Written by James Killen Mike Amabile’s chose to self-title his fourth album. It’s different than previous records in that it gets back to roots music, using more acoustic guitar than electric. He includes members of his band, Run Over Twice, along with a number of talented session artists. Mike has been playing in and around…

Written by James Killen A lot of Stone Coyote fans have been waiting patiently for three years for the next studio release. Well, they’ve got it! It has the rock tributes, the Barbara Keith lyrics, the covers of old rock and roll heroes and Doug Tibbles, Jr. added to the trio on lead guitar. The…

Written by James Killen Robyn Ludwick, little sister to Bruce and Charlie Robeson, one of Texas Music’s greatest dynasties has a new CD coming out called “This Tall to Ride”. Her writing style owes a lot to the influence of Lucinda Williams, but still rings genuine and personal. Her songs have that same rugged, but…

Written by James Killen You never know what you are going to get with a new Alejandro Escovedo CD. It might be an acoustic serenade or a psychedelic trip or a string quartet or just pure rock and roll. He started out in the punk scene with The Nuns and went mainstream Rock and Roll…

Written by James Killen Charles Bryant started late in life as a professional musician, but has been playing and writing for years. As a Pasadena resident, Charles made many appearances at Almost Austin over the past few years and has been known to play a few evenings at the Last Concert Café. Prior to that…

Written by James Killen Andy Summers rose to fame in the seventies and eighties as the lead guitar player for The Police, backing up Sting and creating the new wave/jazz/ reggae sound that took the airwaves by storm. He has been putting out solo albums since the band broke up and is now releasing his…

Written by James Killen Having grown up during the sixties and seventies, I’ve always had a soft spot in my heart (or maybe my head) for psychedelic music. In the mid to late sixties, the airwaves were full of bands like Vanilla Fudge, Moby Grape, The Great Society, Jefferson Airplane and, of course the Grateful…

Written by James Killen The Drive-By Truckers put out a thematic rock and roll classic last year and called it “American Band”. Patterson Hood and, to a lesser degree, Mike Cooley, set out to make a series of statements about the state of the union on this disc all to the sounds of some rousing…

Written by James Killen On March 14, Australian musical artist, Kacey Chambers will be appearing at the Heights Theatre along with Parker Millsap to promote her new double disc album, Dragonfly. She has gathered twenty songs that with very few exceptions generally drive toward a single theme, that of a strong, yet fragile, world-wise, yet…

The Flying A’s are a writing team made in heaven, or at least that is how it seems to feel to them. They are married couple (Stuart and Hilary Adamson) whose relationship seems to be based on songwriting or is it that they write songs because they have a relationship that inspires music? The songs…