Raised in South Berwick, Maine, and residing in Austin, Texas, Slaid Cleaves is no one's idea of a music-industry insider. He writes and sings songs primarily about working-class people and romantics ...

Each Wednesday and Sunday evening at 8 p.m. “Live At The Linda” brings you some of the best musical acts to grace the stage at The Linda - WAMC's Performing Arts Studio. This week features KWILLEO ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. A Slaid Cleaves concert is set for 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 21, at Stone Mountain ...

The last album from Slaid Cleaves was the covers record 'Unsung,' so it's been about 5 years since we heard new original material from the talented, Austin-via-Maine songwriter. With the release of ...

Although he's from Maine, Slaid Cleaves now hails from Austin, and he has an abiding love for the Lone Star State, as he shows on the jaunty “Texas Love Song” and “God's Own Yodeler,” his tribute to ...

Hailed as "one of the country's most compelling roots artists," Slaid Cleaves will be performing at The Saxon Pub. Originally from New English, Slaid Cleaves moved to Austin at the tail end of 1991 ...

Slaid Cleaves finds poetry in humanity, one struggling soul at a time. Accompanied by “Scrappy” Jud Newcomb on guitar, he shared his story songs at a Rhythm and Roots concert on Aug. 28. C. Elliott’s ...

So what’s better than one superb songwriter? Well, two obviously. Think Lennon and McCartney, Jagger and Richards, Rodgers and Hammerstein… the list of perfectly paired collaborators can be traced ...

Slaid Cleaves has always had an interesting musical niche. Folkies and the Texas music crowd alike swoon over the laconic Yankee-turned-Texan whose music always seems like it was made for rainy days ...

How refreshing it is to hear a singer-songwriter with a positive attitude and an appreciation for his audience. There's no depression, or at least not much of it, in the buoyant lines and melodies of ...