With four or five years between albums of original songs, Slaid Cleaves isn't one of the more prolific singer-songwriters on the circuit today. But, the songs on Slaid's new CD, Everything You Love ...

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 singer-songwriter has said, as he was writing his new album Still Fighting the War, that "a theme of perseverance through hard times revealed... Slaid Cleaves: 'Still Fighting' With Smart Lyrics ...

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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 ...

Slaid Cleaves was born and raised in Maine but has lived in Austin for most of his life as a musician. In 2000, he released his breakthrough album, Broke Down. Since then, he’s put out three more ...

When he moved to Austin in the early-'90s, Slaid Cleaves was skittish about setting foot inside the neighborhood bar in his new stomping grounds. Think Daniel Street Tavern on a Saturday night, with ...

Slaid Cleaves may be the Americana genre’s most underappreciated songwriter. With a knack for giving breath to perpetually down-on-their-luck characters on albums like 2000’s excellent Broke Down, the ...

When Slaid Cleaves wrote Brokedown — the 2001 Song of the Year at the Austin Music Awards — he wasn't talking about his van. But he could've been. The Austin-based singer-songwriter is in the midst of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Slaid Cleaves’ 2000 album Broke Down was a revelation, a gritty, melancholy batch of rootsy story-songs about the erosion of relationships and the cost of dreams deferred. Wishbones, his first album ...