The Songwriter Series featuring Hillie Lyman and Andrew Collins Graham. October 2, 2013

Oh man. I have been looking forward to this show all month.

Hillie Lyman is one hell of a talented lady. Flanked by 2 ukelele's, Hillie has a fun, sweet stage presence and a souful voice that is immediately disarming. Her songs stick with you for days. I highly recommend picking up one of her albums. She offers them on a sliding scale (free - however many $ you want to spend) and hand makes each cover.

Andrew Collins Graham is Hillie's musical other half in their side project, Flowers for Fran. He's an accomplished songwriter with one hell of a library of songs and intricate guitar work.

These two are a powerful duo. Flowers for Fran is a departure from their individual projects, wrapping elements of psych-rock into folk with looping pedals and effects.

Check out Hillie Lyman's music here. You can go hear her play on Saturday, October 12 @ "Art Is All There Is".

Austin City Limits is Coming!

One of the city's biggest festivals is nearly upon us! Austin City Limits descends upon our fair city Oct. 4-13, 2013.

If you've got a wristband, make sure to check out some of our dear friends from the Austin music scene: Dana Falconberry, Shakey Graves, My Jerusalem, Whiskey Shivers and more. I was thrilled to hear that ACL would be booking more local bands, and these guys are all excellent choices. Way to go, guys.

Open mic will be happening the week of ACL. We will have sign up at 7:45p, music at 8p.

I don't anticipate parking to be any more limited, as there aren't any music events in the park on Thursday night. As always, I encourage you to be courteous to the neighbors and park your car in legal spots only.

Flipnotics - September 26, 2013.

Howdy ya'll!

Last week, the lovely Peter Supertramp was so kind as to host open mic for me so that I could work. Thank you, Peter. Everyone had a blast and towards the end a huge sing along of 'Rocky Racoon' broke out. Sounds like a blast!

This week, the list is growing like woah. In the first half hour that the open mic was underway, 6 people signed up to play, bringing the total amount of players to 23.

Some pretty great stuff happened tonight!

Jason played electric guitar for us tonight. He stayed and listened to everyone the last time he was here and didn't get a chance to play, so he got a priority slot at tonight's open mic. His songs were awesome and I'm glad we were finally able to hear him play.

Melina was a treat tonight. She introduced her second song stating off with jokes about being an alcoholic. Don't worry, guys. She's 21. Anyhow, her sweet songs and her hilarious stage banter made for a great set. Way to go, Melina.

Melina and Mike Pittman

Peter played a KILLER cover of an Offspring song. The whole room was singing along. Man. He really killed it.

 Peter also played washboard for the very lovely spitfire, Button. If Louis Armstrong could come back as a tiny girl, he'd be this lady. Great set, Button!

Daniel Lytle

Arielle was AMAZING. She had a guitarist join in for her 2nd and 3rd songs. I thought they played in a band together because the songs were seamless, but it turns out that they just met at that the moment he offered to play with her onstage. Stuff like this is what makes open mics awesome. It's not so rare that this type of thing happen, but it IS rare for it to be so rad.

Arielle and Greg

Meredith played some grand folk music. She also brought a selection of hand sewn guitar straps that she sells. Super cool. Thanks for coming out, lady!

Meredith, maker of songs and guitar straps

 Ajari and Greg!

The list!

Thanks for another great week, everyone! See you next time!