Jackie Venson dedicated thousands of hours of her childhood to playing the piano, so giving up the instrument didn't come easy. To hear her now, though, playing a seemingly effortless mix of soul, ...

Curated artwork, Seventies-style wood-panneled walls, a neat display of chip bags and sparkling waters for sale – if walking into Found Sound rehearsal studio feels like walking into a co-working ...

"It's the spirit of fighting, it's the spirit of perseverance," she said of her hit song "Fight" during :BLACKPRINT's Juneteenth, Celebrating Freedom virtual festival Jackie Venson is an Austin, Texas ...

Jackie Venson has had a good year. Her new album, Live at Strange Brew, dropped this fall, and she’s promoted it with a tour schedule that’s taken her around both Texas and the country. She did a ...

Will Jackie Venson be Austin’s next breakout music star? That has looked increasingly possible over the past couple of years, as the native Austinite has been on a steady career rise with acclaimed ...

Jackie Venson intersperses casual munching, humorous sarcasm, and smacking her hand on a countertop into a discussion primarily on the challenges of operating as an independent musician in the age of ...

While speaking with the Tennessean at the Analog at downtown Nashville's Hutton Hotel, Austin-based guitarist Jackie Venson laughs loudly, her mouth wide open and her eyes flashing in giddy hilarity.

As the birthplace of Texas weirdness, Austin has long been a nail that refuses to be hammered down. Despite its recent growth, unflappable Austinites like Jackie Venson know their city to be steadfast ...

The bedroom in Venson’s 275-square-foot studio. Photo: Floto+Warner “The apartment looked like a prison,” artist George Venson recalls, “but I took it on the spot.” And though the 275-square-foot ...

A very unique and special conflux of gridiron warriors — a Hall of Fame bunch — came together in 1955 to elevate the Bartlesville Douglass Dragons to the Black high school football championship.