'Folk' Category
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Slaid Cleaves Review of Songs and Albums
Slaid Cleaves – Best Song of the Year Growing up in Maine, Slaid Cleaves moved back to Texas where he writes songs, creates albums, and travels around. Living near the Horseshoe Lounge, he was missing the courage to walk into the legendary saloon. Stories about the lounge and curiosity finally got the better of him. [...]
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Bad Livers Do it Their Way in Austin Texas
The Bad Livers remain a legend For the Bad Livers, the clubs in the Austin TX music scene in the 1990s proved to be very fertile ground. Bands with eclectic music styles like Bad Livers tended to do well and Bad Livers did an amazing job capitalizing on this. Bad Livers originally began in 1990 [...]
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Newland Moorefield: Self-taught Folk-Jazz-Pop Artist
Newland Moorefield A beautiful voice has shot out of Austin – with a beautiful woman behind the voice. Newland Moorefield is a singer and songwriter is a self-taught folk-jazz-pop artist who brings a variation of voices to the table. She is described as a southern Carole King, with a touch of Rickie Lee Jones and [...]
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Ana Egge and Her Deepest, Darkest Secrets
Ana Egge Born in Saskatchewan, Ana Egge never was your typical run-of-the-mill country/alternative singer. Ana has left a distinct mark on the country music scene with her rock-based chord progressions that have dubbed her as a Gillian Welch with a rocker edge. Ana Egge has shared the stage with some of country’s heavy-hitters, such as [...]
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Peter Keane and His Story
The Story of Peter Keane Peter Keane isn’t your normal Boston native. Keane set out in the 80s to make a name for himself in the blues and folk coffeehouse scene in the Boston area — he did a pretty good job for himself, too. Peter Keane took his music seriously, so he wrote and [...]
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Sarah Elizabeth Campbell Proves That Great Hits Don’t Always Have to Be Upbeat
Sarah Elizabeth Campbell Most of the Sarah Elizabeth Campbell’s success is a due to her touching lyrics, the poignancy of her style and voice and her depth of feeling. Born in Austin, her inspirational idols growing up fell within a range of popular artists, from Etta James, Ella Fitzgerald and Bonnie Raitt, to Billie Holiday, [...]
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Austin Lounge Lizards
Austin Lounge Lizards - Texas-Style Comical Bluegrass In a concert of comedy mixed with good old-fashioned bluegrass music, nothing tops a night out listening to the verbal comedic lines of the Austin Lounge Lizards. Hank Card, Darcie Deaville, Conrad Deisler and Bruce Jones fill an auditorium with their five-time award winning comical lines in songs such [...]
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Ray Wylie Hubbard: An Earthy American Bard
Ray Wylie Hubbard – Earthy American Bard Few Texas musicians have had a career as long and distinguished as that of Ray Wylie Hubbard. Although mainstream success has largely eluded Hubbard, he has developed a fanatical cult following that can’t get enough of his earthy songs. Combining folk, country and blues into one seamless whole, [...]
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Emily Kaitz and her Quizzical World
The Quizzical World of Emily Kaitz With a personal music label like Pingleblobber Music, and written and recorded songs by such bands as Trout Fishing in America, The Austin Lounge Lizards and The Therapy Sisters, it isn’t at all hard to expect a variety of songs from Emily Kaitz that are intelligent, a bit eccentric, [...]
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Sarah Elizabeth Campbell: Unique Folk Singer
Sarah Elizabeth Campbell–A Unique Folk Singer/Songwriter Sarah Elizabeth Campbell is a contemporary singer/songwriter from Austin, Texas. Campbell writes heartfelt lyrics and sings them in her poignant, haunting voice. This vocal quality sets her apart from other folk singers. The strong passion found in Campbell’s touching lyrics is emphasized by her depth of feeling and straightforward [...]