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return to the road, but they certainly
haven’t been forgotten by their friends and
fans in radio land. “Comal County Blue,”
the first single and title track from his
newest CD, not only hit No. 1 on the Texas
Music Chart in the last week of August, it
was cited as the fastest growing single of
the year from an indie-label artist. Not a
bad get-well present at all.
Collins makes European inroads
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Keen tribute hits stores
Texans on Imus Ranch Record
Robert Earl Keen
has been an undeniable influence on an
entire generation of
Texas singer-songwriters. Most of that
generation’s brightest stars paid their
tribute in person
back on Jan. 8 at
the MusicFest in
Steamboat Springs,
Colo.,
covering Keen
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tunes for a special
show in honor of their shared hero. Thanks
to the newly founded Right Avenue
Records, the night’s performances were
preserved and will be released on a doubledisk CD Live is Good this fall. Acoustic performances of Keen songs by genre standouts including Cory Morrow, Stoney LaRue,
Reckless Kelly, and Randy Rogers will fill
the first disc, while the second captures
Robert Earl’s full-band electric show from
the same night. The release marks the first
ever recording to be officially released from
the MusicFest at Steamboat, preserving the
original, organic recordings without overdubs or studio enhancements.
Even notoriously cranky radio legend Don
Imus apparently has a softer side, not to
mention a talented group of friends. Sept. 16
marks the release of the Imus Ranch Record
(New West), a multi-artist compilation benefiting Imus’ non-profit cattle ranch where
children suffering from life-threatening illness are invited to enjoy a little genuine cowboy experience. The project is unique in that
Imus actually hand-picked songs for the
guest artists to interpret, and a Texas flavor
pervades: Willie Nelson takes a crack at the
jazz standard “What A Difference A Day
Makes,” Lucinda Williams sings “Mamas
Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to be
Cowboys” and Delbert McClinton rocks out
to Eric Clapton’s “Lay Down Sally.” Even the
late great Doug Sahm is in on the act, with
Dwight Yoakam covering his “Give Back the
Key to My Heart.”
Boland scores hit from sidelines
Fans of Texas/Red Dirt mainstay Jason
Boland have had to do without his live
shows for a while; as Texas Music Extra
reported in the July 31 issue, Boland was
diagnosed with a career-threatening vocal
chord polyp in late July, which required surgery and ample time to heal. Boland and
his backup band, the Stragglers have yet to
Texas-based singer-songwriter Austin
Collins has spent the last few years carving
out a niche for his brand of melodic altcountry in his home state. Apparently he
has picked up some overseas admirers
along the way; German record company
Blue Rose Records recently announced
their agreement to re-release both of
Collins’ albums (his debut Something Better
and this year’s Roses Are Black) for the
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European market. The move puts Collins (a
Fat Caddy Records artist stateside) in good
company with some fellow Texans already
popular across the pond: Alejandro
Escovedo, James McMurtry, Steve Earle,
and Old 97’s are also distributed in Europe
by Blue Rose.
TSU honors jazz alumni
Houston is more often known for Southern
rap than classic jazz, but Texas Southern
University wants everyone to know about
its successful jazz alumni. On Sept. 6, six
honorees were inducted into Texas
Southern University’s KTSU Jazz Hall of
Fame and honored at a fundraiser at the
George R. Brown Convention Center. The
recognized alumni include trumpeter, composer and arranger Barry Hall, jazz flutist
Hubert Laws, jazz singer Anita Moore,
pianist and composer Joe Sample, former
TSU Jazz Ensemble director Lanny Steele
and saxophonist Kirk Whalum. For more
information about the honorees, visit
www.ktsufm.org.
New Future Clouds CD in forecast
Austin’s Future Clouds and Radar will release
Peoria, the follow-up to their acclaimed 2007
self-titled debut, on Oct. 21 on their own Star
Apple Kingdom label. Compared to the
band’s first album, a 27-track opus that
sprawled across two discs, the new album is
a mere eight songs long — but that doesn’t
necessarily mean frontman Robert Harrison
and the rest of his psychedelic crew have
scaled back on their artistic ambition: a press
release announcing Peoria notes that in
addition to the record coming out next
month, there’s also a film (presumably also
titled Peoria) due in spring 2009.
Life is sweet for Greencards
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the end of her performance, “I have chills!”
When asked what debuting on the Opry
stage meant to her, Jessica said, “The
moon and the stars.” She also sang
“Remember That,” the second single from
her album.
