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Singer/songwriter/drummer <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.johnnybush.com/" rel="homepage nofollow" title="Johnny Bush">Johnny Bush</a>, born John Bush Shin III in Houston, began his country career as a vocalist and guitar player in 1952 at the Texas Star Inn in San Antonio. Eventually he switched to drums and in the early '60s began working in <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.willienelson.com/" rel="homepage nofollow" title="Willie Nelson">Willie Nelson</a>'s band, the Record Men. A year later, he joined Ray Price's Cherokee Cowboys. During his three years with the band, Bush tried to cut a record deal, but the labels felt he sounded too much like Price to be marketable. Nelson stepped in and paid for Bush to cut his first album, Sound of a Heartache. After strong local response, he first hit the charts in 1967 with the minor hit "You Oughta Hear Me Cry." The next year he had three hits, including the Top Ten "Undo the Right."<br />
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In 1972, Bush had a Top 20 hit with "I'll Be There," which led to a deal with RCA and a Top Ten hit with his song "Whiskey River," which later became WillieNelson's signature song. Just as Bush reached the brink of stardom, he started to lose his vocal range. Doctors were not able to diagnose the reason until 1978, when they found he had a rare neurological disorder, spastic dysphonia. This did not prevent his recording, but his career soon took a downturn. Working with "voice builder" Gary Catona in 1985, Bush was able to bring back about 70% of his original voice. The following year he and Darrell McCall teamed up to record the successful honky-tonk album Hot Texas Country. He then assembled a large country band and began performing around San Antonio. In 1994, he and the band released Time Changes Everything and launched a major tour; RCA also released a greatest hits album.<br />
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Deryl Dodd was raised in Dallas, Texas, where he played football from an early age. After a career-ending injury, Dodd was persuaded to perform music in clubs throughout the state of Texas. In 1991, he moved to Nashville, Tennessee, forming a band along with Brett Beavers, now an established Nashville songwriter. Dodd later found work singing harmony vocals for Martina McBride, Radney Foster, and George Ducas, in addition to playing in Tracy Lawrence's road band, and co-writing a song on Tim McGraw's <i>All I Want</i> album. <br />
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Dodd signed to Columbia Records in 1996 as a solo act. His first album, One Ride in Vegas, was released that year, producing a Top 40 hit on the U.S. Billboard country music charts in the Tom T. Hall-penned "That's How I Got to Memphis". One Ride in Vegas was followed by an eponymous album in 1998; that same year, Dodd was nominated as Top New Male Vocalist by the Academy of Country Music. His second album also produced his biggest chart hit to date in "A Bitter End", which peaked at #26 on the country charts. <br />
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Dodd's third and final album for Columbia, Pearl Snaps, was released in 2002. Later, he recorded Live at Billy Bob's Texas, before switching to Dualtone Records in 2004 to release Stronger Proof (2004) and Full Circle (2006). In 2009, Dodd released a cover of "Together Again", originally a hit for Buck Owens.richardbmcgee@gmail.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06702765610178916968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6352078417320761494.post-70894219173059523812011-01-02T14:35:00.002-06:002011-01-02T15:19:36.129-06:00Nicolette Good - RamonaNicolette Good is the most recent winner of the San Antonio <i>Current</i>'s reader award for best singer-songwriter. (See <a href="http://sacurrent.com/music/story.asp?id=71829">story</a>).<br />
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The 13th Floor Elevators were an American rock band from Austin, Texas formed by guitarist and vocalist <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.rokyerickson.net/" rel="homepage" title="Roky Erickson">Roky Erickson</a>, electric jug player Tommy Hall, and guitarist Stacy Sutherland, which existed from 1965 to 1969. During their career, the band released four LPs and seven 45s for the International Artists record label.<br />
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The 13th Floor Elevators found some commercial and artistic success in 1966-67, before dissolving amid legal troubles and drug use in late 1968. As one of the first psychedelic bands, their contemporary influence has been acknowledged by 1960s musicians such as Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top, Peter Albin of Big Brother and the Holding Company, and Chris Gerniottis of Zakary Thaks. Their debut 45 "You're Gonna Miss Me", a national Billboard #55 hit in 1966, was featured on the 1972 compilation Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965-1968, which is considered vital in the history of garage rock and the development of punk rock. <br />
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At 3 years old, <a href="http://www.lonestarmusic.com/index.php?file=a-artist&iArtistId=781">Stoney LaRue</a> could be found belting out “Swinging” by John Anderson on his Mr. Microphone radio. The son of a struggling bass player and a nurse, LaRue understood the allure of music at an early age, and recorded his first works at age twelve. He earned accolades through school for his unmatched vocal abilities and promising instrumental talents.<br />
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Many subscribe Stoney LaRue to the category of artists that are simply natural born performers, just don’t try to limit him by category. Born in Taft,Texas, LaRue actually spent the majority of his adolescence north of the Red River, where he was raised in Southeastern Oklahoma . He never really pictured himself doing anything else but making good music, so LaRue eventually made his way to the state’s Red Dirt hotbed of Stillwater, where he began to develop his individualized style from a widespread range of influences. From <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.willienelson.com/" rel="homepage nofollow" title="Willie Nelson">Willie Nelson</a> to <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.raycharles.com/" rel="homepage nofollow" title="Ray Charles">Ray Charles</a>, to The Grateful Dead and <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.kriskristofferson.com/" rel="homepage nofollow" title="Kris Kristofferson">Kris Kristofferson</a>, LaRue’s emerging style impressively blends varied elements of country, blues, and soulful rock into cohesive, vocal driven performances. His abilities earned the immediate respect of then “up and coming” peers including Cody Canada, Mike McClure, Jason Boland, and other cohorts of the revitalizing Texas and Red Dirt circuits (now electrifying audiences nationwide.)<br />
