Concert by American country and folk singer-songwriter Jamie Lin Wilson at Hollow House Concerts.
Jamie Lin Wilson plays Hollow House Concerts on Sunday, October 11, at 6 PM. She's an Americana artist from D'Hanis, Texas, and this is a solo bill, so it's just her taking the stage.
Her music sits right where country and folk overlap. She describes it as honest-to-goodness country blended with storyteller's folk, and that's a fair way to put it. The country side comes through in the earthy vocals, and the folk is in the songwriting—the kind of songs that start with a story and let it run. Critics have drawn comparisons to John Prine, Guy Clark, and Emmylou Harris, three names that point to a specific kind of songwriting: plain-spoken, rooted in place, and more interested in the truth of a story than in any particular polish. Those comparisons usually center on her delicate storytelling and her gift for writing about romance and loss.
If you want to get a sense of what she does before the show, look to her album Jumping Over Rocks. It includes "South Texas Girl" and "The Being Gone," two songs that give you a good idea of where she's coming from. One leans into the Texas roots she carries from D'Hanis, and the other gets into the kind of loss she's known for writing about. Between the two, you can hear the country and the folk pulling in different directions, and the space where they meet is where her songs live.
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It's a Sunday evening show, so it's a low-key way to spend a weekend night. The set starts at 6 PM at Hollow House Concerts in Austin.
