All This Is That

Found by Mona Goldwater, C& W Music Ed. ---o0o---

By Mona Goldwater, Roots/Americana Music Ed. Guy Clark's song from his new album .  Another knockout. Guy is a master who has been wr...

By Jack Brummet, C & W Ed. Another Willie and Jimmy meetup Richard Nixon sits in at the Grand Ole Opry Kris Kristofferson...

Happy birthday Johnny Cash. We miss you.  ---o0o---

"And, of course, that is what all of this is - all of this: the one song, ever changing, ever reincarnated, that speaks somehow from a...

This is a short video bio of Dale Watson, one of my favorite country singer-songwriters in Austin. I saw him three different times when I w...

It's kind of strange going to a show in your own neighborhood--and a show that starts at 6:00, at that. Most shows I go to you're ...

We saw an awesome show last night at the Sunset Tavern in our neighborhood. My sister in law is a long time fan of Bobby. I knew his dad...

click to enlarge - This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. One of my favorite albums this year is Jam...

Dolly Parton came to Seattle in August and played a great show at a miserable venue--the WaMu Theatre near the Seahawks Stadium and Safeco ...

WFMU's beware of the blog reprinted a copy of this advertisement today, honoring the country legend's 77th birthday. And, even bett...

Dirty Old Egg Sucking Hound Well he's not very handsome to look at Oh he's shaggy and he eats like a hog And he's always killin...

It is crisp and rainy in Austin tonight. I've probably been here ten times and this is the first time it hasn't been balmy. The t...

Roky Erickson It took me a while (e.g., nearly six weeks) to finish writing about this, but Bumbershoot--the Seattle end of summer music a...

A video of Elena James playing "24 hours a day." (I just saw her in Austin last Friday night: The Save Town Lake benefit: Elana J...

click the poster to enlarge I have tickets to a benefit at Stubb's Barbecue tonight--the concert to Save Town Lake (town lake, a/k/a Th...

I've Been Everywhere is one of my many favorite Johnny Cash Tunes. Here is a video with postcards a woman, Jen, put together. I put it ...

At the last minute (noon), Keelin and I decided to spend the 4th of July with Willie Nelson and one of my new favorites, the Old 97's. ...

The Old 97's perform Designs On You at La Zona Rosa in Austin, Texas. Watching this video reminds me I haven't been to Austin for t...

click duke to enlarge D uke Ellington would have been 108 years old today (born April 29, 1899, died May 24, 1974). He is usually considere...