Sometimes music can act as a time machine, delivering us back to some previous time or place. Maria Muldaur’s latest tribute to Victoria Spivey takes her listeners back to the “Roaring Twenties,” a time when Spivey’s saucy lyrics and jaunty rhythms played a big part of the counter-culture of the day. Born in Houston in […]
The Twangville 2025 Album Preview-Side B
Here are some albums that we’re looking forward to hearing in the back half of 2025… Americana Radio by J. Isaiah Evans and the Boss Tweed (11 July) Evans and the Boss Tweed make a raucous entrance with their debut album. Evans pairs his booming voice with his fierce guitar for ten tracks of what […]
D.K. Harrell – Talkin’ Heavy
Young D.K. Harrell is good. Really good. With a polished guitar sound and soulful vocals, his sound is reminiscent of a Harrell’s idol B.B. King or a young Robert Cray. Born D’Kieran Harrell in Ruston, Louisiana, Harrell says he first heard King when he was a toddler and immediately started singing along. He grew up […]
Larry McCray on Music Streaming, Ticket Prices, and Burnished Nickel Guitar Strings
Blues singer and guitarist Larry McCray talks about touring in “Nellie Bell”, the time the police drove him to a gig, and the importance of having a trusted legal advisor.
Ally Venable on A Day Spent Waitressing and Now Living Out Her Dreams
Blues-rock artist Ally Venable talks about early gigs at coffee shops, grocery stores, crawfish stands, and flatbed trailers and the importance of not taking the music business personally.
Alexis P. Suter Band – Just Stay High
Alexis P. Suter is a living embodiment of the Blues. She is a powerful voiced force, and her new album, Just Stay High, shows why she is among the leading vocalists on the Blues scene today – an heiress, along with Mavis Staples, Shemekia Copeland, Nora Jean Wallace and a select few others, to the […]
Carolyn Wonderland – Truth Is
As some of you are already aware (based on your selection last week as Reader’s Pick), Carolyn Wonderland can play a wicked steel guitar. And on her newest release, Truth Is, she plays with attitude. Hailing originally from Houston, Wonderland didn’t have it easy. A high school dropout, she moved to Austin to pursue her […]
Tierinii Jackson of Southern Avenue on Living Online and Why the Band Rarely Practices
Singer Tierinii Jackson of Memphis blues and soul band Southern Avenue talks about why saying no is just as powerful as saying yes and the importance of drinking water.
Southern Avenue – Family
If you’re looking for a prescription to help get by in these darkish times, perhaps some unbridled optimism to offset the rancor that is so prevalent today, then Southern Avenue’s new Family might be just what the doctor ordered. When blues guitarist Ori Naftaly left his native Israel to compete in the International Blues Challenge […]
SXSW 2025: The Sounds, Part 1
JOHN FOGERTY “I just got my songs back and I’m gonna play every one of them,” said Fogerty at the start of his show, celebrating the return of his song publishing rights. He wasn’t kidding. He and his band cranked through hit after hit, culminating with a bruising “Fortunate Son”. The icing on the cake? […]