Gillian Welch

Old Crow Medicine Show's Christopher "Critter" Fuqua On Getting Sober, Bob Dylan As a Gateway Drug

If there were a String Band Hero video game, it's highly likely the music of Nashville's Old Crow Medicine Show would be prominent in the list of song options. Best known for "Wagon Wheel," the song that's as responsible for today's youthful lust for all things banjo as any other single track, the b ... More >>

The Six Best Concerts of the Summer

See also: Ten of August's best music photos This summer's musical choices have been made. Our thighs have been chafed from festivals, our livers raked over the fiery coals, our eardrums gently caressed. And now, as we drift into the last quarter of the year, we're taking one look back at some of o ... More >>

Gillian Welch - Majestic Theatre - 6/9/12

Gillian Welch Majestic Theatre Saturday, June 9 In this week's paper, Gillian Welch let us know what the live show might be like, when she described her recording process to us. "My favorite sound on Earth is the sound of voices and instruments combining in the air. We let it all combine naturally ... More >>

Gillian Welch Deals in the Human Condition

13 of This Weekend's Best Concerts: H2O Music Festival, Gillian Welch, Latin Energy Festival and More

H2O Music FestivalSaturday, June 9, at The Cotton BowlThere's something for everyone at H2O Music Festival. For those of us on this side of 30, Weezer has is somewhat familiar. (Remember when Pinkerton occupied our stereo for an entire summer?) They'll be joined by Snoop Dogg, Ozomatli, Yelawolf, Ju ... More >>

Ten Of This Week's Most Notable Show Announcements

Gillian WelchSaturday, June 9, at Majestic TheaterWithout hearing a note, you can expect Welch's music to be have weight. Maybe it has to do with her story of being the daughter of a touring musician and being given up for adoption. Or, maybe it's because her earlier albums were given the T Bone Bur ... More >>

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: 25 Years Ago Tonight, The Band Played Fast and Cool

​Earlier today I spent as much time as I could, which wasn't anywhere near close to enough, listening to a song Wilco posted to YouTube late yesterday: the band performing The Band's "The Weight" backstage at the Civic Opera House in Chicago, joined by show-opener Nick Lowe and Mavis Staples, who ... More >>

Ten Things You Can Expect to See At Austin City Limits 2011

Ten Goosebump-Inducing Movie Score and Soundtrack Moments Not From John Williams

A scene from The Royal Tenenbaums.​Hey, it's almost Oscar season! Well, kind of. This much is sure: The summer's about to crest and the shitty movies will finally wash ashore like a dead, bloated whale. Then, the good films will come! You know the Hollywood drill -- and, often, it involves Hollywo ... More >>

The Blue Hit's Grace Park Talks Gillian Welch, The Inspiration For Her New Solo Project

Musicians are undoubtedly influenced by the music they listen to. An artist's musical selection can sometimes even foretell what a next album might sound like. So if you've ever wondered what the artists who grace your stereo are getting funky to, here's your chance to find out. Every week, I'll ask ... More >>

Jessica Lea Mayfield

Tuesday, July 26, at Dada

News and Notes: Seryn Gets More Paste Love, Will Johnson Gets NPR'd and Much, Much More

Stand up and take a bow, Seryn.​Got a whole grab-bag of local music notes to pass along today, but none is bigger than this: Yesterday, Paste announced its list of the year's best albums so far, and coming in at No. 4 on their list was Denton's Own Seryn's album, This Is Where We Are. The baroque ... More >>

Joe Pug Tells Us The Songs He'd Love To Cover One Day, Shares Some MP3s

Joe Pug​Back in July of last year in the paper version of DC9, we stated that folk troubadour and musical entrepreneur Joe Pug "devised a strategy for marketing himself that simply wouldn't have been possible only a few years ago." We were talking about the Internet, of course -- and in the blo ... More >>

Year in Review: 2009's Best Alt-Country Proves that Yes, Willie Nelson is Still a Badass

We spent 2009 sorting through piles of folk and Americana releases, revising this list in our heads till the bitter end and failing repeatedly to understand the hype behind the Avett Brothers in the process. While a year of listening brought no shortage of pleasant surprises, our hands-down favorite ... More >>

Gig Alert: Frontier Ruckus at Dan's Silverleaf Tonight

What's that Ruckus?​Besides the great (but unheralded) Volebeats, Detroit hasn't exactly become known as a haven for Americana music. Frontier Ruckus hopes to change that.Formed in 2003 by Matthew Milia and David Winston Jones, the band didn't get around to releasing a proper debut until 2008. The ... More >>

Last Night(ish): The New Frontiers' Final Show

The New Frontiers, This Will Destroy You, GazellesClub DadaSaturday, January 3, 2009 Better Than: Sitting at home on your ass, not supporting local music. You'd think that going to Club Dada to see the last show by a local band wasn't on most people's agenda for warm winter Saturday night. But, onc ... More >>

The New Frontiers Boldly Go Where Many Bands Before Them Have Gone: The End Of The Line

Photos: ACL Sunday Grab Bag

Gillian Welch and Neko Case at ACL Fest: The Return of the Redheads

Austin City Limits Music Festival Announces Lineup

Bright Eyes, Oakley Hall, McCarthy Trenching

Friday, May 11, at the Palladium Ballroom

On the Download

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Where, O Where?

The Inwood displays the Coens' Brotherly love

Old Crow Medicine Show

Wednesday, February 21, at Gyspy Tea Room

Demons and Angels

Mara Lee Miller's Bosque Brown walks the fine line between darkness and light

Bosque Brown

Plays Mara Lee Miller (Burnt Toast Vinyl)

Americana Pie

Grab a slice of 2004's best roots music while it's still hot.

Method Rocking

Minnie Driver and Juliette Lewis have started bands. Come on, you know you're curious.

Fortunate Sons

For the supergroup The Flatlanders, three albums in three decades ain’t so bad

Damien Jurado and Rosie Thomas

December 3

Tim McGraw

April 25

Multiple Artists

Our writers clean out the CD bin

Home Coming

The Dixie Chicks' new album won't be out for another month, but we'll tell you why it's worth waiting for

The Sound of Violence

In a world at war, there was still plenty of beauty to be found

Jay Farrar

Sebastopol (Artemis Records)

Scene, Heard

A few more area musicians make appearances on the Cartoon Network

God's Gift

From the Mountain come joyous songs about life and death

Soundtracks

O Brother, Where Art Thou?(Mercury) & The Gift(Will/Lakeshore)

Bona Fide

Joel and Ethan Coen's Brother hits a Homer

Just Beautiful

A year so good, not even Sleater-Kinney makes the Top 10

Out There

Out There

Roadshows

Farther along

Emmylou Harris has a new boxed set, but she won't be trapped by that cardboard tombstone

Angel's wings

Cowboy Junkies drone and moan toward brilliance