Tom House 'Til You've Seen Mine (Catamount)

SXSW Records

"...Olney, it's easily his most accomplished. Tunes like the bluegrass-tinged "Where Will You Lay Your Head," as country as..."

March 17, 2000 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

Public Notice

This week, your sassy yet totally sincere public service column goes wiggy over the new Patti Smith CDand tells you that her free show at SXSW will benefit a good cause. Other good causes, as usual, are pimped within as well..

"...Cedar, hnyuk!) will offer tips, etc. The Grazmatics and Bluegrass Drive-By will play. 478-2667.Timeless Rhythm"Hail sister, come on over,..."

March 10, 2000 Column by Kate X Messer

More Flava Than Juicy Fruit

Wednesday Night SXSW Picks & Sleepers

"...last year. In the hands of the Damnations, punk, bluegrass, rock, soul, and country are all part of one..."

March 10, 2000 Music Feature

Okkervil River

Bloodletting the evil out of acoustic-trio Okkervil River.

"...Okkervil's bluegrass-churned morbidity may seem far afield from the jangle-pop of..."

March 3, 2000 Music Feature by Kate X Messer

Bad Livers Blood and Mood (Sugar Hill)Danny Barnes...And His Oft Mended Raiment (Minner Bucket)

SXSW Records

"...still worships at the altars of punk rock and bluegrass and revolves mostly around Barnes' banjo tunes -- even..."

March 3, 2000 Music Review by Christopher Hess

The Right Profile

Austin singer-songwriter grows a up, grows a beard, and grows out of a strict DIY ethic.

"...Good Year"), and concludes with a stirring version of bluegrass paisan Del McCoury's "I Feel the Blues Movin' In."..."

Feb. 25, 2000 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Wide Open Heart

Local accordionist Bradley Jaye Williams brings together fish and fowl in his assimulation of Texas polka and conjunto music.

"...It was Laurie Lewis from Rounder Records, she's a bluegrass singer and fiddle player. She says, 'I want you..."

Feb. 18, 2000 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Sugarland Express

Laying down the law on Mayberry's favorite twang-rockers

"...would appear every so often to rip up some bluegrass, and once, James Best, The Dukes of Hazzard's immortal..."

Feb. 18, 2000 Music Feature by Jerry Renshaw

Mike Rosenthal (Red Truck)

Texas Platters

"...proficiency; his sense of instrumentation owes much to his bluegrass fiddler father. It's the effortless presence of his words..."

Feb. 4, 2000 Music Review by Margaret Moser

How She Knows What She Knows About Yo-Yos: Stories

"...list for 1995. The story of a talented young bluegrass fiddler whose five-year-old daughter dies in an accident and..."

Jan. 21, 2000 Books Review by Marion Winik

Robbie Fulks The Very Best of Robbie Fulks (Bloodshot)

National Records

"...Breakdown" is an instrumental reel dating back to his bluegrass days in Special Consensus, while "Parallel Bars" is a..."

Jan. 21, 2000 Music Review by Jerry Renshaw

The Death of Rock & Roll

Top 10s: Year, Decade, Eternity

"...-- or Bob Wills and Bill Monroe on the country/bluegrass side of the fence; Fifties with a hillbilly movie..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Dancing About Architecture

New Year's New Clubs, New Arrangements for the Austin Music Network and, well, News.

"...Child; "Best Male Country Vocal Performance," Lyle Lovett; "Best Bluegrass Album," The Mountain by Steve Earle & the Del..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

The Memory of Music

Discovering Moby Grape's Skip Spence via his only solo album Oar, and it's new tribute album, More Oar

"...rock by way of every American musical form from bluegrass and blues to folk and country & western. Coming..."

Dec. 17, 1999 Music Feature by Louis Black

Play Misty For Me

Legendary rock scribe Chet Flippo recounts getting to know Doug Sahm.

"...... it was country, it was swing, it was bluegrass, it was jazz...."

Nov. 26, 1999 Music Feature by Chet Flippo

Public Notice

Buy Nothing Day? Public Notice tells what it knows about this annual international event while encouraging you through the rest of the column to buy lots of things (or at least donate the stuff you no longer use) for the less fortunate.

"...Sat, Nov 20, 7:30pm promises good music (gospel, folk, bluegrass), good comedy, and a good warm vibe knowing that..."

Nov. 19, 1999 Column by Kate X Messer

The Next Wave

A comprehensive look at the emerging Rock en Español movement in the United States

"...and going to the U.S. music section and seeing bluegrass, Rage Against the Machine, and country music all lumped..."

Nov. 12, 1999 Music Feature by Melissa Sattley

Bad Livers Dust on the Bible (Quarterstick)Barnes, Hokkanen & RubinAka the Mad Cat Trio (Lumpydisc)

"...the Bad Livers' best outting, a straightforward and sincere bluegrass effort made personal by understated simplicity and Barnes' heartfelt..."

Oct. 29, 1999 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Day Trips

Museum-hopping in Houston.

"...Bluegrass & Gospel Music Festival brings a national-class lineup of..."

Oct. 22, 1999 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Fred Eaglesmith, Continental Club, October 9

Descriptions of live shows

"...uses of D'Addario guitar strings, playing gigs in Bandera, bluegrass festivals, and why Canada geese fly south in the..."

Oct. 22, 1999 Music Review by Jerry Renshaw

Dancing About Architecture

Austin City Limits to enter its 25th season two shows lighter; Steamboat loses more relocation prospects; and Ozzy Osbourne declines Black Sabbath's nomination for entry into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

"...bomb goes off in here, we'll lose the best bluegrass performers who ever lived.") Lickona admits that the pairing..."

Oct. 15, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Split Lip Rayfield In the Mud (Bloodshot)

"...auto gas tank) nominally bring this band under the "bluegrass" category, but the ferocity of the playing and desperation..."

Oct. 15, 1999 Music Review by Jerry Renshaw

Day Trips

Tyler, Texas' own City of Roses.

"...Bluegrass Festival & Antique Tractor Show in Medina mixes music..."

Oct. 8, 1999 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Elephants and Pygmies

A profile of rising Austin honky-tonker Roger Wallace.

"...Raised on the traditions of country and bluegrass that prevail in the area, Wallace cut his teeth..."

Oct. 1, 1999 Music Feature by Jerry Renshaw

The Natural

"...of gutbucket banjo sound rather than the filigreed classic bluegrass sound. Like the banjo on [Tom Waits'] Rain Dogs:..."

July 30, 1999 Music Feature by Christopher Hess

Texas Platters

The Scabs

"...vulnerable to flattery. Elsewhere, Hubbard attempts a self-described mythological bluegrass Buddhist Gnostic gospel hymn, "After the Harvest," a song..."

July 30, 1999 Music Feature

Day Trips

"...endangered species born in Glen Rose. 254/897-2960 or www.fossilrim.com. Bluegrass Pickin’ Under the Stars includes a fiddlers contest and..."

July 9, 1999 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Music of the Spheres

Sinatra in the Sahara

"...packaged for Euro-American consumption. Does that mean West Virginian bluegrass is "world music" to a Nigerian? Admittedly, most music..."

July 9, 1999 Music Feature by David Lynch

Record Reviews

Barbarito Torres

"...to The Pilgrim even more delightful. From gospel to bluegrass to barroom weeper to high kicking honky-tonk to country..."

July 9, 1999 Music Review

Live Shots

Dianne Reeves, Pam Hart/Austin Music Festival

"...cover all the bases well. There were the tasty bluegrass stylings and sweet female harmonies of Toronto's Heartbreak Hill,..."

June 18, 1999 Music Feature

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