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In 2002, both fans and industry took good notice of LaRue after he spearheaded The Organic Boogie Band and released ”Downtown,” which was recorded in private sessions at Cain’s Ballroom in Tulsa and mixed in a trailer on the side of a cliff in Bartlesville,OK. It was just the beginning, as the debut cemented LaRue’s following and inspired a move to New Braunfels, Texas, where a vibrant music community and a persistent touring schedule spawned a vast response. Fans anxiously awaited the August 2005 release of Stoney LaRue-the Red Dirt Album, which hit the Billboard sales charts in its debut week. A far cry from the mixing trailer on the cliff, The Red Dirt Album was recorded with a tight circle of players and professionals in a studio setting. The record was a pinnacle effort for LaRue and has inarguably established his triple threat status as a truly gifted vocalist, player, and performer. Armed with golden ear musicianship, an amusing wit, and soulful magnetism, LaRue’s shows are infused with an uplifting quality, a cathartic barroom brand of spirituality, where venues are complimented for good bar “feng shui,” and where time and dimension can be traversed via emotive lyrics and melodic riffs. A charismatic performer, LaRue’s flawless vocals can draw a crowd to a open mouth level of sonic mesmerization, and next have them singing “Forever Young” so loudly that you can’t hear anything else. At 28 years old, Stoney LaRue now performs close to 300 dates a year at top festivals and venues across the nation and even the Caribbean, sharing bills with renowned acts like Lee Ann Womack, Gary Allan,Dierks Bentley, Cross Canadian Ragweed, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Radney Foster, and others. With a newly assembled band that includes Jeremy Bryant (drums), Jesse Fritz (bass), Rodney Pyeatt (guitar), and Steve Littleton (keys), Stoney LaRue is poised for his upcoming addition to the famed Live at Billy Bob’s series and even greater horizons to come. The music is undeniably inside of Stoney LaRue, but he’s the type of artist that doesn’t HAVE to point it out to you, his belief in the music is strong enough that it just powers through transparently. Stoney LaRue is not trying to be anybody but the artist that he is, and his sincerity just seeps out, spills off the stage, and overtakes any room.<br />
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Born in Whitney, Texas. raised in Itasca. started playing fiddle at the age of four. that’s right, four years old. By eight, Lincoln Durham was performing in fiddle contests all over Arkansas and Oklahoma. In fact, at ten he won the Texas State Youth Fiddle Championship. come twelve, the young man hooked up a residency with the house band at the Oceola Opry. Then, through his high school years, Lincoln decided to pick up the strat. he started a three-piece band playing who else but Jimi and Stevie Ray. Took a spell, though, and put the guitar on the backburner for a while to pursue art and design. but, a couple years ago, he grabbed a resonator, a slide and an old Gibson j45. He impressed Ray Wylie Hubbard so much with his greasy, nasty sound that Ray signed on to produce his record.<br />
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Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown (April 18, 1924 — September 10, 2005) was a Louisiana and Texan American musician. He is best known for his work as a blues musician, but embraced other styles of music, having "spent his career fighting purism by synthesizing old blues, country, jazz, Cajun music and R&B styles" (New York Times obituary).<br />
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He was an acclaimed multi-instrumentalist, who played an array of musical instruments such as guitar, fiddle, mandolin, viola as well as harmonica and drums. He won a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album in 1982 for his album, Alright Again!<br />
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</div>Born in Vinton, Louisiana, Brown was raised in Orange, Texas. His professional musical career began in 1945, playing drums in San Antonio, Texas. Tagged with the "Gatemouth" handle by a high school instructor who accused Brown of having a "voice like a gate," Brown has used it to his advantage throughout his illustrious career. His career was boosted while attending a 1947 concert by <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-Bone_Walker" rel="wikipedia nofollow" title="T-Bone Walker">T-Bone Walker</a> in Don Robey's Bronze Peacock Houston nightclub. When Walker became ill, Brown took up his guitar and played "Gatemouth Boogie," to the delight of the audience, and made a name for himself, becoming famous after impressing the audience.<br />
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In 1949 Robey founded Peacock Records in order to showcase Brown's virtuoso guitar work. Brown's "Mary Is Fine"/"My Time Is Expensive" was a hit for Peacock in 1949. A string of Peacock releases in the 1950s were less successful commercially, but were nonetheless pioneering musically. Particularly notable is the blistering 1954 instrumental "<a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.amazon.com/Dokie-Stomp-Clarence-Gatemouth-Brown/dp/B00000JCQT%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dzemanta-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB00000JCQT" rel="amazon nofollow" title="Okie Dokie Stomp">Okie Dokie Stomp</a>", in which Brown solos continuously over a punchy horn section (other instrumentals from this period include "Boogie Uproar" and "Gate Walks to Board"). As for his gutsy violin playing, Robey allowed him to record "Just Before Dawn" as his final Peacock release in 1959.<br />
