Robert Shaw died on May 16, 1985. Born in Stafford, Texas, on August 9, 1908, Shaw was not allowed to study piano as a child, since his parents thought that was not appropriate for a boy. Undaunted, the young Shaw hid underneath the house and listened while his sister practiced her piano lessons. By the 1920s, Shaw had become an accomplished player of the barrelhouse piano style, also known as boogie-woogie, which combined blues, jazz, and the syncopated rhythms of ragtime. Robert Shaw toured the country throughout the 1930s, before settling in East Austin, where he operated a grocery store for many years. During the 1960s, he was rediscovered by a younger generation of fans and soon was performing on stages throughout the world. Shaw was a dynamic performer who helped...
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Let all those gorgeous voices ring out! Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another fantastic edition of The Good Music Club! The GMC is both a live music event and an online video series featuring the best of the best Austin-based music artists making an impact on the local scene. Ultimately, our goal is to share all the great music coming out of Austin with resources and new fans outside of the Live Music Capital – and that includes different cities throughout the country, and throughout the world. This week, we present the phenomenal Paul Banks & The Carousels. Banks connects to many styles of melody, whether pop- or rock-based, and sometimes even classic sounds harkening back to larger-than-life performances of big band jazz. He pushes his vocals to extraordinary levels in ways that...
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