By Richard Skanse Talk about jumping right into the deep end … When Hector Saldana left his longtime gig at the San Antonio Express-News to start …
SLIM BAWB Rooster Swampgrass Records A welcome and familiar sound on stages of various size in the Texas Hill Country, Bob “Slim Bawb” Pearce has …
By Rob Patterson Things are looking bright — or one could say shiny — for Austin’s Shinyribs right now. What began as a side project …
By Lynne Margolis (LSM Oct/Nov 2014/vol. 7 – Issue 5) Though Paul Thorn didn’t release his first album until 1997, it’s not a stretch to …
KING CORDUROY Austin Soul Stew Self-released Genuine soul music in the classic mode is not one of the sounds that Austin is generally known for, …
By Holly Gleason (LSM May/June 2013/vol. 6 – Issue 3) It’s a late afternoon in the Big Apple, the tail end of a particularly …
By Richard Skanse (LSM May/June 2013/vol. 6 – Issue 3) Don’t call Steve Earle’s 1995 album Train a Comin’ a “comeback.” Oh, it certainly met …
By John T. Davis (March/April 2012/vol. 5 – Issue 2) Jerry Jeff Walker is turning 70. Who’d of thunk it? Certainly no one who watched …
By Richard Skanse (March/April 2012/vol. 5 – Issue 2) By the time Jerry Jeff Walker came sliding sideways into Luckenbach, the 31-year-old freewheeling drifter already …
By Richard Skanse (LSM Jan/Feb 2012/vol. 5 – Issue 1) Ruthie Foster didn’t actually make her new Let It Burn album with her hands tied behind her …
