David Beck and Paul Cauthen, the core members of Sons of Fathers, first met when each were working on solo projects in San Marcos. Both discovered they had a lot in common, in particular their families’ very rich musical backgrounds. Beck's father, Bill Whitbeck, was a renowned touring musician, and Cauthen grew up singing in church and was taught how to play guitar by his grandfather, a preacher. “This whole thing is coming down to us realizing we are playing through our families,” Cauthen told Jay Trachtenberg in an interview in KUT's Studio 1A. “We represent our families and friends.” It wasn't even a second...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote "We change, whether we like it or not." If the last sixty years of pop music has taught us anything, it's that reinvention is ubiquitous. Great art comes through revolution and change, even if that change is unwelcome. We may be poked and prodded into it but whatever the outcome may be, at least it affords us the opportunity to move forward, and think about the future rather than the past. Austin art-pop duo Deep Time were recently faced with such a change. The band, which consists of multi-instrumentalists Jennifer Moore and Adam Jones, was forced to change their name from YellowFever due to » read more