Music Photographer Austin

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The last Shady Grove show of the season featured Charlie Sexton and Shannon McNally on acoustic. See the full gallery of photos here.

Jon Dee Graham puts real heart ‘n soul into his music. The Shady Grove audience was treated to several songs off his latest release, “Full.”

The ACL Music Festival was a huge success again this year. I was fortunate enough to photograph some favorites from Day 2 (Saturday). Thanks to KGSR 107.1 Austin Radio, Jody Denberg & Big Jyl for their help. You might see some of these and other photos on their website in the next [...]

Kelly Willis charmed the crowd with several of her hits and some new songs as well. Joining Kelly on stage was Eleanor Whitmore on fiddle, John Ludwick on bass, Eddie Cantu on drums and Andrew Nafziger on guitar. You can see all the Kelly Willis photos in the Gallery.

KGSR’s Bobby Ray introduced Kelly

Eleanor Whitmore

The Austin music scene and its musicians (and even some of the industry people) are a great inspiration to me as a photographer. Photographing performers is challenging and rewarding. It allows me to continually find solutions to difficult lighting situations, often limited camera angles, and a wide range of performer actions and emotion. [...]

Rhino Bucket is one of the surviving bands of the previous decade to hang in and keep hard rock cool (for those of us who remember what hard rock is). Austin brought the Batfest back this year with noteworthy bands from way back, and some more recent. The rain didn’t last long, and [...]

Jason McMaster, former frontman of the legendary Dangrous Toys, joined Dave Prewitt on local cable access TV show, CapZeyeZ to promote DT’s upcoming Batfest show. In between segments, Jason mentioned to me that he thought his his earlier performances weren’t polished enough.
“I wasn’t as good back then,” he said while one of the old [...]