Tyler Childers & Blackfeet Tribe Shine on a Cloudy Day in Montana
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Childers taking the stage wasn’t the start of an amazing day of fellowship across cultures and geography, it was just the culmination of it. Blackfeet drummers and dancers blessed the event in the mid afternoon.
FREE Wayne Hancock LIVE & First Demo
25 CommentsAll you Wayne “The Train” Hancock fans, you have just been delivered a gift on a silver platter. The blog A Truer Sound has just made available for download a compilation of Wayne Hancock music that includes a set recorded LIVE at the KUT Studios in Austin, TX on October 9th, 1994, as well as […]
Halloween Primer for the Hellbillies
2 CommentsWant to hear something scary to get you ready for Halloween? No, I’m not talking about Taylor Swift without her Pro Tools auto tuners. Hell, I’d rather have a suburban angster take a baseball bat to my head like it was Jack-O-Latnern on Nov. 1st than to listen to that banshee yawp. What I’m talking […]
Don’t Mess w/ Perfection . . . unless (.357 Review)
3 CommentsNever mess with perfection. . . unless you can make perfection better. Don’t know if I’m the first ever to say that, but after watching the .357 String Band with their new mando/dobro player Billy Cook, I believe in it wholeheartedly. The .357 String band was perfect circa this last Spring. That’s why it was […]
Joe Buck Signs w/ Century Media Records
6 CommentsThe Music City madman Joe Buck Yourself, former bass player for Hank III and former member of Th’ Legendary Shack Shakers, has signed a record deal with Century Media Records. In an interview with the one man band before his show Thursday night (10-22-09) with The .357 String Band, Joe talked to about signing the […]
Rachel Brooke & Lonesome Wyatt on Tour
4 CommentsThe Hank Williams female reincarnation known as Rachel Brooke and Lonesome Wyatt of Those Poor Bastards have just finished up a tour through the Midwest, Texas, and Florida in support of their duo record A Bitter Harvest. All the eyewitness accounts I have come across have had nothing but glowing things to say, and as […]
Hank III on Outlaw Radio & 1st Roundtable
4 CommentsTONIGHT (10-20-09) none other than Hank Williams III will be on Outlaw Radio Chicago, having granted Jashie P. an ever increasingly rare interview. You can hear it LIVE on punkandbeansradio.com at 9 PM CENTRAL, and because a Hank III interview has been known to crash servers from demand, they are going to rebroadcast the entire […]
30 Rock Goes Country & Garth Goes Vegas
4 CommentsI really cherish the few opportunities I have writing this thing to laugh a little, and today is one of those days. They say all good humor is rooted in truth, and what is more true than the joke that is actors and 80’s pop stars slipping on a pair of boots to “Go Country” […]
Austin City Limits – 35 Years – Willie Nelson
4 CommentsIt was 35 years ago today, or tonight, that Austin City Limits, inspired by Jan Reid’s book The Improbable Rise of Redneck Rock and the exploding Outlaw country music scene in Austin, aired their first episode. And who better to book for the first show than the Improbable Willie Nelson. It was 1974; two years […]
Jamey Johnson is Pop Country’s “Black Friend”
3 CommentsThat’s right, I said it. And I’ll say it again, even though it will probably relegate me even more to being the black sheep of the country music blogsphere: Jamey Johnson is Pop Country’s “black friend.” No, this has nothing to do with race, and this really has very little to do with Jamey Johnson, […]
New Music From Old Artists
6 CommentsLately so much music has been coming out from oldtime artists I follow, I can hardly keep up. Hopefully in the future I will have features or reviews on all of these projects, but in the meantime here they all are to bring you up to speed. If there’s one album you like to see […]
New Scott Biram Video & Smashed Guitar Auction
6 CommentsThe dirty ol’ one man band from Texas, Scott H. Biram has just released a new video for the single “Still Drunk, Still Crazy, Still Blue” off his latest release Something’s Wrong/Lost Forever. CLICK HERE TO SEE THE VIDEO. It was put together by Blake Judd of Judd Films, Todd Tue of Milk Products Media, […]
RIP Rusty Wier
6 CommentsI know that some, if not most do not know Rusty Wier or his music, and this is a tragedy beyond the fact that the legendary Austin, Texas songwriter died Friday at the age of 65 from Cancer. He was one of the original Austin Outlaws; a founder of the scene. He was a great […]