This
site is your portal to the Texas Country Music Scene. A daily listing
of
the gigs around the Austin area by country, Americana, folk, and a few
other indefinable kinds of music. I hope you discover some
new artists and new venues and you go out and support live music
tonight!
If
you just happened upon this site, I am Janice Williams and I have been
in Austin almost 9 years. I am a recovering disc jockey and
have
said the name "Janice Williams" on the air a couple of million times.
Now I am discovering that if I want people to search or Google "Janice
Williams" and find this site, the words Janice Williams need to be on
here more often. So, forgive what appears to be ego which is really
just, well, self-aggrandizement.
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Did
you see the line-up for this year's ACLFest? It comes up the last
weekend of September this year (they always work it around UT having an
away game) and the Foo Fighters and Robert Plant and Allison Krauss are
the headliners. The full line-up came out today and can be found here
at the Statesman. Just a quick glance and I see Kevin Fowler and
the Belleville Outfit and Asleep at the Wheel (for their 7th appearance
out of 7 ACLs). Robert Earl, Bonnie Bishop, the South Austin Jug Band
and a few others of our kind of music, but none that you can't see more
easily and more cheaply year 'round. But, if you like the experience of
ACLFest, it's there for you.
Monday, April 21, 2008
Courtney Patton comes highly recommended to me and I like her myspace. Check her out at Momo's at 7
James Intveld at the Continental Club at 10 pm $5
Lee
Duffy and friends at Threadgill's World Headquarters 8 pm
Dustin Welch and the House Band at Momo's at 1045, Jeremy Nail and the Incidentals at 930
Charles Thibodeax at Evangeline Cafe 630
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Sunny
Sweeney has the early residency now at the Saxon Pub at 7
pm $5
Toni Price hosts Hippy Hour at the Continental Club 630
T. Jarrod Bonta at the Flipnotics at the
Triangle, 4600 Guadalupe
Bill Rice hosts
singer/songwriter night at Hill's Cafe 730 to 1030 pm
No cover
Roger Wallace at the Hole in the Wall 830
Brennen Leigh at the Evangeline Cafe at 6 pm
The
Ben Danaher Band at the Cheatham Street Warehouse in San
Marcos
Larry Joe Taylor's Texas Music Festival and Chili Cookoff starts its SIX day run (how do you survive?) today with Buzz Cason, Matt Martindale, Roger Creager, Michael Martin Murphey and the host himself, Larry Joe Taylor. This all happens at the Melody Mountain Ranch in Stephenville. Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Shake Russell, Mike Hearne, and the Bill Hearne Trio at
the Cactus Cafe $10 The
Doug Moreland Show at the Broken Spoke at 9
pm Tony
Harrison from 6 to 8 pm (no cover for Tony)
Adam
Hood plays the free show at HIll's Cafe with
Scott
Wiggins opening at 6:30 pm Free
Paula
Nelson at the Saxon Pub at 8 pm Josh Grider plays
there at 12 midnight
James McMurtry at the Continental Club 12 midnight $7
Austin Collins at Momo's at 8
Danny Britt at Evangeline Cafe 7
Kent Finlay's Singer Songwriter Circle takes place at
Cheatham Street Warehouse in San Marcos
Walther
Wednesday at Gruene Hall with Zach Walther and the
Cronkites 730 to 1030 No cover
Brent
Allen at Cindy's Gone Hog Wild in Cedar Creek
Larry Joe Taylor's Texas Music Festival and Chili Cookoff Day 2 with Dedringers, Walt Wilkins, the Tejas Brothers, Cross Canadian Ragweed, Max Stalling, Casey Donahew Band, and Chris Knight. Once again, this is in Stephenville. Thursday, April 24, 2008
Hey! It's My Wedding Anniversary!
Cornell Hurd Band reigns supreme at Jovita's on South
First The
Band of Heathens at the Saxon Pub at 8 pm $8
Robyn
Ludwick celebrates the release of a new CD "Too Much Desire" and Susan Gibson is celebrating her pre-release of her new CD at the Cactus
Cafe 830 pm
Jesse
Dayton keeps the dance floor full at the Broken Spoke
9 pm
Seth
Walker plays Unplugged at
the Grove at Shady Grove (no it's not country, but I'll put
the whole
Shady Grove series here for you anyway --- they are all outstanding
musicians!)
Texas
Renegade at the Cheatham Street Warehouse in San Marcos
Austin
Collins at Gruene Hall 7 to 11 No cover
The Bellamy Brothers and Walt Wilkins play the Whitewater at the Horseshoe Amphitheater. $10
Larry Joe Taylor's Texas Music Festival and Chili Cookoff Day 3 with Deryl Dodd, Michael Hearne and South By Southwest, Richard Leigh, Owen Temple and Bill Hearne in the daytime. That evening it is Randy Rogers Band, Johnny Cooper, Jason Boland and the Stragglers, and Brandon Rhyder. This thing keeps rockin' on at the Melody Mountain Ranch in Stephenville.
