Posts tagged roots rock

Jason Isbell, Sturgill Simpson among big winners at AMA Awards By Lynne Margolis (LSM Oct/Nov 2014/vol. 7 – Issue 5) Fifteen years after the gathering …

Punching in with Americana’s new supergroup By Lynne Margolis (LSM March/April 2014/vol. 7 – Issue 2) Todd Snider may present himself as a barefoot-stoner folkie just …

By Kelly Dearmore (LSM March/April 2014/vol. 7 – Issue 2) Eighteen years and 14 albums down the line from their formation, the Drive-By Truckers have …

By Lynne Margolis (LSM March/April 2014/vol. 7 – Issue 2) You would think, after spending nearly 40 years as an integral member of Tom Petty & the …

HARD WORKING AMERICANS Hard Working Americans Thirty Tigers/Melvin When Todd Snider’s friend and co-manager, Great American Taxi keyboardist Chad Staehly, suggested Snider try hanging out …

MIDNIGHT RIVER CHOIR Fresh Air Rambling Gypsy Records On their third album, Midnight River Choir demonstrates just how much that “Choir” in the band’s name …

LINCOLN DURHAM The Exodus of the Deemed Unrighteous Droog Records One of the most skilled and creative guitarists knocking around the Texas roots-music scene today, …

BILL KIRCHEN Seeds and Stems Proper Even in a town crawling with hotshot guitarists, veteran axe-slinger and current Austin resident Bill Kirchen stands out. A …

RODNEY PARKER & 50 PESO REWARD The Apology, Part 2 Smith Entertainment Hanging out on the fringe of a fringe, more the logical heirs to …

BLACK JOE LEWIS Electric Slave Punch Five Records With Electric Slave, Austin’s Black Joe Lewis and his gang turn in another smoking 11-track salvo that …