Posts in category Vol 5 Issue 3

JONIE RAE JACK Jonie Rae Jack Ah-Ha Music Group Joni Rae Jack is not a 20-something starlet with aspirations of being the next big thing …

The beast that consumes Austin also gives back By Lynne Margolis (May/June 2012/vol. 5 – Issue 3) Having long ago morphed from an 800-pound gorilla …

ROB BAIRD I Swear It’s the Truth Carnival Recording Company Rob Baird’s I Swear It’s the Truth is the wise-beyond-his-years album that some folks were …

BONNIE RAITT Slipstream Redwing Records Bonnie Raitt always gets kudos for her wicked cool guitar chops, but even if she couldn’t play a single lick, …

SETH WALKER Times Can Change Roe Records Talk about understated. Former Austinite Seth Walker, who moved to Nashville a few years ago, has gone elemental …

TODD SNIDER Time As We Know It: The Songs of Jerry Jeff Walker Aimless Records/Thirty Tigers Todd Snider recording an album of Jerry Jeff Walker …

WILLIE NELSON Heroes Legacy Heroes isn’t a classic Willie Nelson album, but it is a very good one. It takes a while to get there, …

WALT WILKINS Plenty Ride Records Walt Wilkins bookends Plenty with a Zen mantra (“Just Be”) and a psalm for gratitude embraced (“Between Midnight & Day”). …

JASON EADY AM Country Heaven Littoraria Records Jason Eady, a folkie with a bluesman’s grit in his groan, has never been one for the more …

JOHN FULLBRIGHT From the Ground Up Blue Dirt/Thirty Tigers How good is John Fullbright’s anxiously anticipated From the Ground Up? (Yes, anticipated — at least …