David Ball brings up sound time and again when talking about Uncle Walt’s Band, the beloved South Carolina trio he played in for much of the ’70s. The group was a roots music anomaly at the time, ...

In his beautifully-written liner notes to a newly-released compilation of vintage recordings by Uncle Walt’s Band, writer and musician Peter Cooper described the seminal trio’s 1974 debut album as “a ...

In the 1950s and ’60s, just about every Orlando child knew Uncle Walt. His real name was Walt Sickles, and he was the host of the popular Orlando children’s show, “Adventures with Uncle Walt.” The ...

In 2018, Omnivore released Anthology: Those Boys From Carolina, They Sure Enough Could Sing… (titled after a quote from Lovett himself) on CD and Digital. The ecstatic response renewed interest in the ...

“If you were a child growing up in Central Florida in the 1950s and 1960s, you were either on the ‘Uncle Walt’ television show or knew someone who had been,” writes Rick Sickles of Orlando about his ...

Austin360 On The Record is a weekly roundup of new, recent and upcoming releases by local and Austin-associated recording artists. Uncle Walt’s Band, “An American In Texas” (Omnivore). The ...

In the early 1970s, Texas music was coming apart at the seams. The ossified stylistic barriers that had arisen between rock, country, folk and blues were breaking down. Songwriters and bands were ...

Waterloo Sunset: (l-r) Walter Hyatt, David Ball, Champ Hood For a moment in the Seventies/Eighties, the virtuosic roots triad of Walter Hyatt, David Ball, and Champ Hood alchemized the hottest act in ...