Hamming it up for HAAM
Photo by Aaron Farrington
Acoustic bluegrass trio the Greencards
recently signed with Sugar Hill records and
headed to the studio in late August to start
work on their fourth record. In addition to
the new label, they’re working with producer
Jay Joyce, who’s worked with such artists as
Patty Griffin and Alternate Routes.
According to the press release, multi-instrumentalist, singer and songwriter Kym
Warner had this to say of the new alliance.
“As the Greencards enter into a new phase
of pushing musical boundaries, we are very
excited to have signed with a label capable
of moving with us. Our new album is already
underway, and with producer Jay Joyce we
are experiencing a focused creativity like
never before. We look forward to a long and
productive partnership with Sugar Hill
Records.” Look for the new record to release
next spring.
Simpson performs on Opry
Jessica Simpson made her debut at
Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry on Sept. 6,
three days before the release of her first
country album, Do You Know. The blond
songstress opened the show with her current single, “Come on Over,” exclaiming at
On Sept. 3, Austin Mayor Will Wynn, along
with musicians, organizers and others
involved with the Health Alliance for Austin
Musicians (HAAM), held a “friendly-reminder”
event at Austin City Hall to alert Austinites
and musicians about the upcoming HAAM
Benefit Day on October 7. Wynn introduced
radio and TV public service announcements
that detail the importance of HAAM services
to Austin musicians. Participating business
throughout the city will hold special events
and promotions bringing attention to HAAM’s
services, and will donate at least 5% of the
proceeds to the organization. Visit
www.healthallianceforaustinmusicians.org.
Mr. Jones goes to Washington
George Jones has a very special date scheduled for Dec. 7: That’s the night he’ll receive
one of the 2008 Kennedy Center Honors
awards at the Kennedy Center Opera House
in Washington, D.C. Introduced in 1978, the
Kennedy Center Honors are given every year
to a handful (typically five) artists from
across the entertainment spectrum; previous honorees include Steven Spielberg,
Robert Redford, James Brown, Bob Dylan,
Steve Martin and Jones’ country music
peers Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Loretta
Lynn and Dolly Parton. “Since I was a young
man, I have just done what I love and that is
sing country music, and I never dreamed
that something this special would happen to
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me,” Jones said in a statement. “I am completely humbled and will be proud to accept
the award.”
ACL aftershows announced
Big balls in Manchaca
Ryan Bingham, Eleven Hundred Springs, Cody
Shaw, Matt Skinner and Glenn Moreland are all
scheduled to make appearances at Doug
Moreland’s sixth annual Cattelacs Calfry CookOff on Sept. 22 in Manchaca. Of course,
Moreland himself will also perform — when
he’s not busy showing off his chainsaw-carving skills or sampling the calf fries (which, for
the uninitiated, are fried bull you-know-whatsits). A panel of celebrity judges will help
decide on who’s got the best, er, balls in town.
Corn dogs, coleslaw and beans will also be
served for the more faint of heart and stomach. Tickets are $15 and benefit the Manchaca
Optimist Club and Toys for Tots (and a donation of an unused toy gets you $5 off your
admission). The gates open at 3 p.m. and the
music kicks off at 5 p.m.
Free For All reunion
Paul Minor, Austin Music Hall of Famer and
one of the mainstays of the local music
scene, will host the Three Stage Throwdown
at Hole in the Wall on Sept. 12. The bill features a lineup of artists who aren’t strangers
to the legendary music club on The Drag,
having played Minor’s weekly Sunday night
showcase, the Rock ‘n’ Roll Free For All,
many times over the years. This time on a
Friday, the original, iconic stage at the front
of the club will feature Andrew Duplantis (of
Son Volt) and the Superego Allstars (Minor’s
band of Austin veteran players). The back
room stage will have Summer Wardrobe and
Moonlight Towers, and Nick Kraus and his
Austin Torpedoes will light up the night on
the outside stage. Minor releases his new CD
The Marfa Project at Lambert’s Sept. 19.
Photo by Brent Humphreys
The seventh annual Austin City Limits Music
Festival is just around the corner. Cross your
fingers for cooler temps, and get ready for
three days, eight stages and more than 130
bands (more than 25 of the acts are from
Texas) invading Austin’s Zilker Park Sept. 2628. If that doesn’t sound like enough music
for one weekend (or if you don’t have your
hands on tickets for the festival), there’s
more to be had. Several festival bands are
scheduled to perform before- or after-shows
at local venues. Stubb’s will host Manu Chao,
Gnarls Barkley, CSS, Butthole Surfers and the
Black Keys. La Zona Rosa has G. Love and
Special Sauce and indie darlings Conor
Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band along with
Jenny Lewis and M. Ward. Veteran rockers
David Byrne and Brian Eno will play the
Paramount, as will the Swell Season. And,
Emo’s gets a slew of festival favorites with
Drive-By Truckers, Heartless Bastards,
Okkervil River and José González. Jakob
Dylan follows up his Friday ACL set with a
show at Antone’s on Saturday night. For full
details of these shows and the festival itself,
visit www.aclfestival.com. And, stay tuned for
the next issue of Texas Music Extra which will
feature a Q&A with longtime Austin City
Limits producer Terry Lickona and previews
of festival artists.
