Idgy Vaughn: News

Just got back from five days in Memphis with the lunatics who put on the Wine and Nut showcase room.
Superdave Holmes will be posting video soon. There were some great, great moments. You'll see.

Follow the link to see Idgy perform "Mr. Wrong" live on Fox Channel 7's Morning Show. That's Mike Meadows on percussion.
http://www.myfoxaustin.com/myfox/pages/Entertainment/Detail?contentId=2536513&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=7.3.1

Okay, guys, I need your help. For real. Today.

SXSW is on the way and therefore so is..... The Austin Music Awards!!!


(I know, I know, but since I don't have a publicist or agent or manager and I already spent all my money on recording the best damn album I could, I have to toot this horn myself.)


The Austin Music Awards polls are open right now through Thursday. As an Austin songwriter, I'm eligible for two awards this year: Best New Band and Record of the Year. ANYBODY from ANYWHERE can vote once and it's a pretty painless process-- and it's a huge honor as well.

"Origin Story" was an all-Austin affair. It was produced by Paul Pearcy and recorded in Austin at Flashpoint Recording with an all-star list of local giants. The album was mastered by Jerry Tubb at Terra Nova Digital Audio. Even the actual CD itself is manufactured by Affordable Sound of Austin. Nowhere else on earth could this record have been made.

To vote for Idgy Vaughn as Best New Band and "Origin Story" as Record of the Year, you can go to this address:

http://www.austinchronicle.com/feedback/musicpoll/06/
I am eternally grateful! Voting ends TOMORROW, so please, please, please pass it on...

AUSTIN CHRONICLE
Jan. 5, 2007
Texas Top 10 of 2006
by Margaret Moser
1) Idgy Vaughn, Origin Story
2) Alejandro Escovedo, The Boxing Mirror (Back Porch)
3) Charlie Sexton & Shannon McNally, Southside Sessions (Back Porch)
4) Carrie Rodriguez, Seven Angels on a Bicycle (Back Porch)
5) The Texas Sapphires, Valley So Steep (Lowe Farm)
6) Ray Wylie Hubbard, Snake Farm (Sustain)
7) Jon Dee Graham, Full (Freedom)
8) Sara Hickman, Motherlode (Sleeveless)
9) Hickoids, Corn Demon (Saustex)
10) Bob Schneider, The Californian (Vanguard/Shockarama)

Here's all I know: somewhere between March 14th and March 18th, I'll be playing an official South by Southwest showcase somewhere in Austin, Texas. Sorry I don't yet have an exact date, time, or location, but you can bet I will have it posted as soon as I know.

"The Rise of Idgy Vaughn"
KUT aired this six-minute feature on their weekly program "Texas Music Matters," hosted by David Brown.

Here's part of the lead-in from the story:
"From out of nowhere it seems, a fresh faced singer-songwriter began making a very big mark on Austin’s music scene in 2006. Idgy Vaughn’s debut CD Origin Story is being called one of the year’s best releases by an Austin artist...."

David interviewed me back in June, right before the album came out, so it seems like forever ago because so much has happened since then. He also interviewed one of my oldest friends from the Midwesternland, Brien Murphy, who is now down here in Texas writing for the Abilene Reporter News. David also talked to Eileen McClelland, the Houston Chronicle writer who wrote a very kind article on me last August.

Here is a link to the story:
http://kut.org/items/show/6702
I told Georgia, who is 10 going on 40, that sometimes I want to pinch myself to make sure I'm not dreaming. Georgia says sometimes she wants to pinch me, too.

In a very odd twist of events, Idgy will be returning to Nashville for a few days of showcases.

Calm down-- it's for a great cause: Austin Children of Musicians, Artists and Writers Fund. ACMAWF is a stopgap organization providing emergency relief funds for rent, food, and medicine. Those of you in Austin will remember last year's Naked calendar was a roaring success, and people are still talking about Guy Forsyth's ukelele and Jon Dee Graham's buns. Like last year, the calendar features Austin musicians in the nude, including James McMurtry, Patrice Pike, Guy Forsyth, Monte and Brandi Warden, Honky, Tricia Mitchell, Libby Kirkpatrick, Jon Dee Graham, Billy Eli & Jim Hemphill, Andrew Duplantis, Kacy Crowley,
Ain't Misbehavin', Abra Moore, South Austin Jug Band, and a few others I'm probably missing.

Todd V. Wolfson took the photograph (yes, he also did the cover of the album) on the morning of my 31st birthday. The calendar will be for sale in many, many local stores, including Waterloo Records at 5th and Lamar. For more info on the calendar and the cause, check out this website: www.acmawf.com

Austin Chronicle, 9-29-06
Texas Platters
Record Review
by Margaret Moser

Some debut albums set up careers with the promise of good things to come. Idgy Vaughn delivered Origin Story without warning, a recording so potent it can't be ignored. "Look into my eyes; now do I look like the dangerous type?" she beckons on "Dragging the River," while smacking a honky-tonk punch in the mouth to "Mister Wrong," co-written with Pauline Reese. Vaughn's own story is so marketable it reads like a tabloid headline: "Single Mom Waitresses, Lottery-Winning Customer Finances Record." That happened when she worked in Buda; the rest of her story unfolds on "Midwestern Biography." Musically, Origin Story falls on the country side of Americana, serving literate stabs at heartbreak and heartache ("Attic Window," "Redbone Hound") with wise and witty retorts ("Small Town Girls"). Occasionally, she veers maudlin ("Over You"), yet even her wry resilience doesn't prepare the listener for "Saint Francis Fire," the devastating account of 12 schoolgirls who died in a Christmas pageant fire. That storytelling sensibility sends her right to the head of the class, where she need not cheat off Eliza Gilkyson or Sara Hickman, because Idgy Vaughn's done her homework. Origin Story just might be the local debut album of the year.

