Compiling the “best of Austin 2009″ into a single disc is no easy feat but the Austin Convention & Visitors Bureau has managed to do so, picking 14 genre-crossing songs from artists like Del Castillo, Jimmie Vaughn, Willie and the Wheel, Sarah Jarosz and The Daze.
At the CD launch at the Gibson Guitar Showroom we caught up with The Daze whose song “Blizzard Woman Blues” was included on the record.
After spending more than a decade in Central America, Grant Peeples returned to the States to record his record Pawnshop, an alt-country album that he’s selling on the “trust system” which means listeners send him $15 after they receive their copy from his website.
He recently took a few minutes to answer some of our questions by email about his music and inspiration.
Austin-based Shelley King has a new record, Welcome Home (recorded with members of the Subdudes) and is keeping busy with various shows around Texas before she’ll embark on a tour of Japan in January.
Recently she sat down and chatted about the album, her musical background and being Texas State Musician 2008.
Dave Rawlings is out on the road with his Machine (a collective of friends including Old Crow Medicine Show members Ketch Secor, Morgan Jahnig and Willie Watson and Gillian Welch) promoting his new record, A Friend of A Friend.
From his hometown of Nashville, he kindly took some time (on his day off) to answer a few of our questions about recording the new record, inspirations from Gram Parsons and that Leica camera.
Newly relocated singer-songwriter Jessie Torrisi left the Big Apple for Austin at the beginning of this year, following her musical dreams and creating her first record, Brûler, Brûler.
She took some time to talk with us about the move, being a drummer turned front-woman and the gift indie rock has given to the world.
The loud buzz of socializing and beer glasses clinking at Telluride’s Las Montañas Cantina stops the second Carolyn Wonderland opens her mouth. She’s chosen to open with a vintage gospel number, “Nobody’s Fault But Mine,” giving it an acrobatic a cappella intro before she and the band settle into a bluesy groove.
Rockabilly queen Rosie Flores’ latest album, Girl Of The Century, has been out on shelves for almost a month and she’s currently overseas promoting the record.
On the eve of her European tour, Rosie chatted with us about working with Jon Langford and the Pine Valley Cosmonauts, hearing herself on the radio of her 1979 Camero and Gram Parson’s pants.
When they’re not out on the road promoting Heaven & Earth, their latest record, or in the studio recording, Ricky Davis (half of the duo Blue Mother Tupelo) keeps busy handling the scheduling, producing and other business aspects of music.
From their home in Henderson, Tenn. or “Johnny Cash Country” as he calls it, Ricky took some time to answer our questions on their music, touring and an upcoming showcase at the Bijou Theater.
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