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Bill Carter has been a pillar of the Austin music scene for nearly three decades, helping shape the city's rich musical history along with songwriting partner Ruth Ellsworth. 

Over two hundred artists have found gold in the songwriting genius of this Texas troubadour, including Stevie Ray Vaughan, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Robert Palmer, the Counting Crows, Storyville, Omar and The Howlers, The Brian Setzer Orchestra, Ruth Brown, John Anderson, and Waylon Jennings, just to name a few.

His band, Bill Carter and the Blame, has hosted some of the world's greatest musicians, including guitarists Charlie Sexton and Denny Freeman (Bob Dylan), Chris Layton (Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble), Dony Wynn (Robert Palmer), Mike Thompson (The Eagles), musician/actor Johnny Depp, Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top, Brian Setzer of the Stray Cats, and many others. 

Carter is also a founding member of the famed Hollywood band "P" with Gibby Haynes of the Butthole Surfers, Johnny Depp, and Sal Jenco. They released the eponymous album P in 1995 on Capitol Records, featuring Steve Jones from the Sex Pistols, Flea, and Ruth Ellsworth.

Carter and Ellsworth received the BMI "Million Airs" Award for over two million airplays of their Stevie Ray Vaughan mega hit "Crossfire." In March of 2000, the track won the “Decade Award” for best song at the Austin Music Awards.

In August 2010, Carter participated in the Voices for Justice Concert and Rally in Little Rock, AR, in support of the West Memphis Three. Carter performed "Anything Made Of Paper," an original song that he and Ellsworth wrote specifically for Damien Echols and wife Lorri Davis. Carter also joined Patti Smith for "People Have The Power" during the show's finale, along with Eddie Vedder, Natalie Maines, Ben Harper, and Johnny Depp.

“Anything Made of Paper" is featured in the credits of the documentary film, West of Memphis along with Carter's cover of Ozzy Osbourne's "Road To Nowhere." Both tracks are included on the West of Memphis soundtrack album.

In August of 2012, PBS-Austin released an hour-long documentary on Bill Carter and The Blame as part of the station's Arts In Context series. This live concert and tribute featured interviews and testimonials with Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top, Charlie Sexton, Jimmie Vaughan, and Johnny Depp. The documentary won a Lone Star Emmy for “Outstanding Achievement in Arts/Entertainment Special Programming” for Pat Kondelis the executive producer and director.

March of 2013 saw Carter and Ellsworth inducted into the Austin Music Hall of Fame.

On the heels of the success of his last album Unknown (2013), comes a new acoustic record, Play On, slated for release in 2015.

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WELCOME TO DWIGHT YOAKAM'S OFFICIAL Soundcloud 
FEATURING:  Travis Yoakam's Rap Debut
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TRAVIS YOAKAM

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Dwight Yoakam has sold more than 25 million albums worldwide, and he is a 21-time nominated, multiple GRAMMY Award winner. He has 12 gold albums and 9 platinum or multi-platinum albums, with five of those albums topping Billboard’s Country Albums chart and another 14 landing in the Top 10. Nearly 40 of Yoakam’s singles have charted on Billboard, with 14 peaking in the Top 10. 

The LSD Tour, featuring Lucinda Williams, Steve Earle, and Dwight, unites three of music’s most celebrated and iconic voices on one epic cross-country package for the very first time. Kicking off June 12, 2018 at Blue Hills Bank Pavilion in Boston, MA and rolling through iconic amphitheaters and theaters in major markets across the country, the LSD Tour concludes on August 18, 2018 at Farm Bureau Insurance Lawn in Indianapolis, IN. Support will come from Los Angeles rock outlier King Leg. 

Yoakam’s self-curated SiriusXM channel, titled Dwight Yoakam and The Bakersfield Beat ‘Where Country Went Mod’, will launch in late April.  The channel celebrates the Bakersfield sound and those whom it has inspired, including Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, Wynn Stewart, Tommy Collins, The Byrds, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Eagles, The Blasters, Lucinda Williams, and more. It encompasses all that is California country and country rock, in all of its various and varietal hybrid forms, from Ricky Nelson to Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt. The channel includes artists from the movement in LA in the early to middle ‘80s that Yoakam broke out of and features bands as diverse as X, Lone Justice and Los Lobos. This movement was encapsulated on the series of albums titled A Town South of Bakersfield and has led variations over time to the current continuing country scene in LA, all of which Yoakam has dubbed as a segment for his channel entitled “That Town South of Bakersfield: From Cow Punks to Now Punks”.

