Join us for a special triple-header song swap with Jonathan Horne, Amy Annelle, and Ralph E White! These artists are all full of massive talent, and we can’t wait!
Monday June 20th - 7pm
Jonathan Horne has spent years alternating years focusing on electric or acoustic guitar helped as well. In 2004, Jonathan moved to Austin, TX where he was fortunate enough to immediately become acquainted with a thriving and diverse music scene. Many different experiences playing improvised music concerts, free jazz festivals, gospel in unforgiving Baptist churches, a rock and roll primetime TV appearance, and a Glastonbury set the day Brexit happened, has contributed to a wonderful collection of odd memories, and quality time developing with the guitar.
A prolific writer and interpreter of songs, Amy Annelle maps out the farther reaches of American music, while conjuring visions of our restless musical past. Her version of Townes Van Zandt's "Buckskin Stallion Blues" was prominently featured in the Academy Award-winning film "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri". Over the course of a dozen albums & thousands of miles logged on the road, Annelle has cultivated a rarified voice and repertoire that "blooms with open-hearted, lustful vulnerability and a harrowing naturalistic solitude”(Crawdaddy). She plays solo, and with genre-defying ensembles; her recording and live performances include work with Michael Hurley, Bill Callahan, Jandek and Jolie Holland..
One of our foremost instrumentalists and a true hidden American treasure, Ralph White has taken the back roads in his inspired pursuit of the ancient roots of music. The "folk/noise/avant-whatever genius" (Joe Gross, Austin Statesman) has made many strange travels as an itinerant musician and laborer. Thus his intimate, nuanced musical language has slowly revealed itself, along a path that meanders from the apple orchards of British Columbia to the villages of Zimbabwe and Namibia, from the lonesome moors of Ireland to Australia, Brittany, Peru, Louisiana and beyond. There is also the influence of White's hometown of Austin, Texas, a rich musical crossroads in and of itself.
