Torchy’s Tacos
With nothing more than mad kitchen skills, a food trailer and a Vespa scooter, Michael Rypka opened the original Torchy's Tacos in Austin in 2006.... Read more →
Jason Isbell
Jason Isbell’s music is raw in substance but perfectly polished in execution, sort of like Neil Young sitting in with Crosby, Stills & Nash... Read more →
BettySoo whispers your name
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Darden Smith
Since moving to Austin in the early eighties to attend the University of Texas, Darden Smith has grown into a renowned songwriter and performer, as... Read more →
Austin Ghost Tours
Austin has a rich history of savory characters and apparently some have decided to stick around well past their welcome. Austin Ghost Tours has been... Read more →
Mary Gauthier Podcast (September 14, 2016)
Having been mentioned, with other visionaries, in Ray Wylie Hubbard’s “Name Droppin’”, Mary Gauthier has plenty of Texas cred and the... Read more →
“Texas Flood” by Stevie Ray Vaughan
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David Ramirez
David Ramirez writes melodic, brooding songs of love and life, delivering them with perfect pitch and regret. Young, but hopeful despite his... Read more →
B. W. Stevenson
Looking a bit like an Amish Hoss Cartwright, B. W. “Buckwheat” Stevenson turned heads even in the spectacle of seventies Austin. A native of... Read more →
“Argue With Heaven” by David Ramirez, with Summer Ames
David Ramirez and Summer Ames team up on his gorgeous tune about faith. He vows to carry on, to "breathe deep, love strong, and hold on... Read more →
Ryan Bingham
Ryan Bingham is the real thing. A real Texan, a real rodeo cowboy, a real songwriter. An old friend once remarked, after listening to a young Bingham... Read more →
Terry Allen
It is no secret that West Texas produces musicians of uncommon creativity and grit, likely the result of too much flat land and steady wind.... Read more →
HOPE Outdoor Gallery
HOPE Outdoor Gallery is a community paint park recognized as one of the Top 10 Artistic destinations in Texas. The park is a collaborative effort... Read more →
“Lake Charles” by Lucinda Williams
Back to the bayou with the great Lucinda... Read more →
“Waves” by Sam Baker
With help from Carrie Elkin and Chip Dolan, Sam paints the eternal beauty of fifty years of marriage. Performed live at the Folly Theater in Kansas... Read more →
Ruthie Foster
Many fine artists had their beginnings in gospel. Aretha Franklin, Sam Cooke, Al Greene, even Elvis and Jerry Lee. A surprising progression, maybe,... Read more →
“Philosopher’s Stone” by Van Morrison
A little Van the Man and the Northern California coastline for a Saturday... Read more →
Drew Kennedy
Drew Kennedy bases out of New Braunfels, a lovely Texas Hill Country town nestled along the banks of the Comal and Guadalupe rivers between Austin... Read more →
John Gaar at the Saxon Pub
Every Sunday evening at the Saxon Pub, John Gaar and crew lay down a frenzy of blues, rock and roll and funk that is built around his powerful... Read more →
“Boxcars” by Joe Ely
Joe does a lovely solo of buddy Butch Hancock's classic take on lonely old West... Read more →
Carolyn Wonderland
Resurrecting Texans from Freddie King to Janis Joplin, Carolyn Wonderland burns the blues with her rolling originals, piercing voice and blistering... Read more →
Blaze Foley
The story of Blaze Foley, the songwriter, is too often lost in the legend of Blaze Foley, the “Duct Tape Messiah”. Hard drinking, homelessness,... Read more →
“Too Many Memories” by Stephen Bruton, with the Tosca Strings
The great Stephen Bruton tugs at the heart strings. Gorgeous... Read more →
Nanci Griffith
Nanci Griffith was born to musical parents in Seguin, Texas, and was playing clubs down the road in Austin by the age of fourteen. She continued to... Read more →
Mary Chapin Carpenter
Mary Chapin Carpenter is a songwriter of uncommon depth and sensitivity who came of age in the seventies as a folksinger in the clubs of Washington,... Read more →
“Walnut Street” by Walt Wilkins
