Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam/ And the deer and the antelope play. Thus opens one of the most beloved tunes of Western American folklore, a song that may have been lost forever if not for the efforts of a trio of Austinites: song hunter John A. Lomax, musician Henry Lebermann, who […]
McLagan didn’t come to Austin to retire on his laurels. He came here to thump that piano and sing like he and his mates were up to no good.
Young songwriter shows us a treasure buried in our own backyard.
Here’s “Where To Begin” from the 2006 Bruce Robison-produced Damnations LP which was never released. The great cover of “Sally Go Round the Roses” Here’s a more bluegrass track from the sessions. Title unknown. This is the kind of material the Damnations built their name on.
“One man, one mic, one piano: nobody could do it better than Bobby Doyle. Nobody.”
Most people would feel lucky to master one art in their lifetime, but Austin’s Glenn Fukunaga is not only an in demand bass player (Robert Plant, Dixie Chicks), but he’s a noted restorer of rare books. Playing bass and restoring books wouldn’t seem to have much in common, but Fukunaga says, “they both require an […]
From the Austin-American Statesman, April 2002 by Michael Corcoran She was raised in a small town in Maine, graduated to Boston, where she fell in with the rock crowd and then it was on to Nashville after a solo career blossomed. But for the past four years 38-year-old singer Patty Griffin, the eternal up-and-comer […]
Note: this was written in 2005 for an album that never came out. The Damnations broke up soon after. They’re one of the hippest bands in a hip scene, able to channel the Minutemen and the Carter Family, sometimes on the same song, but ask the Damnations which recordings influenced their third album “Heart Like […]
“I’m a leader, not a follower, so I moved from the projects of West Dallas to the projects of Compton.”
Don’t call Barbara Lynn a One-Hit Wonder. Her influence is huge.
