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Steve Earle with “The Mountain”

Mr. Earle's tribute to a home in a very tough world....

“Box Cars” by Butch Hancock

The legendary Butch Hancock sings his "Box Cars". This man has...

“Vanlose Stairway” by Van Morrison

Van the Man yodels through 0ne of his many classics, with help...

“Too Many Memories” by Stephen Bruton, with the Tosca Strings

The great Stephen Bruton tugs at the heart strings. Gorgeous...

“Heavenly Day” by Patty Griffin

Patty brings you a little inspiration for your Saturday...
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“You Can’t Break My Heart” by Miles Zuniga

Miles performs "You Can't Break My Heart" for Austin Songwriter. If only that were... Read more →
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Steve Earle with “The Mountain”

Mr. Earle's tribute to a home in a very tough world.... Read more →
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“Box Cars” by Butch Hancock

The legendary Butch Hancock sings his "Box Cars". This man has surely earned these... Read more →
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“Vanlose Stairway” by Van Morrison

Van the Man yodels through 0ne of his many classics, with help from the fabulous Georgie... Read more →
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“Too Many Memories” by Stephen Bruton, with the Tosca Strings

The great Stephen Bruton tugs at the heart strings. Gorgeous... Read more →
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“Heavenly Day” by Patty Griffin

Patty brings you a little inspiration for your Saturday... Read more →
Songwriter Profiles

Miles Zuniga

Miles Zuniga left Laredo for Austin in 1984, determined to make a life out of music. In 1994, he teamed up with Tony Scalzo and Joe Shuffield and... Read more →
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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... Read more →
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Ben Balmer

Ben Balmer has the pedigree of a true troubadour. A son of Detroit, he has lugged his guitar, harmonica and imagination around the world, from... Read more →
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Max Gomez with his lovely “What It Means”

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John Fullbright

Oklahoma is sort of the Bermuda Triangle of the Great Plains. We know there's some magical stuff going on within those dusty borders, but we're... Read more →
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John Prine

John Prine began his artistic journey in 1971 with the release of John Prine, a stunning collection of poems set to melody that revealed middle... Read more →
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The Resentments residency an Austin must

The late Stephen Bruton started the tradition years ago, friends and fellow musicians gathering at the Saxon Pub every Sunday for an intimate evening... Read more →
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Denny Freeman and Bob Dylan

I recently ran into an old acquaintance at, of all places, the Saxon Pub urinal. In the seventies Denny Freeman handled guitar duties for Paul Ray... Read more →
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Willis Alan Ramsey

Confounding and eccentric, Willis Alan Ramsey thundered onto the scene in 1972 with the release of Willis Alan Ramsey, a rollicking, joyful,... Read more →
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Austin Songwriter speaks with Whitney Rose

Austin Songwriter recently had the opportunity to talk with Whitney Rose, the young singer-songwriter and recent transplant from Canada who is making... Read more →
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“Find the Light” by David Ramirez

Keep on... Read more →
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Seela Misra

Seela Misra's singing is powerful but vulnerable, yearning but confident, pulled from some deep place in a beautiful soul. Marry that voice with her... Read more →
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Lyle Lovett

Lyle Lovett is an artistic renaissance man with an impeccable Texas pedigree and a life that testifies to Lone Star independence and... Read more →
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Ruthie Foster

Many fine artists had their beginnings in gospel. Aretha Franklin, Sam Cooke, Al Greene, even Elvis and Jerry Lee. A surprising progression,... Read more →
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Joe Ely and his stunning “Slow You Down”, with Joel Guzman

  A lotta love, a little lust. Joe Ely slow dances his truck stop girl into highway... Read more →
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“Secret Heart” by Ron Sexsmith

The sensitive boy from Canada with some sage and impossibly gorgeous... Read more →
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BettySoo Interview (July 6, 2016)

BettySoo writes profound pop/folk with just enough country to makes things comfortable. At once powerful and vulnerable, she handles us like a... Read more →
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Jimmy LaFave

Jimmy LaFave, who passed away on May 21, 2017, was another Austin artist who took the building blocks of folk and country, strength, soul and an... Read more →
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Jim Lauderdale

Jim Lauderdale's baritone twang is booming and earnest and sketches a roadmap of the roots and pedigree of real American country music. The... Read more →
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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 →
Purveyors of Music

