Bob Schneider

Bob Schneider isn’t just the guy who cleaned up at last year’s Austin Music Awards, capturing both Songwriter and Musician of the Year titles, and he definitely isn’t a typical Texas songwriter. He’s fronted party bands with names such as Joe Rockhead, the Ugly Americans and the Scabs, and he’s not afraid to mingle funk with his sensitivity or to indulge in big guitar bursts with his tongue firmly tucked into one cheek. Schneider’s songs can be gallingly clever, like the solipsistically autobiographical “2002,” or captivatingly simple, like “Moon Song” (both from last year’s Lonelyland). Blending Dylanesque talking blues and G. Love-style urbanity, he’s a songwriter with one foot in Americana and the other wherever he wants it to land.