Hear It, Lovett
New Haven Advocate 11/5/2009
The constant high praise heaped on Lyle Lovett might lead one to believe the Texas singer/songwriter has become jaded. One would be very mistaken....
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Band of Heathens have 'One Foot' in a promising future
The Daily Times 11/5/2009
Being classified as an Americana act has both ups and downs, according to Band of Heathens singer/multi-instrumentalist Gordy Quist. On one hand, it's a broad enough term that it encompasses everything the group wants to accomplish with its music. On the other, however, it's been used so much that ...
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WADE BOWEN GEARS UP FOR “LIVE AT BILLY BOB’S” ALBUM AND DVD ON NOV. 21, 2009
Rodeo Attitude 11/5/2009
Award winning singer/songwriter WADE BOWEN is heading to the world famous Billy Bob’s Texas to record his highly anticipated cd/dvd compilation - “Live at Billy Bob’s.” Bowen and his band will head to Ft. Worth on Nov. 21 to document the evening of amazing music for their fans....
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Robert Earl Keen's Latest Release Tops Americana Charts
Country Hound 11/4/2009
Robert Earl Keen's album "The Rose Hotel" reached the top spot on the AMA Americana Radio Airplay chart Monday. His first studio album in four years, Keen has been supporting the album with an appearance on Imus in the Morning and an acoustic tour with Todd Snider and Bruce Robinson. He will continu...
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Reba McEntire & George Strait Tour!
The Post Chronicle 11/4/2009
Reba McEntire & George Strait did such a good job singing together and bringing in the fans at the opening of the new NFL Cowboys stadium that they are going on tour together for 2009!...
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Guy Clark: A Folk Icon Looks Forward
npr.com 11/4/2009
For more than 35 years, legendary songwriter Guy Clark has been a national folk icon. His songs are largely narrative, inspired by the storytelling poems of Robert Frost and Stephen Vincent Benet....
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Kinky: 'I don't want any toll roads in Texas'
Dallas Morning News 11/4/2009
Kinky Friedman has a way of saying what's on his mind, and you usually come away without any confusion, at least not about what he believes. ...
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Q&A: Country artist Pat Green on Cracker Barrel and awkward bathroom convo
Sun Sentinel 11/2/2009
He spent the early part of his music career barnstorming college campuses across the country spreading his Texas-inspired lyrics to the student masses....
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Lee Ann Womack Takes 'Noble' Turn in New Film
www.theboot.com 11/2/2009
Lee Ann Womack fans know they can hear her on the radio, and they're accustomed to seeing her on TV screens occasionally. But as of the past weekend, Lee Ann is also on the big screen....
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West Seattle Filmmaker to screen new ZZ Top documentary
West Seattle Herald 11/2/2009
West Seattle Filmmaker Jamie Chamberlin’s second ZZ Top documentary was released Oct. 20. The 2-DVD set, “Double Down Live,” features the legendary band performing live, peppered with behind-the-scenes footage...
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Kinky makes case for governor
Odessa American 11/1/2009
Kinky Friedman says that it’s time to stop telling one of his favorite jokes — that he’s too young for Medicare and too old for women too care....
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Review: Lyle Lovett at the Norton Center
www.Kentucky.com 10/30/2009
“I remember some of you folks,” uttered Lyle Lovett after one of his signature tunes, Here I Am, served as a reintroduction last night at the Norton Center for the Arts....
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Green expands horizons with newest album
Galveston Daily News 10/30/2009
The last few years for Pat Green have been about trying new things and new perspectives. The country singer, who built his following largely on the hallowed floorboards of Texas dance halls without a major record deal, recently signed with a Nashville label and stepped farther into the role of husb...
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Aaron Watson to be featured on HLN
rodeoattitude.com 10/29/2009
Having ten albums now under his belt, most recently his live CD/DVD Deep In The Heart Of Texas: Aaron Watson LIVE, the 31 year old Watson is constantly hard at work writing, recording and producing the true country music that his ever expanding fan base craves. The long and challenging road of his c...
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Trio of Texas songwriters ride into Water Street Music Hall
www.DemocratAndChronicle.com 10/29/2009
It was fellow Texan Steve Earle who talked Robert Earl Keen into moving to Nashville to become an important songwriter in the '80s, back when Texans were all the rage. ...
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THE BAND OF HEATHENS TO APPEAR ON PBS’ AUSTIN CITY LIMITS ON BILL WITH ELVIS COS
pr-inside.com 10/29/2009
The Band of Heathens, whose new album One Foot in the Ether the web ’zine AmericanaRoots.com ponders as “the best record of 2009,” will appear on PBS’ Austin City Limits on November 7 on a bill headlined ...