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</div>In the 1980s, a series of releases on Rounder Records and Alligator Records revitalized his U.S. career, and he toured extensively and internationally, usually playing between 250 and 300 shows a year. He won aGrammy in 1982 for the album Alright Again! and was nominated for five more. He was also awarded eight W. C. Handy Awards and the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences Heroes Award. In 1997 he was honored by the Rhythm and Blues Foundation, and in 1999 was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame.<br />
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In his last few years, he maintained a full touring schedule, including Australia, New Zealand, and countries with political conflicts in Central America, Africa, and the former Soviet Union. "People can't come to me, so I go to them," he explained.<br />
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In September 2004, Brown was diagnosed with lung cancer. Already suffering from emphysema and heart disease, he and his doctors decided to forgo treatment. His home in Slidell, Louisiana was destroyed byHurricane Katrina in 2005, and he was evacuated to his childhood home town of Orange, Texas, where he died on September 10 at the apartment of a niece, at the age of 81. Brown is buried in the Hollywood Cemetery in Orange, Texas. However, flooding caused by hurricane Ike in September, 2008, damaged his grave.<br />
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His final album was Timeless, released in late 2004.<br />
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<a href="http://www.carolynwonderland.com/">Carolyn Wonderland</a><br />
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Carolyn Wonderland is a blues singer, songwriter and musician from Houston, Texas. Born on Nov 9th 1972 she dropped out of Houston's Langham Creek High School to pursue her music. In 1999 she moved to Austin, Texas. In 2001, Wonderland lost her apartment lease when her landlord fell ill, and she decided to live out of her van for a while (two years) because she was on the road so much, spending over 300 days a year on the road performing.<br />
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Carolyn's instrumental abilities include acoustic and electric guitar, electric mandolin, slide guitar, trumpet and piano. Although she is primarily a Blues artist she likes to incorporate elements of Country, Swing, Zydeco, Surf, Gospel, Soul, and on some nights maybe even a little Cumbia into her musical mix.<br />
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In February 2008, she released "<a class="zem_slink" href="http://musicbrainz.org/album/962c338e-adf3-4d6f-884d-9278f51a27c1.html" rel="musicbrainz nofollow" title="Miss Understood">Miss Understood</a>" on the Bismeaux Productions label. The title song from Miss Understood has remained in the Top 50 on the Roots Music Report charts ever since the album's initial release[3]. Her fans include Bob Dylan and Ray Benson, founder of Asleep at the Wheel. Benson produced Miss Understood, and has been a song writing collaborator with her for many years. Wonderland credits several other blues and Texas musicians as influences on her music. One notable is Austin singer/songwriterTerri Hendrix. Wonderland covered two Hendrix songs, ('I Found the Lions' and 'Throw My Love'), on her Miss Understood CD.<br />
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Wonderland has been involved in a large variety CD-album recordings. Several were self produced on independent labels. She was the lead singer fronting the band Imperial Monkeys. Wonderland released "Bloodless Revolution"(2008), for South by Southwest-2008. Today it is only available in an MP-3 download format. Carolyn is the primary singer on the Jerry Lightfoot's Band of Wonder "Texistentialism" CD with Jerry and Vince Welnick (Grateful Dead, Tubes.)[6] Wonderland was a founding member of the Loose Affiliation of Saints and Sinners (with Papa Mali, Eldridge Goins, Guy Forsyth, and others), with several of her songs being featured on their "Sessions from the Hotel San Jose Rm. 50" CD. Carolyn was also the lead guitarist in the all-girl, southern rock band Sis DeVille, and a founding member of the Austin Volunteer Orchestra.<br />
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Wonderland's virtuosity has earned her an appearance on <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.pbs.org/klru/austin" rel="homepage nofollow" title="Austin City Limits">Austin City Limits</a>. Carolyn has also had her music used on NBC’s “Homicide” and Fox’s “Time of Your Life.” She was a headlining artist at the annual Rochester International Jazz Festival summer 2009 at the Eastman Theatre and New York.<br />
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Carolyn Wonderland has won the following awards:<br />
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Best Female Vocalist - 2009 Austin Music Awards<br />
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Best Blues Band - 2009 Austin Music Awards<br />
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Best Female Vocalist - 2000 Houston Press Music Awards<br />
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Gold Award-Flagstaff International Film Festival- Music Video Awards -Alan Ames &Assoc.' "Party on Houston" featured artist "Carolyn Wonderland"<br />
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Cindy Cashdollar (born May 25, 1956) is a steel guitar and Dobro artist. She grew up in Woodstock, New York where she perfected her skills by playing with bluegrass musician John Herald, blues musician Paul Butterfield, and Levon Helm and Rick Danko of The Band.<br />
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Cashdollar received five Grammy awards while playing for eight years with Asleep at the Wheel and has also backed such noted performers as Bob Dylan, Leon Redbone and more recently Ryan Adams as a credited member of his band The Cardinals. She authored a series of instructional videos on her instruments and released her first solo album, Slide Show, in 2004. Cashdollar currently makes guest appearances on Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion, conducts workshops nationwide and plays in a number of musical venues around Austin, Texas.<br />
