Following the breakout success of 1996’s
A Few Small Repairs, Shawn Colvin recorded a hauntingly beautiful and tender LP of seasonal and traditional tunes. Adapted from 1965 book
Lullabies and Night Songs by composer Alec Wilder and beloved children’s author Maurice Sendak,
Holiday Songs and Lullabies retains a magical and weary tone, captured in the sparse piano and strings of songs like “In the Bleak Mid-Winter” and “Christmas Time Is Here.” Colvin wields these gorgeously wrought tunes alongside some of her own, with full-band backing for a special holiday livestream. Virtual meet-and-greet also available. –
Doug Freeman
John Doe s Travis County World Tour I m moving to Austin for an adventure, John Doe told the
Chronicle in 2017. Having become a fixture on the local scene, the punk pioneer serves up a three-show run of virtual sets from local institutions C-Boy s, Arlyn Studios, and the Cactus Cafe. The first indulges in fan favorites, digging into his legendary work with L.A. icons X and cowpunks the Knitters, while the second works up new material from an upcoming album and likely X s
Alphabetland, the quartet s April LP and first studio album in almost 30 years. –
Doug Freeman
Medium Head Boy and not enough else. Opined one
Chronic: The post-blues sci-fi licks of guitarist Jonas Wilson (aka Deluxe Peroux) on future s-so-bright opener Space Invaders are strictly big league. A Midnight Stroll alongside Ghostland Observatory s Aaron Behrens for a pair of vinyls more recently also ranked locally major despite never appearing on the grid of most homies.
Behind his first proper solo LP
Science Fiction Post Blues, the Bastrop string-bender, musical mayor pro tem, and growing cottage industry (producer/label runner) demonstrates a tiny blip in the sonic universe of the former Deluxe Peroux.
As the title brands, Wilson mucks around in the South s grittiest genre, emphasizing his harmonica skillz and silver lining slide guitar. Opener Ruling the World begins with a spike, a cacophony note that quickly settles into an electro-analog groove of disembodied, isolationist blues. JW s vacuum-lock vocal intonation hovers botlike, vulnerable in its monotone stoi