January 18, 2012 10:14 am by: Reid O'Conor
Austin musician
Seth Sherman is a details guy to say the least. On his latest album, Sherman meticulously played every instrument and recorded every vocal part on each track. The result is a very personal folk-pop album, with Sherman's voice and emotion showing through at all times. Titled
When the Moment is True, the record came out late last year to great reviews across the board. On Thursday night, Sherman and his band will be playing at Lambert's, he stopped by Studio 1a to play for John Aielli....
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Crooked Fingers began as the solo project of Eric Bachmann, the former lead singer and guitarist of Archers of Loaf. When Archers of Loaf called it quits in 1998, Bachmann emerged with Crooked Fingers, releasing his first album in 2000. Bachmann has stayed pretty busy since then steadily releasing albums of material praised for his vocal strength and their emotional content. His latest one is Crooked Fingers' sixth album, Breaks in the Armor. Crooked Fingers stopped by KUT Jan 17th to play live for host Jay Trachtenberg. Listen HERE!... » read more
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Milton Mapes of Austin formed in 1999, naming themselves after guitarist Greg Vanderpool’s grandfather. A rock band by definition, their sound often straddles the bound…...
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Texan Rhett Miller is best known as frontman for the much loved Dallas alt-county band Old 97’s. Their first release arrived on the scene over a decade ago, but Rhett recorde…...
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Josh Ritter, a talented Rhode Island singer/songwriter, has drawn the inevitable comparisons to everyone from Townes Van Zandt to John Prine. He writes spare, charming and smar…...
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Susan Cowsill had hits with her family band the Cowsills in the 60s, and released her first solo album, Just Believe It, full of rootsy music grounded by her amazing voice. She̵…...
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Rosanne was born to father Johnny Cash and first wife Vivian Liberto, who raised her in Southern California. Reluctant to follow in the footsteps of her father as a musician, Cash w…...
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Karl Wallinger of Wales was a member of 80’s Celtic-rock group the Waterboys before forming World Party. Wallinger’s one-man band released Private Revolution in 1…...
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Beth Orton merges traditional acoustic folk with electronica and trip-hop to produce the music in her head. In 1995, she teamed with the Chemical Brothers for a recording, but fin…...
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Will Taylor and Strings Attached pair some of Austin’s most popular singer-songwriters with acoustic chamber instruments, such as cello, violin, viola, trumpet and dru…...
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Luke Doucet surprised US audiences with his thoughtful, melodic and enjoyable album Broken. But he’s no secret in his home country, where this Canadian folk/pop singer ha…...
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A side project of six NY singer-songwriters who performed a regular Sunday-night gospel show, Ollabelle sent their first album to only one person: T-Bone Burnett. He immediatel…...
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Although some may call Billy Bragg a folkie, he was the leading figure in the anti-folk movement of the 80’s. Inspired by both punk rock and the music of Woody Guthrie and Bob D…...
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Billy Bragg appeared on Folkways in March of 2006.
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Ten years ago, in the unlikely town of Extremadura, in southern Spain near the border of Portugal, singer, songwriter, producer, and guitarist Fernando Echave, a.k.a. Gecko Tur…...
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The Magic Numbers went from one of a thousand bands trying to make a name for themselves on the London indie club circuit to going platinum one year later. Trinidad-born singer-son…...
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