I'll be heading through Memphis, Nashville, Cookeville, Crossville, and Knoxville over the next few days, as well as a jaunt into North Carolina. I joked on a myspace bulletin that this was the Taco Bell tour. So many of my friends have emailed me back, saying, "Wow, that's awesome!! How'd you get Taco Bell to sponsor your tour?"
Okay, guys, what I MEANT was that I'll be lucky if I can afford to just EAT at Taco Bell on this tour! But thank you all for being so happy for me, it's been very amusing in a very Napoleon Dynamite sort of way. Outside of Nashville, there aren't a lot of performances scheduled on this trip-- it's mostly radio shows. But next time I come through, there will be, and hopefully then I'll get to meet some of you in person.

You just never can tell what will happen in the course of a day-- especially when the day started on Thursday and it's still going well into Friday afternoon. This one really started out on the wrong foot. Just when I was about to seriously lose my marbles over moving to a smaller place whilst running all over Texas with a surly soon-to-be-ten-year-old whilst acquainting my two dogs to the finer points of doing their business OUTSIDE instead of inside (which they seemed to be finally getting until the smaller one, Copperdog, came down with a rather explosive case of diarrhea-- don't tell the landlord, we have cream-colored carpet, oops, better make that calico-- which I was trying to deal with in a homemade hazmat suit while my daughter crashed my computer in the next room... well, I know this all sounds just wildly glamorous but basically what I'm trying to say is that sometimes, on the inside, things can get a little bleak around here.
But here I am as the day draws itself to a close, the carpet seems to have recovered, the computer's back up and running, and I've spent the last twelve hours or so reading emails from people I haven't seen in years, people I saw just the other day, and people I've never even met. And they're all such nice messages, too. The new apartment is kind of, oh, ghettofabulous and I've been trying to figure out what I'm going to do with the bathroom walls to cover all the bullet holes-- I mean, picture holes. Now, I think rather than spend all that money on spackle and paint I'll spend it on paper and a new ink cartidge for my printer and I will cover the walls of my bathroom with all these kind and lovely words so that every time we go in there it will be a very positive affirmation.
So, if you haven't heard the song or seen the accompanying piece that the uber-rad David Brown wrote to accompany it, you can check it out now at www.npr.org.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15385372

Check it out-- I slid in by the skin of my butt! Thanks to all you program directors that have added me to your station's playlists.
If you want to see this week's chart, go to
www.americanamusic.org and click on "airplay." Too cool...

Hello all,

Yep, the live version that I did on Eklektikos will be featured on "Radio Without Borders," thanks to Teresa Ferguson and Jay Trachtenberg. Thanks, guys.
It will go up on iTunes, NPR, and the KUT sites on Wednesday. Here's a link to the KUT site: http://www.kut.org/site/PageServer?pagename=mus_radio_without_borders And here's some info about the podcast courtesy www.kut.org:

"KUT broadcasts from Austin, Texas-a city that many know as the "Live Music Capital of the World." Nearly every day, KUT hosts live on-air performances from Texas greats (Spoon, the Flatlanders, Delbert McClinton, Eliza Gilkyson, Rodney Crowell, the Polyphonic Spree, Patty Griffin, the Old 97's, Jeff Klein, Robert Earl Keen, Jerry Jeff Walker, Sara Hickman, Townes Van Zandt, and Ian McLagan) as well as touring artists (Lucinda Williams, Calexico, Antibalas, Luna, Neko Case, the Thrills, John Hiatt, Robyn Hitchcock, Rosanne Cash, Mosquitos, Dave Alvin, the Church, Tin Hat Trio, Gomez, They Might Be Giants, Suzanne Vega, the Holmes Brothers, Lou Barlow, Citizen Cope, the Raveonettes, Nanci Griffith, the Shins, and Ozomatli).
KUT is one of the only radio stations in the country to host such a wide variety of live music. Now, we're collecting some of the best tracks recorded here in our Studio 1A, and presenting them for your listening pleasure-along with a little bit of information about each of the artists included, so you can find more of the music you like on your own.
Radio Without Borders, one of the first music programs to be podcast, is hosted by longtime KUT DJ Teresa Ferguson, produced by KUT's Air Staff Manager, Jay Trachtenberg, and engineered by Cliff Hargrove and David Alvarez."

A big thank you to everybody who showed the love down at the Cactus Cafe last night. I love you guys. There were a couple of times I had to fight back tears-- and it wasn't just the sound problems. I appreciated each one of you being there, not only last night, but the many, many times you all have been there for me. Thank you so, so much.

Over the past few weeks, I've had a couple of photo shoots with Todd Wolfson, who was kind enough to take a day out of his schedule to completely reshoot after I unwittingly screwed up every picture (i.e. goofy expression, blinking, wind blowing hair up my nose, bra inside out, etc....). I can't even begin to tell you guys how relieved I was the first time I saw the new pics. I'm posting my favorites and I'd really appreciate any input you guys can give me.

What better to do from midnight until 10 in the morning but to work on this new site? I done it all by myself. For the next day or so, please do not use my regular email address. Instead, try idgyvaughn@hotmail.com. I have so much new news and so many pictures and a LOT of new dates that aren't up here yet-- please bear with me, I'm going as fast as I can. I love every single one of you.