Texas Monthly Features Five Texas Music Legends
- Texas Monthly’s Pitch Perfect features five legendary Texas musicians—Guy Clark, Patty Griffin, Sonny Throckmorton, Robert Earl Keen, and Jack Ingram— and asks them to sgare the mystic secrets to writing a great country song. It’s a funny, informative a great read.
- The nominees for the 20th International Bluegrass Music Awards Awards has been announced (Yay SteelDrivers!) The ceremony will be hosted by Grammy-winning country artist Kathy Mattea and the legendary bluegrass band, Hot Rize, on Thursday, October 1, 2009, at the historic Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee.
- Legendary guitar pioneer Les Paul died today at the age of 94 at White Plains Hospital due to complications from pneumonia.
- More info on Death Cab for Cutie’s Ben Gibbard and Son Volt’s Jay Farrar work for the upcoming Jack Kerouac soundtrack collaborative album entitled “One Fast Move or I’m Gone: Kerouac’s Big Sur.” The twelve song set is due October 20 via F-Stop/Atlantic and will serve as the soundtrack to the Kerouac documentary of the same title. Farrar and Gibbard were approached by the filmmakers in 2007 about writing music for the film, which documents the events surrounding the author’s time spent in the Big Sur region of California.
Tags: Ben Gibbard, Death Cab for Cutie, Guy Clark, Hot Rize, Jack Ingram, Jack Kerouac, Jay Farrar, Kathy Mattea, Les Paul, Patty-Griffin, Robert-Earl-Keen, Son-Volt, Sonny Throckmorton, The Steeldrivers
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Les Paul Moves On; IBMA Awards Announces Nominees; Streaming Reba | The 9513
August 14, 2009 at 8:56 am
[...] Texas Monthly published a round table interview with five Texas musicians — Guy Clark, Patty Griffin, Sonny Throckmorton, Robert Earl Keen, and Jack Ingram — on the subject of songwriting and more specifically, the secret to writing a great country song. (via Twang Nation) [...]
Quotable Country – 08/16/09 Edition | Country California
August 16, 2009 at 6:51 pm
[...] I went there to try to be a songwriter, but I gave up trying to understand that marketplace. Writing for a marketplace just offends my sensibilities. I always said, “If I ever break even, I’m movin’ back to Texas.” I haven’t done it yet. ● – – Guy Clark, in conversation with Patty Griffin, Jack Ingram, Robert Earl Keen and Sonny Throckmorton. Check out this piece in Texas Monthly; it’s one of the coolest things I’ve read recently. (via The 9513, via Twang Nation) [...]
Danny S. Dunn
March 14, 2010 at 2:23 am
Twang is my thang!! Glad to see it recognized as a viable genre!! But there is no twang like Texas twang!