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During the fall of 2004 she was a member of Ryan Adams's band The Cardinals playing the steel guitar live on stage. She also went into the studio with this band and played on the album Cold Roses, although she didn't tour the album with Ryan Adams & The Cardinals and was replaced in 2005 by Jon Graboff.<br />
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In 2006, she toured with Van Morrison promoting his country and western album, Pay the Devil. She also appeared with him at theAustin City Limits Music Festival, on September 15, 2006 and on the television show Austin City Limits featuring Van Morrison.<br />
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Great feature by veteran music reporter Jim Beal on <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.augiemeyers.com/" rel="homepage nofollow" title="Augie Meyers">Augie Meyers</a>, a pioneer of the Westside Sound of San Antonio.<br />
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August "Augie" Meyers (b. 31 May 1940 in San Antonio, Texas) is a Texas musician. He is best known as keyboard-player with the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Douglas_Quintet" rel="wikipedia nofollow" title="Sir Douglas Quintet">Sir Douglas Quintet</a> and the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Tornados" rel="wikipedia nofollow" title="Texas Tornados">Texas Tornados</a>.<br />
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In the early 1960s Meyers was, with Doug Sahm, a founding member of the Sir Douglas Quintet. His Vox organ was a main ingredient in the sound of the quintet, as heard in hits like "She’s About A Mover" (1964), "Mendocino" (1969), "Nuevo Laredo" (1970) and many others. Later Meyers also played on many of Sahms solo albums and released his own solo records, also in Tex-Mex-style.<br />
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In the 1990s Meyers was, with Doug Sahm, Flaco Jiménez and Freddy Fender, a member of Tex-Mex-supergroup Texas Tornados. He was also sought after as a studio musician. He worked, amongst others, with Bob Dylan on his albums Time Out of Mind (1997) and Love and Theft (2001).<br />
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In 2005 he played on John Hammond's CD covering Tom Waits songs, Wicked Grin, and toured with Hammond.<br />
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Meyers lives in Bulverde, Texas. Since the 1970s he runs his own record labels from there, namely The Texas Re-Cord Company, Superbeet Records and White Boy Records.<br />
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Local papers are reporting today that a donor has finally been located for Augie's needed kidney tranplant. Best wishes to Augie Meyer's, family, and friends.<br />
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More San Antonio Westside Sound:<br />
<a href="http://thelastjukejoint.blogspot.com/2010/04/sir-douglas-quintet-shes-about-mover.html">Sir Douglas Quintet</a><br />
<a href="http://thelastjukejoint.blogspot.com/2010/04/royal-jesters-yo-soy-chicano.html">The Royal Jesters</a><br />
<a href="http://thelastjukejoint.blogspot.com/2010/02/randy-garibay-barbacoa-blues.html">Randy Garibay</a><br />
<a href="http://thelastjukejoint.blogspot.com/2010/01/krayolas-alamo-dragway.html">The Krayolas</a><br />
<a href="http://thelastjukejoint.blogspot.com/2010/01/esteban-steve-jordan.html">Esteban "Steve" Jordan</a><br />
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UPDATE: San Antonio Current reports Augie Meyers received a new kidney and is doing well. (4/24/2010)<br />
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<a href="http://sambakermusic.com/index.html">Sam Baker</a><br />
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Sam Baker thinks of "Mercy" as a collection of atonal story songs — little movies backed by instrumentation that feels like film scoring. It's a good description.<br />
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"Intellectually, I knew his songs were great from the moment I heard them. But on a personal level, I was deeply moved," says Austin musician Walt Wilkins, who co-produced Baker's first two albums. "What Sam writes about — and where he writes from — is completely universal."<br />
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After the critical success of "Mercy," Baker thought in longer terms — wanting to release two more albums, similar in tone and instrumentation, that would comprise a reflective trilogy. As "Mercy" was about fate, his newly released "Cotton" is a sophisticated record about forgiveness and forgetting. "Pretty World," released second in line in 2007, is in fact the final installment a message of gratitude.<br />
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Baker grew up in Itasca, Texas, a small, rural town of about 1,200, on the prairie between Waco and Fort Worth. “There were 35 people in my high school class—1972. And everybody did everything. Everybody played in the band; I played football, basketball, baseball. You had to.”<br />
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He graduated from North Texas State and briefly worked as a bank examiner, but a restless spirit led him to many jobs and eventually, like <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Ochs" rel="wikipedia nofollow" title="Phil Ochs">Phil Ochs</a>, to wander the world.<br />
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From his <a href="http://sambakermusic.com/info.html">bio</a>: "...In 1986, at age 32, Baker was traveling in Peru when, as he says, “I got in the middle of somebody else’s war.” A terrorist bomb (the Sendero Luminoso or “<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shining_Path" rel="wikipedia nofollow" title="Shining Path">Shining Path</a>” Maoist group) blew up the train he and some friends were riding on. Several passengers died, including a German boy and his parents, who were sitting next to Baker. Though he nearly bled to death, Sam survived but suffered a constellation of injuries and aftereffects—shrapnel in his leg, renal failure, brain damage, even gangrene.<br />
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“Right now, the loudest thing I hear is the ringing in my head,” he says of the Tinnitus, which will never go away. The other obvious reminder of the blast is his left hand, the fingers of which are permanently scrunched and twisted. Fortunately, he has enough dexterity to grip a pick—after re-learning to play guitar left-handed (fretting with the less-injured right hand)—so that he can sing and play some of the most vivid, compelling, truly original songs of any artist working today..."<br />
