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Austin-based nonprofit HOME, Housing Opportunities for Musicians and Entertainers, announces their annual benefit, “HOME COOKIN’ FOR THE HOLIDAYS,” taking place on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021. This year’s benefit will be a virtual broadcast taking place the week following Thanksgiving from 7 - 9 p.m.
Paul Oscher, blues musician in Muddy Waters' band, dies at 74 Oscher died on April 18 at a hospital in Austin, Texas. He was 74. The cause was complications of COVID-19, Nancy Coplin, his former manager, said. by Penelope Green (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- Paul Oscher was 20 when he started playing harmonica for Muddy Waters. It was 1967, and he was a rare sight for the times: a white man playing in a Black blues band of such prominence. He more than held his end up for Waters, the legendary star. Oscher later recalled his old boss saying, I dont care what color he is as long as he plays the sou...
Austin 360 Paul Oscher, who moved to Austin eight years ago after a career that included many years in blues legend Muddy Waters' band, died Sunday at age 71. He had been hospitalized with COVID-19 for several weeks, his former manager, Nancy Coplin, confirmed Monday. Oscher moved to the south Austin community of Manchaca in 2013 and began performing there at the now-shuttered Railroad BBQ. Soon Coplin was managing him and he'd gained a weekly residency at C-Boy's Heart & Soul on South Congress Avenue that lasted for several years. Born April 5, 1950, in Brooklyn, New York, Oscher was still...