ALSO LIVE WEBCASTING ”Writing is the most vulnerable state that I’m ever in,” says Mary Bragg. “But there can be a real beauty in that vulnerability when you know you’ve written the strongest thing that you can, when you’ve paired a killer melody with a meaningful lyric that says exactly what you’ve always wanted to […]
ALSO LIVE WEBCASTING Born in New Hampshire, raised in Maine and now based in Nashville, Rod Picott is a former construction worker who traded his hammer for a guitar and never looked back. He has released more than a dozen albums over the last 20 years, and has also written two poetry collections, God In […]
Lyle Lovett has called Willis Alan Ramsey’s 1972 self-titled debut “one of the greatest records of all time,” and Jimmy Buffett once declared Ramsey to be “one of the best writers I have ever known.” You can find plenty of other, equally effusive accolades for both Willis Alan Ramsey and Willis Alan Ramsey — and […]
WEBCAST NOT AVAILABLE FOR THIS SHOW In regard to the Lone Star State’s finest tunesmiths, Bruce Robison lands at the top of the heap. His songwriting turned the heads of some of the industry’s biggest artists and took them to the top of the charts (The Chicks’ No. 1 version of “Travelin’ Soldier,” George Strait’s […]
ALSO LIVE WEBCASTING Phil Hurley has been playing in bands since he was 8 years old. He moved from his hometown of Potsdam, NY to Boston, MA in 1987 with his major-label band Gigolo Aunts, who toured extensively in the U.S. and Europe and recorded songs for several big films, including That Thing You Do, The […]
ALSO LIVE WEBCASTING Grace Pettis epitomizes the term singer-songwriter. As a singer, her voice is both powerful and beautiful, and she uses it like a fine arts painter to color and craft her songs. American Songwriter wrote that she “blurs the lines between country, Americana and folk. Her soulful delivery of calculated lyric lines helps […]
ALSO LIVE WEBCASTING When Guy Forsyth first moved to Austin from Kansas City 33 years ago, he had a bandolier of harmonicas and a carnival barker's voice that could cut through the noise of the busiest night on Sixth Street. In the mid-90s, he co-founded the Asylum Street Spankers, arguably the most raucous blues, jazz, […]
ALSO LIVE WEBCASTING With a range of styles from soulful blues to pop and rock, Cari Hutson is a force of nature. After years of cutting her teeth as a powerful singer and gutsy performer fronting bands on Austin's Sixth Street, she landed a role as the Queen of Rock and Roll herself in a […]