In Profile: Jess Klein An ex-pat New Yorker rediscovers her musical faith in Texas
By D.C. Bloom (LSM Oct/Nov 2014/vol. 7 – Issue 5) A funny thing happened on the way to completing Jess Klein’s most recent album, Learning …
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Meet the Fauntleroys Hurricane survivor Alejandro Escovedo teams with friends Ivan Julian, Nicolas Tremulis and Linda Pitmon to revisit his punk roots and channel the “immediacy of the streets”
By Lynne Margolis (LSM Oct/Nov 2014/vol. 7 – Issue 5) Being Alejandro Escovedo’s manager can’t be the easiest job even on good days. The guy’s …
Q&A: Rhett Miller The Old 97’s frontman on the secrets to surviving 20 years together in a rock ’n’ roll band, the joy of dropping f-bombs, keeping up with Tommy Stinson, and not meeting Axl Rose.
By Richard Skanse (LSM May/June 2014/vol. 7 – issue 3) “We’ve been doing this longer than you’ve been alive …” So begins the first song on …
Q&A: Ray Benson On his new solo album, the longtime driver of Asleep at the Wheel steps out of character to reveal A Little Piece of the man behind the “Long, Tall Texan.”
By Holly Gleason (LSM March/April 2014/vol. 7 – Issue 2) With his 6’7” frame and long ponytail, Ray Benson is one of the most recognizable …
Laura Cantrell: “No Way There From Here”
LAURA CANTRELL No Way There From Here Thrift Shop Recordings Over her five albums, New York-via-Nashville alt-country songbird Laura Cantrell has evolved steadily from savvy …
LSM Cover Story: Steve Earle Steve Earle's Low Highway: With hard times in the new millennium, it takes a fearless heart to sing the truth.
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 …
Jess Klein: “Behind a Veil”
JESS KLEIN Behind a Veil Motherlode Records Like tourists in search of the largest urban bat colony in the world, singer-songwriters in search of new …
LSM Cover Story: Jerry Jeff Walker The Lion in winter
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 …
Mr. Record Man: Jerry Jeff Walker
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 …
LSM Cover Story: Mike Judge’s Beavis and Butt-head "Shut up and play the blues, buttmunch!" Austin's Mike Judge on music, his movies, and the triumphant ... uh, huh-huh-huh ... comeback of Beavis and Butt-head
By Richard Skanse (Nov/Dec 2011/Vol. 4 – Issue 6) In the 2006 Mike Judge film Idiocracy, ordinary average guy and cryogenics guinea pig Joe Bauers (Luke Wilson) …
