Lucinda Williams

Lucinda Williams

Friday, January 18, at The Kessler Theater

The Five Best Concerts In Dallas This Weekend, January 17-20

Stalley, Ace Mitch, Dustin Cavazos, Nice Major, -Topic, KO Boyz Saturday, January 19, at The Prophet Bar, $18 Maybach Music Group rapper Stalley was busy in 2012, mostly with the release of his popular mixtape, Savage Journey to the American Dream, featuring heavy-hitters like Rick Ross, Curren$y, 2 ... More >>

Eight of This Week's Top Show Announcements: Jeff Mangum, Morrissey and More

Morrissey Monday, February 18, at Palladium Ballroom, $39.50 We were really looking forward to road-tripping to Wichita Falls to see Moz at the end of the month, but since some of his U.S. tour dates were postponed, we'll just have to throw roses at him in Dallas. Tickets go on sale this Friday at 1 ... More >>

Foodie, Drinkie and Bourdain-ie Events for the Week

Dallas Beer Week gets tapped this Thursday and lasts for a solid eight days of sudsy celebrations. All you need to do is get your fancy beer-drinking pants out of the cleaners then just drink local beer everywhere. The goals, aspirations and, most important, calendar for the city-wide drink-off can ... More >>

Kasey Chambers On The Songs She Couldn't Fit In Her Storybook

Just over a year ago, we caught up with Australian singer-songwriter Kasey Chambers as she was touring behind her excellent LP, Little Bird. That album not only showcased original material, but a return to the folk-rock form she used to become a '90s country darling.

Bettysoo

Friday, December 9, at AllGood Cafe

Lucinda Williams' Nine Most Emotionally Damaged Songs

​Master songwriter and storyteller Lucinda Williams has made her near-legendary career on raw, open-chested emotion. But over the course of her last couple of albums, including her most recent release, Blessed, Williams has seemingly found it easier to revel in the safer side of vulnerability. Cre ... More >>

Staff Trax: The Philistines Jr., Typhoon, Kylesa, Amy Cook and Fences

Welcome to Staff Trax, the weekly feature here on DC9 where we shed some light on the music we've been enjoying of late, regardless of the touring or album release schedules that tend to bear the focus of most of our coverage. Consider it a chance for you readers to get some more insight into ... More >>

Clearing Out The Mailroom: Monday, September 20, 2010.

​We've got quite a backlog of CDs we've never gotten around to, so we're going to try to chip away at the pile with this regular feature. The plan: to take a few at a time and play each CD for as long as I can stand it.Amy Cook (Austin, TX)Let the Light In (Root House)It's easy to assume that Dall ... More >>

Rhett Miller Was A Legless, Prosthetic-Armed Al Queda Member (On Squidbillies' Season Finale).

Rhett as a squid? Sure thing.​Rhett Miller, singer/songwriter extraordinaire and frontman for the Old 97's, made a TV appearance last night as a legless, prosthetic-armed Al Queda member. No, really. The creators of Squidbillies, the Cartoon Network/Adult Swim staple about Appalachian squids, gath ... More >>

On Hold Time, M. Ward Further Establishes Himself as a Student of Music

Heartless Bastards

Friday, February 27, at the Longhorn Saloon, Fort Worth

Last Night: Lucinda Williams at the House of Blues

Lucinda WilliamsHouse of BluesFebruary 19, 2009 Better than: sitting on my couch trying to (badly) play Lucinda Williams' "Drunken Angel" because it has easy chords (as opposed to "Crescent City" which has harder ones). Patrick MichelsWord was that folks at the House of Blues were fairly blue--ti ... More >>

Picture Show: Lucinda Williams at HOB

Patrick MichelsIn his Last Night review, Darryl wrote all about the boozy, amped-up show Lucinda Williams and her newish backing band put on last night.With her hair dyed jet black, dark makeup under her eyes and a black-jeans-and-leather getup, Williams was an apt centerpiece for the kind of adult- ... More >>

Gig(s) Alert: Great Roots Rock--At Several Area Spots--Tonight

Those looking for a way to start the weekend early--especially those with a proclivity for Americana--can do so at a variety of local establishments tonight.Aside from the much-heralded Lucinda Williams kicking up her heels at the House of Blues this evening, you can also catch Austinite Jason Allen ... More >>

Morrissey

Years of Refusal (Lost Highway/Attack)

Lucinda Williams Keeps Things Sweet

Worst Lyrics of 2008

And now it's time for the "I love you like a fat kid loves cake" memorial Worst Lyrics of 2008, March Madness-style tournament, this year a terrifying mélange of appalling oral-sex requests, bargain-bin philosophies, grammatical atrocities, and cringe-inducing pillow talk. To elevate the drama, I p ... More >>

Lucinda Williams

Little Honey (Lost Highway)

Tonight: Lucinda Williams Listening Party At The Double Wide

Still Missing Red Jacket? Well, Check This: There's Gonna Be A Reunion

Oddities

Still more sad stuff, plus the good news that the Longhorn will host a show

Gurf Morlix

Saturday, April 14, at the AllGood Café

Ahoy There, Baby Gramps Ahead

Bits and Pieces

Greenville gets a boost

Vanessa Peters and Ice Cream on Mondays

Little Films (Little Sandwich Music)

Represent, Y'all

The holler's not that far from the 'hood

You Make Everything...Groovy

Chip Taylor and Carrie Rodriguez play the Granada

Lucinda Williams with Doug Pettibone

Friday, March 24, at Lakewood Theater

North Mississippi Allstars

Friday, January 20, at Gypsy Tea Room

Susan Gibson, Adam Carroll

Friday, July 29, at The Horseman Club

Kathleen Edwards

Failer (Zoë)

Country Girl

Barricades & Brickwalls--and motherhood--won't keep Kasey Chambers from you

Same As Ever

Lucinda Williams might be the most acclaimed songwriter in America, but she doesn't see it that way

Robert Earl Keen, Cory Morrow

May 26

Holly Golightly

April 12

Norah Jones

Come Away With Me (Blue Note)

...And Finally

Eight thoughts to remember 2001 by

Out & About

Lucinda Williams

Drink Deep

Known as much for multiple sclerosis as for songwriting, Victoria Williams finds Water to Drink under the desert sun

His and hers

For Buddy and Julie Miller, love, God, and country music are all that matters

You Slaid me

On the road in his Dodge Dart, Slaid Cleaves is the last of the traveling troubadours

Terry saves

Lubbock-born sculptor-songwriter finally finds a little Salivation

More Top 10 lists, sort of

Listen up

1998 was not a very good year, but it's still worth the bother

Long journey home

Lucinda Williams' Car Wheels roll on a perfect road

Out There

Ten albums I played a lot in 1997

Farther along

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