Go back to the top of the page Friday, April 25, 2008
Aaron
Watson and Jason Boland and the Stragglers are
touring together and they are at Midnight Rodeo tonight
David
Allen Coe plays Stubb's Tickets on
sale now through Front
Gate Tickets
porterdavis
celebrate the release of their CD
at the Saxon Pub at 930 Jeff
Hughes and Chaparral will be there at midnight
Alvin
Crow at the Broken Spoke
Bob
Schneider and the Bluegrass Massacre at Threadgill's on
Riverside
James
McMurtry and the Heartless Bastards at the Cheatham
Street Warehouse New CD release!
Kelly
Willis is playing a show! Hooray! She's at Gruene Hall
tonight with sister-in-law Robyn
Ludwick opening the show
Larry Joe Taylor's Texas Music Festival and Chili Cookoff keeps cooking and it is only Day 4. Daytime performers are Joe Pat Hennen, South Austin Jug Band, Keith Sykes, Susan Gibson, and Josh Grider. Evening performances from Stoney LaRue, Reckless Kelly, Wade Bowen, No Justice, Bart Crow, and Band of Heathens. This is all happening in Stephenville (or close by). Saturday, April 26, 2008
The
Lone Star State Jam lines 'em out at
Waterloo Park throughout the day and night: Kevin
Fowler, Adam Hood, Bart Crow Band, Bleu Edmondson, Cory Morrow, Cross
Canadian Ragweed, Eli Young Band, Roger Creager, Ryan James, and
Wade
Bowen. Only $32.50 Full
details at lonestarjam.com
Bo Porter hosts the matinee at the
Continental Club 3 to 7 pm No Cover
The Derailers play the Continental Club at 12 midnight, The Cornell Hurd Band there at 10 and Jill Hennessy at 9
The
Geezinslaws with Sam and Son at the Broken Spoke
Jimmy
LaFave at Threadgill's World Headquarters at 9 pm
Kelly Willis and Two Tons of Steel are at the Georgetown Poppy Festival in downtown Georgetown. They start at 7, she's at 9 and it is free!
Ricky
Calmbach at the Coupland Dancehall $10
This thing isn't over yet? Larry Joe Taylor's Texas Music Festival and Chili Cookoff finishes us off in Stephenville with Davin James, Terri Hendrix, and Adam Carroll on the acoustic stage. On the main stage it is your host, Larry Joe Taylor, along with Mike McClure, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Matt Martindale, Kevin Welch, Rusty Wier, Tommy Alverson, and Ed Burleson.
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Steve
Earle and wife Allison Moorer play
the Paramount Theater
Heybale with Redd and Earle at the Continental Club
10 pm $7
Luckenbach
Cultural Exchange at the Cheatham Street Warehouse
Slaid
Cleaves at Gruene Hall 5 to 9 pm No
cover Monday, April 28, 2008
James Intveld at the Continental Club at 10 pm $5
Lee
Duffy and friends at Threadgill's World Headquarters
Kyle
Park Band at the Cheatham Street Warehouse
The
Little River Band plays
at the One World Theater. I know, it isn't country, but one
of
their last hits, "The Other Guy" should have been. "Reminiscing" and so
many more. I think I was in radio for their entire (hit) career.
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Debra
Peters and The Love Saints at the Broken
Spoke and she hosts Accordion Night
Sunny
Sweeney has the early residency now at the Saxon Pub at 7
pm $5
T. Jarrod Bonta at the Flipnotics at the
Triangle, 4600 Guadalupe
Reckless
Kelly at the Cheatham Street Warehouse Another
filming of the Texas Music Cafe
John
Arthur Martinez plays an acoustic show for you at Gruene
Hall No cover
Wednesday,
April 30, 2008
Max Stalling at the Cactus Cafe 830 pm
$10 Brandon Rhyder plays
the free show at HIll's Cafe with Matt
Skinner opening at 6:30 pm Free
Traci Lynn at
the Broken Spoke at 9 pm Tony
Harrison plays 6 to 8 (no cover for Tony)
Paula
Nelson at the Saxon Pub at 8 pm Josh Grider plays
there at 12 midnight
Kent
Finlay's Songwriter Circle at the Cheatham
Street Warehouse
Walther
Wednesday at Gruene Hall with Zach Walther and the
Cronkites 730 to 1030 No cover
Brent
Allen at Cindy's Gone Hog Wild in Cedar Creek
T. Jarrod Bonta at the Flipnotics at the
Triangle, 4600 Guadalupe
Reckless
Kelly at the Cheatham Street Warehouse Another
filming of the Texas Music Cafe
John
Arthur Martinez plays an acoustic show for you at Gruene
Hall No cover
Larry Joe Taylor closes things out at the Burton Cotton Gin Festival.
Cory Morrow, Wade Bowen, Micky and the Motorcars and more fill up the day at the Fiesta Oyster Bake in San Antonio.