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Sir Douglas Quintet was a rock band active in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Despite their British sounding name, they came out of San Antonio, Texas and are perhaps best known for their 1965 hit single written by <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Sahm" rel="wikipedia nofollow" title="Doug Sahm">Doug Sahm</a>, the 12-bar blues "She's About a Mover" named the number one 'Texas' song by Texas Monthly. With a Vox Continental organ riff provided byAugie Meyers and soulful vocals from lead singer and guitarist Doug Sahm, the track features a Tex-Mex sound. Other influences came in from blues, jazz, and contemporary rock.<br />
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In addition to "She's About a Mover," (1965) the band is known for its songs "Mendocino," (1968) "Can You Dig My Vibrations?" (1968) and "Dynamite Woman" (1969). "Mendocino" was released in December 1968, and reached #27 in the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 by early 1969, spending 15 weeks in the chart. It was more successful in Europe selling over three million copies there.<div><br />
</div>The Sir Douglas Quintet is considered a pioneering influence in the history of rock and roll for incorporating Tex-Mex and Cajun styles into rock music. However, early influences on the band's emerging Texas style were even broader than this, and included ethnic and pop music from the 1950s and 1960s, such as doo-wop, electric blues, soul music, and British Invasion. The Quintet brought the older styles into a contemporary context, for instance by adapting the doo-wop feel, beat, and chord progressions. Perhaps even more off-beat for a late 1960s rock band than some inclusion of doo-wop type songs was that the band also played in styles like Western swing and polka (a Country & Western form and rhythmic style, from theTexas Hill Country, rather than a straight European style). They approached these styles with an instrumental line-up that was typical of blues bands: one guitarist, keyboardist, bassist, and drummer, and a member who could play either trumpet or saxophone.<div class="zemanta-related"><h6 class="zemanta-related-title" style="font-size: 1em; margin: 1em 0 0 0;">Related articles by Zemanta</h6><ul class="zemanta-article-ul"><li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://texasmusicmatters.kut.org/2010/02/19/on-this-weeks-big-broadcast/" rel="nofollow">Big Broadcast: Top 10 Texas Recordings With Tom Moon</a> (texasmusicmatters.kut.org)</li>
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Doo-Wop "...hits like "My Angel of Love," "We Go Together" and "That Girl" placed the <a href="http://www.ondanet.com/tejano/L-News/lnews46.html">Royal Jesters</a> in rock and roll's '50s and 60's halls of history. Later those hits led to mega success for the Royal Jesters in the emerging Chicano music scene of the 70s where they struck a new chord with "Yo Soy Chicano," "Me Voy Pa Houston" and "Carino Nuevo." <div><br />
</div><div>The Royal Jesters were born in the summer of 1958 after Oscar Lawson and Henry Hernandez met at a church talent show in <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.sanantonio.gov/" rel="homepage nofollow" title="San Antonio">San Antonio</a>'s West side. Some of the members wanted to name the group the Jesters, others wanted the Royals. "We decided to use both of the names," says Henry. "That's the way we did things. I gave in to Oscar's ideas and he gave in to mine. That's why we worked so well together." Their team work paid off. By the Spring of 1959, they had recorded "My Angel of Love," written by Lawson and sung in harmony with all the soul of a music that simply made you want to rock and roll. </div><div><br />
</div><div>A string of hit singles-- in the 50s and 60s complete albums were not the norm they are today-- made the Royal Jesters the preferred group of the day. Successive recording contracts with Harlem Records (who also recorded Dough Sahm), Bell Records (the same label that recorded the Fifth Dimension) and Tower Records spread their name and their three-part harmony across the country and as far away as Europe. Apart from the many singles they recorded and released, The Royal Jesters recorded two complete English language albums, "We Go Together," and "Chevere." But the Royal Jesters had their eyes set on the future. And for Oscar and Henry that meant recording in Spanish. "Oscar had been reading in industry magazines that Chicano music was a sleeping giant that would one day wake up," tells Henry. So the group jumped right in. In 1973 the Royal Jesters teamed up with producer Manuel "Manny" Guerra, and began recording their own kind of Tex-Mex music that many fans still remember most. Under MGP Records they recorded "Yo Soy Chicano," "The Second Album," and "The Band."..." <i><a href="mailto:jardin@swbell.net, LNews@Ondanet.com">Chito de la Torre</a></i></div><div class="zemanta-pixie" style="height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><a class="zemanta-pixie-a" href="http://reblog.zemanta.com/zemified/6f9ccf9a-1818-4d89-aa83-be6d952b6284/" title="Reblog this post [with Zemanta]"><img alt="Reblog this post [with Zemanta]" class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=6f9ccf9a-1818-4d89-aa83-be6d952b6284" style="border: none; float: right;" /></a><span class="zem-script more-related pretty-attribution"><script defer="defer" src="http://static.zemanta.com/readside/loader.js" type="text/javascript">
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This group describes their music as 'Country music with a hardwood floor sound'. Combining some original material along with obscure country tunes that they have unearthed from the 50s and 60s, the band opens up new sounds in a retro honky tonk setting.<br />
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Leslie Ann Sloan sings a gutsy, belting lead that has been compared to the likes of Patsy Cline, Leona Williams and Connie Smith. The band's stage show features a real upright piano, pedal steel guitar, fiddle, small drum kit and a twangy Telecaster reminiscent of the Don Rich sound.<br />
