Winter 2014

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Winter 2014
Kacey Musgraves
What a year it was for our 2013 Artist of the Year, the small-town girl from Golden, Texas. She penned Miranda Lambert's No. 1 country hit, "Mama's Broken Heart," tun she scored three country hits of her own - including her top-10 smash, "Merry Go 'Round" - off her debut album, Same Trailer Different Park, which landed at No. 1 on the Billboard country chart and No. 2 on the pop chart. She was named CMA New Artist of the Year, received four Grammy nominations - including one for Best Album and two for Best Song - and, along the way, became the poster child for a new kind of country music marked by the kind of fierce and unblinking honesty not normally associated with Nashville. She sings of casual encounters, smoking joints, kissing girls - and he boredom and bleak prospects of small-town life. Her year ended with a triumphant appearance on Austin City Limits and a video to accompany her newest single, "Follow Your Arrow." We include an exclusive Q&A with Musgraves and include our picks for the year's other noteworthy artists and albums.
2013 Year in Review
We celebrate artists whose accomplishments helped shape the year in Texas music - and whose talents forecast a promising future. Featuring:
Our writers' top album picks
George Strait
Bombasta
Shakey Graves
Patty Griffin
and Robert Glasper
Miles and Miles
The House of FiFi Dubois
Story Behind the Song
"Pistol Packin' Mama"
Pioneer
Billy Harper
Spotlights
Wild Moccasins
Sam Riggs and the Night People
Q & A
Gary P. Nunn
Book Reviews
Official Truth, 101 Proof: The Inside Story of Pantera
Ministry: The Lost Gospels According to Al Jourgensen
Plus: Album reviews, festival calendar and much more
Also included inside magazines ordered at our website is a compilation CD featuring:
Tejas Brothers
Hello Caller
Fingerpistol
King Kohn
Bottom Dollar String Band
Matt Skinner Band
Vanessa Peters
The Blenders
Emily Herring
Bennett Brier
Dickie Malone & the Pirates featuring Scotty Thompson
Sara Hickman
Dag King
The Staylyns
Ruby Dee & the Snakehandlers
Kent Gooding
John Lockhart
Patricia Vonne

Album Reviews

Review: The Jones Family Singers – The Spirit Speaks

The biggest challenge for a gospel recording is to take the call-and-response dynamic that can blow the roof off a church and transfer that intensity to the comparative sterility of the studio.

Review: Wiretree – Get Up

Wiretree’s fourth release is pure power-pop pleasure: clean harmonies, crisp acoustic guitars, shimmering synths and infinitely hummable choruses. It’s light

Review: Emile Millar

There are a lot of Emile Millars out there, versatile guys on the working-class end of the music business, grinding it out on the road between production gigs, landing their songs on TV shows and movies in Hollywood and occasionally making it back to Austin to knock out an EP as good as Millar’s latest solo project.

Review: The Reynolds Number

Some bands are much more Beatles than Stones, and then much more McCartney than Lennon. It’s a long line of heart-on-the-sleeve nice-guy rock that runs through Coldplay and the Fray and doesn’t lose much steam in the hands of young Austin band the Reynolds Number.