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Billy Joe Shaver to play McDavid Studio
star-telegram.com 10/28/2009
It’s not just that Billy Joe Shaver is acknowledged as one of the best country singers to work his craft in Texas that makes this Fort Worth concert notable. It’s that Shaver remains one of the most vital creative links to the birth ...
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AMERICANA: Robert Earl Keen
rochestercitynewspaper.com 10/28/2009
It amazes me that we can actually see songwriters like Robert Earl Keen. Keen's songs are full of colorful character and a rich narrative that contains no ego or pretense. He takes a backseat to his songs and their stories even though they are, in many cases, his own. The unsung, the mundane, the od...
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Texas is always on Lyle Lovett's mind
Lexington Herald-Leader 10/25/2009
It is record-release day for Lyle Lovett, a Tuesday when his 14th album, Natural Forces, is being unleashed on the world. Typically, such an occasion becomes the apex of a promotional push, a day loaded with TV appearances, performances and any number of exercises to capitalize on what is, in essen...
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Talking horses and horse sense with Lyle Lovett
tallahassee.com 10/23/2009
He likes to talk about fellow Texas songwriters, making movies with Robert Altman and playing the music on his new CD, "Natural Forces," but his voice really perks up and takes on a different tone when the subject turns to horses. Lovett, who owns a breeding ranch and more quarter horses "than I can...
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Bingham had to clear life’s hurdles
www.2theAdvocate.com 10/23/2009
As much as a traveling musician can, Ryan Bingham, a 28-year-old new addition to the Texas singer-songwriter tradition, has a home. His permanent address in Topanga Canyon, Calif., is the first place he’s settled since his mid-teens....
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CD Review: Brandon Jenkins "Brothers of the Dirt”
www.NewsOK.com 10/23/2009
Brandon Jenkins, a singer/songwriter/guitarist based in Austin, Texas, orchestrates a tuneful communion of top red dirt/Texas music talents for his new album, "Brothers of the Dirt.” Cody Canada, Randy Rogers and Stoney LaRue are among the musical brethren who partner with Jenkins on the record. No...
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Asleep at the Wheel aims to entertain
Stillwater NewsPress 10/22/2009
Economy got you down? Dog ate your homework? Lost that lottery ticket? No matter the ailment, Asleep At The Wheel has the antidote. At 8 p.m. today, the famed group responsible for some of the best in western swing music is scheduled to perform at the Stillwater Community Center, 315 West Eighth Av...
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Band of Heathens headlining at Schroeder Hall Saturday
victoriaadvocate.com 10/21/2009
Band of Heathens isn't your typical band. From how they formed to how they operate to even how they got their name has been a fluke, albeit a happy fluke indeed. ...
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Stars of Texas Music Legacy Series presents free concert
newstreamz.com 10/20/2009
The Stars of Texas Music Legacy Series will feature Austin-based artists Band of Heathens and The Trishas for a concert at 8 p.m. Tuesday at the Glade Outdoor Theatre on the Texas State campus. The event is free and open to the public....
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Lyle Lovett's latest: A force of nature
Buffalo News 10/20/2009
Lyle Lovett has long come across as the nice guy who finished last. He's the dude who, against all odds, got the beautiful girl, then promptly lost her to some better-looking, wealthier other man. So Lovett sighs, sucks it up, writes some songs about it and moves on down the line. ...
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Miranda Lambert dazzles with scorching sincerity at State Fair concert
Dallas Morning News 10/18/2009
Miranda Lambert is an incendiary country-rocker, a female version of Steve Earle sans the drugs and tattoos. But then the Lindale singer-songwriter turns vulnerable, bravely exposing deeply emotional edges. ...
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Jason Boland Block Party: After Tech Game
lubbockonline.com 10/17/2009
Bash Riprocks is putting on a Block Party 'Outdoor Concert' next Saturday Oct 24th featuring Jason Boland & The Stragglers. Other bands playing are the Boxcar Bandits, The Justin Ford Band and the Seth Savage Band. The concert starts immediately after the Tech/A&M game and will go till 1:30am...
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Ryan Bingham goes from bull riding to song writing
North Carolina News-Observer 10/16/2009
If you dialed up central casting and asked for someone who could pass for a rodeo cowboy, they'd send over someone who looks just like Ryan Bingham -- young and charismatic, in a weather-beaten sort of way, with a voice that make his exploits sound true-to-life. Funny thing, though, a rodeo cowboy i...
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Get to know: Asylum Street Spankers
Times Union 10/15/2009
Sound: Humming, hooting and hollering Western-gospel roots -- complete with washboard.Claim to fame: The Spankers are considered some of the best live roots musicians in the country ...