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While Miss Leslie & Her Juke-Jointers are a relatively new group on the scene, the band has played professionally with nationally touring acts. Randy Lindley, who plays electric guitar, has played and recorded with The Coleman Brothers, The Sullivan Family, Bill Grant and Delia Bell, Rebel Records' David Davis & the Warrior River Boys, and Rebel Records' Karl Shiflett and the Big Country Show.<br />
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Miss Leslie & Her Juke-Jointers have been nominated for Houston Press Music Awards in 2004 and 2005. In 2005, they were nominated for Best Original Band in the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://chron.com/" rel="homepage nofollow" title="Houston Chronicle">Houston Chronicle</a>'s Ultimate Houston Awards.<br />
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None of this Taylor Swift, ersatz, American-Idol "country" music for Sunny Sweeney. Not only no, but hell no. Sweeney is hardcore country with soul from Longview, Texas and a thick east Texas accent to prove it.<br />
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Lydia Mendoza (May 21, 1916 – December 20, 2007) was an American guitarist and singer of Tejano music. She is known as La Alondra de la Frontera (The Lark of the Border).<br />
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Mendoza was born into a musical family in Houston, Texas. She learned to sing and play stringed instruments from her mother and grandmother. In 1928, as part of the family group Cuarteto Carta Blanca, she made her first recordings for the OKeh company in San Antonio. In the early thirties, Mendoza came to the attention of Manuel J. Cortez, a pioneer of Mexican-American radio broadcasting. Her live radio performances set the stage for her recordings for the Blue Bird label in 1934. One of her recordings, "Mal Hombre", became an overnight success, and led to an intensive schedule of touring and recording. After World War II, Mendoza recorded for all the major Mexican-American record labels. One of the relatively few songs she personally wrote, and a personal favorite, was "Amor Bonito", dedicated to her husband. Lydia Mendoza continued performing and recording until slowed by a stroke in 1988. In 1982, she became the first Texan to receive a National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellowship. In 1999, she was awarded the National Medal of Arts, and in 2003, she was among the second group of recipients of the Texas Cultural Trust's Texas Medal of Arts.<br />
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In 2001, Oxford University Press published a 235-page-book on her by Yolanda Broyles-Gonzalez, entitled, Lydia Mendoza's Life in Music. From the introduction:Known as a lone artist and performer, Lydia Mendoza's voice and twelve-string guitar-playing figure prominently in her ability to both nurture and transmit the vast oral tradition of popular Mexican song with beauty and integrity. She sang the songs of the people across generations in the old tradition; all are indigenous to the Americas, and many of them to Texas. It is the music that emerged from the experiences of native peoples (on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border) within the colonial context of the nineteenth century.Mendoza's prominence and stature as a Chicana idol stems from her sustained presence and perpetual visibility within a complex network of social and cultural relations in the twentieth century. Along with being one of the earliest female recording and touring artists, she is loved as a voice of working-class sentimiento , sentiment and sentience, through song, which is one of the most cherished of Chicana/o cultural art forms. Through her vast repertoire and unmistakable interpretive skill in the shaping of songs she is a living embodiment of U.S.-Mexican culture and a participant in raza people's protracted struggles for survival.<br />
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Josh Abbott Band<br />
<i>Buried Me</i>:<br />
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Formed in early 2006, The Josh Albert Band was founded by fraternity brothers Josh Abbott, Austin Davis, Drew Hurt, and Neel Huey. After playing mostly acoustic open mic night shows at The Blue Light, Josh and Austin called on Drew and Neel to give the band a rhythm section. On their debut night, The Blue Light packed in a full house and a sense of something special was present. After a year of picking up local shows and greek parties, the band released a self-titled LP in 2007 featuring four tracks. Immediately, the band recorded a music video for "Buried Me" and entered it in the Music City Madness competition on CMT.com. After beating out over 600 other videos, the live concept video made the final cut.<br />
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I really hate when you call me late at night.<br />
I didn’t answer cuz I didn’t wanna fight,<br />
or hear you say things you don’t mean;<br />
and drive my heart again down Misery Street.<br />
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So go ahead and arrange the flowers,<br />
and prepare my eulogy.<br />
Call my brothers to be pall bearers,<br />
cuz what you did already buried me.<br />
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When I think of you I get in my car,<br />
but I can never escape from where you are.<br />
And I can’t forget the words that you said<br />
the night you shot me in the heart and left me for dead.<br />
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Who am I kidding, I’ll never be over you.<br />
So put me ten feet deep, and I won’t face the truth.<br />
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<div>Stephen Fain "Steve" Earle is an American singer-songwriter known for his rock and country music as well as his political views. He is also a published writer, a political activist and has written and directed a play. In the later part of his career, after troubles with the law, drug addiction and his uncompromising viewpoints, he has become known as "The Hardcore Troubadour".</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><br />
