As part of her weeklong series of reports from SXSW, No Depression blogger Holly Gleason spotlighted Terri Hendrix’s performance at the 3rd Coast Music Showcase at the G&S Lounge in South Austin. Here’s an excerpt:
“More Greetings from South By Southwest: Beyond the G&S Lounge”
By Holly Gleason
” … Onstage Terri Hendrix has her most constant companion: an acoustic guitar and a fistful of her sometimes wry, always insightful songs. She’s joking about needing to get her guitar in tune – because it’s a song about spirituality, and “if you’re going to sing a song about spirituality, you need to be in tune.”
“Spiritual Kind” tackles all faiths. Kinda like her. Even has an album by the same name.
Terri Hendrix is a classic Texas texture: tough enough to never fold, strong enough to cut her own path, woman enough to smile in the face of fate and keep going. She’s been doing it her way for over a decade, and she don’t look back. She just writes her songs, makes her records and stays with her program.
You don’t tell a girl like Terri Hendrix what to do. And that’s what makes her so engaging. People stand there, listening, nodding, knowing that she knows how they lives, too. It doesn’t need to be said, it’s a given.
Heck, her new record is called Cry Till You Laugh.
If that ain’t life as we know it, what is? …”
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More Greetings from South By Southwest: Beyond the G&S Lounge
