Topix — Joe Pug moved to Austin four years ago to be closer to musicians he admires, like Joe Ely, James McMurtry, and Ray Wylie Hubbard. more info

Topix — On Sunday, Oct. 20, the choices for live music in New Orleans include a Texas singer-songwriter, an especially colorful local entertainer, and a jazz pianist paying tribute to one of his forefathers. more info

Topix — The local rhythm king was 12 when he started playing bass. He grew up to play with the likes of the Dixie Chicks, Jakob Dylan, Michael Fracasso, Ray Wylie Hubbard, the Jayhawks, Johnny Reno, Chris Robinson, Charlie Sexton, Tedeschi Trucks Band, and J... more info

Topix — In the last couple years, Gurf Morlix cut an entire disc of songs written by his friend Blaze Foley and produced Ray Wylie Hubbard's The Grifter's Hymnal . more info

The 9513 Country Music — For the first twenty minutes of his show at Nashville’s Mercy Lounge, Texas singer-songwriter Hayes Carll didn’t care much for small talk. Songs like “Hard Out Here” and “Trouble in Mind” passed by with barely a word uttered between them.... more info

The 9513 Country Music — Hayes Carll is a Texan by birth as well as by occupation. The Houston native plays hardscrabble country songs shot through with wry humor and quiet sadness, evoking such Lone Star forebears as Townes Van Zandt, Ray Wylie Hubbard, and Vince Bell. He p... more info

Songs:Illinois — Charlie Shafter has a record coming out produced by Ray Wylie Hubbard. That and the fact that Ray has had some nice things to say about Charlie is enough to pay heed. Charlie has a bunch of SXSW showcases. I like the lineup on Friday at the Lone St... more info

The 9513 Country Music — Chet Flippo on respect in country music: When some kind of a strange variety show on a network TV channel opens with a song titled “Kiss My Country Ass,” any possible respect for the country music tradition [...] is absolutely thrown under the bu... more info

Totally Fuzzy — nuevo día said... the replacements. 1981 - sorry ma, forgot to take out the trash 1983 - hootenanny 1984 - let it be 1985 - the shit hits the fans 1985 - tim 1987 - pleased to meet me 1989 - don't tell a soul 1990 - all shook down 2006 - don't you ... more info

Topix — Dave Rawlings is the top nominee for this year's Americana Music Association Awards. more info