Austin Vintage Guitars

If you're in need of an impeccable vintage guitar, acoustic or electric, this is the place. Collings, Martin, Fender, Gibson, Gretsch, PRS, National,... Read more →
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“House of Songs”

Troy Campbell's House of Songs was recently profiled in Arts in Context on PBS. The "songwriter exchange program" founded by Campbell in 2009,... Read more →
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Townes Van Zandt

Perhaps the purest poet of all Texas songwriters, Townes Van Zandt wrote essential love songs and portrayed the shattered lives of lonely... Read more →
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Guy and Susanna, the Look in their Eyes

This photo or Guy and Susanna Clark means something more to folks of a certain vintage. It's the semi-hippie attire, for sure, and the old school VW,... Read more →
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“Up To The Mountain” by Patty Griffin

The incomparable Patty Griffin with her ode to the struggles of Dr. Martin Luther King. Do something beautiful... Read more →
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Eliza Gilkyson with her meditation on love, “Coast”

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Jon Dee Graham

Jon Dee Graham was raised on a Texas ranch down near the Mexican border and moved to Austin to attend school. By 1979 he was playing guitar for... Read more →
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Rodney Crowell

Rodney Crowell entered the world at Crosby (formerly known as "Lick Skillet"), Texas, and was raised in a musical family in Houston. He started... Read more →
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Darden Smith with “The Levee Song”

It's hot out on the levee, even at night. Darden takes us... Read more →
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Walt Wilkins Interview (November 23, 2016)

“Journeyman” usually refers to a seasoned and reliable guitarist or drummer, but what does it mean for a songwriter? In the case of Walt Wilkins,... Read more →
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Bruce Robison

Bruce Robison hales from the storied Texas town of Bandera, way out on the western edge of the paradise they call the Hill Country. One of the... Read more →
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Max Gomez

Max Gomez was raised in the starkly beautiful terrain that surrounds Taos, New Mexico. Nothing that the average American would recognize. Tall,... Read more →
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“Rambling’, Gamblin’ Willie” by Ray, Plank and Walt

In a blast from past, three of Austin Songwriter's favorites, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Jeff Plankenhorn and Walt Wilkins, tackle an old Dylan... Read more →
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“John Doe No. 24” by Mary Chapin Carpenter

Mary Chapin Carpenter with an almost impossibly beautiful story about an impossibly beautiful... Read more →
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Bob Marley’s “No Woman No Cry”, by Ruthie Foster and Blues Traveler

Everything's gonna be... Read more →
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Gram Parsons

Gram Parsons was born Ingram Cecil Connor III, in 1946 in Winter Haven, Florida, to Coon Dog and Avis Connor. By his death at the age of... Read more →
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Lyle Lovett’s “Flyswatter/Ice Water Blues”

Lyle... Read more →
Beer Joints

The Ginger Man

Offering a great pub feel and an inviting outside beer garden, The Ginger Man has been serving suds to Austin locals since 1994. Stop by to... Read more →
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Shinyribs’ “All About That Bass”

The genius of Kevin Russell. See his Austin Songwriter profile... Read more →
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Jack Ingram

Houston native Jack Ingram is one of those worthy songwriters who have flown a little under the radar. Maybe he's just too pretty, or maybe his... Read more →
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Chip Taylor & Carrie Rodriguez

While their significant individual accomplishments are also profiled here, Chip Taylor and Carrie Rodriguez also collaborated for several... Read more →
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“Killing the Blues” by Chris Smither

The magnificent Chris Smither does Rowland Salley's "Killing the... Read more →
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Alejandro Escovedo’s haunting “Rosalie”

I guess we've all had our "Rosalie". Or wish we... Read more →
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“Monahans” by Kevin Higgins

Kevin's ode to the perils of young love. Barbara Maltese helps... Read more →
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South Plains Jamboree

Let's take a ride out west, where the trees bend with the wind. Strong people, big sky, great... Read more →
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“Me and the Eagle” by Steve Earle

Take a trip to the mountaintop and turn your world from silver to... Read more →
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Amanda Shires – Where is Home?

Amanda Shires discusses her home in this piece by The Box. The Meaning of... Read more →
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Willie Nelson

What can be said about this man that hasn't already been debated, cussed and discussed? Not much, given his iconic status in country music and... Read more →
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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 →
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