Live At The Linda: “Don’t Mess With Texas”

Every Wednesday and Sunday night at 8 p.m. “Stay At The Linda” brings you a number of the greatest musical acts to grace the stage at The Linda – WAMC’s Performing Arts Studio. Tonight, it’s don’t mess with Texas, or extra particularly, don’t mess with girls from Texas, that includes Tift Merrit, Jackie Venson and Carson McHone.

Born in Houston, Tift Merrit wished to be a author till her father taught her guitar chords and Percy Sledge songs. In her 20 12 months profession, she has toured around the globe along with her sonic brief tales and garnered a repute for making her personal method and setting an fascinating inventive desk. The New Yorker calls her “the bearer of a proud custom of distaff nation soul that reaches again to artists like Dusty Springfield and Bobbie Gentry.” Emmylou Harris calls her “a diamond in a coal mine.” Taking day without work the street to lift her daughter, Merritt started work on bigger, web site particular initiatives by method gathering objects in an outdated motel and an deserted asylum as forgotten, important language. Merritt additionally collects artist interviews about course of and integrity on The Spark for Carolina Performing Arts. An everyday contributor to the Oxford American, she lives in North Carolina along with her daughter Jean. This set comes from 2017, right here is Tift Merrit reside at The Linda.

Jackie Venson is a multi-instrumentalist, singer/songwriter recognized far and huge for her fantastically advanced music and blazing guitar expertise. Born and raised in Austin, Texas, Jackie has traveled the world taking part in to large crowds each as a headliner and as assist for main acts similar to Gary Clark Jr, Aloe Blacc, and Citizen Cope, to call just a few. With the disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic, the cancellation of her total tour schedule, and the wave of social change sweeping throughout the nation, Jackie dedicated herself to releasing extra music than ever earlier than, connecting along with her followers instantly, and talking up concerning the change she wished to see in her metropolis and nation. On April twentieth, Jackie launched a brand new EP titled “Jackie the Robotic Vol. 1” composed solely of remixes that re-imagine Jackie’s critically acclaimed catalogue, showcasing her development as each a musician and producer. In October, Jackie launched her newest studio album “Classic Machine,” her first studio observe as much as 2019’s “Pleasure.” Music from “Classic Machine” was featured closely on Jackie’s taping for Austin Metropolis Limits’ forty sixth season, and he or she launched the complete set on “Stay at Austin Metropolis Limits” in December. With the uncertainty of the instances we’re residing in, one factor holds true for Jackie Venson- she’s going to play her music, converse her reality, and unfold as a lot pleasure as she will be able to doing it. Right here is Jackie Venson, Stay on the Linda.

Carson McHone is an American singer-songwriter and musician from Austin, Texas. She has launched 4 information: a self-titled EP in 2013, the album “Goodluck Man” in 2015, the album “Carousel” in 2018, and the album “Nonetheless Life” in 2022. In August 2017, Rolling Stone journal named McHone as one in every of “10 New Nation Artists You Have to Know.” On October 26, 2018, McHone launched her second full-length album “Carousel” on 9 Mile Information. Rolling Stone Journal chosen Carousel as one of many “40 Greatest Nation and Americana Albums of 2018. This set comes from The Linda vault circa 2014. Right here is Carson McHone, reside at The Linda.

Thanks for sticking with us this week. Tune in subsequent week once we’ll be taking a street journey, and that includes artists from New Orleans to New York. For extra details about The Linda or any upcoming occasions observe us on Twitter, Fb, and Instagram, or go to thelinda.org.