Hayes Carll: “Lovers and Leavers”
HAYES CARLL Lovers and Leavers HWY 87 Records/Thirty Tigers The elevator pitch for Hayes Carll’s fifth album, as sketched out by the artist himself in …
HAYES CARLL Lovers and Leavers HWY 87 Records/Thirty Tigers The elevator pitch for Hayes Carll’s fifth album, as sketched out by the artist himself in …
By Richard Skanse Country music has done right by Monte Warden, and for most of his life, the Austin singer-songwriter and band leader has been …
NEW MYSTERY GIRL Crawl Through Your Hair! Gutsy Dame/www.NewMysteryGirl.com Fourteen years ago, I wrote a review of Chrissy Flatt’s Wings of a Butterfly in which …
CHRIS KING Animal Classic Records If you follow Austin songwriter Chris King on Twitter, you might have noticed that he can be a bit of …
By Richard Skanse “Alright, I hope you won’t be disappointed,” Daniel Johnston told his audience Saturday night at East Austin’s new Bale Creek Allen Gallery, “but we …
By Richard Skanse “Hey, what ’cha know?” It’s 10:30 a.m., and Joe Ely, his signature West Texas greeting as cheerful as ever, is all coffee’d …
VARIOUS ARTISTS Dreamer: A Tribute to Kent Finlay Eight 30 Records Although he was a prolific songwriter and no stranger to performing onstage, Kent Finlay …
JAVIER ESCOVEDO Kicked Out of Eden Saustex Records It’s probably just a coincidence/happy accident that Javier Escovedo’s Kicked Out of Eden clocks in at exactly …
By Richard Skanse That Kent Finlay loved songwriters as much as he loved writing songs himself was no secret to anybody who ever knew the …
BRENNEN LEIGH Brennen Leigh Sings Lefty Frizzell South Central Music That title alone should sell this thing. Admittedly, Brennen Leigh Sings Lefty Frizzell may not …