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June 30, 2000 Music Feature by Christopher Hess
Stickpony Smiling Into Nowhere
Texas Platters
"...of a glass. Ironically, Nowhere is stocked with great drinking music. Drawing liberally from Green River, Burrito Deluxe, The..."
June 30, 2000 Music Review by Christopher Gray
Carmina Burana: Hi, Latin!
The New Texas Music Works rendition of Carl Orff's
masterwork Carmina Burana was the usual
exhilarating sonic roller-coaster of songs about love
and lust and way too much drinking in the Middle Ages,
but the exuberance of conductor Craig Hella Johnson
also made it feel like a good new friend was
introducing us to one of his favorite old friends.
"...it was the usual exhilarating sonic roller coaster of songs about love and lust and way too much drinking..."
June 9, 2000 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner
Attacked by Lesbians
Just three good ol' boys, never meanin' no harm
"...to hawk tie-dyed jockstraps and sandal-toe incense sticks while drinking a $3 cup of foamy Lite beer...."
May 26, 2000 Music Feature by Greg Beets
The Ego Has Landed
Love Supreme frontman Noah Lit shares his interests and disinterests - and talks about his band occasionally.
"...there's no substantiation for it. Even before we had songs of any kind -- like when I joined the..."
April 28, 2000 Music Feature by Mindy LaBernz
Pat Green Carry On (Greenhorse)
Texas Platters
"...and in performing style, for Robert Earl Keen. His songs showed very little originality and his just-bash-out-the-songs character grew..."
April 14, 2000 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri
Damon Bramblett(Munich Records)
Texas Platters
"...at times, but his lyrics are a different matter, songs about small-town desperation and loneliness, abandoned drive-in theaters, and..."
April 14, 2000 Music Review by Jerry Renshaw
A Man, A Can, A Plan
SPAMARAMA™ Founder Dave Arnsberger
"...in anthropology lay somewhere just beyond hanging out and drinking beer, "but it would have left my career in..."
March 31, 2000 Food Feature by Margaret Moser
SXSW Music Festival
Picks & Sleepers
"...heroes, because Austin loves its own. Davíd Garza, with songs, charisma, and pop star presence, opens, followed by the..."
March 17, 2000 Music Feature
SXSW Music Festival
Picks & Sleepers
"...Sheffield's Gomez differs from other American sound-alikes, because their songs aren't scorned in their home country. Their 1998 debut..."
March 17, 2000 Music Feature
Hank Williams III, Ray Price, Waterloo Park
Thursday Night
"...hear, as evidenced on his covers of Spade Cooley's "Drinking Wine Spo-De-O-Dee" and Hank Sr.'s own tribute to Jimmie..."
March 17, 2000 Music Review by Jerry Renshaw
The Right Profile
Austin singer-songwriter grows a up, grows a beard, and grows out of a strict DIY ethic.
"...that it was ridiculous for me to be singing songs about drinking whiskey when I looked like I couldn't..."
Feb. 25, 2000 Music Feature by Christopher Gray
Miracle Man
When an actor's bio claims 14,000 performances to his credit, you rather expect the fellow to have some good stories. And Eddie Bracken doesn't disappoint. In anticipation of his appearance at a screening of Preston Sturges' The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, Bracken talks about Sturges, Betty Hutton, Hollywood, and hitchhiking.
"...The Fleet's In, there were three or four extra songs put in [for Hutton] that none of us knew..."
Feb. 18, 2000 Screens Feature by Robert Faires
El Orbits Bingo Happy HourContinental Club, January 20
"...behind schedule. Typically, happy hour ironically connotes dank, sunless drinking holes where barflies pray to their bottled gods at..."
Jan. 28, 2000 Music Review by David Lynch
Postmarks
Don't look to the past, don't repeat other's mistakes, and don't read the Chronicle's movie reviews.
"...more time, or was inclined to dream up a beer-drinking game, I'd suggest this: Let's all open up our..."
