Subject: Bessie Smith

• The Houston 100: The Master List

  October 4, 2007

• This Just In: Get Ready for iFest

  February 27, 2008

• Sing, Muse, the Wrath of Ma Rainey

  January 20, 1994

• Playing the Blues

  January 20, 1994

• Press Picks

  October 6, 1994

• Rotation

  March 14, 1996

• A Day to Remember

  March 6, 1997

• Black History Month Celebrations

  February 5, 2009

• House of Lightnin'

  October 23, 2008

• The Houston International Festival Is Upon Us

  April 17, 2008

• Carolyn Wonderland: Miss Understood

  February 28, 2008

• Houston's Very Best Songs Ever

  September 27, 2007

• Tori Amos

  American Doll Posse

  July 26, 2007

• Playbill

  December 30, 2004

• The Gossip

  Saturday, February 7

  February 5, 2004

• The Real Shock Rock

  From California to New Hampshire, blackface minstrelsy is re-emerging. Should it?

  October 16, 2003

• Lost Legends

  Tary Owens helped rescue the early roots of Texas music. Then those songs saved Owens from himself.

  January 13, 2000

• My Kinda Sound

  Chicago plays home to the blues in Houston

  April 29, 1999

• Young Blood

  At 20, Shemekia Copeland is more than old enough to sing the blues

  April 15, 1999

• The Horn of Africa

  April 14, 1994

• Listology: Nick Gaitan of the Octanes and The Umbrella Man's Favorite Female Vocalists

  This is a big week for all-everything Houston bassist Nick Gaitan. Not only have his Monday-night Continental Club gigs with atomic-powered rockabilly trio the Octanes been steadily been picking up steam, his other band The Umbrella Man - which just happens to play Tuesday nights at the very same place - releases its self-titled debut CD tomorrow night with special guest Pokey Lafarge. Nick's a busy guy - oh yeah, he also plays bass for Billy Joe Shaver, if you haven't heard - but he was kind e

  November 23, 2009