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In His Own Write

Jesse Dayton knows a great many words - and how to sell them

By Brad Tyer
Mar 22, 2001

Where do you start with Jesse Dayton? Do you go all the way back to a Beaumont childhood spent begging licks from itinerant blues players and soaking up the reflected glow of then-local George Jones? Do you jump ahead to Austin, the early patronage of Clifford Antone, a honky-tonk apprenticeship...
Got Legs

The perpetually self-doubting Todd Lewis stands tall on the Toadies' long-overdue second album

By Brad Tyer
Mar 22, 2001

The story's a modern-rock fable, as pedestrian by now as the playlist at the Buzz: Regionally promising band self-releases good stuff, gets noticed, jumps to a major label, releases a debut with, suddenly, inexplicably, almost zero backing from a support staff that's already busy losing interest in its next next...
Jug Ugly

Aaron Loesch and band find inspiration in life's throwaway objects

By Brad Tyer
Aug 10, 2000

So 27-year-old Aaron Loesch is going round and round trying to describe his -- and by extension, his band's -- operative aesthetic, and in his mind anyway it has something to do with old beat-to-hell cars and Danny Elfman's spooky soundtracks and 1920s jazz. He searches for the word "orchestral,"...
Wayward Son

Hank III's rock gives country fans the blues (and vice versa)

By Brad Tyer
May 11, 2000

You can maybe forgive Shelton Hank Williams III if he's not quite sure just who he wants to be when he grows up. The boy's only 27, skinny enough to stand sideways, stick out his tongue and pass for a zipper, and the family tree leans heavily on him. He's...
Long Haul

As the rest of Americana crumbles around him, Guy Clark just keeps getting better

By Brad Tyer
Apr 27, 2000

It might as well have been the Mesozoic era for all the trace that's left on the local psyche, but the 1960s and early-1970s music scene in Houston was as fertile as the Mississippi Delta of an earlier day. The Moving Sidewalks imported psychedelic rock to the Texas hinterlands with...

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