In 2016, Yoakam released his bluegrass album Swimmin’ Pools, Movie Stars… on Sugar Hill Records. Featuring a band of bluegrass luminaries, this album boasts a collection of reinterpreted favorites from his catalogue, as well as a cover of Prince’s “Purple Rain”. Produced by nine-time GRAMMY winner Gary Paczosa (Alison Krauss, Dolly Parton), Jon Randall (songwriter of “Whiskey Lullaby”), and Yoakam himself, and mixed by Chris Lord-Alge, this album reflects the love for bluegrass music that Yoakam developed at an early age in Kentucky and that has inspired him for many years thereafter. 

In addition to his musical career, Yoakam is a formidable film and television actor who has appeared in over 40 feature films, including Sling Blade and Panic Room. In 2016, he recurred in David E. Kelley’s Amazon series Goliath. Recently, he appeared in director Steven Soderbergh’s film Logan Lucky with Channing Tatum and Daniel Craig. Yoakam is capable of seamlessly melting into his roles and impressively standing toe-to-toe with some of the world’s top thespians over the course of his storied and successful acting career, including Jodie Foster, Tommy Lee Jones, Jared Leto, Forest Whitaker, and Matthew McConaughey.

The formation of Uncle Lucius is a Texas tale in the truest sense. Four unique musicians of the Lone Star State, each living in their own hamlets, brewing up a dire need to put together a soulful southern rock outfit, sometimes can’t help but find each other.

     Kevin Galloway’s campfire dream of starting a band began to take form in 2002, when the Freeport native left his East Texas banking job and moved to Austin with little more than a guitar and a truck. A country player all his life – he’d learned to play the guitar from listening to those “lovin’ and leavin’” songs that ran through East Texas – Galloway’s ears took quickly to the diverse array of rock-oriented music sprouting up around the Capital City. After three years of playing open mic’s around town, the singer/songwriter/guitarist met bassist/songwriter Hal Vorpahl through a mutual friend who knew the two could put together a legitimate outfit.
     Hal Vorpahl’s story walks a similar path to Galloway’s. A native of 30,000-strong Lufkin, Texas, Hal’s musical background was built around a solid foundation of listening to Willie Nelson records with his father. He’d dabbled in the piano while growing up, but the 88 keys never quite caught on. Instead, it was the general mysticism of the vibrant musical scene that brought Vorpahl to Austin, and – as if he had any choice in the matter – he picked up the bass shortly after moving to town.
     The current look of Uncle Lucius began to take shape when Houston’s Mike Carpenter entered the picture after the band’s first year. Raised on Jimi Hendrix and Carlos Santana, Carpenter had been playing guitar and writing songs since the age of 14 and moved to Austin to play in bands. He played in two other bands before joining Uncle Lucius, a move that was made possible by the departure of the group’s original lead guitarist. Carpenter remembers feeling no sense of hesitation: “I immediately liked Kevin’s voice. He was a good front man and a good singer. And they were doing pretty much what I wanted to do: combining country, rock and roll, and blues. It was really just luck, man.”
     With a practiced lead guitarist capable of enhancing the band’s already solid structure with a number of different looks in tow, Uncle Lucius started playing clubs like Austin’s famed Saxon Pub, Antone’s, and Threadgill’s. They’ve since established connections and residences, hooking up with David Cotton, the Austin-based booking agent whose an expert in the field of roots rock.
     At about the time that Uncle Lucius was beginning to work on their second release, 2009’s Pick Your Head Up, their first drummer left the band. “We were going to use a studio drummer for the sessions,” says Galloway, “but then we got in touch with Josh. He came in, rehearsed, and, man, he just killed it. We figured it was a much better idea to use him than a session player.”
      That’s Josh Greco, a San Antonio native who came to Austin for the University of Texas and quickly got caught up in the gigging scene going on downtown. Carpenter agrees with his lead singer’s sentiments about the drummer: “Now that we have Josh, we work a lot harder. We’re more dedicated, more focused.”
     Raised on the deep-pocket precision of the Band’s Levon Helm, Charlie Parker’s Max Roach and Steve Gadd, Greco began working his way around a drum kit when he was 11. Originally, the choice befuddled him: “I wanted to be a fiddle player but somehow became a drummer. I don’t know how, but I knew I wanted to be making music when I got into that big band swing stuff when I was in 8th grade.”
     With the current lineup intact, Uncle Lucius headed to the studio to record Pick Your Head Up. Its eleven songs are filled with southern-fried guitar licks riding soulful grooves, augmented by heartfelt lyrics that tackle “life and the mystery of it all.” The final product is a collection that evokes the work of the Black Crowes, the Band, and the great Stax Records albums of the 1960s.
     It’s an album that’s tighter in large part because of the cohesiveness of the band itself. “We all h

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