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Texas Gatorfest
Cavender Chevrolet Music Series
Fort Anahuac Park
with Cory Morrow and Kyle Park
Anahuac
The County Line
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San Antonio
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Mike Blakely’s TexAmericana
Fandango with Guy Clark and more
Luckenbach Dance Hall
95.9 FM The Ranch Texas Music Series
with Roger Creager and Josh Abbott
8.0 Restaurant and Bar
www.luckenbachtexas.com
Fort Worth
www.959theranch.com
Kevin Fowler plays the Bud & BBQ Country
Music Festival at SeaWorld in San Antonio Luckenbach
Country Music Festival
SeaWorld
San Antonio, Sept. 13-14
Ready for a whale of a festival? SeaWorld San Antonio
continues its 20th birthday
celebration with the Bud &
BBQ Country Music Festival
on Sept. 13-14. Enjoy Texasstyle barbecue and ice cold
Anheuser-Busch beer while
listening to the likes of
Amarillo native Kevin Fowler
and Miley’s dad Billy Ray
Cyrus. All performances are
included with regular park
admission and SeaWorld pass
members get in free.
Wristbands are available at
the park’s main entrance with
seating on a first-come, firstserved basis. Sept. 13-14.
SeaWorld, San Antonio, 6:308 p.m. For more information,
visit www.seaworld.com
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24th Annual Kolache Festival
18
Downtown Square
KGSR Unplugged at the Grove with
Caldwell
Gary Clark, Jr. and Eve Monsees
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Shady Grove
Austin
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18-21
Oktoberfest
Addison Circle Park
Addison
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19-21
Gary Clark, Jr. plays at KGSR’s Unplugged at
the Grove Sept. 18
YO Social Club
Membership Appreciation Celebration
YO Ranch
Mountain Home
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All About Uptown Festival
with Brave Combo and the Killdares
Fairmount Street
Jazz By The Boulevard Music & Arts
Festival with Buddy Guy and more
Will Rogers Memorial Center
Fort Worth
www.fortworthjazz.com
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Kenneth Threadgill Concert Series
with Guy Clark and more
Municipal Auditorium
Greenville
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Dallas
www.allaboutuptown.com
End of Summer Psychedelic Festival
with Amplified Heat
Ruta Maya
Austin
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Guy Clark performs in Luckenbach and
Greenville this month
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The Derailers
Guaranteed to Satisfy
(Palo Duro)
Playing the Derailers’ new
record Guaranteed to Satisfy
for the first time is like settling
down on your old comfy couch after a long
day’s work — it’s comfortable, and it’s just what
you expected. For a band that’s made a name
for themselves with their unique rockabilly
sound, this album brings more of the same,
even in light of some personnel changes. From
the boot-scootin’ “Bad, Bad Girl” to the
insightful “The Blood of a Man” to the clever
“Wallflower,” it delivers songs that move you
and songs that make you wanna move. The
group even slipped in “You Carried Me,” a
slow, romantic tune with a background of
beautiful strings. All in all, the Derailers have
shown with this album that sticking with
what’s familiar is surely satisfying. AMANDA PALM
Okkervil River
The Stand Ins
(Jagjaguwar)
Austin indie band Okkervil River
delivers the sequel to last year’s
The Stage Names with another
round of the lyrically intelligent yet playful pop
tunes that have become their trademark. “Lost
Coastlines” features a bouncy duet that pairs
lead singer Will Sheff with Jonathan Meiburg,
recently departed for his own Shearwater project. The seafaring theme quickly shifts to a preoccupation with celebrity and fame in “Starry
Stairs” (“they ask for more, what do you think
this fan club is for”) and “Pop Lie.” And while the
smart lyrics could pass for a collection of short
stories, they’re not too pretentious to have some
fun. Songs like “On Tour with Zykos” and
“Calling and Not Calling My Ex” tease with funny
titles that obscure dark lyrics. Okkervil River
seems poised as next in the line of great
acoustic guitar-fronted, indie-rock bands in the
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Britt Lloyd Band
The Ink
(Smith Music)
Like Cross Canadian Ragweed
or Phil Pritchett, the Britt
Lloyd Band hangs out so far
on the “rock” side of country-rock that
they’d probably be labeled as straight-up
rock if they resided anywhere else but Texas.
