The Bugle Boy
Lane Gosnay opened the doors to The Bugle Boy in 2005, promising a small town listening room dedicated to the songwriters of Texas and elsewhere. She... Read more →
New Release from Jon Dee Graham
Jon Dee Graham has recently released Knoxville Skyline, another powerful journey into the mind and heart of this master songwriter and performer.... Read more →
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 →
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 →
“100 Miles to Mexico” by Vince Bell
Feed the dog and grab the keys. Vince is taking us to... Read more →
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 enjoy a... Read more →
Gene Clark
Gene Clark helped facilitate the inevitable union between American folk and American country. Known primarily for his work with the Byrds, including... Read more →
Stunning Release from Walt Wilkins
Our friend Walt Wilkins has recently released Streetlight, a solo effort which draws on the formidable talents of his wife, Tina Mitchell Wilkins,... Read more →
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 a... Read more →
Josh Grider’s “Price of a Dream”
Early on a Sunday morning. A young father kisses his children, still in their beds, holds his wife for a long moment, then climbs into his truck and... Read more →
Eliza Gilkyson Interview (November 23, 2016)
Few songwriters have achieved Eliza Gilkyson’s poetic soup of inventiveness, gravitas and sheer emotion. Her songs are a flowing literature of... Read more →
New Release from David Halley
The great David Halley has just released his first new album in a long while. A Month of Somedays was produced by Will Sexton, and a number of other... Read more →
“The Randall Knife” by Guy Clark
Many songs cause me to pause and remember. A night, a friend, a love. Some bring a tear, but “The Randall Knife” breaks me down every damn... 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 →
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 →
Ponty Bone and the Squeezetones
The squeezebox has a special place in Texas musical history. A mainstay of polka, conjunto and zydeco, the "button accordion", as it is more properly... Read more →
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 →
Benefit for Savannah Welch
Savannah Welch, noted actress, musician, member of The Trishas and daughter of Kevin Welch, was recently involved in an serious accident in... Read more →
Doug Sahm
Doug Sahm’s influence on Texas music is not well enough known, but impossible to overstate. With his original stew of rock and roll, country, soul,... Read more →
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 →
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 →
Tribute to Adam Carroll
Considered by many to be the most underrated songwriter in River City, Adam Carroll is revered by audiences and fellow artists alike. Now his peers... Read more →
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 Ann... Read more →
Pinballz Arcade
Pinballz Arcade offers something for the entire family. With close to fifty pinball machines at their original location (they now have a total of 3... Read more →
K Phillips
K Phillips leads mostly from the keyboard, singing and occasionally grabbing a guitar in the course of his barn-burning live performances. Sort of... Read more →
“Loving Arms” by Darden Smith
Mesmerizing joy, and a little lust, from the great Darden... 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 →
Butch Hancock
Another musical luminary from the Lubbock area, Butch Hancock is best known for his on and off collaboration with Joe Ely and Jimmie Dale Gilmore... Read more →
Book on T Bone Burnett
Lloyd Sachs has just published a "critical appreciation" of the deep and compelling body of work of T Bone Burnett. Entitled A Life in Pursuit, and... Read more →
New Release from Travis Linville
Guitar-slinger Travis Linville, noted sideman to the likes of Hayes Carll and Parker Millsap, will release Up Ahead on February 3rd, 2017. Travis... Read more →
Alejandro Escovedo’s haunting “Rosalie”
I guess we've all had our "Rosalie". Or wish we... Read more →
A Time to Heal
Regardless of your political stripes, the division facing our country is profound and undeniable, particularly in light of the friction of the recent... Read more →
Go See Ray
Ray Wylie Hubbard will be playing some unique Texas venues. December 2nd and 3rd at The Bugle Boy in La Grange, a wonderful listening room in a... Read more →
New Release by Sarah Jarosz
Austin's Sarah Jarosz has just released Undercurrent, her first since... 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 →
A|S Song Swap @ Pershing 12/8
Austin Songwriter is proud to present a night of music and stories with Jeff Plankenhorn, BettySoo and Ben Balmer at Pershing, Austin's newest... Read more →
New Peter Green Biopic
Man Of the World - The Peter Green Story will be released on video today. Produced and directed by Steve Graham, the film profiles the volatile life... Read more →
Jeff Plankenhorn Interview (November 1, 2016)
Jeff Plankenhorn is a larger than life presence on stage. A big man with a kind smile and generous demeanor, he is often the bedrock that binds a... Read more →
New Release from Jim Lauderdale
Veteran artist Jim Lauderdale has just released his twenty-eighth studio album, This Changes Everything. Another collection of swinging and swaying... Read more →
New Release from Alejandro Escovedo
Burn Something Beautiful is the newest release from Mr. Escovedo. The man is obviously in a... Read more →
Leonard Cohen has Passed
The great Leonard Cohen has passed at the age of eighty-two. Bon voyage, Mr.... Read more →
Ted Hawkins
Ted Hawkins lived a hard life, but his journey was a gift to us all. Born black and poor in Mississippi, he did time in reform school and prison... Read more →
“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, and... Read more →
Chip Kinman is Back in the Neighborhood
The legendary Chip Kinman, who founded the seminal cowpunk band Rank & File with brother Tony and our man Alejandro Escovedo, is back on the... Read more →
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 →
Nice Article on B. W. Stevenson
The current issue of Texas Music magazine has a wonderful retrospective on the life of the late B. W. Stevenson, one of the early troubadours of... Read more →
New Album from Amanda Shires
Amanda Shires adds to her young catalog with the recent release of My Piece of Land. Produced by the great Dave Cobb, this one focuses less on her... Read more →
Beaver Nelson Release Party
Beaver Nelson will celebrate the release of his new album, Positive, at Strange Brew Lounge Side tomorrow, November 4th, at 10 p.m. Don't miss the... Read more →
“There Stands the Glass” by Ted Hawkins
The one and only Ted Hawkins lends his heart-stopping voice to this classic country song. This one will wake you... Read more →
Mary Chapin Carpenter to play The Paramount
Mary Chapin Carpenter will grace the stage of The Paramount Theatre in downtown Austin on November 3rd, at 8:00 p.m. Don't miss this... Read more →
Steve Earle to stage “Guitar Town”
On November 7th, at the Music Box Supper Club in Cleveland, Steve Earle will perform the songs of Guitar Town. Mr. Earle has taken to staging his... Read more →
Carrie Rodriguez Tours Europe
Carrie Rodriguez is commencing a European tour with her partner in music and life, Luke Jacobs. In tow are their son Cruz and her mother Katy. They... Read more →
New Release from Doyle Bramhall II
Guitar slinger and songwriter Doyle Bramhall II just released Rich Man, his first album of original work in a while. Nice to see Doyle find some time... Read more →
Paul Cauthen releases “My Gospel”
Austin's Paul Cauthen has just released his first album My Gospel, chock full of hellfire and... Read more →