Walt's tribute to wooden walls full of memories and dimpled windows that still let in the... Read more →
Jesse Winchester
It is absolutely worth your while to rediscover the recently passed Jesse Winchester, a writer of uncommon heart, wit and grace. Born in 1944 in... Read more →
“Not Dark Yet” by Allison Moorer and Shelby Lynne
Sisters Allison and Shelby breathe new life into this Dylan classic. A little different edge sung in the feminine voice, particularly in these days... Read more →
Firehouse Lounge
The Firehouse Lounge is a hidden gem accessed through a retracting bookcase. Specialty cocktails in an intimate, funky setting. Be sure to like them... Read more →
“Coast” by Eliza Gilkyson
Eliza considers the cost of... Read more →
Jo Carol Pierce
The empty spaces of West Texas have proven a petri dish for the fashioning of powerful but unorthodox art. Music, of course, but also literature,... Read more →
“Honeypot” by Bob Schneider
Bob the Man with a little magical... Read more →
Sam Baker
Heralded as among America’s finest songwriters since his debut in 2004, Sam Baker is a stone cold original with no discernible influences other... Read more →
Ana Egge’s “Rock Me (Divine Mother)”
The love of a mother, the love for a mother.... Read more →
Krause Springs
Spring is coming! Krause Springs is a privately-owned Hill Country oasis, open for swimming and lounging most of the year. Located twenty miles... Read more →
“Me and the Eagle” by Steve Earle
Take a trip to the mountaintop and turn your world from silver to... Read more →
Van Morrison
Austin Songwriter reluctantly concedes that the best living songwriter is not from Texas, not even born on American soil. This person’s name is not... Read more →
“Hard Times Come Again No More” by Seela Misra and the Purgatory Players
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Janis Joplin
>Janis Joplin's short life illuminated many hard truths. The isolation of a social outsider, the perils that lay in wait for a willful and hard... Read more →
Emmylou Harris with Gram Parsons’ “Hickory Wind”
Emmylou Harris with a wistful version of her old compadre's song. Buddy Miller on lead... Read more →
Waterloo Records
You've got a few hours to kill. It's hot outside. You're thirsty, but not just for water; you're thirsty for music. No worries, you've got the... Read more →
“Have a Little Faith in Me” by John Hiatt
We all need a little more faith right now, in something. The great John... Read more →
Roy Orbison
Roy Orbison's voice might have been enough, as strong and versatile as ever to grace American roots music. But stack that voice next to the... Read more →
“Election Day” by Lyle Lovett
Lyle Lovett with a tribute to the great Blaze Foley. John Hiatt grins... Read more →
Freddie King
Hailing from Gilmer, Texas, Freddie King held his own with B. B. King, T-Bone Walker, Muddy Waters, and other masters of the electric blues. In the... Read more →
“Take Me Lake Charles” by Shinyribs
Shinyribs says go get you some milk and mash... Read more →
Chip Taylor Podcast (July 28, 2016)
Some artists channel a calm wisdom that is as comforting as a father’s voice. We listen because their words feel right and true, gifts that might... Read more →
“Desperados Waiting for a Train” by Guy Clark
A young Guy with his ode to old... Read more →
Michael Fracasso
Michael Fracasso’s voice is high, pure and lonesome, but full of hope and strength, and his delicate songs beg us to feel a little deeper. On-stage... Read more →
“Monahans” by Kevin Higgins
Kevin's ode to the perils of young love. Barbara Maltese helps... Read more →
Leeann Atherton
"Sass" is a revered quality in Texas, a blend of joy, spunk and casual fearlessness. If you've got it, you'll have friends aplenty in the Lone Star... Read more →
“Listen to the Lion” by Van Morrison
Van the Man says search your heart for the... Read more →
Shawn Colvin
Shawn Colvin is a musical renaissance woman. An important songwriter, but also a dazzling guitarist and singer of extraordinary power with... Read more →
Mickey Newbury Live
A little Newbury to calm your... Read more →