Thursday, December 29. 2011
 | by Jeff Barringer - Staff Photographer
Frat house favorites, New Orleans based Better Than Ezra managed to squeeze in a post- Christmas gig at ACL Live last night, plowing through a variety of hits that made them famous in the 90s'.
Bringing along fellow Cajuns Cowboy Mouth to open, the show was just the thing to blast away the post-holiday blues.
Click for pics of Better Than Ezra.
Click for pics of Cowboy Mouth at ACL Live. |  |
Thursday, December 1. 2011
 |  | by Jeff Barringer - Staff Photographer
It was difficult to tell who drew more of Austin's music fans to the Moody Theater, Wilco the headliner, or British songwriter Nick Lowe who has a relationship with Austin that stretches all the way to January 25, 1978 the Armadillo, when he and Dave Edmunds and their band Rockpile opened for Elvis Costello and the Attractions. That show turned out to be a seminal influence in Austin's own nascent alternative music scene, and sparked dozens if not hundreds of local bands.
Noted in the audience were Austin Chronicle writer Raoul Hernandez, singer Aimee Walden and her guitarist husband Micheal Moyer, and Austin singer-songwriter-author Jesse Sublett, who like I was at that early Austin gig 30+ years ago. Click here for more pics of Nick Lowe. |
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