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Music, Texas Music Matters
Big Broadcast: Remembering Brent Grulk...
On this week's edition of Texas Music Matters, veteran music journalist Michael Hall talks about his longtime friend Brent Grulke, the creative director of SXSW who passed away unexpectedly August 13th. Grulke left an enduring mark on music and his adopted hometown of Austin. Also, after 20 years...
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Texas Music Matters
Big Broadcast: Rediscovering The Odess...
This week, Texas Music Matters presents a documentary on the first recordings by The Flatlanders--recently rediscovered after 40 years, gathering dust in a bedroom closet in North Texas. These historic tapes, recorded in Tommy Allsup's Odessa studios in 1972-- are considered by some to be the...
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Austin Music Map, Texas Music Matters
Austin Music Map: Deliverance Temple i...
When we first spoke with Greg Adkins about the gospel landscape in Austin, he immediately pointed us to The Durden Family Singers—a group led by Larry and Judy Durden, and backed by assorted brothers, sisters, nephews, and sons. The group has performed in secular settings like the Austin City...
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Features, Texas Music Matters
The Loop: Eversive
For beat artist Chris Medders--a.k.a. Eversive--his hometown of Corpus Christi is something of a mixed bag, but his struggle has certainly made him into a better musician....
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Texas Music Matters
Big Broadcast: Sessions at the Cactus ...
This week, Texas Music Matters presents 'Sessions at the Cactus Cafe', featuring music and conversation with Bob Mould, Eliza Gilkyson, Shawn Colvin, and John ("Daydream Believer") Stewart. Join host Jody Denberg for Sessions at the Cactus Cafe, a special presentation from Texas Music...
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Features, Texas Music Matters
The Loop: Juicy The Emissary
Juicy The Emissary dubs himself an "aural architect" and the moniker couldn't be more apt. His building materials are dusty LPs and cassettes, which lay the foundation for his atmospheric instrumentals....
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Texas Music Matters
Big Broadcast: The Texas Trinity
Texas Music has more than its share of great artists. But when it comes to songwriters, who sets the bar? If you ask other Texas songwriters, three names are consistently mentioned: Billy Joe Shaver, Guy Clark, and Townes Van Zandt. On the next edition of Texas Music Matters, it's the stories of...
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Austin Music Map, Features, Texas Music Matters
Austin Music Map: Las Hermanitas Garza...
Even now it's pretty unusual for women to play conjunto music, but back in the 1960s—when Adelaida Garza and Marcella Garza Torres first picked up the accordion and drums and started touring around Central Texas with their family band—it was almost unheard of....
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Texas Music Matters
Big Broadcast: Sessions at the Cactus ...
The driving force behind Asleep at the Wheel—Ray Benson, the late cofounder of The Band-- Rick Danko, folk rock innovator Patty Larkin and Americana troubadour Martin Sexton… all are featured artists as Jody Denberg hosts another pilot of “Sessions at the Cactus Cafe. Hear that, plus the...
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Texas Music Matters
Big Broadcast: Sessions at the Cactus ...
Hear performances by Sahara Smith, Jesse Winchester, Peter Case, and Ani DiFranco as Texas Music Matters presents another installment of ‘Sessions at the Cactus Cafe’. Join host Jody Denberg as we check out exclusive showcases and 'Austin Found Sound' from one of the city’s...
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Austin Music Map, Texas Music Matters
Austin Music Map: Stories, maps, and s...
Curious to see how the stories we’ve produced so far are sorting out by neighborhood, we’ve plotted them geographically. ...
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Features, Music, Texas Music Matters
Exclusive Video Premiere: Robyn Ludwic...
Robyn Ludwick says she's used to getting "the scraps" --and has learned to be one heckuva scrapper. Growing up the youngest of the famous Robisons of Bandera, she had to come to terms with the fact that her career might be shadowed by her siblings' wealth of musical talent. Robyn Ludwick held on...
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Texas Music Matters
Woody Guthrie: A Centennial Celebratio...
It’s the 100th birthday of our nation's greatest roving troubadour and social commentator, Woody Guthrie, and host Nick Spitzer will take us on a two-hour journey about his life in music. There will be visits with friends and relatives who share tales of Guthrie's trials and triumphs, from...
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Features, Texas Music Matters
The Loop: Anthony Maintain
On this edition of The Loop, Anthony Maintain discusses the spontaneity of songwriting and provides us an exclusive track you won't hear anywhere else....
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