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Died and Gone to Houston

By William Michael Smith August 05, 2010

Every Wednesday in Montrose for almost a solid year, Robert Ellis & the Boys have demonstrated how outdated the image of John Travolta waltzing Debra Winger around that vast Gilley's... More >>>

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The two-steppers at Mango's "Whiskey Wednesdays" often looked more like a crowd that might show up for popular local indie-rockers the Wild Moccasins or Young Mammals.

Robert Ellis (left, with drummer Ryan Chavez) says he shares vintage honky-tonk YouTube clips with many of the people he met at his Mango's residency.

In the early '70s, Steve Earle says, the honky-tonks and beer joints of Deer Park and Telephone Road were terrifying to his pot-smoking "folkie" crowd.

"Died and Gone to Houston" author Mike Stinson — right, with guitarist Lance Smith and drummer Eric C. Hughes — has had no trouble finding steady work since moving here a year ago.

Besides playing bass for Robert Ellis & the Boys, Geoffrey Muller is a member of Montrose alt-country mainstays the Sideshow Tramps and I Am Mesmer.

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The two-steppers at Mango's "Whiskey Wednesdays" often looked more like a crowd that might show up for popular local indie-rockers the Wild Moccasins or Young Mammals.

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The two-steppers at Mango's "Whiskey Wednesdays" often looked more like a crowd that might show up for popular local indie-rockers the Wild Moccasins or Young Mammals.

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