ADDITIONAL AUSTIN REV-ELATIONS: The city's newest musical misfit is former City of Angels and Tuesday Night Music Club songwriter DAVID BAERWALD, who moved to the Texas capital to record his forthcoming Lost Highway debut, Here Comes the New Folk Underground. Leading a demented chamber-roots-rock ensemble that included local heroes WILL SEXTON on bass and BUKKA ALLEN on keyboards and accordion, Baerwald treated the crowd to terrifying tracks from his exceedingly dark Triage album ("Waiter," "Aids & Armageddon") as well as his old band David & David's signature hit, "Welcome to the Boomtown". ... Sexton also showed up in Allen's band the previous evening, performing songs from his excellent local release, Sweet Valentine. The son of iconoclastic Lubbock troubadour TERRY ALLEN, Bukka is still unjustly obscure as a solo artist, but he did earn a Texas Music Award for best keyboardist this year.
Also doing Austin proud were the recently reunited MEAT PURVEYORS, MICHAEL HALL & THE WOODPECKERS (whose forthcoming sophomore album, Lucky Too, features fine odes to the Twin Towers, Rolling Stones and dead rock stars) and the OCTOPUS PROJECT (whose quirky instrumentals are composed of circular interlocking riffs that would make Philip Glass smile). --BF
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ADDITIONAL AUSTIN REV-ELATIONS: The city's newest musical misfit is former City of Angels and Tuesday Night Music Club songwriter DAVID BAERWALD, who moved to the Texas capital to record his forthcoming Lost Highway debut, Here Comes the New Folk Underground. Leading a demented chamber-roots-rock ensemble that included local heroes WILL SEXTON on bass and BUKKA ALLEN on keyboards and accordion, Baerwald treated the crowd to terrifying tracks from his exceedingly dark Triage album ("Waiter," "Aids & Armageddon") as well as his old band David & David's signature hit, "Welcome to the Boomtown". ... Sexton also showed up in Allen's band the previous evening, performing songs from his excellent local release, Sweet Valentine. The son of iconoclastic Lubbock troubadour TERRY ALLEN, Bukka is still unjustly obscure as a solo artist, but he did earn a Texas Music Award for best keyboardist this year.
Also doing Austin proud were the recently reunited MEAT PURVEYORS, MICHAEL HALL & THE WOODPECKERS (whose forthcoming sophomore album, Lucky Too, features fine odes to the Twin Towers, Rolling Stones and dead rock stars) and the OCTOPUS PROJECT (whose quirky instrumentals are composed of circular interlocking riffs that would make Philip Glass smile). --BF
Also doing Austin proud were the recently reunited MEAT PURVEYORS, MICHAEL HALL & THE WOODPECKERS (whose forthcoming sophomore album, Lucky Too, features fine odes to the Twin Towers, Rolling Stones and dead rock stars) and the OCTOPUS PROJECT (whose quirky instrumentals are composed of circular interlocking riffs that would make Philip Glass smile). --BF