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Tom Russell knows about music and painting -- and criminology
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH 10/15/2009
For the first CD of the second part of his career, Tom Russell has gone back 40 years for some of the memories and images that bring to life the striking songs on “Blood and Candle Smoke.”...
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Legacy Recordings Announces Digital Releases for Fall 2009
PR Newswire 10/15/2009
Before his untimely passing at the age of 52 on New Year's Day 1997, the underrated singer-songwriter Townes Van Zandt laid down a series of intense home demo versions of his most familiar and iconic songs...
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SNEAK PEEK: Smokin' In The Park
The Daily Aztec 10/15/2009
Times are always tough for college students. The constant struggle of finding events that offer an array of sights and sounds, without coughing up cash is almost extinct. Well, almost. ...
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Easy as 1, 2, 3
The Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram 10/15/2009
Friday: When Los Lonely Boys scored a massive radio hit with "Heaven" in 2004, it didn't take long for Jojo Garza and his two brothers to get a little tired of being called "an overnight success."...
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Live review: Steve Earle at the Troubadour
Los Angeles Times 10/11/2009
The alt-country singer-songwriter pays tribute to his youthful hero-turned-mentor in a set heavy on Townes Van Zandt's keenly observed tales of life's wanderers and truth seekers....
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Duo combines comedy, melody
Salt Lake Tribune 10/10/2009
Saturday's concert at Kingsbury Hall provided the all-too-rare opportunity to see two of the sharpest American alt-mainstream singer-songwriters around, Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt, swap stories and songs while giving insight to what makes them who they are. ...
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R.I.P. Original Austin Cosmic Cowboy Rusty Weir
Houston Press 10/9/2009
Texas music legend Rusty Wier has passed away according to a post from North Texas disc jockey Shayne Hollinger on the Galleywinter Texas music chat site....
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Bart Crow releases 'Heartworn Tragedy'
Wichita Falls Times-Record News 10/9/2009
Even tough guys have tender stories to tell, including Bart Crow. On Crow’s latest CD, “Heartworn Tragedy,” the Texas rocker says, “I bared it all on this record. I opened my heart, exposed my family’s tragedies, and when it was done, I had nothing else to give.”...
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Band of Heathens, Trishas featured in Music Legacy Series concert
San Marcos Mercury 10/8/2009
The Stars of Texas Music Legacy Series will be featuring the Band of Heathens as well as the Trishas for a free concert 8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 20 at the Glade outdoor theatre on the Texas State University campus....
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Let The Good Times Roll
Encore Online 10/6/2009
Delbert McClinton is back in action at the Seafood, Jazz and Blues Festival. As the days become shorter and cooler in Southeastern North Carolina, and the summer makes way for the fall, residents and tourists alike still have the luxury of enjoying long weekends in the sound and surf. For both musi...
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Rowdy Miranda Lambert highlights Chicago Country Music Festival
Chicago Tribune 10/5/2009
A pink electric guitar at her hip, Miranda Lambert called out to the crowd at the Chicago Country Music Festival, "Do we have any bad girls here tonight?"...
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Guy Clark: A Folk Icon Looks Forward
npr.org 10/4/2009
For more than 35 years, legendary songwriter Guy Clark has been a national folk icon. His songs are largely narrative, inspired by the storytelling poems of Robert Frost and Stephen Vincent Benet....
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Los Lonely Boys Take Us Back to 1969
The Texas Observer 10/2/2009
Rock trio Los Lonely Boys were a strange fit for the Billboard charts in 2004, a year dominated by hip-hop experimentalists Outkast, R&B heartthrob Usher, ardent piano diva Alicia Keys, introverted piano diva Norah Jones and Josh Groban, whom one could only describe as a tenor Celine Dion....
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Eli Young Band riding hot streak back to OKC
www.NewsOK.com 10/2/2009
The Eli Young Band is without a doubt a Texas music sensation, formed in Denton by four friends who still call the Lone Star State home. But bassist Jon Jones expects Sunday’s show at the Zoo Amphitheatre to feel like a homecoming....
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Billy Joe Shaver in L.A.: A conversation
Los Angeles Times 10/2/2009
While three of members of country music royalty -- Emmylou Harris, Vince Gill and Dwight Yoakam -- gathered Thursday night at the shiny new 2,000-seat Club Nokia for a tony dinner and concert fundraiser benefiting the Country Music Hall of Fame, one of country’s under-sung heroes, Texas singer and s...
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Singer's voice 'screams hard living'
Huntsville Times 10/1/2009
Folk rock/Americana singer Ryan Bingham has never had to look hard to find material for his songs. When you grow up in a home full of substance abuse, leave home at the age of 17 and join a rodeo circuit, there are plenty of stories to tell....
