Americana

From the moment she began to sing “Trance” from the Brick Café stage, Mary Battiata had this writer’s short hairs stand­ing at atten­tion. The song, from her sec­ond full-length […]

Led by vet­eran English rocker Stephen D. Ineson, The Milagro Saints had the audi­ence rock­ing in their seats in a suc­cess­ful return engage­ment to the Crystal Theatre Stage. […]

Rick Reiley has never missed attend­ing the Woody Guthrie Folk Festival. At least, he doesn’t think so. Reiley kicked off the after­noon pro­ceed­ings at Lou’s Rocky Road Tavern […]

I first met singer-song­writer Alex Culbreth (Parlor Soldiers, Alex Culbreth and the Dead Country Stars) in July, when he was fea­tured in a Woody Guthrie […]

As singer-song­writer Rebecca Loebe told the audi­ence at the Crystal Theatre this past July, she didn’t mean to become a best-sell­ing artist. But with over 35,000 down­loads of her sin­gle on iTunes […]

With his full beard streaked grey and his horn-rimmed eye­glasses, Otis Gibbs might be mis­taken for one-time Nashville res­i­dent Steve Earle, had the lat­ter not grown tired of the big city and moved back to Texas. Nonetheless, the com­par­i­son stands […]

It just keeps get­ting bet­ter for Dan Weber. In 2010, he was nom­i­nated for the pres­ti­gious Dave Carter Songwriting Contest. 2 years later, he was a final­ist in the Kerrville Folk Festival “New Folk” com­pe­ti­tion. This year, he won 3rd Prize […]

Although singer-song­writer Audrey Auld iTunes describes her style as music with the dirt left on, that’s dirt from a dis­tinctly dif­fer­ent hemi­sphere — the south­ern hemi­sphere. Born in Australia and raised in the Tasmanian bush […]

Making his Woody Guthrie Folk Festival debut this past July, Alex Culbreth (Parlor Soldiers, Alex Culbreth and the Dead Country Stars) played a solo set in the base­ment of the Brick Street Café. […]

Texas singer-song­writer Ramsay Midwood trav­elled from Austin with his band to per­form at the Music4Moore ben­e­fit in the wake of the 3 May 2013 tor­nado, enter­tain­ing the audi­ence with his rootsy Southern Gothic songs. Accompanying him were gui­tarist Bill Mullins, bassist Jeff Johnston, drum­mer Scott Mason and spe­cial guest and Norman musi­cian Daniel Foulks (IIIrd Generation Bluegrass Band, Samantha Crain) on fiddle. […]