18 Jul 10 San Marcos Band Releases Strong Debut Album
Devil’s Hollow has a good first showing.
Posted by: Sam Moore
Tags: Devil's Hollow, Texas music
07 May 10 Brian Cutean In Austin – CD Release Guitarred and Feathered
Brian Cutean was a mainstay of the the Austin music landscape in the 80’s and early 90s regularly featured at places like Chicago House, Maggie Mae’s, The Cactus Café, The Other Side, Folkville and other venerable venues. Now based in the Pacific Northwest, he performs, writes and tours, making a Texas trip once a year in spring. The Austin concert this year is celebrating his new wordless guitar album, Guitarred and Feathered, just…
Posted by: Listen
Tags: Brian Cutean, QTN
27 Apr 10 Jimmy Needham Prepares Release of Third Project
Houston based singer Jimmy Needham releases his third collection of Texas music.
Posted by: Sam Moore
Tags: Jimmy Needham, Texas music
25 Jan 10 Earl Bailey – Guitarist and Innovative Educator
By John South Evenings in Plano are generally fairly quiet, not that Plano is the small, sleepy bedroom community it used to be. But on most evenings, outside one particular house, one can hear the distinctive low frequencies of guitars and the thumping of a drum machine that signal that you have reached the studio of a music teacher. This is not the studio of just any teacher though. As…
Posted by: John South
Tags: Earl Bailey, Guitar, Guitar Teacher, Music Education, Rock
18 Jan 10 The Truth Is
By John South On the back porch of a house in a small Texas town, a little girl sat and dreamed of playing guitar and being a singer. She made up songs – singing through the day. She listened to the music of Joni Mitchell – she wanted to be just like her, to sing just like her. She also found inspiration in the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Jeanie…
Posted by: John South
Tags: Austin Songwriters Group, Jeanie Sliva, Milo Deering, nashville songwriters association, Patrick McGuire, Rocky Dribble
21 Nov 09 Welcome Home Shelley King
Shelley King, 2008 Official State Musician of Texas, presents us with a new offering, Welcome Home, that that not only highlights the flexibility of her vocal talent, but also underscores the craftsmanship that she and the Subdudes (John Magnie, Tim Cook and Steve Armedée) put into each and every song. One factor of craft that really standouts out in this recording is King’s minimalist approach to instrumentation. She doesn’t overpower…
Posted by: John South
Tags: Shelley King, The Subdudes
14 Aug 09 Album Review: David Cline presents Big Slick
If you’re up for Texas Hold’em, take the flop, hit the turn and mosey on down the river to David Cline’s “Big Slick”.
Posted by: Rick Matos
Tags: Ace in the Hole, Audio Dallas Studios, Bad Beat Blues, Big Slick, Brand New Friends, Circle Wire Records, Cline Acres Pub, Darned Ole Casinos, David Cline, Friday Night Poker Game, I’m All In, Lady Luck, Texas Hold'em, Texas Hold’em Championship Bracelet, Texas Music Journal, That Almighty River, Yorktown Digital
03 Jun 09 Album Review: The Snakecharmers – Been Gone Too Long
The Snakecharmers formed in 2002 as a family affair. Marie Angell, Will Blumentritt and their son Eric Blumentritt brought together diverse musical backgrounds to form an incredible blues sound. The missing element for the band was a lead guitarist that could feel the music and integrate into “the family”. They found that in the person of Larry Meeker, a saxophonist by early training who turned to the guitar in a…
Posted by: John South
Tags: Eric Blumentritt, Larry Meeker, Marie Angell, The Snakecharmers, WIll Blumentritt
31 May 09 Anna Thomas’ stunning first outing: Splash of Red
I’ve been following the development of North Texas performing songwriter, Anna Thomas, for almost a year now. She has just released her first EP, Splash of Red, a locally produced venture. I have to say, I’m completely impressed. Usually when you listen to a small regional release, you find yourself having to make a lot of excuses for shortcomings in the music, production and arrangement. Not so on this one,…
Posted by: Ryan Michael Galloway
Tags: Anna Thomas, Mathew Gaskins, Splash of Red
20 May 09 Album Review: Mike Darnell – The Promised Land
Mike Darnell brings us an offering of the “flues” as he calls it – a combination of Folk and the Blues. Like much of Texas music, it’s really the confluence of the many events, people and music that have impacted Darnell. He moved around the country as a youth and was impacted by folk and rock that he heard. Darnell counts “…Buffalo Springfield, The Byrds, Stephen Stills, Neil Young, Jackson…
Posted by: John South
Tags: Big Lizard Boys, Bill Aspinwall, Lloyd Daniel, Mike Darnell, Smythe and Taylor
