Rising out of Nashville’s thriving independent music scene, the Farewell Drifters are an alt-folk band known for their 60’s era-inspired harmonies and adventurous musical energy. They have crafted a seamless blend of...
In music there are those special artists that seem to transcend genre and defy categorization. From time to time one hears a voice that can stop you dead in your tracks and shake your very foundation to the core. Mike ...
Suzy Bogguss had a revelation on stage with Garrison Keillor in 2008. Everyone loves to sing along on “Red River Valley” – except the children who somehow don't know the song. Folk songs are the scrapbook of the Am...
Nashville, Tennessee is a nexus – a point where tradition and innovation intersect, where commerce collides with art. It may be the only town around where salaried songwriters and full-time session musicians are as co...
Ray Wylie Hubbard writes the kind of songs that make you want to ride along no matter where he’s going,
because you know it’s gonna get strange somewhere along the way. The references to Muddy Waters
being as deep ...
I was not even born yet when my father first tried to kill me.
It was June and the evening light had started to fade, but it was still hotter than nine kinds of hell. We were outside of Corsicana, a little cotton town...
BORIS McCUTCHEON
Boris McCutcheon lives off the grid in northern New Mexico, on the High Road to Taos, writing when he can catch a break from pruning fruit trees, chopping cords of wood, and managing the local acequia...
Jack Wilson - BIOGRAPHY -- self-titled album
Austin, TX-based Jack Wilson's self-titled, debut full-length bridges the
gap between the folk-rock of Seattle (where he began his career as a
full-time musician) and the...
Shakey Graves is being hailed as the best damn one man show in Austin. His set involves a hand made suitcase kick drum and feverish finger picking which follows in the tradition of Townes Van Zandt, Leo Kottke and Michae...
Saskatchewan-born, Brooklyn-based folk troubadour Ana Egge isn't your run-of-the-mill alternative-country singer. Using unique production and rock-based chord progressions, Egge has made a name for herself as a Gillian W...
Austin’s outlaw country heroes Crooks have big things on the horizon. The “must-see Austin band” (MTV Hive) will release their new full-length album ‘The Rain Will Come’ this April, featuring guest appearances ...
If you're familiar with bluegrass music, then you're tuned in to some of what Greensky Bluegrass does. They're also known to throw a great party, rock n roll, and (if the critics are to be believed) they have great songs...
From lonesome ballads invoking the Old West to modern rock and country, this band produces the perfect mix of heartbreakers and dance tunes. Rosie and the Ramblers will have you crying in your beer one minute and whirlin...
If what passes for country music these days gives you a headache, Brennen Leigh has the remedy.” So wrote the Austin Chronicle in a review of the talented singer-songwriter’s latest album The Box. She mixes the tradi...
Roger Wallace has something rare in country music today: honesty, creativity, and more than enough talent to back it all up. You could say it's all in the voice -- and not just the powerful, rangy singing voice that has ...
Parts rock, parts country and folk, Mike and the Moonpies play with a soulful tenacity thick enough to damn near cut with a knife. This is good old fashioned, old-school, bar room blues.
Hard-gigging country quintet Mik...
Wood & Wire is one of the most promising new bands on Austin's bluegrass and acoustic scene. Mixing in elements of Americana and swing, its healthy dose of original music and traditional bluegrass tunes keep audiences ri...
John Evans has had a busy year: He landed two songs in Country Strong which starred Gwyneth Paltrow and Tim McGraw, one song "Christmas In Texas" in the final episode of Friday Night Lights, two co-writes on Hayes Carll'...
Mrs. Glass was born in Iowa in 1985. He hitchhiked to New Orleans as a teenager and moved to Austin after Hurricane Katrina.
Ian Fry is a native Californian. He has studied Vedic Science at the Maharishi University ...
Whiskey Business, based in Austin, Texas, is an 7 (sometimes more!) piece bluegrass disaster. Raised on a steady diet of punk and rock, rather than the requisite Flat & Scruggs, they push their instruments and bodies to ...
It really does take a village, or at least a northeast Austin neighborhood, to build a band. The ten (sometimes more)-piece folk-rock collective East Cameron Folkcore is proof. Pieced together out of a wide palette of ta...
