Dosey Doe
I love seeing the neon sign of a welcoming place in the night. In my experience, all the people at Dosey Doe, from the sound engineers to the waitstaff to the owners, go out of their way to make sure folks have a great time any night you’re with them. We’ll be playing an album release […]
The Saxon Pub – Album Release Show on November 7
The Saxon Pub holds a special place in my heart. Here’s two drawings I made of it – the front porch of the entrance and the neon sign on South Lamar. I first saw Rusty Weir play here on a Thursday night in 1995. I talked to him after the show and told him I […]
The Post in Fort Worth on Sunday October 15
This Sunday, October 15, Mike Graham and I will be swapping songs at a great listening room in Fort Worth called The Post at River East. The show starts at 6pm. Mike and I have played a songswap together at this venue once before – last summer – and it was a pleasure. The folks […]
Color Songwriting Challenge
Escalating songwriting challenge idea: write a song for every Crayola color in the box. (That is, the song lyrics should include the color name. This should be good for writing 120 songs.) Level 1: Blue, black, brown, green, orange, red, violet, yellow. (Move up to bigger boxes) Level 4: cadet blue, chestnut, melon, peach, sky […]
Rings on a Tree
8 songwriters, 10 musicians, 15 songs. The new album – Rings on a Tree – is released. You can hear it here. If you trace the branches of any family tree back far enough, you can see we’re all connected. Rings on a Tree is a concept album looking at our shared family histories and the way […]
25 Years in the Life of a Record Label
This week, we’re celebrating 25 years of releasing recordings through El Paisano Records. I started this record label as a sophomore at UT after spending a week at the (very rundown, pre-renovation) Hotel Paisano in Marfa. Our first products were cassette tapes(!) and CDs, and this week, our 15th and most recent release this week […]
Bull Creek Park
This is a drawing I did of a picnic table at Bull Creek Park in Austin, Texas. The table is surrounded by a crowd of 200 to 300 year-old live oak trees. Many, many, times, Walt Wilkins and I have met here – on that luckiest of days – Tuesdays. Five of the songs on […]
Hal Ketchum Singing ‘Too Many Memories’ on the Porch
Ten years ago, in August 2013, Hal Ketchum, Walt Wilkins, Jamie Wilson, Corby Schaub, Jason Eady, Courtney Patton, and I were sitting on the porch of a cabin after the first night of the Frio River Song Festival. A little after midnight, Walt and Hal started playing Stephen Bruton’s song “Too Many Memories,” and Mary Miles Temple […]
8 Songwriters, 10 Musicians, 15 Songs
8 songwriters, 10 musicians, 15 songs. The new album – Rings on a Tree – is released today. You can hear it here. If you trace the branches of any family tree back far enough, you can see we’re all connected. Rings on a Tree is a concept album looking at our shared family histories and the […]
ALBUM RELEASE SHOWS