Filmmaker and singer-songwriter Scott Ballew’s new album, Rio Bravo, is out now through La Honda Records. A Texas football star turned film director turned junkie turned musician, Austin-born Ballew has a life story so compelling that a mini-doc was created in 2023 to chronicle his enticing metamorphosis. Ballew has worked as Yeti’s Head of Content, directed shorts featuring Ryan Bingham, J.B. Mauney and Margo Price, and recently made a documentary on Terry Allen and a film, All That is Sacred, chronicling the hazy creative stratosphere of Key West in the 70s. The latter is a glimpse of the lives of American literary giants Thomas McGuane and Jim Harrison and superstar Jimmy Buffett. (Photo by Johnny Musselman.)