Jan. 21, 2000 Column
The Death of Rock & Roll
Top 10s: Year, Decade, Eternity
"...Originally a light song style derived from French drinking and love songs, American vaudeville was stage entertainment consisting..."
Jan. 7, 2000 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez
A Walking Contradiction
Exploring the legacy of one of Austin's great, unsung singer-songwriters, Blaze Foley
"...in honor of Foley's memory isn't the first. Foley's songs have already been fêted on two tribute albums by..."
Dec. 24, 1999 Music Feature by Lee Nichols
Back Door Man
A profile of Bill Bentley, former Austin Sun writer, current music industry impresario, and producer of tribute albums of Roky Erickson and Skip Spence
"...the stuff, and we were like, "Fuck you, we're drinking beer up here.' So we just sat back and..."
Dec. 17, 1999 Music Feature by Margaret Moser
Wasted Days, Wasted Nights
The night in 1974 when Doug Sahm brought Freddy Fender to Soap Creek to play
"...both of them passed out from a round of drinking Mad Dog 20/20. I woke them up and gave..."
Nov. 26, 1999 Music Feature by Joe Nick Patoski
The Whole Package
With Margaret Wiley, you didn’t have a one-trick pony; you had a multitude of talents and personalities in one big and big-hearted woman. Wiley’s friends and colleagues at Esther’s Follies offer their memories of this exceptional Austin comedian who died November 2.
"...bawdy satirist who could skewer Tammy Faye Bakker with songs by The Who and deliver 1,001 inspired uses for..."
Nov. 12, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Fred Eaglesmith, Continental Club, October 9
Descriptions of live shows
"...neo-irony, quasi-irony, or any otherwise-hyphenated-irony in his observations. His songs about drinking, guns, cars, and playing, as well as..."
Oct. 22, 1999 Music Review by Jerry Renshaw
The Nine Lives of Ol' Possum
An overview of country legend George Jones' life and career.
"...and cocaine. To fight the depression and shame of drinking, he'd drink more. To find the energy to go..."
Oct. 22, 1999 Music Feature by Jerry Renshaw
Elephants and Pygmies
A profile of rising Austin honky-tonker Roger Wallace.
"...gigs and practices toting guitars and equipment, playing together, drinking beer, eating barbecue, and just generally hanging out. Into..."
Oct. 1, 1999 Music Feature by Jerry Renshaw
Postmarks
Texas Our Texas loves Texas; Neighbors for Neighbors hate strip-mining; Justin B. Andrews returns; and other delighted and dismayed letters from readers.
"...way) by wedging in three completely unnecessary Randy Newman songs, and it came close to spoiling the movie. His..."
Sept. 17, 1999 Column
Can Tom Zigal Really Say That?
"The truth is, I didn't know a thing about the world of mystery writers and crime publishing," Tom Zigal, the author of three mystery novels, says. Chronicle writer Dick Holland discovers why Zigal might say such a thing and why it may not matter in light of Pariah, Zigal's new installment in the Kurt Muller mystery series.
"...you share some of the same friends, you've been drinking with him, his son goes to the same school..."
Sept. 17, 1999 Books Feature by Dick Holland
September Previews
"...are to move in with her. The soundtrack includes songs by Sarah McLachlan, Ani DiFranco, Bif Naked, and Ferron,..."
Sept. 10, 1999 Screens Feature
Roger Wallace at Babe's, August 23
Live music reviews.
"...voice as his band was finding their footing. Several songs in, on the slightly treacherous "Crazy Love," an original..."
Sept. 3, 1999 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez
Solid Gold 40 at Hole in the Wall, August 27
Live music reviews.
"...fellatio-inspired guitar solo act. Delivering slow numbers to a drinking crowd after 1am is either ballsy or dangerous, but..."
Sept. 3, 1999 Music Review by David Lynch
Reissues
Los Zafiros
"...the final tailspin for the group. Years of hard drinking and bitter fighting took their toll; sadly, Galban and..."
Aug. 27, 1999 Music Feature
The Natural
"..."I never really started to write songs until I joined the Coyotes," says Bernard. "I was..."
