By Michael Cororan Red River Street was at the eastern edge of Austin when the street plan was laid out by Edwin Waller, Austin’s first mayor, in 1839. It became a main north-south thoroughfare because Red River is the only street north of Pecan (Sixth) Street and east of Congress Ave. that wasn’t uphill. Red […]
A high school dropout with no discernible skill when she came to Austin as a 19-year-old in 1973, Margaret Moser used guile, guts and no small amounts of talent and instinct to become the most celebrated and influential female music journalist in Texas. Her 40-year career started with a music/gossip column in the Austin Sun […]
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.
As a musician, Tim Kerr has been on the ground floor of punk-funk (Big Boys, Bad Mutha Goose), grunge (Poison 13) and neo-soul (Now Time Delegation), so it’s fitting that he paint an homage to Austin music pioneers at the corner of E. 9th and Red River Streets. Commissioned by Public City, we worked together […]
“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.
