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By Lynne Margolis (LSM Jan 2014/vol. 7 – issue 1) From Mumford & Sons’ Album of the Year Grammy Award to the Coen Brothers’ folk-filled, T …

By Lynne Margolis (LSM Jan 2014/vol. 7 – issue 1) For its 12th year, the Austin City Limits Festival had intended to expand to six days, …

RECKLESS KELLY Long Night Moon No Big Deal Records It wouldn’t be hard for an amateur anthologist to come up with sort of a shadow …

SARAH JAROSZ Build Me Up From Bones Sugar Hill Even as a teen, Sarah Jarosz seemed preternaturally mature and self-assured. But with her ascent into …

BRENNEN LEIGH & NOEL McKAY Before the World Was Made www.brennenleigh.net Cute musical couples love to make cute songs of love together. One supposes it’s …

COLIN GILMORE The Wild and Hollow Woobletown Records Colin Gilmore may come from Flatlander stock, but the dominant Lubbock gene in his musical DNA doesn’t …

BRANDON RHYDER That’s Just Me Reserve Records/Thirty Tigers Brandon Rhyder, quite simply, is a damn-good singer. That alone is enough to set him apart on …

CHARLIE FAYE You Were Fine, You Weren’t Even Lonely Wine & Nut Records The wistfulness permeating — actually, dominating — the jazz-inflected soul-pop of Charlie Faye’s …

NEKO CASE The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, the Harder I Fight, the More I Love You Anti- Few things are more delightful …

Barbara Nesbitt Almost Home Scarlet Productions When she’s not knocking back shots of harmonic hooch as one of Austin’s Whiskey Sisters, Barbara Nesbitt serves up …