How do you know a biker is from Austin?
He rides a Harley Prius and once worked security at Old Settler’s for all the gingko tea he could drink.
Austin
SRV: True Hero of Texas Music
It was a thick Austin night in the summer of ’86 and Stevie Ray Vaughan looked bad.
Shinyribs: Dancing with the Scars
Shinyribs doesn’t want stardom. Not that there’s anything wrong with it.
Little lambs to Slaughter Lane: the Rockin’ Roots of Southpark Meadows
published on Aug. 8, 1995 Looking out over the land from Abel Theriot’s 40-foot-high observation deck in the back of his Southpark Meadows venue, you can’t help but see the possibilities. With its natural slope, thick grass, shade trees and lack of neighbors, the Meadows lends an Austin air to the mega-concert experience. There are […]
THE PRIDE OF EAST AUSTIN: L.C. ANDERSON YELLOW JACKETS
The Anderson High School Yellow Jacket Band, whose lofty alumni include bop trumpet great Kenny Dorham and former Motown arranger Gil Askey, had only two directors in its 38-year history.
Stevie Ray Vaughan: the lost interview, found
“I remember the first time Jimmie and I played a talent show and we realized in the middle of a song we’d played dozens of times that we’d never ended it before. We knew we had a ways to go.”
Gilbert Askey 1925- 2014
by Michael Corcoran Gilbert Askey left Austin for good at age 17 in 1942, but the former Motown arranger, who received an Oscar nomination for his work with Diana Ross on “Lady Sings the Blues” and had a part in “discovering” the Jackson 5, said Austin has never left him. I interviewed the trumpet man, […]
Muddy Waters at the Vulcan 1968
It’s one of the most notorious bookings in Austin music history, the weekend in 1968 that Muddy Waters and his band played the Vulcan Gas Company, with an albino blues guitarist from Beaumont named Johnny Winter opening the show. On the Friday night, the Waters band didn’t arrive until after the Winter trio finished. “They […]
The New Sincerity- Spin magazine 1986
(Written the year before SXSW) For most people who’ve even bothered to consider it, Austin music is Stevie Ray Vaughan, PBS’s Austin City Limits, the Fabulous Thunderbirds, Willie Nelson, Joe “King” Carrasco, Jerry Jeff Walker and Joe Ely. But then most people think New York City is only Manhattan. If Thomas Wolfe were an Austinite […]
Tunes of the Unknown Soldier
The waitress at Hyde Park Bar & Grill says she likes Bill Carter’s big silver skull ring. It’s from the set of “Pirates of the Caribbean,” Carter says. “The first one. It was made for my friend, but he wanted one with a yellow bandanna and ruby eyes, so he gave this one to me.” […]