</span></div>Earle was born on January 17, 1955, at Fort Monroe in Hampton, Virginia. He is the eldest son of Jack Earle, an air traffic controller, and Barbara Earle. Although he was born in Virginia where his father was stationed in the military, the family returned to Texas before Earle's second birthday. They moved often during his childhood, primarily within Texas, but he spent several of his formative years in Schertz,Texas. He dropped out of school in the 9th grade to move to Houston and learn more about the music business. Earle released his first album, Guitar Town, in 1986. His sister, Stacey Earle, is also a musician, having toured with Steve in the 1990s and sung on the song "When I Fall" on Steve's 2000 album <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.amazon.com/Transcendental-Blues-Steve-Earle/dp/B00004S9AN%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dzemanta-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB00004S9AN" rel="amazon nofollow" title="Transcendental Blues">Transcendental Blues</a>.<br />
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Earle has been married seven times, including twice to the same woman. His wives were Sandra "Sandy" Henderson, Cynthia Dunn, Carol-Ann Hunter (with whom he had his first child, Justin), Lou-Anne Gill (with whom he had a second son, Ian), Maria Teresa Ensenat, Lou-Anne Gill a second time, and finally, in 2005, singer-songwriter <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.allisonmoorer.com/" rel="homepage nofollow" title="Allison Moorer">Allison Moorer</a>. His first son, Justin Townes Earle, is also a musician, and is named for <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Townes_Van_Zandt" rel="wikipedia nofollow" title="Townes Van Zandt">Townes Van Zandt</a>. Earle and Moorer are expecting their first child together in March 2010.<br />
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</div>I was walkin’ down the street<br />
In the town where I was born<br />
I was movin’ to a beat<br />
That I’d never felt before<br />
So I opened up my eyes<br />
And I took a look around<br />
I saw it written ‘cross the sky<br />
The revolution starts now<br />
Yeah, the revolution starts now<br />
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The revolution starts now<br />
When you rise above your fear<br />
And tear the walls around you down<br />
The revolution starts here<br />
Where you work and where you play<br />
Where you lay your money down<br />
What you do and what you say<br />
The revolution starts now<br />
Yeah the revolution starts now<br />
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Yeah the revolution starts now<br />
In your own backyard<br />
In your own hometown<br />
So what you doin’ standin’ around?<br />
Just follow your heart<br />
The revolution starts now<br />
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Last night I had a dream<br />
That the world had turned around<br />
And all our hopes had come to be<br />
And the people gathered ‘round<br />
They all brought what they could bring<br />
And nobody went without<br />
And I learned a song to sing<br />
The revolution starts now<br />
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<i>Ophelia:</i><br />
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Randy Brown covers The Band's classic "Ophelia" with a straight-ahead Texas dancehall lilt, and makes it his own.<br />
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Houston-born Austin Collins, currently headquartered in Austin, is garnering respect and considerable airplay on Americana and Texas Country radio stations...and beyond. Hardly a surprise. Collins combines knotty but thoughtful lyrics with a spare hard hitting rock sound (with echoes of folk phrasing in his vocals).<br />
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From <a href="http://twangville.com/786/austin-collins-roses-are-black/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">Twangville</span></a>:<br />
"...I like lyrics that refuse to take the easy way out. This song, which musically is reminiscent of Whiskeytown’s “16 days”, could be George Strait’s “Easy Come, Easy Go”, where everyone involved is happy and ready to move on, but it doesn’t go that route. Picture the light “Easy Come, Easy Go” vibe with a casual middle finger waving effortlessly at this chick who done him wrong and then you have the right picture. The track where I feel that producer Johnson’s fingerprints are most evident is “House Without Windows”. The gritty, moody, muted guitar intro is a prime example of what you might hear on a future Centro-matic record (if you aren’t familiar with Centro-matic, you should be. They are DBT’s Patterson Hood’s favorite band, people!!) Again, lyrically this isn’t a song that chooses the stale, easy, country-cool path. When Collins strains his voice, he laments his “lead-based dreams”. We are left wondering how dangerous such dreams are when the chorus reminds us that his is a house “without windows...”<br />
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The idea of <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.willienelson.com/" rel="homepage nofollow" title="Willie Nelson">Willie Nelson</a> covering a <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.dead.net/" rel="homepage nofollow" title="Grateful Dead">Grateful Dead</a> song might seem to be something of a head-scratcher, at least at first. But <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.amazon.com/Willie-Autobiography-Nelson/dp/0671680757%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dzemanta-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0671680757" rel="amazon nofollow" title="Willie: An Autobiography">Willie</a> has always been first and foremost a songwriter, and the Dead were always open to traditional folkways. Their classic album <i><a class="zem_slink" href="http://musicbrainz.org/album/890b13c3-9422-4d78-b5a9-62451f43ebba.html" rel="musicbrainz nofollow" title="American Beauty">American Beauty</a></i> is a milestone in the development of Americana as a viable musical genre.<br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Willie-Nelson/e/B000APC3HS"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">WILLIE NELSON ON AMAZON</span></a><br />
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STELLA BLUE:<br />
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All the years combine<br />
They melt into a dream<br />
A broken angel sings<br />
From a guitar<br />
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In the end there's just a song<br />
Comes crying up the night<br />
Through all the broken dreams<br />
And vanished years<br />
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Stella Blue<br />
Stella Blue<br />
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When all the cards are down<br />
There's nothing left to see<br />
There's just the pavement left<br />
