Amy Cook: “Summer Skin”
AMY COOK Summer Skin Root House/Thirty Tigers Amy Cook has been building an underground buzz with her poignant vocals and distinctive songwriting for almost a …
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Ruby Jane: “Celebrity (Empire of Emptiness)”
RUBY JANE Celebrity (Empire of Emptiness) Vinyl Records With Celebrity (empire of loneliness), 17-year-old fiddle prodigy and emerging singer-songwriter Ruby Jane Smith makes a valiant …
The Mavericks: “Suited Up and Ready”
THE MAVERICKS Suited Up and Ready Big Machine The Mavericks always offered a lusher kind of country, closer to the satiny sophistication of Patsy Cline …
Milkdrive: “Waves”
MILKDRIVE Waves MilkDrive.com Austin’s MilkDrive bills itself as a jazz-grass band, and they live up to the label on this, their second album. The difference …
Shawn Colvin: “All Fall Down”
SHAWN COLVIN All Fall Down Nonesuch Released in tandem with her new memoir, Diamond in the Rough, Shawn Colvin’s All Fall Down is the Austin-based …
Beaver Nelson: “Macro/Micro”
BEAVER NELSON Macro/Micro Freedom Records Beaver Nelson has made six records over the last 15 years. They have all been good, solid collections of guitar-driven …
Rhett Miller: “The Dreamer”
RHETT MILLER The Dreamer Maximum Sunshine Records Sometimes sounding like a mix of Ryan Adams and Wilco (minus the experimental noise), Old 97’s frontman Rhett …
Corby Schaub: “Handmade”
CORBY SCHAUB Handmade Arriba Corby Schaub will be no doubt be familiar to many Texas music and Americana fans from his years as guitar slinger …
Corb Lund: “Cabin Fever”
CORB LUND Cabin Fever New West Authenticity is a rare commodity in country music these days, but Canadian Corb Lund seems to haul around a …
The Trishas: “High, Wide & Handsome”
THE TRISHAS High, Wide & Handsome TheTrishas.com The Trishas’ deeply soulful sounds have sent many chasing the buzz around Texas the past couple years. And …
