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Austin360 On The Record: Kevin Fowler, Hickoids, Madeline Jennings
OUT THIS WEEK Kevin Fowler, “Coming to a Honky Tonk Near You” (Thirty Tigers). Not quite a full-length album but not quite an EP either, this eight-song collection clocks in at 26 minutes, as Fowler...
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Austin360 On The Record: Adam Carroll tribute, Brownout, Alejandro Escovedo...
OUT THIS WEEK “Highway Prayer: A Tribute to Adam Carroll” (Eight 30). If you search for Adam Carroll on Wikipedia, you’ll find an Irish rock singer and British race car driver. In Texas, though, the...
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Austin360 On The Record: Bright Light Social Hour & Israel Nash, Tomar & the...
OUT THIS WEEK Bright Light Social Hour & Israel Nash, “Neighbors” EP. Whether it’s a fleeting one-off or a tease to a more extended collaboration, these three songs are an auspicious pairing of two...
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Austin360 On The Record: The Wind + the Wave, No Mind, Belcurve
RECENTLY RELEASED The Wind + the Wave, “Happiness Is Not a Place” (Island). The pop duo of Patricia Lynn and Dwight Baker have gone far in a short time, releasing a debut album on RCA in 2014 just a...
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Austin360 On The Record: Robert Earl Keen, Churchwood and more
OUT THIS WEEK Robert Earl Keen, “Live Dinner Reunion” (Dualtone). To celebrate the 20th anniversary of his “No. 2 Live Dinner” album, Keen returned to the scene of the crime, John T. Floore’s Country...
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Austin360 On The Record: KGSR Broadcasts, Thieves
OUT THIS WEEK KGSR Broadcasts Vol. 24. This annual compilation of in-studio performances from the local radio station, benefiting the SIMS Foundation and the Seton Fund, features tracks from 33...
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Austin360 On The Record: David Halley, Mélat, B. Harold Benton
OUT THIS WEEK David Halley, “A Month of Somedays.” The long-awaited return of one of Austin’s best songwriters of the 1980s and early ’90s lives up to the reputation he earned during that heyday. From...
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Austin360 On The Record: Songs for Standing Rock, Vol. 3
OUT THIS WEEK Songs for Standing Rock, Vol. 3. The latest volume in an ambitious weekly series of digital compilations motivated by the recent Dakota Access Pipeline protests features songs from...
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Austin360 On The Record: Asleep at the Wheel Christmas album
RECENTLY RELEASED Asleep at the Wheel, “Lone Star Christmas Night” (Home). They’ve done this before — notably, 1997’s “Merry Texas Christmas, Y’all” and 2007’s “Santa Loves to Boogie” — but given that...
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Austin360 On The Record: The best and biggest of 2016
Shearwater’s “Jet Plane and Oxbow” and Mindz of a Different Kind’s “Foursight.” From January through December, our weekly Austin360 On The Record roundup has kept you up-to-date with hundreds of local...
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Austin360 On The Record: Dale Watson & Ray Benson
OUT THIS WEEK Dale Watson & Ray Benson, “Dale & Ray” (Ameripolitan/Home). The respective kings of Austin honky-tonk and western swing have worked together before — Benson produced Watson’s 2004...
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Austin360 On The Record: Band of Heathens, Hard Proof, Barbara Nesbitt
OUT THIS WEEK Band of Heathens, “Duende.” The first album in four years from the Americana band fronted by Ed Jurdi and Gordy Quist mixes elements of backwoods country and folk with touches of...
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Austin360 On The Record: Seela, Mark McKinney and more
Seela performs at “Track You Down” record release at Cactus Cafe on Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2016. Peter Blackstock/American-Statesman OUT THIS WEEK Seela, “Track You Down.” Frequently seen on Austin stages...
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Austin360 On The Record: John Wesley Coleman III, Leopold & His Fiction, more
OUT THIS WEEK John Wesley Coleman III, “Microwave Dreams” (Super Secret). With song titles such as “Jesus Never Went to Junior High,” “On the Couch Again” and “Exotic Tambourine,” it’s clear Coleman...
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Austin360 On The Record: Gurf Morlix, Daisy O’Connor and more
OUT THIS WEEK Gurf Morlix, “The Soul & the Heal” (Rootball). Renowned guitarist and producer for many of the finest roots-music performers in Austin (and beyond), Morlix is now 10 albums into a...
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Austin360 On The Record: Black Joe Lewis, and a whole lot more
OUT THIS WEEK Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears, “Backlash” (Ingroove). Once a fast-rising star with a major-label deal, funk-blues-punk stylist Joe Lewis and his Honeybears ensemble did a slow...
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Austin360 On The Record: Later Days, Molly Burch and more
OUT THIS WEEK Later Days, “Lost in the Sound.” The debut album from this Austin hard-rock group comes less than a year after the band began. “The five members mesh so tightly that it seems like they...
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Austin360 On The Record: Shinyribs, Curtis McMurtry, Scott H. Biram and more
OUT THIS WEEK Shinyribs, “I Got Your Medicine.” Fully expanded from the original quartet to an eight-piece juggernaut with the Tijuana Train Wreck Horns and the Shiny Soul Sisters, Kevin Russell’s...
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Austin360 On The Record: Tim Henderson, My Education, Knife in the Water
TEXAS INDEPENDENCE DAY SPECIAL Tim Henderson, “The Legacy Collection” (6-CD set). No less an authority than Townes Van Zandt once called the late Tim Henderson “the best songwriter I know.” A native of...
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Austin360 On The Record: Sunny Sweeney, Carrie Elkin
Sunny Sweeney, “Trophy” (Thirty Tigers). Sometimes known for humorous or novelty songs, Sweeney smartly takes a deeper dive on “Trophy,” her fourth album. Writing frequently with Grammy-winning...
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