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The French Legation Museum, an historic homestead just east of I-35, has been home to some of the happiest times I've had at SXSW, with the sun setting over rolling […]

Down near the Red River, a trio called Branch and Steel (Wurlitzer, pedal steel, drums) play a slow instrumental set on the outdoor patio at Freebirds Burrito House, just as

  My first stop this sunny Austin afternoon is the Schuba's/Lincoln Hall party out back of the Yard Dog Gallery on S. Congress. A good crowd of about 300 are

  I arrived in Austin this morning for the 2010 edition of SXSW: the annual musical summit where just about every band/label head/promoter in the universe converges for five fun-filled

 Speaking of ageless musicians, Happy 85th birthday to Roy Haynes: one of the most expressive drummers in the history of jazz, who's played with everyone from Charlie Parker, to Miles Davis,

 What is it about the blues that keeps these guys playing well beyond the age most folks are laid up in nursing homes? John Lee Hooker was 83 and still

 Guitarist Honeyboy Edwards, who won a lifetime Grammy earlier this year, is one of the last remaining original Delta Blues musicians. Edwards, 94, was literally present at the birth of the

 "I could play and sound like Charlie Parker note for note, but I was only playing it from method. So, I needed to figure out where to go from there."

 Just read the terrible news that Mark Linkous (a.k.a. Sparklehorse) took his own life on Saturday near his home in Knoxville, TN. He was 47. I only saw Sparklehorse once