Get Folked!

An interview with the men behind the Folksmen.

"...that other notable British music group, with the taciturn, nearly dour Guest playing Lennon, McKean a wiseacre McCartney, and..."

May 9, 2003 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Patti, Mary, and Miriam

Girl talk with Patti, Mary, and Miriam.

"...First recorded and written by Ernie K-Doe in the early Sixties as “A Certain Girl,” the song irresistibly bounces..."

May 7, 2007 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Steve Cropper Recalls Rhythm & Blues History Through Six Strings

Chatting with the most egoless guitar hero in history

"...Lee Cropper, 77, remains the most crucial guitarist of Sixties soul. He co-bills with Traffic's Dave Mason in the..."

Feb. 21, 2019 Music Post by Tim Stegall

Charlie Faye & the Fayettes Don’t Need No Baby

Local soul-pop trio blends vintage sound with modern message

"...& the Fayettes on their latest single, which evokes early-Sixties girl groups, while putting forth a message that would..."

Sept. 5, 2018 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Backbeat to the Music

Pete Best at Threadgill's.

"...just that. If you’re not a fan of the early Beatles, it helps to know that like most of..."

July 2, 2007 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Outside Looking In by T.C. Boyle

With this novel about Timothy Leary and LSD in the early Sixties, T.C. Boyle has written a mighty book – and a gift

"...the flea." T.C. Boyle has chosen LSD in the early 1960s as his theme and written a mighty book...."

April 12, 2019 Arts Review by David Gaines

Reissues

"...his playing with Blakey in the late Fifties and early Sixties. His 1964 quartet album, Juju, finds Shorter's style..."

Dec. 13, 1996 Music Feature

Reissues

"...went with Mercury, where he enjoyed success through the mid-Sixties. After that, things went downhill. Drinking heavily, McPhatter went..."

Dec. 18, 1998 Music Feature

Please Kill Me and other ROCK & ROLL BOOKS of 1996

"...get the feeling the entire punk rock population of late-Sixties Detroit and the Lower East Side was composed of..."

Dec. 6, 1996 Books Feature

Remembering 'Easy Rider' and 'The Last Movie'

CinemaTexas program notes

"...at the University of Texas at Austin from the early Seventies to the mid-Eighties. An archive of CinemaTexas program..."

June 4, 2010 Screens Feature

Cars and Speed and Flight

Just prior to his appearance at SXSW Film for a retrospective of his work, Monte Hellman talks about a career in film.

"...the kind of mythic superfilm that fired Terrence Malick's early career. Indeed, both Malick and Hellman work the same..."

March 10, 2000 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Box Sets

Herbie Hancock

"...The Complete Blue Note Sixties Sessions (Blue Note)..."

Dec. 11, 1998 Music Feature

Score

A bisexual romp from 1972 from Radley Metzger, the film industry's softcore artiste of the late Sixties and early Seventies.

"...Parker. Radley Metzger, film's softcore artiste of the late Sixties and early Seventies (The Lickerish Quartet, Therese and Isabel),..."

Oct. 9, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Reissues

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

"...is evoked, it's easy to forget one thing: For nearly two decades, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band(s) made..."

June 25, 1999 Music Feature

Reissues

"...a hundred times over. The Capitol/Black & White Recordings clearly demonstrate the nimble, urbane, electric, jazz-inflected runs that would..."

July 28, 1995 Music Feature

CQ

"...pop-art confectioner's idea of a cotton-candy love note to Sixties Euro-filmmaking tropes. That it also has a sneaky-smart filmmaking..."

Aug. 23, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Collegia Musikum

How music from the Medieval and Baroque eras impacts us today

"...Early music. We're not talking 1975, or 1964. We're not..."

Jan. 25, 2002 Music Feature by Robi Polgar

The Flight of the Night Bird

Harry Akin opened for business on Christmas Eve, 1932, selling hamburgers for 15 cents apiece. Cuisines Editor Virginia B. Wood reveals how Akin turned his hamburger stand into Austin's former restaurant empire.

"...restaurant chain had passed into local legend. In the nearly 25 years since his death, all but one of..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Reissues

Los Zafiros

"...Kruschev. Such was the escapist and youthful appeal of early Sixties pop music, and happily, it was no different..."

Aug. 27, 1999 Music Feature

The Complete Jake Langley

Guitarist makes dazzling choices and then some

"...Austin Chronicle: Rock & roll drummers from the Sixties had clearly listened to jazz drummers of the Forties..."

March 28, 2014 Music Post by Tim Stegall

Across the Universe

Julie Taymor takes the timelessness of the Beatles' music and yanks it earthward into a minefield of literalism.

"...music of the Beatles and the zeitgeist of the Sixties by the time a character named Prudence barges into..."

Sept. 28, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Ram Dass: Fierce Grace

"...professor, blossomed into Ram Dass, spiritual teacher to a Sixties counterculture that responded to his invitation to “Be here..."

Sept. 27, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Reissues

"...time, and the hits kept on coming. In the Sixties, Charles produced a string of singles as strong as..."

Dec. 12, 1997 Music Feature

Reissues

"...jogging the memory of even novice fans of the Sixties spy vs. spy show. This collection is a respectable..."

June 27, 1997 Music Review

The Wrecking Crew

The great L.A. session band gets the doc treatment

"...who played on virtually every hit record of the Sixties and early Seventies, may seem like it follows in..."

March 27, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

After a Fashion

Stephen loves children, dons black, and gets blown (away)

"...of Hairspray, the theme of the evening was the early Sixties, and it boasted the best-dressed guests that I've..."

April 22, 2011 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Cumbia Sobre El Rio

Monterrey's Celso Piña and his 21st Century cumbia

"...Monterrey, Piña has enjoyed local legend status since the early Eighties, even though it took Barrio Bravo to jettison..."

Oct. 18, 2002 Music Feature by Melissa Sattley

Box Sets/Reissues

The Disco Box

"...Atlantic. The net result is a glorious array of Sixties girl Brit-pop at its absolute stunning best -- and..."

April 9, 1999 Music Feature

Auto Focus

"...Willem Dafoe and Greg Kinnear. There's a telling moment early on in Auto Focus, the accomplished film about Sixties..."

Nov. 1, 2002 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Radio, Radio

Satellite radio, the burgeoning technology that may ultimately shake up the broadcast world the most, is right around the corner.

"...and tinny transistor radios was the soundtrack for the Sixties, artists like Buck Owens & the Buckaroos deliberately mixing..."

Oct. 6, 2000 Music Feature by Jerry Renshaw

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