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Sunday October 15th,
12:30PM (Brunch - Doors at 12:15PM) |
| Terri Hendrix and Lloyd Maines |
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Terri's Web Site |
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Lloyd's Web Site |
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When Jimmy LaFave's agent was in touch I
knew something great was on the horizon. Having Terri
Hendrix and Lloyd Maines in the house is doubly exciting.
Critics have a hard time summing Terri up. “It’s impossible to
categorize the music of Terri Hendrix,” observed Country Music
People. “She is completely her own person.” Texas Monthly called
her a “singer-songwriter-entrepreneur-czarina,”
while England’s Mojo, smitten with Hendrix’s album Wilory Farm,
described her as a “scarifyingly breezy Texan cowgirl” who
seemed “way too wholesome to have made an album as invigorating
as this.” RollingStone.com, reviewing her album, The Ring,
put it best when they approvingly dubbed her a “Texan square
peg.” ...And the prolific Lloyd Maines, doesn't waste a single
second of his waking hours, he's virtually everywhere producing
zillions of the CD's you know and love. Seriously.
Clearly, there’s nothing ordinary about
this San Antonio-born, San-Marcos-based songbird, who abandoned
a college opera scholarship to milk goats for guitar lessons so
she could hone her chops on the Texas songwriter circuit. With
influences including Mississippi John Hurt, Sonny Boy
Williamson, Paul Simon, and Ella Fitzgerald, she describes her
unique stylistic mix of folk, roots-pop, country and scat-jazz
as being “from another planet.” Her writing makes her stand out,
too. “Hendrix writes lyrics that set her apart from many
contemporary songwriters,” praised Philadelphia’s Local Daily
News. “Her songs are rich with visual
images, thought-provoking lyrics and undercurrents of
non-conformity.” Dirty Linen noted that Terri is “well on
her way to becoming the beat laureate of the folk world.”
Since 1997, Terri has worked and toured with producer and
instrumentalist Lloyd Maines (Joe Ely, Dixie Chicks).
With Terri on guitar, harmonica and mandolin, and Lloyd on
guitar, mandolin, pedal steel and dobro, they have played some
of the most celebrated venues and festivals across the country
and Europe, including the Blue Highways Festival in Utrecht,
Newport Folk Festival, Philadelphia Folk Festival, Four Corners
Music Festival, Mountain Stage Newsong Festival, WXPN Songwriter
Weekend, Bridgeton Folk Festival, Kerrville Folk Festival, the
Austin City Limits Festival, and many more. Terri and
Lloyd also teach an annual songwriting workshop that covers both
the creative process and the business side of music, which she
calls the “Part That Ain’t Art.” Other highlights of her
career include co-writing a Grammy-winning instrumental
for the Dixie Chicks (“Lil’ Jack Slade”),
and having her songs featured in commercials (Ozarka, UTSA),
Another World, and on such compilations as WXPN’s World Cafe
Live, Austin’s KGSR Broadcast series, Parkinsong Volume One, the
Texas Music Project’s Don’t Mess with Texas Music, Vol. 2 and
the Putumayo World Music release, Latin Playground. If this
isn't variety and autherticity, what is?
Lloyd Maines is a music insider's music insider.
That is until his Dixie Chicks
daughter Natalie blew the top off his quiet "behind the scenes"
life. And then the Grammy...
Starting with supreme slide guitar, then working with Joe Ely in
the '70's, he devotedly produced for Butch Hancock, Jimmie Dale
Gilmore, Andy Wilkenson, The Texana Dames, Jerry Jeff Walker,
The Lost Gonzo Band, Jimmy Collins, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Chris
Wall, Richard Buckner, Uncle Tupelo, Wilco, Wayne Hancock,
Robert Earl Keen, Pat Green, The Great Divide, Larry Joe
Taylor...Today, you'll be hard pressed to pick up a CD that
comes out of Texas that Lloyd doesn't have a hand in, either
producing/co-producing, playing on, and many times both. And
this leaves a lot out!
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