Music News & Notes: IMAs, Austin Songs, Callahan & More

The 2009 Texas Music calendar is available now at the Texas Music Office's web site. The calendar includes over 500 events, covering everything from the Cowhill Chili Fest and BBQ Cook-Off in Commerce to the National Polka Festival in Ennis.
Meanwhile, the Austin Music Office has announced the first annual Austin Song Contest, in an effort to find the “Ultimate Austin Song." The deadline for submissions is April 10, and the winner will receive $1,000 and promotional gifts, as well as opportunities to showcase their Austin song during contracted performances throughout the year.
Mark your calendar: on Feb. 7 at 7 p.m., UT's Butler School of Music will celebrate black composers and arrangers with a free concert. The series aims to introduce listeners to all-too-often underperformed composers, arrangers, jazz artists and spiritual writers. More info.
Austin's Meagan Tubb has been declared the winner of Best Blues Song (for her “Let Me Believe” from her latest release, Beautiful Noise) at the Independent Music Awards.
Austin transplant Bill Callahan and his long-time label Drag City have announced the April release of Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle. If you're not sure you can make it that long without a bit of fresh baritone utterances from the man who once was Smog, head over to Pitchfork, where they're streaming Callahan's version of Kath Bloom's "The Breeze/My Baby Cries".
KUT's Texas Music Matters has a collection of 10 Texas Albums You Need to Know.

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