Twangville

A music blog featuring Alt-Country, Americana, Indie, Rock, Folk & Blues. Est. 2005.

SXSW 2008 – John’s Sunday Night Highlight: Alejandro Escovedo

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For all intents and purposes, SXSW turns into a pumpkin at 2 a.m. Saturday night, but true aficionados know that it ain’t really over until the legendary Alejandro Escovedo leaves the Continental Club stage after his unofficial closing night show on Sunday. We knew going in that this year’s set was going to be something […]

The Country Corner, a New Blog

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AOL Music recently released a new country music blog they are calling Country Corner. If other AOL Music blogs like Spinner and PopEater are any indication Country Corner should be a formidable player for coverage of country music benefited by its shiny look and feel. While it covers way more mainstream country than we care […]

Helping a Hacienda Brother

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Hacienda Brother Chris Gaffney was diagnosed with liver cancer earlier this year. He is about to begin an extreme course of chemotherapy in hopes of eradicating the disease. Although he has health insurance, it will not cover all the costs associated with his treatment. To help defray the costs, friends and family have created a […]

Twangville Congratulates…

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Daniel Jordan of Taylorsville, KY. Daniel will be receiving a signed vinyl copy of Jeremy Fisher’s independent 2005 release Back Porch Spirituals and a copy of Jeremy’s impressive 2007 release Goodbye Blue Monday. Special thanks to Wind-Up Records for sponsoring this contest. Visit Jeremy Fisher here.

Twangville Congratulates…

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Joshua Farber of Monson, MA. Joshua will be receiving signed copies of Dennis Brennan’s Engagement and Stonehoney’s Songs from a Hillside Living Room. Thanks to Stonehoney’s generosity, we have also randomly selected a runner-up to receive a signed Stonehoney cd and band photo. Congratulations to Dale Schmucker of New Haven, Indiana. Of course everyone can […]

Twangville Give-Away Bonanza!

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So the Grammy Awards are over and, like me, you’re probably yawning and wondering whether “Blake, Incarcerated” is a new reality series.* Well buck up residents of Twangville because we’ve got something special for you… We’re giving away a towering stack of cds and other goodies from some of our favorite artists from 2007. And […]

Wanted: Bonehead Who Stole Isbell’s Equipment

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In the category of “Dude, that’s not cool!” we’ve received breaking news from Twang Nation and Jason Isbell’s MySpace page. Apparently the band’s been on the receiving end of some unfortunate events. In short, some ass hat stole broke into the band’s van and stole some equipment. To add salt to the wound, word has […]