Bobby Whitlock & CoCo Carmel w/ David Grissom: One World Theatre
Bobby Whitlock and CoCo Carmel have redoubled efforts on the former s Layla catalog, honorary Domino David Grissom sitting in for Derek (Clapton). As a duo every Sunday at the Saxon, Whitlock and Carmel extract the raw heart of Layla siblings Anyday, Keep On Growing, and Why Does Love Got to Be So Sad? so in the plush confines of the One World, in trio with Grissom, those seasonal Bell Bottom Blues just got cured. 7 & 9:30pm.

J.C. & Co. and Bear Claw: Hole in the Wall
Members of Belaire and Voxtrot reform like Voltron.


Christmas Show w/ Patricia Vonne, Raul Malo: Antone's ROADSHOW
Few voices in contemporary music so fully embody a song and seamless range of styles as Raul Malo s. Since releasing his 2001 solo debut, Today, the former Mavericks frontman has lent his immaculately suave croon to three albums of covers, most notably last year s After Hours. We were doing such great songs night after night, you really get inside them and start to know the song, explains Malo. Getting inside a song is a real skill and really an underappreciated and underrated skill. Elvis never wrote a lick in his life, but when he sang other people s material, that was it it was Elvis . And the same with Sinatra or any of those guys. That s also going to have a positive influence on my own writing, at the very least as a barometer. Is my song as good as that? And if it s anywhere close, I m good with it. With his new album, Lucky One, due on Fantasy Records next year, Malo returns to his own songwriting with an adventurous set that swaggers through honky-tonk, zoot suit, and moments of smooth jazz and deep Latin soul, all propelled by Malo s supple, Orbisonian vocals. I also realized that I m a writer, too, and for years I kind of took that for granted, he reflects. I would just think that I write songs because nobody else in the band writes, but after a couple of years, you realize you write a song here and there, and a person uses it in their wedding or on their honeymoon, and you become part of people s soundtrack. That s a humbling thing.


The Urgencies, The Bad Rackets, Fagg Jr., The Somethin' Ain't Rights, Little Bicycles, Stabba and Woodgrain: Beerland
Hirsute hotness with Woodgrain, Stabba, the Little Bicycles, the Somethin Ain t Rights, and more.


Nash Hernandez Orchestra: Donn's Depot
Austin s longest-running big band keeps it in the family.


Mon, Dec 22, '08

Plutonium Farmers: Austin Moose Lodge No. 1735
Distorto-improv trio Plutonium Farmers have made Mondays at the Moose their home away from home for months now, hacking out another place for experimental local music to thrive. Catch guitar wrangler Jonathan Horne and drummers Aaron Dugan and Matt Armistead there every week for the foreseeable future, and get your ears ringing into the new year. Free.


Tiny Tin Hearts, Freedy Johnston and Matt the Electrician: Saxon Pub ROADSHOW
The songwriter holds down a Monday residency with Tiny Tin Hearts, Matt the Electrician, and Colin Herring.


Next Page