Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell Together At Antone’s During SXSW

Posted on March 21, 2013 by Per Ole Hagen

In the 70’s, Rodney Crowell was a member of Emmylou Harris’ band, The Hot Band, playing rhythm guitar and sung duets with her. He also wrote Blueberry Wine that she sung on her first LP, Pieces of the Sky. Crowell quit in 1977 to pursue his own solo career, but Harris still recorded his songs. Recently they released the duet CD, Old Yellow Moon. During SXSW they performed songs from the CD and also older songs at the Antone’s in Austin.

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Bobby Bare Still Going Strong At SXSW

Posted on March 20, 2013 by Per Ole Hagen

At SXSW this year there were many father and son-combinations playing. Either together, or different gigs. One of these was Bobby Bare sr. and jr. I have seen junior some years ago, and he is definitely worth following. The last time I saw Bobby Bare sr., was at a rerun of a NRK TV recording of him, Chet Atkins, Jim Reeves and the Anita Kerr Singers in Oslo from 1964. It was definitely about time to see him “live live”.

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Natalie Maines Solo at SXSW – More Rock than Country

Posted on March 20, 2013 by Per Ole Hagen

Natalie Maines is known as the main vocal of the highly successful trio The Dixie Chicks. Now she has made a solo CD, Mother, from which she presented some of the songs at a concert at the ACL Moody’s during SXSW.

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Black Tusk – Swamp Metal at SXSW

Posted on March 19, 2013 by Per Ole Hagen

One of the good things about SXSW, is that I get to see many bands I haven’t seen before, which shouldn’t surprise anyone, since there was more than 2500 bands playing this year. But the high number doesn’t mean that all bands are necessarily very good. One of the good ones I saw, was Black Tusk from Savannah.

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Junior Brown at SXSW

Posted on March 19, 2013 by Per Ole Hagen

If you are interested in guitar playing and also steel guitar, you have to check out Junior Brown. He has played steel guitar with Asleep At The Wheel, he has taught guitar playing, and he has invented the guit-steel, a two-necked combination of a guitar and a steel guitar. On SXSW’s last day, he played at the ACL Moody.

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Asleep At The Wheel Then And Now At SXSW

Posted on March 12, 2013 by Per Ole Hagen

Asleep At The Wheel is the longest living western Swing band in USA. During their 40+ years of existence, they have won 9 Grammies and numerous other awards. They have toured all over USA many times, plus extensively in Europe. Now Dan Karlok has made a documentary about the band that will premiere this summer. A 34 minutes, unfinished version was shown at the SXSW yesterday.

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Redd Volkaert – Ace Guitarist from Austin

Posted on February 23, 2013 by Per Ole Hagen

Since SXSW is coming up in a couple of weeks, I have found a story I wrote on another blog three years ago about one of the best musicians there, Redd Volkaert.

If you visit the Continental Club on South Congress in Austin any Saturday afternoon or Sunday night, you are sure to see Redd Volkaert, one of the best guitarists I have seen in a long life. He plays with his own quartet on Saturdays and with his band Heybale! on Sundays. I met him before Heybale!’s concert the last Sunday in March 2010.

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by:Larm – More Pictures From Saturday

Posted on February 19, 2013 by Per Ole Hagen

by:larm is over for this year and it has been four night with lots of music. I saw around 20 bands and liked most of them. One of my long time favorites, Honningbarna, played on Saturday, and I saw two more bands that night that I haven’t seen before. The first one was Heyerdahl, and the second Highasakite (picture above).

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Honningbarna – Excellent Cello Punk at by:Larm

Posted on February 17, 2013 by Per Ole Hagen

The front guy of the Norwegian band Honningbarna, Edvard Valberg, looks like a young man who does what his parents tell him, and dutifully goes to cello practice every week. But appearances can deceive, on stage he is like a firework of punky energy, treating his cello like a punching ball while the other band members jump around on stage. As a band, Honningbarna is one of the live bands that gives the most value for the money these days.

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by:Larm – Pictures from Friday

Posted on February 16, 2013 by Per Ole Hagen

The third day of by:Larm is over, and this was the night for the dark and extreme bands. I chose to stay most of the night at Rockefeller with Vithr, Nidingr, God Seed and Shining. The evening started at another venue with Razika. (Picture above: Gaahl from God Seed)