Email Author Roy Kasten

2013 Stories by Roy Kasten

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  Victim of Love: Charles Bradley has no time to dream

  published May 2, 2013

  When Charles Bradley sings, the promise of something we call America becomes real. That promise may be broken, bleeding, scarred, but it's... More >>

• Kevin Buckley Emerges From the Grace Basement with Wheel Within a Wheel

  published Apr 30, 2013

  Kevin Buckley really isn't so hard to pin down. He's a fiddler, a guitarist, an Irish folk musician, an old-time picker, a singer, a rock & roller, a producer and one of the least pretentious and most... More >>

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  Rock & Roll Whirlwind: Nikki Hill never phones it in

  published April 25, 2013

  It's a late Thursday afternoon at Blues City Deli in the Benton Park neighborhood, and the room is so packed no one can move, but everyone... More >>

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  SXSW 2013: Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Phosphorescent, Natalie Maines, Richard Thompson, China Rats and More: Review and Photos

  published Mar 18, 2013

  This happened: Laura Cantrell, a New York-based country singer and songwriter, shared a stage with two friends, Rosie Flores and Kristi Rose, backed by Fats Kaplin and Mark Spencer, two of the finer ... More >>

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  SXSW 2013: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Spain, Ivan & Alyosha and More: Review and Photos

  published Mar 14, 2013

  Kneeling down at the edge of the stage at the big outdoor venue of Stubb's in Austin, Nick Cave cradled a young man's head in his hands and sang his death-filled take on the deathless "Stagger Lee" ... More >>

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  Son Volt Returns with release of new album, Honky Tonk

  published February 28, 2013

  "Honky-tonk" is a noun, a verb, a place, a genre and a way of life. To go "honky-tonkin'" is to leave behind one world — the drab,... More >>

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  Doing the Math with Joe Stickley: Songwriting, Collaboration and His New Solo EP Wasn't It Prettyr

  published Feb 14, 2013

  Joe Stickley has been around. Married with two daughters, the math teacher by profession and songwriter and singer by vocation has, with each new project and clutch of songs, patiently developed int... More >>

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  Keeping Kids Music Junk-Free: Grandfather Stark on the Wild Ride of the Musical Merry-Go-Round

  published Jan 28, 2013

  In the annals of musical genres and styles that compel a desire to do violence to one's ears and eyes and other orifices, the stuff proffered by the likes of the Disney Channel and Nickelodeon -- "fa... More >>

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  Nikki Lane

  published January 3, 2013

  Unless you consider plaid shirts and rhinestone snaps haute couture, country-rock musicians aren't known as fashionistas. Honky-tonk hellcat... More >>