Hayes Carll News

Saturday marks the fourth time Hayes Carll has traveled up from Texas to participate in The Roots on The River Festival, and since his last appearance in 2005, he has grown from obscure troubadour to popular performer heading toward headliner status.

To say Hayes Carll is really cooking is an understatement. Since the release of "Trouble the Mind" in early 2008, Carll has seen the album cited on numerous year-end "best of" lists.

In the end, all you're left with is the numbers. Sifting through and counting up the nomination ballots for this year's Houston Press Music Awards, the raw material for the ballot you see below and may begin voting on in July, the bottom line is that somewhere around 3,400 people bothered to fill one out - many of them partially - at all.

There are so many options for music lovers this weekend that it's almost overwhelming.

We'll miss alt-country singer-songwriter Rob Baird , who's relocating to Austin soon and has just signed with a big indie label in Nashville .

Old Settler's Music Festival is Central Texas' signature music event featuring Grammy winning Americana, arts & crafts, camping, food & libations.

Woodlands, TX native Hayes Carll has carved out his own niche on the folk/Americana circuit since his 2002 debut Flowers and Liquor .

The lineup for the 10th Annual Roots on the River Festival is in place, and excitement is building for this June's four-days of memorable music and song.

Seasoned label exec is bullish on country music, the album as art form and fair compensation for artists and songwriters Luke Lewis is chairman/CEO at Universal Music Group Nashville .

Austin , TX LOS ANGELES , /PRNewswire/ -- New West Records is pleased to announce the signing of acclaimed Canadian singer/songwriter Corb Lund.

We freely admit we are homers, as big a fans of Hayes Carll as Milo Hamilton is of the Astros, but the Press isn't the only media outlet in the country impressed by Carll's first Lost Highway album, Trouble in ...

Just got word that American Princes bassist Luke Hunsicker successfully had a benign brain tumor removed.

Whether or not The Elfish Gene lives up to the cleverness of its title , its self-inflicted cheap shots threaten its charm.

With Sideshow Tramps, 9 p.m. Wednesday, January 7, at the Continental Club, 3700 Main, 713-529-9899. The Magpies , Continental Club My son, a guitar plunker raised on huge doses of Rockpile and Joe Ely, tipped ...

On their 1996 self-titled debut LP, Hee Haw-loving Nashville ironists BR5-49 cut a song called "Little Ramona ." Anyone who has read either the paper or this site in the past few weeks will no doubt know that ...

If we had a Comeback of the Year category, Alejandro Escovedo would've won that one, too.

Woodlands native turned Austin dweller Hayes Carll had an up-and-down year in 2008.

THE LIST The best albums of 2008 1. "Comal County Blue" - Jason Boland and The Stragglers 2. "Damn Right, Rebel Proud" - Hank Williams III 3. "Bulletproof" - Reckless Kelly 4. "All I Intended To Be" - Emmy Lou ...

Riverfest. The annual summer festival drew a record 253,000, and it even rained a little.

Nine Discs! Needless to say, 14-year-olds with too much disposable income are jumping up and down right now.