Cindy Cashdollar has five Grammys from her 81/2 years of playing steel guitar for Asleep at the Wheel, but the statuettes didn’t come easily. “I was completely petrified that first year (1993),” says the Woodstock, N.Y., native, who has made Austin her home for 14 years. “I was in way over my head.” Although an […]
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.
1. Vidor, Texas 1988 2. History of Black Gospel Music 3. Austin’s Secret: Killing in the Classroom 4. Who Is Rodney Reed? 5. Welcome To Mediocre, Texas 6. The Austin Music Scene Needs Help 7. Bob’s Burden 8. The Last DJ: Larry Monroe 9. Smithville, TX 10. Discovering Israel Kamakawiwo’ole
While some are grumbling about the corporate takeover, how about a story about a small Austin company that grew into one worth a quarter- billion dollars?
Before a 19-year-old Sam Cooke replaced his idol R.H. Harris in the Soul Stirrers in 1950, the older people sat in the front of the church and the teen-agers sat in the back.
Charlie swept out the football factory and sent so many young black men packing that it seemed the military draft had returned.
People make the place. Consider the Austin music scene, where a hideous National Guard armory (Armadillo World Headquarters), abandoned furniture warehouse (the original Antone’s on Sixth), and a lumberyard (Liberty Lunch) transformed into live music palaces because of the bands that played, the people who ran the joints, and the crowds that couldn’t believe […]
“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.”
by Michael Corcoran His newborn daughter had him up at 4am again and after he put her down, Charles Attal knew he couldn’t go back to sleep, so he got dressed and walked the mile down the hill to Zilker Park. This was late September 2008 and the park’s Great Lawn was in the process […]
Marijuana’s active ingredient THC is not harmful, the scientific tests that I choose to believe have concluded. But if you’re a member of the University of Texas Longhorns, pot is really bad for you. It’ll cause you to lose your dreams, as well as your scholly. Forget that a Longhorns running back totally into Bob […]
