Photos courtesy New West Records
Stephen Bruton, one of Austin's great pickers, songwriters, and good citizens, died Saturday of throat cancer, which he had battled for years, according to a press release by his label, New West Records.
The 60-year-old Bruton came out of the school of influential Fort Worth roots-rockers: Delbert McClinton, Jerry Lynn Williams, T-Bone Burnett and countless others. He was working on a film with Burnett in Los Angeles when his health deteriorated and he passed awa
Photos by Craig Hlavaty
For someone with such a deep California/New England pedigree - daughter of Broadway/Hollywood actor John Raitt, schooled at Radcliffe and the Northeast coffeehouse '60s folk scene, now living in Northern California - Bonnie Raitt sure gets Texas music. She could almost be the female Delbert McClinton, in fact, except that Delbert's songs generally don't get made into Julia Roberts movies.
Thursday night at Verizon Wireless Theater, Raitt was talkative and congenial - very
In the third in our continuing series on the music of the five states of Texas, we examine the fictional state of New Texas, comprising Austin and the Hill Country. See Part 1 here and Part 2 here.
New Texas
Capital: Austin
Patron Saint: Willie Nelson
Lesser Icons: Roky Erickson/Thirteenth Floor Elevators, Stevie Ray and Jimmie Vaughan, Fabulous Thunderbirds, Alejandro Escovedo, Jon Dee Graham, True Believers, Freddy Fender, Nanci Griffith, Marcia Ball, Big Boys/Randall "Biscuit" Turner, Fas
