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Guitarist Denny Freeman, an anchor of Austin s blues music community for five decades, has died after a recent cancer diagnosis, several of his close friends confirmed via social media (including songwriter Bill Carter). He was 76.
We ll have more about Freeman s life on Monday. In the meantime, here s an American-Statesman feature from 2012.
By Brad Buchholz
Guitarist Denny Freeman has a new album out “Diggin’ on Dylan” an album of instrumental music inspired, in part, by his experience of playing in Bob Dylan’s band between 2005 and 2009. And he’s happy to tell you all about it. Really. But larger passions keep getting in the way.
The uplifting
Pre-Form, Future Museums latest release for renowned Austin electronic outfit Holodeck Records, experienced what lead sound designer and multi-instrumentalist Neil Lord calls synchronicity. It s been an incredibly surreal experience regarding the timing of it all, he states about the release and the recent birth of his son.
The album puffs and drenches in an unusual clarification, each notion more defining than the one before it. Where much of Future Museums work typically introduces varying levels of haze, this iteration – based on Lord s lucid dreams and out-of-body experiences – finds the local producer in a period of evolving clarity. The all electronic
At 11am on a Monday, at the corner of Guadalupe and Dean Keeton, it s quiet.
UT classes remain predominantly virtual, so a lot fewer students mill about. There s still enough, however, to stop and gawk when a white van emblazoned
Austin Music Awards Winner Wagon pulls up honking.
A bow-tied
Kevin Curtin then hops out with a wireless mic to deliver the award for Best Radio Personality to
Laurie Gallardo. I was like, Those people are [coming] to kill me! laughed the deejay afterward about the windshield tassels and spare tire strapped on top of Curtin s former Houston PD van.
Back in early March 2020, which feels like 100 years ago, the thriving Austin music industry felt the rumblings of a catastrophic event: the cancellation of South by Southwest (SXSW). It would be the first time in the 34-year history of the annual conference once solely dedicated to music and now expanded to education, film, and interactive that venues across the city would go dark. Faced with the implications of creating a superspreader event, as hundreds of thousands of people from dozens of countries prepared to crowd together and sway and sweat as guitars rang out around them, the City of Austin did the unthinkable and pulled the plug. It was a bellwether for the immense economic impact on the global music industry, as live music basically ceased to exist.