Video & Photos: Nakia And The Blues Grifters Live At KGSR’s Blues On The Green

For 20 years, KGSR has been bringing Austin the free summer concert series called Blues On The Green. It’s been played by some of the best. Last night, Nakia And The Blues Grifters got to perform at the closing night of the 20th season opening for none other than Grammy award-winner, Raul Malo. The park [...]

Nakia On KGSR’s Lone Star State Of Mind, Live From Saxon Pub This Friday!

Catch Nakia live this Friday night, July 16th at the Saxon Pub at 11:30PM. Nakia will be performing live on 93.3FM/KGSR’s Lone Star State Of Mind.

Nakia Live From KGSR SXSW Music Lounge Tracks

Back in March, when Nakia was asked to kick off the annual SXSW KGSR Music Lounge Broadcast from the Four Seasons in Austin, TX, KGSR captured the performance and now it’s available to you for free! Take a listen, download, and please Tweet It, Facebook It, Share It!!

New Booking EPK Video

These clips are from the show I played Friday night at Lucky Lounge here in Austin. I decided to edit a bunch together in an effort to book some more gigs around town and other cities like Dallas, San Antonio, Houston, NOLA, OKC, and ______________

Twangville: Nakia A Tremendous Talent

Another great review of the album just in today from Twangville! Here’s an excerpt: Southern soul is a special thing. Alternatively inspirational and sinful, it is always engaging. Exhibit A is Austin soulman Nakia’s debut release. The Austin soulman book-ends his debut full release with “Choose Your Poison,” a down and dirty ode to guilty [...]

New Review From Austin.com

And the press keeps rolling in! This time from the website, Austin.com. Here’s a sampling of what they had to say… In turning water to wine, Jesus took what is already a valuable, nourishing resource and transformed it to something—while maybe not as necessary—something better. Let’s just run with that allegory and say that’s pretty [...]

Austin-American Statesman Reviews Water To Wine

With the official street date of Nakia’s debut full-length, Water To Wine just last week, the Austin-American Statesman has reviewed the album for today’s Sunday edition. Alongside fellow Austin soul rockers, Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears, the Statesman concludes that the Austin soul scene is “in good shape.” Here’s a quick blurb from the [...]

Honest Tune Reviews Water To Wine

As suspected, more press is coming in this week in conjunction with the official street date of Water To Wine. See today’s earlier post with the Texas Music Magazine review. Hot off the presses is this bright review from Honest Tune, which we have posted below. More to come soon! Written by Bill Whiting 04/06/2009 [...]

Nakia At Antone’s Tomorrow Night With Carolyn Wonderland & Gary Clark, Jr.

Holy Smokes Folks! We just got word that Nakia has been asked to perform at set tomorrow night at the legendary Antone’s – Home of the Blues! Nakia takes the stage at 10PM following his good friend Carolyn Wonderland who kicks things off at 8PM. Gary Clark, Jr comes on after Nakia at 11:30. This [...]

Nakia Set To Perform This Friday At Ace’s Lounge – Win Tickets!!

Nakia & His Southern Cousins head downtown to Austin’s infamous 6th to perform at Ace’s Lounge this Friday night, March 6th at 9PM. You may remember this venue as the Hard Rock Cafe. Well, the folks from Ace’s have taken over and turned this joint into one of Austin’s hottest spots to hang! Nakia will [...]

Lots of new videos! Nakia performs Water To Wine live at KGSR.

Over the last week we have uploaded about 8 new videos to the Video section of the website including this one from this morning’s performance of Water To Wine on KGSR’s Sound Of Our Town with Bryan Beck. Our good friend Mark Murray from KVUE filmed it for us!

Nakia’s Notes: Tomorrow Night At Jovita’s

The newest and last email blast is up on the site and was sent out today to promote the show tomorrow at Jovita’s! We go on at 10PM! Click here now to read the whole thang!!