Alt. Country Folk Americana. Always real. Occasionally intelligent.
KUT's Texas Music Matters feature--
HOW COUNTRY MUSIC SAVED IDGY VAUGHN:
"Idgy Vaughn has only been in Austin for a few years but already her brand of confessional country has made her a recognizable figure in the Austin music scene. She’s won songwriting awards from Kerrville to Boston and has even been featured on the BBC. But like any good country song recognition has come with its share of heartbreak. Texas Music Matters David Brown reports on the triumphs and tribulations of Idgy Vaughn’s new found success." -- David Brown, host of Texas Music Matters on Austin's award-winning PBS affiliate KUT.
http://texasmusicmatters.kut.org/2008/10/27/how-country-music-saved-idgy-vaughn/
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Idgy Vaughn was born in Chillicothe, Missouri (“The Home of Sliced Bread”), to a non-musical hog farming family on the same day that Jimmy Hoffa disappeared.
Her folks lost their farm and moved to a Mississippi River town. Idgy taught herself to play guitar and became the only songwriter she knew.
In 2001, she packed up her small daughter and, sight unseen, moved to Austin, Texas, buoyed by a tax refund check and a bunch of songs nobody ever heard. A single mother and new to the scene in “The Live Music Capitol of the World,” Idgy got by waitressing at a truckstop a few miles south of town until a customer won the lottery and loaned her just enough to make her first record.
A second stroke of luck came when she won the Kerrville New Folk Songwriting Competition.
Her debut album, ORIGIN STORY, was recorded entirely in Austin with a dream team of all-star musicians. It garnered an amazing critical response in Great Britain and the U.S., as well as nominations for Album of the Year, Producer of the Year for Paul Pearcy, and Best New Band at the 2006 Austin Music Awards.
The album spent 11 weeks on the national Americana chart, peaking at #32, with the unique distinction of being the only self-released record on the chart at the time.
National Public Radio made “Good Enough” their Song of the Day. ORIGIN STORY was on the much-coveted “best of the year” lists by Austin NPR affiliate KUT’s David Brown, the Austin Chronicle’s longtime music writer Margaret Moser, and many, many others.
Idgy has opened for music icons Kris Kristofferson and Richard Thompson, as well as great artists like Billy Joe Shaver, Joe Ely, Mary Gauthier, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Kelly Willis, Leo Kottke, Jimmy Webb, David Bromberg, and the Derailers. She has shared the stage with Hayes Carll and Susan Gibson. Idgy tours nationally.
"BEST NEW LOCAL ACT" and "#1, TEXAS TOP TEN ALBUMS OF 2006" by Margaret Moser of the AUSTIN CHRONICLE.
7/11/2009 8pm Flower Mound, TX Flower Mound Coffeehouse "Flower Mound Coffee House:
Congregation Kol Ami
1887 Timber Creek Road
Flower Mound, TX 75028
http://www.flowermoundcoffeehouse.com"
Songwriter in the Round with Randy Weeks and Will Sexton.
Austin Uprising - Songwriter in the Round Concert with Randy Weeks and Will Sexton.
