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Friday, June 25, 2010

The Gourds Beeblefest

We've been busy. Sorry. Mea culpa. Whatever. You've probably noticed that FRR posts are down to once a week and we've hardly posted shit of late. It's summer. We've been busy working in the yard and hanging out in someone else's pool getting a tan. And going to shows. Slaid Cleaves last night at Threadgill's was rock solid with Michael O'Connor on guitar and Oliver Steck on accordian and trumpet briefly at the end. But that's not the point of this post.

You might have noticed that we've been on a Gourds kick in 2010. Hard. Real hard. Reeeeaaal hard. You get the point. For any of you Austinites or Gourds fans, you would do well to spend your hard-earned fifteen bones buying yourself admittance to the Scoot Inn on Saturday night for the Gourds once-every-thirteen-years tradition that is Beeblefest.

See you there. We'll be taping the whole thing with our Gourds taper-buddy Ducktaper [good sentence, eh?].

Here's the lineup:
6:15 - 7:00 Olde World [Outside]
7:15 - 8:00 Mike Nicolai [Outside]
8:00 - 8:30 Mandible [Inside]
8:30 - 9:30 Papa Mali [Outside]
9:30 - 10:00 Archibalds [Inside]
10:00 - 12:00 Gourds [Outside]


Friday, March 21, 2008

Recommended Listening...The Railbenders in Austin

If you're not familiar with the Denver country band the Railbenders (site, myspace, archive), you really should take a few minutes and have a listen. They're a really great group of musicians with a very unique sound fronted by Jim Dalton on vocals and led on electric guitar by Tony Nascar (fastest guitar in the West apparently), all propped up by Graham Haworth on drums and Tyson Murray on the upright bass.

This show, on this eve of Austin's South By Southwest music festival, finds the Railbenders electric flavor of country is joined by special guest Jordan Shapiro on pedal steel. The covers are sublime but the originals are really where the Railbenders are at their finest, especially on tunes like I70 Westbound, Leavin' Song, Country Song and Drivin' Back To Denver.

Enjoy...