Jerry Jeff Walker News

My daughter Meredith attended the University of Texas in the 1990s, and, like so many, she refused to leave Austin after she graduated.

ON THE FACE of it, Austin, Texas-based talent Robert Earl Keen seems an unlikely booking for the hipster scene at Union Transfer.

Jerry Jeff Walker is strongly associated with the progressive country scene that centered around Austin, TX, in the 1970s and included such figures as Willie Nelson, Guy Clark, Billy Joe Shaver, the Lost Gonzo Band, Waylon Jennings, and Townes Van Zandt.

David Bromberg, the journeyman multi-instrumentalist string wizard who returns to Hugh's Room on Sunday, is certainly one of a kind.