Gurf Morlix & Robyn Ludwick

This is a special show featuring two of Americana's best writers - Gurf Morlix and Robyn Ludwick. But this is not their first rodeo together.

There was a time, and not that long ago in the grand scheme of things, when Gurf Morlix didn't really think of himself as a songwriter. A guitar player, sure -- armed from the get-go with the dead-aim chops and cool-handed confidence of a natural-born gunslinger. Later on, he took on the mantle of producer, too, parlaying his myriad strengths as an ace sideman into an equally lauded career helping a veritable who's who of the most formidable poets in Americana find their "growl" and cut their deepest grooves on record. But songwriter? That handle took him a bit longer to fully embrace. Nevermind the fact that his perspective on the matter was inevitably skewed by his years of working with such grading-curve-blowing talents as Blaze Foley, Lucinda Williams, Butch Hancock, Robert Earl Keen, Mary Gauthier, and Ray Wylie Hubbard: a high bar is a high bar, and Morlix, for all of his famed minimalist aesthetic both onstage and in the studio, has never been one to cut corners when it comes to quality. Austin-based songwriter, producer, and award-winning Americana musician takes an unflinching look at mortality -- including his own -- and finds a sliver of light through the blues with his 10th solo album, just released Feb 8, called "Impossible Blue".

Ludwick's Critically acclaimed Out of these Blues, produced by Gurf Morlix (Lucinda Williams), received numerous accolades including Top 10 Album honors from Austin City Limits, No Depression, Texas Music Magazine and 93.3 KGSR as well as Best Album of the year by the Texas Music Scene, No Depression's Best Female Musicians and nominations for Best Female Vocalist and Best Singer-Songwriter-Folk at the Lone Star Music Awards. Morlix also produced Ludwick's follow-up, Little Rain, which crowned Robyn the"Queen of Modern Texas Country Soul" by No Depression".