Plenty of folks, including Burnside on occasion, rail against the machinery of Christian music. There’s good reason to do so, since the Christian music industry at large has hardly been a catalyst for innovation and creativity. But most of Burnside’s writers have also been deeply impacted...

photo by Chim Chim Suffice to say that my initial predictions, based upon the experiences of friends whom have extolled the virtues of and enjoyed ACL Fest in the past, were borne out as true. As Austin is the purported “Live Music Capital of the World,” it did have a reputation to uphold,...