{"title":"Waterloo Records Recommends","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eWe’ve teamed up with our music-genius friends at Waterloo Records to curate a small collection of music just for Alvies shoppers. If you dig boots, flops, Austin and all the other stuff we like at Alvies, you’ll dig these tunes. \u003c\/span\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"stevie-ray-vaughan-the-sky-is-crying","title":"Stevie Ray Vaughan - The Sky Is Crying","description":"\u003cp\u003eSRV is Austin’s own guitar virtuoso. This album of previously unreleased songs, published a year after his death, showcases his guitar wizardry, his influences, and his ability to take blues and rock standards and make them all his own. Here’s what our buddies at Waterloo have to say about it:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Grammy Award winning album The Sky is Crying contains all the great Texas Electric Blues tracks Stevie played with Double Trouble from his early days at Antone’s at 29th \u0026amp; Guadalupe until his untimely death after playing his last show at Alpine Valley, WI. An epochal Austin classic album, these are the songs that lifted the statue into the skyline.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e— Paul Benson, Waterloo Records\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Waterloo Records","offers":[{"title":"Vinyl","offer_id":37073936679071,"sku":"V-SRV-675","price":42.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1145\/2636\/products\/stevie-ray-vaughan-the-sky-is-crying-755500.jpg?v=1677865340"},{"product_id":"spoon-transference","title":"Spoon - Transference","description":"\u003cp\u003eSpoon is a true Austin original, a band you used to be able to catch playing around town at small bars, and now you hear in soundtracks. When we hear a Spoon track in a movie or on a show, it feels like seeing your old high school buddy on the screen — the person you knew so well has now been discovered by the rest of the world. Picking a single Spoon album to launch our collaboration with Waterloo was tough sledding. We were spoiled for choice. But they helped us narrow it down to Transference, and we feel good about that. Here’s what they had to say about it:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“As pure and as lo-fi as a street organ and as modern and as brutalist as a sledgehammer striking steel, ‘Transference’, is the 7th studio album from Austin’s own Spoon. Front man Britt Daniel’s elliptically forthright lines and fuzzed out, melodic howl and growl melds with a pounding, barebones, Jim Eno sonic landscape to create a masterclass in minimalism with all of the groove and soul of a vintage Stax record, and all of the Back to the Futurist hum of a ray gun blasted through a transistor radio.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e— Russell G. 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Similar to what we’re trying to do with boots, Crockett set out to make an album that would challenge the ideas of what country music is and can be. And did just that. While we think everything he has released since moving to Austin in 2017 has been great, Welcome to Hard Times is possibly his best work yet. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis intent was to make a more eclectic record, like the country albums of the 50s and 60s that paired rhumba beats with honky tonk, blues with cha-cha. The result is something that can’t easily be pigeon-holed, but that producer Mark Neill calls “dark gothic country.” The sound draws on honky tonk piano, blues and soul blended together with country into something all its own — something that must be heard.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Waterloo Records","offers":[{"title":"Vinyl","offer_id":37074134466719,"sku":"V-CC-085","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1145\/2636\/products\/charley-crockett-welcome-to-hard-times-992808.jpg?v=1677865329"},{"product_id":"jordan-moser-long-night","title":"Jordan Moser - Long Night","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne of the things we love about Austin is that it’s a haven for eclectic artists. People who don’t just specialize in music, or painting, or no-holds-barred competitive crocheting — talents that run both broad and deep. Jordan Moser is a classic example: he’s a professional dancer with Austin Ballet, a choreographer and a filmmaker. And as he proves in his first label release, he’s a talented singer-songwriter whose witty, literary lyrics and folk-country sound are reminiscent of greats like John Prine and Guy Clark. Here’s what the folks at Waterloo Records have to say about it:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“This album is for those long nights in the Hill Country sitting by the fire, or the first cup of coffee in the morning. The label debut album from Texas native Jordan Moser brings with it all the possibility of beauty that a Texas breeze breathes in.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e— Cameron Choate, Waterloo Records\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Waterloo Records","offers":[{"title":"Vinyl","offer_id":37074146459807,"sku":"V-JM-268","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1145\/2636\/products\/jordan-moser-long-night-521680.jpg?v=1677865332"},{"product_id":"spoon-lucifer-on-the-sofa","title":"Spoon - Lucifer on the Sofa","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is our second Spoon album in our collaboration with Waterloo. It's an Austin-recorded album that makes you proud to be in the Music Capitol of the World. But you don't have to take our word for it; here is what Serenity Autumn, one of the listening experts from Waterloo Records, has to say about it:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRecorded mainly in Austin, TX, as frontman Britt Daniel stated he wanted to “experience the vibe of the city,” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLucifer On The Sofa\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e marks the 2022 return to the form of local indie rock heroes Spoon - and they’re serving chunky guitars and good ol’ rock ‘n’ roll. Austin's hole-in-the-wall blues-rock club and Americana-tinged influences are certainly at home on the record, immediate and punchy on psych-washed opener “Held” and “The Devil \u0026amp; Mister Jones”. Space-y, drippy arrangements on side B’s still-rockin’ “Astral Jacket” and “Satellite” compliment that nighttime drive on your come-down from a toe-tapping, boot-stomping Saturday night. 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The Austin-based nine-piece (sometimes 10-piece) supergroup is led by Kevin Russell, the charismatic frontman with colorful suits and extravagant shoes who continuously swaps out an electric guitar for a ukulele and never falls short of creating a cinematic experience with on-stage antics that often include him donning a light-up cloak or leading a conga line through the crowd.\n  \u003cp\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLate Night TV Gold is filled with Caribbean organs, verbed-out distant delay vocals, chunky fatback guitars, dance hall horns, trip-trap, soul-tap, boldface bass, mellotron traced, late-night rhythms, -isms and -gasms, prisms, schisms, and chasms, this'ems and that'ems of molecular musical atoms splitting hairs and lost heirlooms. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"This record reminds me of the tortoise from the old story with the hare. It has this sort of stout, relentless march to it. It's hopeful and resolute but pushing through resistance. 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