Straight up old school feel with this one. When listening, you’ll swear you’re hearing something created waaaay back in the day.

This Austin rapper is apparently ridiculously prolific, according to the ACL website, which says:

“Bavu Blakes was voted Best Hip-Hop Act at the 2006 Austin Music Awards. In addition to moonlighting (or daylighting) as a freelance journalist and being an on-air personality and the urban music director for Time Warner’s Music and Entertainment Television, Blakes is frightfully prolific in the studio. By the time 2008 is done, he will have released three albums — Extraplair, Too Selfish and the spiritually themed World Trade (a collaboration with Austin’s Element7D) — and uploaded 52 tracks (one a week) to his Web site.”

AA Bondy is a singer-songwriter in the vein of Bob Dylan, according to the ACL website, but no one’s ever going to have a close enough voice to be in the Dylan vein, in my opinion. Bondy is pretty talented though, and I’ll always enjoy an artist who’s ballsy enough to start a song with the lyrics, “Sweet sweet cocaine, won’t you be all mine?” as the opening to “Vice Rag” plays.

Did not really see this coming voice wise. Chris Denny has a really old school feel to his vocal stylings, but at the same time, there’s something modern about it. I don’t really enjoy it, but it’s an interesting listen.

This dude is kind of a blues man with a little southern-rock influence. Not bad stuff at all, and the song I’ve posted below is pretty enjoyable. There’s just something about minor-key tunes about the Devil to get you going.

These guys call themselves “the sacred steel group.” Not quite sure what that means, but they sound like a soul/jazz/funk group. A decent one.

Another bad quality video, but you can get the general gist of it. South Austin Jug Band is from Austin (bet you couldn’t figure that out), and I don’t mind them. I’m not a big fan of the whole country/bluegrass side of the music landscape, but these guys do it well. Probably won’t put them on my iPod anytime soon, but I know some folks who enjoy these guys, and they have every right to, as it’s definitely a talented band.

Not sure why, but I really like that band name. It’s a bit ridiculous, but it seems to imply a true rock and roll lifestyle, sex, drugs and women. Okay, so that’s not necessarily what rock is about, but that’s what I think of.

Anyway, these guys aren’t as bad as a lot of the stuff we’ve come across in our journey thus far, and they kinda have a slightly punk outlook on what could be called southern cock-rock. I don’t hate them, I’ll say that much.

Not sure to what make of Bobby Bare Jr. He sounds like he’s supposed to be Southern Rock, but at the same time the music is too mellow to really classify as that, and it’s also not very good.

For the record, I hate to keep classifying these bands as not good, but I have very picky tastes, and a lot of this stuff isn’t tickling my fancy. If you enjoy it, please let me know and tell my why. You never know, you just may change my mind.

Okay, so that’s a bit out of context, but he did indeed say it. We’ve got some real life Anchorman hijinks taking place during the NBA Playoffs ladies and gents.