Boys), Austin's EMRAG is hardly your typical bluegrass band. Kobetich's unlikely path to strings springs from the..."
April 4, 2008 Music Feature by Doug Freeman
Off the Record
Threadgill's reopens its original location in historic fashion, Spoon gets remixed, and Neil Young's Greendale takes the stage
"...soon program music on the weekends, along with a bluegrass brunch on Sundays. "I'd like to see this become..."
April 4, 2008 Music Column by Austin Powell
Tony Trischka
"...that banjo's capable of, including (obviously) old-time folk and bluegrass, as well as Celtic reels, West African kora music,..."
April 4, 2008 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri
South Austin Jug Band
Saturday
"...as much as matured. Nearly gone is the happy bluegrass replaced by an introspective feel that was always there,..."
March 14, 2008 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri
Thursday Picks
"...St. David's Church Banjo player Abigail Washburn is a bluegrass music ambassador to China. Her Sparrow Quartet, Béla Fleck..."
March 14, 2008 Music Feature
Thursday Sleepers
"...quartet, the band mixes blues and rock into its bluegrass sound for a heady new mix that's easily adapted..."
March 14, 2008 Music Feature
Friday Picks
"...electro-experimentalists Múm with a run of shows opening for bluegrass pop stars Nickel Creek. Brosseau's allure lingers in his..."
March 14, 2008 Music Feature
Saturday Sleepers
"...LP, Ambassador (Six Shooter), ripped through acoustic stomps and bluegrass roots with a rock fury, pacing the anticipation for..."
March 14, 2008 Music Feature
Off the Record
SXSW music news and carryings on
"...is reuniting for shows at the 2008 Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in October and Oregon's 10th annual Pickathon. "I..."
March 14, 2008 Music Column by Austin Powell
The Belleville Outfit
Six degrees of Uncle Walt
"...adventuresome, mixing gypsy swing, big-band jazz, a touch of bluegrass, and some Walter Hyatt covers into a unique mix..."
Feb. 29, 2008 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri
King Tears
A decade after the ValuJet crash claimed Walter Hyatt's life, his posthumous archive celebrates his tender abilities once again
"...routes, Spartanburg was also a confluence of musical styles. Bluegrass flowed down from the mountains while soul swept up..."
Feb. 22, 2008 Music Feature by Doug Freeman
Record Review
Some Unfinished Business, Volume One
"...be familiar, soul twist "Motor City Madman" and the bluegrass shuffle "Deeper Than Love," the former an Uncle Walt's..."
Feb. 22, 2008 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri
Off the Record
The British and Transmission Entertainment invade SXSW, Speeding Motorcycle rides into Zach Scott Theatre, and Spot opens Trailer Space
"...• The David Grisman Bluegrass Experience, Bettye LaVette, and Charlie Musselwhite are just a..."
