“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.
Shrugging off the rain and ominous storm clouds and relishing the few breaks of sunlight, the crowd at Old Settler’s Music Festival showed up with ponchos, rain boots and trash bags to enjoy four days of music, food and fun. More…
In just under two weeks (April 15-18), Old Settler’s Music Festival will help kick off the festival season at the Salt Lick BBQ Pavilion in Driftwood, Texas (just south of Austin) with four stages and four days of Americana music.
When disaster strikes, the musicians of Austin are quick to respond with a benefit concert. For the people of Haiti that were devastated by the earthquake two weeks ago, Joe Ely and over twenty of his most talented friends joined together with some 2,000 music lovers for a ten hour marathon concert at the Austin Music Hall Sunday to raise money and show support.
Nominations for the 8th Annual Americana Awards were announced last week and Buddy Miller seems to be the hands-down darling this year with a nomination in every category besides the “new & emerging artist.”
The award show, scheduled on Sept. 17 will be hosted by Jim Lauderdale and will feature a band led by, who else, Buddy Miller.
After 34 seasons, Austin City Limits is the longest running live concert television show.
Beginning as a humble local venue to showcase local Texas artists, the series has grown to feature a wide variety of musical styles and genres.
The new season began last week with an encore showing of R.E.M. but new shows begin this week with Bettye LaVette and Pinetop Perkins.
Other episodes will feature acts such as Lyle Lovett (with his friends John Hiatt, Guy Clark, and Joe Ely), Jakob Dylan, My Morning Jacket, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, Carolyn Wonderland, and Aimee Mann.
Maybe it was the time you drove 16 hours to see your girlfriend/boyfriend.
Or the summer you had to visit Aunt Edna in Alabama.
Or that one time you and 4 of your closest friends decided to follow String Cheese Incident (or any other band) across the country in a beat up van.
Chances are you’ve been stuck in the seat of a car for far too long at some point in your life and can at least sympathize with the truckers who haul food and other such goodies.
In this roundup we’ll look at driving of various origin.
What happens when you toss Rick Treviño, Ruben Ramos, David Hidalgo of Los Lobos, Joe Ely, John Hiatt and Lyle Lovett with just about every other fantastic musician within a few hundred miles? You get Los Super 7 – the Grammy winning super group singing songs from both sides of the border.
