Texas Eastside Kings: Texas Eastside Kings

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Texas Eastside Kings Texas Eastside Kings Dialtone 2012 Texas Eastside Kings features a fine constellation of blues and jazz musicians from different generations, that offer an accomplished, heartfelt sound collage of East Austin's cultural legacy. The collective character of the record is double; on one hand, the music is played out as some sort of jam session where musicians come in and out naturally, with no interruptions, producing a compact yet flexible sound that illustrates their sharing of a common language and understanding. On the other hand, the record is a valuable and necessary homage to East Austin's postwar era; these musicians come to represent not only the history of the living but also one about the players that have left us along the way...

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