Slim Bawb: “Rooster”
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 …
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 Richard Skanse What a difference two years — and a helluva lotta dedicated hard work — can make. Back in January 2016, when Diana Finlay …
By Mike Ethan Messick There are plenty of reasons to like Drew Kennedy. For starters, there’s the way his music bridges the gap between Texas …
By Mike Ethan Messick Sometimes bands and artists treat their debut projects — justifiably or otherwise — like a bad high-school picture they can’t quite erase but …
By Richard Skanse Granbury, Texas-based singer-songwriter Mike Ryan’s country music career had already been progressing at a respectable, slow-and-steady-wins-the-regional-race pace in the four years between …
By Mike Ethan Messick Brandon Rhyder’s career in the realm of independent country music has been marked by growth, change, and collaboration. A native of …
RICH O’TOOLE American Kid PTO Records This may be odd timing for a review of an album that’s been up for sale for a couple …
JASON EADY Jason Eady Thirty Tigers Why exactly Jason Eady opted for the old “self-titled” conceit here is a bit of a head-scratcher. This is the …
JEFF WHITEHEAD Blue Notes www.jeffwhiteheadmusic.com Among the younger crop of Austin singer-songwriters, Jeff Whitehead eased out of his former sideman role to take the mic …
JERROD MEDULLA Suits Me www.jerrodmedulla.com Up around his native DFW, Jerrod Medulla seems to have been toiling on the edge of a breakthrough for several …