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| Wednesday, July 1, 2009, 01:30 PM
Austin has long had a reputation as being a home for the singer-songwriter. It’s no surprise then that Sugarland native and Your A-List winner with 47 percent of the vote, Ben Mallott landed in our city.
In his steel-tinged “Heartbreaks,” Mallott sings, well, of heartbreaks and how they will beset all of us in the end. Truer words never sung, Mr. Mallott.
Statesman music critic Michael Corcoran, when pressed for a comparison, likened the songwriter to a country Nick Lowe who has shown a knack for first-rate songwriting.
You can check out Mallott, who credits old standards, a juvenile heart, and his mother’s Ray Charles albums as inspirations, at the newly revamped Flipnotics every Thursday in July before he heads out west for a couple of dates.
Check out complete poll results after the jump.
Others receiving votes
- ‘Face in the Crowd,’ Spin Alley, 18 percent
- ‘Tex-Mex Mile,’ The Gourds, 16 percent
- ‘Power to Change,’ Black and White Years’, 3 percent
- ‘Stone Love,’ Ruthie Foster, 2 percent
- ‘Gimme Some,’ Grupo Fantasma, 2 percent
- ‘Lost Coastlines,’ Okkervil River, 2 percent
- ‘Jesus Grow A Handle Bar Mustache For Me,’ Pataphysics, 1 percent
- ‘Gunpowder,’ Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears, 1 percent
- ‘Singer Songwriter,’ Okkervil River, 1 percent
- ‘Sitting,’ White Denim, 1 percent
- ‘Homeland Refugee,’ Flatlanders, < 1 percent
- ‘I’m Broke,’ Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears, < 1 percent
- ‘Never Knew No Love,’ Bettysoo, < 1 percent
- ‘Edge of a Dream,’ Sarah Jarosz, < 1 percent
- ‘The Conductor,’ Ume, < 1 percent
- ‘Anybody Wanna,’ Del Castillo, < 1 percent
- ‘Sorry For You,’ Rick Broussard, < 1 percent
- ‘There Goes the Neighborhood,’ Nakia, < 1 percent
- ‘Should Have Shot Paul,’ The Strange Boys, < 1 percent
- ‘It’s Enough to Leave,’ Monahans, < 1 percent
- ‘Run Run,’ The Soldier Thread, < 1 percent
- ‘Lamprey Eels,’ Loxsly, < 1 percent
- ‘Little Hits,’ The Black, < 1 percent
- ‘You’re Gone,’ Brothers and Sisters, < 1 percent
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