Venue Spotlight: The Mercy Lounge & Cannery Ballroom
By Holly Gleason (LSM Sept/Oct 2011/vol. 4 – Issue 5) Mercy Lounge & The Cannery Ballroom One Cannery Row, Nashville, Tenn., 37203 615-251-3020 / www.mercylounge.com …
By Holly Gleason (LSM Sept/Oct 2011/vol. 4 – Issue 5) Mercy Lounge & The Cannery Ballroom One Cannery Row, Nashville, Tenn., 37203 615-251-3020 / www.mercylounge.com …
By Mike Ethan Messick (LSM Sept/Oct 2011/vol. 4 – Issue 5) Hard as it may be to believe in the hyper-connected, niche-friendly world of today, there …
By Brian T. Atkinson (LSM Sept/Oct 2011/vol. 4 – Issue 5) Lyle Lovett suddenly stops strumming, glances around at the other players assembled with him …
Robert Earl Keen and Bill Whitbeck perform “Paint the Town Beige” and “I’m Coming Home” at Lone Star Music in Gruene, Texas on Aug. 30, …
By Doug Pullen (LSM July/Aug 2011/vol. 4 – Issue 4) What’s in a name? When you’re El Paso’s Dirty River Boys, it’s all about evoking …
By Laurie Barker James (LSM July/Aug 2011/vol. 4 – Issue 4) To some, the Turnpike Troubadours seemed to come blazing out of nowhere to win …
THE GREENCARDS The Brick Album Darling Street Records After three releases on Dualtone Records and one on Sugar Hill, the Australia-to-Austin-to-Nashville migrants the Greencards funded …
GARY NICHOLSON Texas Songbook Bismeaux Records Gary Nicholson’s long career has yielded many hits and high points, including producing two Grammy-winning albums for fellow Fort …
ROBYN LUDWICK Out of These Blues www.robynludwick.com Yes, Robyn Ludwick has famous Americana-ish brothers and/or sisters-in-law (Is a sister-in-law who’s an ex to a brother …
ERIC HISAW Ghost Stories www.erichisaw.com Austin’s Eric Hisaw (originally from Las Cruces, N.M.) has knocked out a handful of solid roots-rock releases over the last …