Charlie Faye & the Fayettes

Charlie Faye & the Fayettes weren’t around in the 60’s, but this Austin trio are so good at building a groove rooted in that rich time, it’s as if they’re channelers. Actually, they are, but don’t think “nostalgia act”; both onstage and on their self-titled release, Charlie Faye & the Fayettes (2016), they craft smart soul-pop that merges the swinging, swaying sound and style of ‘60s girl groups with a modern vibe that’s so current, they’re dancing to the forefront of a retro revival.

Eric Ambel

Eric Ambel is a celebrated guitar-player who has made enduring music as a solo artist and as a member of the Del-lords, the Yayhoos and his own legendary combo Roscoe’s Gang. His inventive guitar work has graced albums by everyone from Steve Earle to Joan Jett to Run-DMC. He is also a producer of note, most recently having produced the latest Bottle Rockets album. Ambel has just released his 4th studio record titled Lakeside.  It’s a rough and tumble tribute to the bar he owned for 16 years in NYC’s East Village. 

“As dirty and messy as Ambel can get, there’s a level of craft in what he does that’s rarely seen these days. And while he’s known first and foremost as a guitarist, he really hit the vocals out of the park here. Other guys get old and reedy and raspy; Ambel sounds about 25, full of piss and vinegar.” – New York Music Daily

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“The first thing people usually ask us is ‘What’s it like as a husband and wife playing music together?,'” says Chris Masterson. “We always say that the lows are low, but the highs are really  high.”

There are plenty of highs on Good Luck Charm , the second album by The Mastersons, the collaboration that Chris shares with his marital and musical partner Eleanor Whitmore. Generously filled with infectious melodies, instinctive harmonies and vividly insightful lyrics, Good Luck Charm  embodies the uncanny rapport that singerguitarist Chris and singer-violinist-guitarist Eleanor have developed in their experiences living, touring and making music together.

The Austin, TX-based duo’s lilting songcraft and charismatic chemistry have already won over listeners around the world, thanks to the couples ongoing status as members of Steve Earle’s band The Dukes, their frequent opening sets for Earle, and their critically-lauded 2012 debut album, Birds Fly South .

Although Good Luck Charm  is the Mastersons’ second album, in many ways it’s their first full-on collaboration. Whereas Birds Fly South  consisted largely of songs that they’d composed individually, all of Good Luck Charm’s material was co-written by Chris and Eleanor, giving the material added depth as well as a powerful collective lyrical identity that’s matched by their expressive harmonies.

Eric Andersen is a first-generation standout in the Greenwich Village folk revival of the 1960s. At age 20, he was celebrated as an emerging star of the Village folk scene by New York Times critic Robert Shelton, who famously championed the young Dylan a few years prior. Over a career spanning 28 releases, he has embodied the popular transition from acoustic American roots music and politically motivated topical song in the ’60s to the mellower, brilliant and more personally inspired singer-songwriter movement of the ’70s and beyond.

Eric has been known as a ‘songwriters songwriter’. His songs have been recorded by some of the best ranging from Judy Collins and Fairport Convention to Bob Dylan, Linda Ronstadt, and The Grateful Dead among others. Eric Andersen’s voice, songs, guitar and piano playing created a career that has spanned over 45 years.

In 2017, Sony Legacy Records will be releasing a 40 song retrospective on Eric’s career. There will also be a documentary film on Eric’s 50 years in music entitled “The Song-poet” (http://www.towardcastlefilms.com/filmography/thesongpoet) to be released next year. Always creative, on the top of his game and ready to show new generations why he is “a singer and songwriter of the first rank” (NY Times) and a national treasure.

“Andersen is the most elegant of singers.” – Rolling Stone Magazine

“A singer and songwriter of the first rank.” – New York Times

“Eric Andersen is a great ballad singer and writer.” – Bob Dylan

 Eric Andersen’s band is Steve Postell, Scarlett Rivera and Cheryl Prashker.

Crowell is a multi-Grammy winner, a member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame and the recipient of the 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award for Songwriting from the Americana Music Association. His songs have been covered and performed by an eminent group of musicians, including Van Morrison, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Etta James, George Strait, Royksopp, Tim McGraw and Bob Seger. Yet he’s taken his place among America’s greatest songwriters not with laurels and banquets but with excellent new work.

In a trailblazing career that began with The Nuns, San Francisco’s famed punk innovators, to the Austin-based-based alt-country rock pioneers, Rank & File, to Texas bred darlings, True Believers, through countless all-star collaborations and tribute album appearances and finally a series of beloved solo albums beginning with 1992’s acclaimed Gravity, Escovedo has earned a surplus of distinctions: No Depression magazine’s Artist of the Decade Award in 1998 and the Americana Music Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

From deep in heart of Cochtotan, CA, comes possibly the greatest rock band in the world. With two Hall of Famers and a guitar slinger of fearsome reputation, JackShit is poised to take on the known universe. Get ready, Santa Barbara: here comes Pete Thomas, Davey Faragher and Val McCallum… JackShit!