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You may end up ASKING to be placed on hold after hearing the City of Austin's home-grown telephone system hold music!

Staff are compiling songs by a vast array of local talent from every imaginable genre to showcase the talent and diversity of the Live Music Capital of the World.

The current playlist is provided below so you can find the name of the artist that performed the great song you heard while on hold. The playlist will be periodically rotated and more songs will be added to the mix as the collection develops.

Song Artist Genre

Sweet, Sweet, Sweet

The Small Stars

Pop / Rock

You Make It Hard

Marcia Ball

R&B

I'll Believe It When I See It

Haydn Vitera

Latino Tex

May Day/May Day

Wendy Colonna

Pop

If I Needed You

Ray Benson

Americana

I Know You By Heart

Monte Montgomery

Rock

Beautiful Mistake

Guy Forsyth

Americana

Valentine Lady

Blue Mist

Soul

Jacksboro Hwy

Rob Roy Parnell

Blues

You Ain't Nothin' But Fine

Elizabeth McQueen

Texas Swing

Cumbia de los Locos

Cerronato

Cumbia

Happy Feet

8½ Souvenirs

Jump Swing

Lost

David Garza

Latin / Americana

Outsider

Trish Murphy

Americana

Good Luck 'N' Good Truckin'

Dale Watson

Twang Country

Let It Rain

W.C. Clark

Soul / R&B

Peligrosa

Grupo Fantasma

Latin

Lucinda's Eyes

Forlini & Cross

Americana

Cuz I'm Here

Ruthie Foster

Americana / Soul

Superstar

The Gene Pool

Rock

Floyd's Eyes of Texas Boogie

Floyd Domino

Texas Swing / Instrumental

Been Lonely

LZ Love

Country Blues

She's The Reason

T.S. Bruton

Rock

That's The Way of Love

Pam Hart

Jazz

Big Sweet Life

The Resentments

Songwriter / Rock

Steady

Seth Walker

R&B

Blue Nightfall

Jimmy LaFave

Americana

Stop These Teardrops

Lavelle White

R&B

Never Gonna Be Your Bride

Carrie Rodriguez

Americana

Diamond in the Rough

Shawn Colvin

Pop

Don't Make Me Cry

Storyville

Rock

Texas Style Zydeco

Shelley King

Zydeco/Americana

Nobody's Girl

Reckless Kelly

Alternative Country

Girls Just Gotta Swing

The Beat Divas

Jazz

Mi Carino

Del Castillo

Latin Rock

Phenomenal

Ruthie Foster

R&B

Feels Just Like It Should

Pat Green

Pop Country

Bloom

Lisa Richards

Americana

Rockin' Blues Rhythm

Mike Milligan & the Altar Boyz

Blues

Django's Moustache

Django's Moustache

Instrumental Jazz

La La Land

Phil Brown

Rock

Walk on the Moon Again

David Holt

Blues

Missing Woman

Patricia Vonne

Latin Rock

I Won't Go With Her

Jack Ingram

Alternative Country

Bellarosa

Eliza Gilkyson

Americana

Even When It Rains

The Hudsons

Alternative Country

It Takes Two

Darden Smith

Americana

Neighborhood

Ter'ell Shahid

Hip Hop

Broke Down

Slaid Cleaves

Americana

Made For Two

White Ghost Shivers

Jazz

To submit a song for consideration, please contact Vincent Kitch with the City of Austin Economic Growth & Redevelopment Services Office at (512) 974-7817.

Songs are required to be from released albums (no demos). Songs also must have appropriate lyrical and musical content for a phone system (no loud, raucous music and no suggestive or graphic lyrics).


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