Rusty Wier
News and Media Articles
4/30/03

Rusty Wier Inducted into the Austin Music Awards Hall of Fame
The Austin Music Awards kicked off SXSW on March 14, 2002
His exuberant singing and guitar-picking style, along with his famous wide-mouthed grin, make him extremely popular with local audiences who are proud to claim him as one of their own.

The Austin Chronicle - I Before E - by Margaret Moser - May 31, 2002
"Cosmic Soulman Rusty Wier, Still Dancing After All These Years"
PBS Premiere Date: 1986: Austin City Limits Reunion Special: Steve Fromholz, Asleep at the Wheel, Greezy Wheels, Marcia Ball, Rusty Wier, Jerry Jeff Walker, Gary P. Nunn and The Lost Gonzo Band
PBS Premiere Date: 1977: Austin City Limits  - Jimmy Buffett followed by Rusty Wier
PBS Premiere Date: 1976: Austin City Limits  - Rusty Wier

Rusty Wier was there in the beginning-and long before Austin developed a national reputation as a center for a special kind of poetry and boogie that became known as "progressive country" or, more accurately, "Texas music". When it's all over, Wier will still be dazzling audiences with his low-crowned, black hat and cowboy boots. He's so successful at getting listeners involved in his music that a club owner once stopped selling beer for a half-hour because he thought the customers were getting out of control. 
--Rambler

Wier's musical variety is infinite, laced with humor and served to his audience with clarity, verve and unfailing professional finish. His soft Southern drawl, full-faced grin and relaxed attitude never change, onstage or off.
--Illinois Entertainer

In Rusty Wier's musical world, blues, country and rock come together onstage for crowds ready to whoop and holler. The veteran Texas singer-songwriter has been pleasing audiences for decades with his decidedly Lone Star mélange.
--Dallas Morning News

Rusty Wier has been called "everything that is home-grown Texas music". His expressive and thoroughly organic whiskey-throated vocals, sometime low and growly, sometimes soaring to blues-tinged heights of barely controlled exuberance, are unmistakable.
--Times Record News

Rusty sticks to the belief that all music is good if done well. Nothing gets him riled up faster than somebody putting a label on his music. Most people just naturally assume he sings country-western music because he wears a western-type hat and boots. He does sing some country; some progressive country, rock and you name it. He does songs because he likes them, not because they fit into some kind of musical pattern.
--Houston Party Line

It's good to see Rusty Wier again. Watching him perform is like checking up on an old friend you haven't seen for a while. There's this warm, familiar feeling that spreads across your heart as his eyes sparkle, that big grin unfolds and he coils his lanky frame upon a stool. He embodies the spirit of the Texas musician-persistent, yet jovial, hard working, yet playful. And that's why he's more a friend than an attraction.
--Beaumont Enterprise

A local treasure, Rusty Wier has the power, range, and control of a great soul singer, but the heart and sensibility of a broken-down outlaw. Rusty romps through his honky-tonk game such as "I Hear You Been Layin' My Old Lady", and life suddenly makes sense.
--Austin Chronicle