Lloyd & Co. consistently favored tight, crackling electric guitar tunes on their ‘05 debut,
Unlabeled, and their follow-up both
embraces and expands that sound. “That
Kind” earns its first-single status with a
crunchy, catchy groove that would’ve sounded right at home on mid-‘90s mainstream
rock radio while other tunes nod toward
older sounds. “Just Go” is a Bob Seger-ish
anthem, and the chugging roller-rink organs
on “Trust Song” reach all the way back to
Doug Sahm and Augie Meyers. The band
never tries to re-invent the wheel, but they
solidly uphold their reputation as talented
yet unpretentious rockers. ETHAN MESSICK
Paul Minor
The Marfa Project
(Minor Productions)
Prolific Austin singer-songwriter Paul Minor headed
west for inspiration on his
latest release The Marfa Project. Old-time
rock ‘n’ roll is weaved with country undertones on tracks like “Devil May Care” and
“Here I Am.” “Out of My System” (co-written
with Mario Matteoli) adds a bluesy, honkytonk element. But, it’s Minor’s deftness with
the paradoxical turn of phrase that’s most
endearing, as in the melancholy
“Afterthought,” particularly when he’s coming to terms with love and regret (“I won
every self-defeating battle that I fought, I put
you before me as an afterthought”) or just
being cheeky (“I might need a little space,
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Jessica Simpson
Jackopierce
Okkervil River
Hal Ketchum
Patty Griffin
Redd Volkaert
Kyle Park
Various Artists
Eli Young Band
Tejas Brothers
Paul Minor
John Evans
Randy Rogers Band
Wade Bowen
Roy Orbison
Sep. 30
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Oct. 7
Oct. 7
Oct. 7
Oct. 14
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Asylum Street Spankers
Monte Montgomery
Brandon Jenkins
George Strait
Jolie Holland
Sixpence None the Richer
Bleu Edmondson
Rich O’Toole
J.D. Souther
Todd Snider
Lucinda Williams
Future Clouds and Radar
Sorta
And You Will Know Us
by the Trail of Dead
Oct. 21 Lee Ann Womack
Oct. 28 Josh Grider Band
Do You Know?
Promise of Summer
The Stand Ins
Father Time
Live From the Artists Den
Reddhead
Anywhere in Texas
The Imus Ranch Record
Jet Black and Jealous
Tejas Brothers
The Marfa Project
Lucky 14
Randy Rogers Band
If We Ever Make It Home
The Soul of Rock and Roll
(Box Set)
What? And Give Up Show Biz?
Monte Montgomery
Faster Than a Stone
Classic Christmas
The Living and the Dead
The Dawn of Grace
Live at Billy Bob’s
In a Minute or Two
If the World Was You
Peace Queer
Little Honey
Peoria
Sorta
Festival Thyme (EP)
Call Me Crazy
JG3 (EP)
Columbia Nashville
www.jackopierce.com
Jagjaguwar
Curb Records
ATO/Artists Den
Telehog Records
Rockin’ P Records
New West Records
Universal South
Smith Music
Minor Productions
Smith Music
Mercury Nashville
Sustain
Monument/Orbison
Records/Legacy
Yellow Dog
Eminent
Smith Music
MCA
AntiNettwerk
Smith Music
Smith Music
Slow Curve
Aimless Records
Lost Highway
Star Apple Kingdom
Summer Break
Richter Scale/Justice
Records
MCA
JoshGrider.com
A Sorta farewell
Dallas’ much-lauded Sorta will release its eponymous swansong on Oct. 21 on Summer
Break Records. According to lead singer and songwriter Trey Johnson, the album — the
band’s fifth — was nearly completed by the time of guitarist and keyboardist Carter
Albrecht’s tragic death on Sept. 3, 2007, and all of Albrecht’s parts were left untouched
when the band reconvened to finish it off. Sorta will perform a handful of CD release shows
in late October, after which Johnson, bassist Danny Balis, guitarist Chris Holt, pedal steel
player Ward Williams and drummer Tom Bridwell will disperse to work on separate projects.
A posthumous solo album by Albrecht is due out soon, too. “Carter’s album,” promises
Johnson, “will melt you.”
