Austin City Limits Season 36 Episode 8 John Legend & The Roots

TV Show: Austin City Limits

Aired on: 9:00 PM on November 20th, 2010 – Saturday

Channel: PBS Channel

Episode Details: Season 36 Episode 8

Episode Name: John Legend & The Roots

Preview:

John Legend’s expressive, thoughtful vocal interpretations have earned him countless awards and fans. The Roots fuse their work with elements of funk so unique that they have become one of the most respected bands in the world. Tonight Austin City Limits features the musical collaboration between these two creative forces.The Grammy Award-winning Legend has taken the world by storm in the past half-decade with his hits “Heaven,” “Green Light,” and “Ordinary People.” The Roots have also blazed a fiery trail, using jazz and funk-intensive live instrumentation to fuel their politically-charged hip-hop, winning a Grammy and becoming the house band for Late Night With Jimmy Fallon along the way.The two R&B titans convened to make Wake Up!, which comes out later this year. This album features a unique spin on tunes from stars (Marvin Gaye, Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, Donny Hathaway) and underground legends (Ernie Hines, Baby Huey & the Babysitters, Mike James Kirkland) plus one original (“Shine”) as well.

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Austin City Limits Season 36 Episode 7 Rosanne Cash/Brandi Carlile

TV Show: Austin City Limits

Aired on: 9:00 PM on November 13th, 2010 – Saturday

Channel: PBS Channel

Episode Details: Season 36 Episode 7

Episode Name: Rosanne Cash/Brandi Carlile

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The name Rosanne Cash is no doubt a familiar one to Austin City Limits audiences. She has appeared on the show seven previous times, showcasing her talents as a country star and respected singer/songwriter with a voice that “pierces to the emotional heart” (Los Angeles Times).While her presence in studio 6A is not unusual, the project she’s bringing to the stage is. When she was 18, her father Johnny made her a list of what he considered to be 100 essential songs any country singer should know. Decades later, Cash has recorded 12 of them, paying tribute to her roots and her late father.

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Austin City Limits Season 36 Episode 6 Steve Martin/Sarah Jarosz

TV Show: Austin City Limits

Aired on: 9:00 PM on November 6th, 2010 – Saturday

Channel: PBS Channel

Episode Details: Season 36 Episode 6

Episode Name: Steve Martin/Sarah Jarosz

Preview:

Fans of Austin City Limits are certainly not strangers to bluegrass. But when it’s played by author/actor/comedian Steve Martin, the tunes may sound just a little different. While Waco native Martin has long used a banjo in his comedic stage act, he’s been serious about playing since collaborating with Earl Scruggs in 2001. Martin will be showcasing music from his latest album The Crow: New Songs for the Five-String Banjo, the 2009 Grammy winner for Best Bluegrass Album, produced by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band’s John McEuen. Catch Martin in Studio 6A before he heads to Jazz Fest and Bonnaroo with his band the Steep Canyon Rangers. Please join us for an evening of bluegrass like you’ve never heard it before.

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Austin City Limits Season 36 Episode 5 Robert Earl Keen/Hayes Carll

TV Show: Austin City Limits
 
Aired on: 9:00 PM on October 30th, 2010 – Saturday

Channel: PBS Channel
 
Episode Details: Season 36 Episode 5

Episode Name: Robert Earl Keen/Hayes Carll

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Austin City Limits Season 36 Episode 4 Alejandro Escovedo/Trombone Shorty

TV Show: Austin City Limits

Aired on: 9:00 PM on October 23rd, 2010 – Saturday

Channel: PBS Channel

Episode Details: Season 36 Episode 4

Episode Name: Alejandro Escovedo/Trombone Shorty

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As “one of the genuine lights in rock music” (Billboard) Alejandro Escovedo returns to the Austin City Limits stage to perform songs from his soon-to-be-released CD. His authentic Austin sound has led him to national stardom and critical acclaim. “To call Alejandro Escovedo the godfather of modern country rock would sell him short,” wrote critic Will Hermes in Rolling Stone.

His journey to legend has taken him from Texas to California to New York and back to Texas, encompassing a breadth of musical styles. In the 1970s, he surfaced on San Francisco’s punk scene as a guitarist in the Nuns; Rank & File helped unite the worlds of punk and country in the 1980s; and the True Believers combined all manner of Americana music in a harbinger of what was to come in Alejandro’s solo career which begun in 1992 with the album Gravity.

His ninth solo release, 2008’s Real Animal, was a conceptual CD about his musical journey with songs that sound “like a new chapter in a larger story and … a new installment in an ongoing epic” (Paste). The CD topped many best of lists and Popmatters wrote: “Music this rich and evocative should be heard by everyone, and one can only hope that more and more people will hear as Escovedo continues to write his own story.”

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Austin City Limits Season 36 Episode 3 Patty Griffin & Friends

TV Show: Austin City Limits

Aired on: 9:00 PM on October 16th, 2010 – Saturday

Channel: PBS Channel

Episode Details: Season 36 Episode 3

Episode Name: Patty Griffin & Friends

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Patty Griffin’s remarkable ability to copiously fill every note on her newest album with the soulful passion of a gospel veteran leaves even the most discerning gospel critics in awe. And with her fifth appearance on the Austin City Limit stage, Griffin, and her group of special guests, will be inspiring awe with her “uplifting, moving, and exquisite” (Slant Magazine) live performance.

Griffin’s latest work, Downtown Church, “is about songs and soaring voices, about faith and fate,” Griffin said. This 14-song compilation was recorded over five days in the Downtown Presbyterian Church in Nashville, TN. “Recording in a church was my idea because of the Staples’ recordings,” Griffin said. “You can hear the feet shuffling and the page turning in those recordings. Those places are built to sing in. I didn’t want to record this in a box.”

This album is an accurate representation of Griffin’s musical career. Crossing genre lines and weaving eclectic music together is something Griffin’s deep, moving voice thrives on. According to Billboard, “the album shows a wide range of influences, blending a traditional country sound with a more blues oriented approach.”

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Austin City Limits Season 36 Episode 2 Spoon

TV Show: Austin City Limits

Aired on: 9:00 PM on October 9th, 2010 – Saturday

Channel: PBS Channel

Episode Details: Season 36 Episode 2

Episode Name: Spoon

Preview:

Hailed as “one of the most engaging American bands of the past decade” (The Phoenix) by critics and fans, Spoon returns to Austin City Limits for their third turn on the stage with a new album that “strikes a balance between its early angsty indie-rock and the soulful deconstructed pop of its 2007 release, Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga” (Billboard).Released earlier this year, Transference is an “experimental yet entirely accessible” (Q Magazine) CD that is “a compelling listen from a band that’s still at the mercy of its muse” (Boston Globe). “I think we were just feeling our way as we went along,” Britt Daniel told NPR. “And we definitely didn’t know how we wanted to make [Transference] when we started.”

While this is the band’s seventh release, and their first since 2007’s Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga, which brought them national acclaim, it is the first the group has self-produced. “When you’re working with another producer, you’re trying to please two different aesthetics — the band’s and the producer’s,” Daniel told NPR. “That’s a great way to make a record — you can come up with a lot of things that you wouldn’t have thought of on your own. But there’s another way of making it, which is just to kind of be hardcore, and do it exactly the way, you know, one entity wants to do it. … And if that meant it was somewhat more amateurish, then that was fine. I wanted to live with those bits of humanity.”

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