Slaid Cleaves has always had an interesting musical niche. Folkies and the Texas music crowd alike swoon over the laconic Yankee-turned-Texan whose music always seems like it was made for rainy days ...

If anyone there anyone especially well suited to our ongoing busking video series, it’s Slaid Cleaves. A native of Austin, Cleaves is the archetypal troubadour: A roving singer-songwriter with an ...

On May 5, the Me & Thee will host Slaid Cleaves who spins stories with a novelist’s eye and a poet’s heart. Dress William Faulkner with faded jeans and a worn six-string for a good idea. His music is ...

Close up the honky-tonks. Shut down the open mics. Austin's Slaid Cleaves returns to show all who attempt the singer-songwriter thing how it's done. Not only is Still Fighting the War his most ...

Our stormy pattern continues with Saturday and Tuesday through Wednesday standing out with the highest odds of more rain and storms. Slaid came from Maine and moved to Austin, but now lives in ...

Like a lot of Yankees-turned-Texans (not, of course, that it’s possible for a Yankee to ever really become a Texan), singer-songwriter Slaid Cleaves noticed when he first moved here that people take ...

The Wolfeboro Folk Concert Series continues its second season with a double-bill concert featuring Slaid Cleaves and Tracy Grammer. The concert will take place at 7 p.m., Tuesday, April 13, at the ...

Austin (by way of Maine) singer-songwriter Slaid Cleaves has been writing meaningful music for many years now. But his new album, Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away, is a game-changer. Cleaves ...

Raised in South Berwick, Maine, and residing in Austin, Texas, Slaid Cleaves is no one's idea of a music-industry insider. He writes and sings songs primarily about working-class people and romantics ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. A Slaid Cleaves concert is set for 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 21, at Stone Mountain ...

I've blogged about Slaid Cleaves before but he's worth blogging about again because of all the changes to his life and music. And because this was his triumphant return to San Antonio. Slaid used to ...

Born in a small town in rural Maine, singer-songwriter Slaid Cleaves now calls Austin, Texas home. Not that he’s there much - the former philosophy student is a 20th century troubador, spending most ...