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Sam Cooke, Ray Charles, Otis Redding and
Marvin Gaye. I really take a lot of inspiration
from those guys. I don’t sing in a soulful way,
but I’m very much inspired by the emotion in
their voices, the playfulness at times and the
urgency and fiery delivery in their voices.
And, also old-time singers like Dock Boggs
whose voice is actually bordering on
unpleasant [laughs]. There’s a lot of singers
like Lou Reed and Dylan who are somewhat
that way. But especially in the old-time
music, you have people like Bascom Lamar
Lunsford, Dock Boggs and Clarence Ashley
that had voices that were almost unpleasant
to listen to. There was an edge to their
singing that was kind of disturbing, and I like
that.
Your lyrics read like literature. How do you
make heady concepts accessible in a pop
Okkervil River
song?
Really, my primary goal is to make a pop song
Okkervil River is
that’s fun, that touches the listener ideally in a
known for smart
pop songs frequent- way like a Motown song or a Bowie song or a
ly laced with literary Stones song would touch them. On top of that,
references (even the if the ideas in there are thought of as interestband’s name comes ing too, that’s great. That’s gravy. But, the primary goal is to make something that’s enterfrom a short story
taining. I really don’t want anyone to think
by Russian author
that I am intentionally trying to hide behind an
Tatyana Tolstaya).
But, lead singer and idea that they are some kind of high-flung litPhoto by Steve Gullick
erary exercise. I really do try to stay sincere
songwriter Will
with myself about what I am trying to do. I
Sheff wants people to know that they are as
really just try to talk to people the way that I
much about whim as wit. With the release of
like to be talked to. I just try to be as direct as What does the departure of Jonathan
The Stand Ins — just a year after and as a
I can.
response to their last CD and launching a
Meiburg to Shearwater mean for the
YouTube channel featuring covers of their
band?
Having other artists cover your songs on
new songs performed by artists they’ve met
I don’t know. I think that’s the kind of thing
YouTube before a CD even comes out is a
while touring — they prove they’re not afraid
that’s exaggerated. I talk to Jonathan conpretty novel idea. Which cover was your
to do things differently. Embarking on a 26city North American tour before taking off to favorite?
It’s hard for me to separate myself from the
Europe at the end of October and Japan in
2009, Sheff took a moment away from pack- Carl Newman one (“Lost Coastlines”) because
ing his bags to talk about change and inspira- I was playing on it [laughs]. That was fun. I
have personal reasons to say that so many of
tion.
them were good. I really like the Jack Ladder
one (“Starry Stairs”), and I especially feel
This new album has been positioned as
compelled
to stand up for that one because he
the sequel to last year’s The Stage
is
so
obscure
and unknown to anyone who is
Names. How do they compare?
If you listen, you’ll notice there’s a subtly pro- even one of our fans. I thought he really did a
nounced sonic difference in terms of the way fantastic job.
that they were recorded and mixed, and even
the performances. I think that there is a the- Who did the most unexpected interpretation?
matic difference, having laid out a lot of the
themes on the The Stage Names that permit- I guess I would say Bon Iver (“Blue Tulip”). He
ted us to tackle them again on The Stand Ins pretty much wrote an entirely different song
with the same lyrics. And his song is fully his
and show different and sometimes opposite
sides of them. In some ways you can think of creation, fully comes from his musical world. I
thought that it was wonderfully irreverent and
The Stand Ins as a rebuttal to some of the
ideas on The Stage Names. There’s a chance also very respectful in a deeper way.
to revisit characters. Shannon Wilsey (the
Your vocal style sometimes approaches
porn star who committed suicide in 1994) is
crooning, but with an edge. Who inspires
talked about in the song “Savannah Smiles”
you vocally?
and is revisited in the song “Starry Stairs.”
The nautical theme that was in the song “Girl I guess soul singers inspire me a lot, and I
don’t think that you hear that in my vocal
in Port” is revisited in “Lost Coastlines.”
style. But my favorite singers are soul singers:
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stantly. He talks to the band constantly, and
we very much inform what each other is
doing musically. We’re inspired by each
other’s style, and there’s a lot of talking that
goes on back and forth. He’s so central to
what we’ve done and will continue to do.
Where are you most excited about visiting
on your upcoming world tour?
We’re going to Japan next year. That is what
I am most excited about. I’ve never been to
Asia at all. I’m very, very excited for that.
You tour so much and live in New York
part of the time. Do you still consider
yourselves an Austin band?
Absolutely. All the other band members live
in Austin. And all the belongings that I own
are in a storage space in Austin. I go there all
the time, and I spend more time there than
anywhere else. When I’m not on tour I’m
either in Brooklyn, or I’m in Austin, so I feel
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