And broken dreams<br />
<br />
In the end there's still that song<br />
Comes crying like the wind<br />
Down every lonely street<br />
That's ever been<br />
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Stella Blue<br />
Stella Blue<br />
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I've stayed in every blue light cheap hotel<br />
Can't win for trying<br />
Dust off those rusty strings just one more time<br />
Gonna make them shine<br />
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It all rolls into one<br />
And nothing comes for free<br />
There's nothing you can hold<br />
For very long<br />
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And when you hear that song<br />
Come crying like the wind<br />
It seems like all this life<br />
Was just a dream<br />
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Stella Blue<br />
Stella Blue<br />
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"Please Mr. President lay some stimulus on me.<br />
Please Mr. President place some stimulus on me.<br />
Cause I'm just a working man tryin to feed my family.<br />
<br />
I used to have a good job working forty hard hours a week.<br />
Had money in the bank and a mortgage I could meet.<br />
But then they started to lay off and got a hold of me.<br />
Now that mean ol' banker trying to put me in the street.<br />
<br />
Please Mr. President lay some stimulus on me.<br />
Please Mr. president place some stimulus on me.<br />
Cause I'm just a working man tryin to feed my family.<br />
I'm playin this for you, Mr. President!<br />
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Now I sure don't mind workin'- I'm not scared to break a sweat.<br />
I'm not lookin' for a bailout, but I gotta pay my debts.<br />
I don't know how to be a bad guy, I'm not gonna steal and rob.<br />
But if I'm gonna feed my children, I gotta have some kind of job.<br />
<br />
Please, please, please Mr. President lay some stimulus on me.<br />
Please Mr. President place some stimulus on me.<br />
Cause I'm just a working man tryin to feed my family.<br />
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I've got to have it, you know I need it.<br />
Everybody needs stimulus."<br />
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<a href="http://www.guitarshorty.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">GUITAR SHORTY</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Guitar-Shorty/e/B000APDQTC"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">GUITAR SHORTY ON AMAZON</span></a><br />
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Credited with influencing both <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.jimihendrix.com/" rel="homepage nofollow" title="Jimi Hendrix">Jimi Hendrix</a> and Buddy Guy, Blues veteran <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.guitarshorty.com/" rel="homepage nofollow" title="Guitar Shorty">Guitar Shorty</a> has been electrifying audiences for five decades with his supercharged live shows and his incendiary recordings (beginning in 1957 with a Willie Dixon-produced single on the Cobra label). Through the years, Shorty has performed with blues and R&B luminaries like Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.bbking.com/" rel="homepage nofollow" title="B.B. King">B.B. King</a>, Guitar Slim and T-Bone Walker. Although he had recorded a handful of singles for a variety of labels, it wasn’t until the 1990s that the wider world opened its collective ears to one of the blues’ most exciting performers. His albums since then all received massive critical acclaim, and his legendary live performances have kept him constantly in demand all over the world.<br />
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Guitar Shorty (born David William Kearney, September 8, 1939, Houston, Texas) is an American blues guitarist. He is well known for his explosive guitar style and wild stage antics. Billboard magazine said, “his galvanizing guitar work defines modern, top-of-the-line blues-rock. His vocals remain as forceful as ever. Righteous shuffles…blistering, sinuous guitar solos.”<br />
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<a href="http://www.bloodshotrecords.com/artist/alejandro-escovedo"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO ON BLOODSHOT RECORDS</span></span></span></a><br />
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Hometown: Austin, TX<br />
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"Musically, Alejandro Escovedo is in his own genre." David Fricke, Rolling Stone<br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Piece-Your-Soul-Storyville/dp/B000002JAE"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">STORYVILLE ON AMAZON</span></span></span></a><br />
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Storyville was a blues-rock band formed in 1994 in Austin, Texas, USA. Drummer Chris Layton and bassist <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Shannon" rel="wikipedia nofollow" title="Tommy Shannon">Tommy Shannon</a>, former members of <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_Angels" rel="wikipedia nofollow" title="Arc Angels">Arc Angels</a> and the rhythm section for <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevie_Ray_Vaughan" rel="wikipedia nofollow" title="Stevie Ray Vaughan">Stevie Ray Vaughan</a>'s band <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Trouble_%28band%29" rel="wikipedia nofollow" title="Double Trouble (band)">Double Trouble</a>, formed the band with <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malford_Milligan" rel="wikipedia nofollow" title="Malford Milligan">Malford Milligan</a> after a jam session at Antone's.<br />
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After releasing an album on November Records in 1994, the band won a total of nine Austin Music awards; they became stalwarts on the local music scene and toured nationally. They subsequently signed to major label Atlantic Records, for whom they recorded two albums before breaking up. The single "Born Without You", from their 1998 release Dog Years, reached #28 on the BillboardMainstream Rock chart.<br />
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Members:<br />
Malford Milligan – lead vocals<br />
David Grissom – guitar/vocals<br />
David Holt - guitar/vocals<br />
Tommy Shannon – bass<br />
Chris Layton – drums<br />
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