Shinyribs: Dancing with the Scars
Shinyribs doesn’t want stardom. Not that there’s anything wrong with it.
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Gossip is not for wimps
A week after my ranking of the “25 Most Powerful People on the Austin Music Scene” made higherups at the Austin American-Statesman uncomfortable, I unleashed this column that got me called in on the carpet again. From Feb. 24, 2000 XL. A few months ago, several music critics held an intervention of sorts on me. […]
2000: The 25 Most Powerful People On the Austin Music Scene
Published Feb. 17, 2000 in XL drawings by Guy Juke. Power. Clout. Influence. Juice. Who’s got it in the Austin music business? Here they are: the scene’s heaviest hitters. These movers and shakers are the ones who get their phone calls returned in an instant and who can get an audience with national bigwigs. 1. […]
It’s a ‘ME’ thing (some of my best friends are selfish)
published in Jan. 1996 We’re a racist society. You hear those words so often and so matter-of-factly these days that they’re rarely questioned, but charges of racism, even those with some merit, are often just a thick sheet of smoke that hides a far more reaching problem. We are a selfish society. It’s not so […]
The 25 ESSENTIAL Texas Music LPs
Let’s go back to the time when music was packaged to create a continual listening experience, when songs were sequenced to sustain a mood or provide a chronological context. Here’s a list I put together years ago, during the glory years of Rhino Records. Things have changed, but all these songs are out there somewhere. […]
Cindy Cashdollar profile from 2007
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 […]
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Lady, you shot me! Last words of a genius
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.
If a tie is like kissing your sister, going 6-6 is a hand down the pants of your cousin
Charlie swept out the football factory and sent so many young black men packing that it seemed the military draft had returned.