The Gourds' members present their music in familiar roots-rock wrappings, yet nothing about these songs is typical.

NPR: The Gourds: A Reliable Austin Export

It's a weird juxtaposition that could prove disastrous in the wrong hands, yet with The Gourds, it seems as natural as breathing.

NPR: The Gourds: A Reliable Austin Export

Since The Gourds' members made one of their first recordings in KUT's Studio 1A back in 1995, there's always a sense of homecoming when they return.

NPR: The Gourds: A Reliable Austin Export

Roman soldiers were paid in salt, and in early 19th-century Haiti, long-necked gourds were used in place of small-denomination coins because of a shortage of gold and silver.

FORBES: Substitute Money

You take, like, little gourds, or little vegetables, and you just carve out a little, sort of space for the eye and you get - it's amazing how creepy that you can make them.

NPR: Author Shares Tricks And Treats For All

Setting out on an ocean voyage, with water in gourds and pounded tubers tied up in leaves, he would point his canoe into the right slant of wind, and then along a path between a rising star and an opposite, setting one.

ECONOMIST: Mau Piailug