Woody Guthrie

This Week's Top Show Announcements: Ben Kweller, Will Johnson, Kreayshawn, Sleigh Bells and More

KreayshawnFriday, November 2, at Palladium Ballroom, $17.50The controversial rapper, whose proper debut album Somethin' 'Bout Kreay is out in late September, will be here in early November. It's one of Parade of Flesh's biggest shows yet.

Gorilla Vs. Bear Fest II Sets a Date, Plus More Show Announcements

Gorilla Vs. Bear Festival IISaturday, July 28, at Granada TheaterHard to believe we're almost a year removed from the first Gorilla Vs. Bear Festival, which took place in an ice-cold Granada Theater during the hottest part of last summer. You can expect this year to be another oasis, both physically ... More >>

SXSW: Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band Rock ACL Live

Bruce Springsteen's Thursday started with a keynote speech in one of the big ballrooms at the Austin Convention Center, and ended with a mythic three-hour set at ACL Live across town, in front of a few thousand people cooing "Bruce". The keynote and the show went hand in hand. If you weren't there ... More >>

Will Johnson Is the Where's Waldo of Folk Supergroups

Yesterday, various social media outlets were literally on fire with the news of Centro-matic singer Will Johnson's "supergroup" with the Kadane Brothers and Pedro the Lion's David Bazan. That almost made us forget about his other other band, New Multitudes, which features Jay Farrar, Anders Parker ... More >>

Centro-Matic's Will Johnson to Join Jay Farrar, Jim James on Album of Woody Guthrie Songs

Woody Guthrie and Will Johnson kinda look alike, amiright?​As far as collaborations go, it's hard to imagine that Centro-Matic's Will Johnson would be able to top his stint in Monsters Of Folk, with whom he backed up Conner Oberst, Jim James, M. Ward and Mike Mogus, on the drums. But this morning ... More >>

The Reason Rod Picott's Workingman Songs Ring So True? Dude's Worked His Whole Life.

Joshua Black WilkinsRod Picott​Alt-country singer-songwriter Rod Picott writes songs about the working man because, well, the guy is the embodiment of the working man. For over 20 years, Picott held down a day job hanging sheetrock. At night, to perfect his songwriting, he would hit whatever coffe ... More >>

Over The Weekend: Ramblin' Jack Elliott and Andrew Delaney at Poor David's Pub

Ramblin' Jack ElliottPoor David's PubJune 25, 2011Better than: a good 90 percent of artists over 65 still out there performing. Laura MannRamblin' Jack still goes hard.​People make fun of The Rolling Stones because they're still trying to rock out at almost 70 years of age. Ramblin' Jack Elliott i ... More >>

Not-So-Quiet Riots: The Ten Worst Riots In Music Event History

Dallas Mavericks fans were notably well-behaved during yeterday's NBA Championship victory parade through downtown. Despite the fact that 200,000 or so people packed themselves in like sardines along the sidewalks of the route -- and in the sweltering heat, no less -- there were only five arrests. B ... More >>

Other Lives Believes in Albums, Not Bands.

Other Lives​It'd be easy to pigeonhole Oklahoma music as solely focused on red dirt country (see: Cross Canadian Ragweed) or dust-bowl folk (see: Woody Guthrie) were it not for the contributions made by the likes of the Flaming Lips, Evangelicals, Starlight Mints and Stardeath & White Dwarfs i ... More >>

There's More to Arlo Guthrie Than Protest Songs

Bob Schneider

Friday, November 26, at House of Blues

Check Out This Jam: The Apollo Commanders, Sharon Jones and The Dap-Kings, The Preservation Hall Benefit Album, Bottomless Pit, The Organ, Neil Young and The Band of Heathens

Welcome to Check Out This Jam!!!, 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. Also, it's a chance for you readders to get more insight into ... More >>

Grapes In The Dark

Theatre Too Shows There's Good Times Singing About Hard Times in its Woody Guthrie Revue; Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Runs Out of Gas

Song Sung True

The Flatlanders' Legendary Careers Keep Growing

Because, Apparently, Zack de la Rocha Also Thinks the City Should Be in the Hotel Biz?

Perhaps, for its next ad, the R.I.P. Dallas folks could use a Woody Guthrie song -- "This Land is Your Land," maybe. Or Barry McGuire's "Eve of Destruction." Or The Specials' "Ghost Town." Till then, bulls on parade through Victory Park.

Castanets

City of Refuge (Asthmatic Kitty)

Gig Alert: August 27, 2008

Local Musicians Give Democracy The Finger

Mix-tape Biopic Captures Bob Dylan's Spirit

The elusive Dylan, masterfully considered, in I'm Not There

Lawyer Cannibalism? Mmm, Tasty.

Woodie Guthrie pre-show with Terri Hendrix, Lloyd Maines, Ronny Elliot, Don Conoscenti

Friday, July 6, at Uncle Calvin's Coffee House

Dust in the Wind

Soak in Some Sound

Cover Me

Callithump provides the hoot, you provide the holler

This Land Is Your Land

Making a Difference?

For musicians these days, speaking out against President Bush isn'trisky so much as trendy

Berkley Hart

January 10

Various Artists

White Riot: A Tribute to the Clash (Uncut Magazine)

A3

Power in the Blood (One Little Indian)

Now and Then

Arlo Guthrie gets some r-e-s-p-e-c-t

Nappy Roots

Wooden Leather (Atlantic)

War on War Songs

Iraq and roll don't go together well when rockers protest

Triumph of the Wilco

I Am Trying to Break Your Heart pushes pop propaganda

Folk 'Em

The new Broadside boxed set resurrects the intimacy and immediacy of New York in the 1960s

Before the war

Butterfly, from Spain, lyrically mines the time-honored old-man-and-boy theme

Out There

Billy Bragg & Wilco

You Slaid me

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

The Handsome Family

G. Love and
Special Sauce

Hamell on Trial

Listen up

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

Got a Woody

With Mermaid Avenue, Billy Bragg and Wilco turn a myth into a man

Out There

Hard travelin'

Ramblin' Jack Elliott has a few more stories to tell

Roadshows

Out There

The education of Michelle Shocked

Once portrayed as a bumpkin, she's finally wised up

Roadshows