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Lucinda Williams's Long, Rocky Road
Wall Street Journal 10/1/2009
It may be difficult for Lucinda Williams to top opening night of her 30th-anniversary tour, held Sept. 18 here. She married her manager, Tom Overby, at the show's end. And, before the nuptials, her band, Buick 6, was a raging fire, a reincarnation of the "Let It Bleed"-era Stones. Ms. Williams and B...
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Los Lonely Boys: Still Rising?
Alexandria Times 10/1/2009
Sir Isaac Newton is attributed with the phrase, “What goes up must come down.” While the 17th century mathematician was describing the magnetic planetary force that led to an apple falling to the ground, his words could have easily been describing the career trajectory of most mainstream popular mus...
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Bob Schneider's new CD is more mainstream but still in keeping with his characte
dallasnews.com 9/29/2009
"I decided I wasn't going to do anything that was too quirky," says the 43-year-old singer-songwriter by phone from his home in Austin. "No songs that had any offensive language. I opted to make more of a cohesive record even though stylistically it does switch into the salsa-mambo songs like 'Bomba...
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Revering friends
Austin 360 9/29/2009
Guitarist Stephen Bruton, whose weekly Sunday night gigs with the Resentments at the Saxon Pub helped make him a fixture of the Austin music scene, died May 9 at age 60. He backed Kris Kristofferson for nearly 40 years....
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On the rails with Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Butch Hancock and Dave Alvin
Los Angeles Times 9/29/2009
Reporting from Albuquerque - Texas singer-songwriter Joe Ely has been in love with trains his whole life. In 1977, he recorded one of the great train songs -- "Boxcars," which his longtime pal Butch Hancock wrote -- laying out exactly what had hooked him over the course of countless rides in open fr...
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Cross Canadian Ragweed returning to Cain's
Tulsa World 9/29/2009
Cross Canadian Ragweed will play Cain's Ballroom on Wednesday, Oct. 28, with special guests Jonathan Tyler and The Northern Lights. ...
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After fighting off lung cancer, Merle Haggard returns to the stage
popmatters.com 9/29/2009
During the course of his long career, Merle Haggard has racked up 38 No. 1 country hits, sung with George, Dolly and Willie, toured with Bob (Dylan, that is), entered the Country Music Hall of Fame, recorded with Toby Keith and publicly defended the Dixie Chicks....
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Radney Foster's new album represents a Revival
chron.com 9/29/2009
Radney Foster watched himself on a flat-screen television monitor strumming an acoustic guitar and singing I Know You Can Hear Me, an emotional message to his father, retired Del Rio lawyer John Radney Foster, who died last year in San Antonio....
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No Justice band keeps Manhattan crowd entertained with high energy show at Longh
kstatecollegian.com 9/28/2009
No Justice blew through Manhattan for a live performance Thursday night, looking forward to a performance Friday night in the Windy City....
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Cross Canadian Ragweed Invites Rockers to Oklahoma City Zoo Amp: Family Jam
California Chronicle 9/25/2009
Not surprisingly, a strong lineup of Oklahoma and Texas bands will be featured Saturday at the Sixth Annual Cross Canadian Ragweed Family Jam. But people expecting an all-red dirt extravaganza may be taken aback. "We'll have the usual suspects ... but we're trying to make it a leaning more toward ...
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San Marcos musicians discovered Strait; the rest is country music history
Austin American-Statesman 9/25/2009
"Country band looking for singer" was all it said, with a phone number. From that seed of torn paper stuck on the cluttered bulletin board at the Southwest Texas State University student center in August 1975 grew a chapter of country music history that's still a page-turner. ...
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Gretchen Wilson, Ryan Bingham Added to Farm Aid Show
theboot.com 9/25/2009
Gretchen Wilson and Ryan Bingham are both happy to report that they got the call from Willie Nelson that all artists dream of getting. The two have been added to Willie's Farm Aid concert lineup, which also features Neil Young, John Mellencamp, Dave Matthews, Jamey Johnson, Wilco, Billy Jo Shaver, J...
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James McMurtry packs Johnny D's
patriotledger.com 9/25/2009
As much as he has become an icon, albeit still somewhat an underground icon, in the Americana music category, James McMurtry is most of all a poet. His vocals aren't as monochromatic as Leonard Cohen's, to cite another poetic rocker, but they are still essentially musical recitations of his incisive...
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‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’ singer to perform
Daily Item 9/24/2009
Country musician and self-proclaimed “country girl” Miranda Lambert has a unique distinction at this year’s Bloomsburg Fair. Her grandstand performance on Sunday will be the only solo grandstand show by a female....
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