With a full band, singer-songwriter Will T. Massey made his Momo’s debut Wednesday night accompanied by a full band including Richard Bowden (fiddle), Davis Ducharme-Jones (guitar), Mark “GumB” Williams (bass), and Ram Zimmerman (drums).
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“Why are you guys so quiet out there?” Stan Ridgway greeted the crowd at the Saxon Pub Tuesday night. “Wake the fuck up!”
The former Wall of Voodoo lead singer with his signature nasal, almost electric twang led his band (wife Pietra Wexstun on keyboards and electronics, Rick King on guitar) though the entire, newly-released Neon Mirage record before a “cavalcade of hits” – joking every step of the way.
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This year, the Americana Music Association could simply give every nominee an award. We imagine that would be easier than debating the merits of each of the albums, artists and songs on their list.
And we’re not about to try and guess the winners — we’ll stay in suspense until the ceremony, September 9 at the historic Ryman Auditorium in Nashville.
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“You can make up the rest,” Dave Gonzalez joked as he sat down in the court yard of the Hotel San Jose on South Congress with fellow Stone River Boy Mike Barfield.
On the heels of the band’s first release, Love on the Dial, the two were ready to look back at the recording and they’ll be back in Austin at the end of the week, playing the Continental Club on Friday night.
Dear physical CDs in your flimsy, plastic jewel cases and inconsistently-sized cardboard sleeves,
Goodbye, farewell, adieu. It’s time to leave you behind so I can listen to my new, truer love—digital.
“That’s my favorite question… what could possibly go wrong?” Butch Hancock asked before launching into another round of the epic saga of “Split and Slide.” Finishing out the last of his five-night residency and celebrating the last night of the legendary, original Cactus Cafe before the impending KUT takeover, he was joined by friends (including Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Joe Ely and BettySoo), several hundred fans, Cactus Cafe supporters and live music lovers to celebrate the historic evening.
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With so many artists having recorded John Prine’s songs, creating a compilation of covers would have been all too easy, and boring.
Great as Bonnie Raitt’s cover of “Angel From Montgomery” and David Allan Coe’s version of “You Never Even Call Me By My Name” are, we’ve heard them hundreds of times.
But the twelve artists on Broken Hearts and Dirty Windows: Songs of John Prine are funky and a little off-beat, just like the songs. And after four decades, there are certainly plenty of tunes to rediscover.
