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ountry music Hall of fame MUSICIAN SPOTLIGHT: 

BOBBY EARL SMITH WITH SPECIAL GUEST KIMMIE RHODES

Singer, songwriter, and guitarist Bobby Earl Smith has been an important figure on the Austin music scene since the early 1970s.Presented in support of the exhibit Outlaws & Armadillos: Country’s Roaring ʼ70s. Ford Theater...

Rambles.net review

Most of what I hear these days from Austin's much-hyped scene stirs only modest resonance, if that, in my ears. Whatever regional distinctiveness it once had seems largely vanished. But a few decades ago, in its golden age, it was the counter-Nashville where country music, elsewhere on its way to the Southern-suburban pop-rock it would become, got a second shot at life and relevance, and a chance to revisit its Southwestern roots...

bigbendnow.com review

Veteran Austin musician records new album

Something said of Bobby Earl is that he was among the first generation of musicians able to create a space shared by both rednecks and hippies. The cultural gap his brand of Country and Western bridged was something completely new around Austin in the early seventies...