Subject: Bo Diddley

• Drenched in Blog: Bo Knows Hospitals

  August 29, 2007

• Is Johnny Guitar Watson’s “Telephone Bill” the First Houston Rap?

  April 10, 2008

• Friday Night: Doyle Bramhall at McGonigel’s Mucky Duck

  May 4, 2008

• Bo Diddley, RIP

  June 2, 2008

• Last Night: X at Warehouse Live

  June 4, 2008

• Weekend Music: Kid Rock, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Rick Ross, Craig Kinsey, Young Jeezy and More

  August 9, 2008

• Tom Petty Day, Part 2: TP&HB Videos

  August 29, 2008

• Still Howlin'

  Omar Dykes keeps finding ways to push the blues out there

  September 28, 2000

• It Ain't No Town And It Ain't No City

  October 24, 2008

• Master Blaster

  Cody ChesnuTT sees rock and roll, and he wants to repaint it black

  February 27, 2003

• Classic Rock Corner: Blues/Soul/R&B In Memoriam 2008

  Ah, that nasty Grim Reaper took a lot of great musicians this year, and his scythe cut a wide swath across all genres, including many heavyweights in the blues and R&B world. The greatest loss comes in the form of someone who was a man, a song, and a beat all in one... Bo Diddley, singer-songwriter, guitarist, co-founder of rock and roll, all-around Bad Ass (1928-2008): If we ever get around to blasting a Mt. Rushmore to the founders of rock and roll, the faces on rock would be Chuck

  January 2, 2009

• Swamp Thang

  September 29, 1994

• Critic's Choice

  December 14, 1995

• Bo Knows

  February 1, 1996

• Thrift Store Cowboy: The Move

  The best thing about digging around thrift-store CD bins is discovering someone else's cast-offs. The records that people got sick of, or had absolutely no regard for how awesome it could be. Months back, a wife seemingly threw out her husband's entire punk-rock collection during routine housecleaning, and I found a trove of Sex Pistols bootleg discs and an inordinate amount of mid-'80s TVT Records releases. It was a fun and brooding ride back home. This past week, I discovered

  January 28, 2009

• McComb's Second Finest

  July 11, 1996

• Rotation

  August 1, 1996

• Aw, Twern't Nuthin'

  January 16, 1997

• Nails in the Coffin

  May 15, 1997

• Press Picks

  October 23, 1997

• Album of the Week: Pretenders, Break Up the Concrete

  Pretenders Break Up the Concrete www.thepretenders.com Old punk rockers - or, in this case, post-punks - never die, they just go country. On the Pretenders' first album since 2002's barely-registering Loose Screw, Chrissie Hynde confronts middle age by revisiting the musical styles of the mid-20th century. After a woozy three-chord "Sleepwalk" intro, opener "Boots of Chinese Plastic" kicks open the door with some runaway-locomotive Sun Records rockabilly as Hynde seeks Buddha, Allah and Chr

  February 20, 2009

• SXSW Day One: Absinthe to Auerbach

  Photos by Craig HlavatyIt's official: This author loves absinthe. Or whatever it was that they were serving at the Music Gym off 6th Street that they were calling absinthe. Who the hell cares? It was free and it opened our SXSW 2009 with a strange and weird sensation in the facial area. Plus, it made spotting Joseph Gordon-Levitt from Angels In The Outfield (left) all the more shocking. Our night began in earnest at Mohawk, where we saw Houston's own resident soul spinner DJ Brett Kosh

  March 19, 2009

• SXSW: Black Joe Lewis at the Radio Room

  Photos by Chris GrayThe very first live music you intentionally lay eyes and ears on at SXSW can be a very delicate choice, unless it's a complete no-brainer. So when Black Joe Lewis is playing three blocks from your hotel, you go. Lewis, a young Austinite who rolls up some 25 years of R&B history - roughly Bo Diddley to the Bar-Kays - into an explosive live revue, held those packed into the volleyball-court-sized tent on Radio Room's back patio rapt from the minute he opened with a meaty ve

  March 19, 2009

• HammingIt Up

  June 24, 1999

• Cadillac Records Can't Handle the Truth

  Spinning Blues into Lies

  December 4, 2008

• “Day of the Dead Rock Stars”

  See Bob Marley, Bo Diddley and others given the DOD treatment by artist Carlos Hernandez

  November 20, 2008

• "The Sounds I See: Photographs of Musicians"

  September 25, 2008

• Hamilton Loomis

  Don’t miss the chance to see a premiere blues guitarist in a small setting

  August 7, 2008

• Locals Only

  July 17, 2008

• Siouxsie, Mantaray

  CD Review

  October 4, 2007

• Nick Cave

  CD Review

  April 5, 2007

• Rock Radio (and Rock Romano) Redux

  Bo knows good rock when he sees it. Do Houston radio programmers?

  February 10, 2005

• Party of Five

  The tunes -- and bedrooms -- are hoppin' in I Sing!

  February 3, 2005

• Playbill

  November 25, 2004

• Mystery Bopping

  Racket searches for the hoppingest grocery store in town

  September 16, 2004

• Playbill

  June 3, 2004

• Money Waters

  The Porch (Soullsys Music/Noir Sound)

  February 26, 2004

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  July 3, 2003

• Hudson Hawked

  Kate gets the hard sell in How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days

  February 6, 2003

• Hamilton Loomis

  Hamilton Loomis Live: Highlights (Ham-Bone Music)

  June 6, 2002

• Roy Head

  Head On! (Music Club)

  December 13, 2001

• Racket

  Searching for the First Rock Song

  August 9, 2001

• Guy Forsyth

  Steak (Texas Music)

  November 23, 2000

• New Blues

  December 2, 1993

• Eyeballin': John Lennon & the Plastic Ono Band Live in Toronto '69

  It's a story well-told in Beatles lore. Reeling from the Fab Four's unraveling, a bored John Lennon accepted an invitation to perform at the Toronto Rock 'n Roll Revival show in September 1969. He quickly formed an ad hoc group of friends (wife Yoko Ono, Eric Clapton on guitar, Klaus Voorman on bass, and Alan White on drums), dubbed them the Plastic Ono Band, and two days later the ensemble was learning songs in the cramped airplane quarters on the way to the show. Nervous after a three-year abs

  June 17, 2009

• Aftermath: Th' Legendary Shack Shakers at Rudyard's

  Photos by Chris Gray​ Th' Legendary Shack Shakers are a sort of Blue Ridge Parkway answer to Los Skarnales, mining Anglo-American roots music and all things Memphis - Sun Records, Beale Street and the Oblivians - to create a turbo-charged, gypsy-flavored, punk-speed rockabilly dynamo with a metric ton of harmonica and a freight-train backbeat that refuses to quit. When they say they're about to slow things down for a ballad ("Ichabod"), that means they're actually about to speed up.​Burning

  August 5, 2009

• Ghosts of Washington Avenue

  September 10, 2009

• ACL Aftermath, Part 2: Now That That "Dillo Dirt" Unpleasantness Is Out of the Way, How About Some Music?

  Mark C. AustinSeems like we recognize this guy from somewhere...​ More and more, Aftermath uses ACL more than SXSW to see which recent buzz bands are worth their salt, and of course to check on how some old favorites are doing. This year, tops on our new-to-us list were Blitzen Trapper, who managed to condense most of the late '60s and early '70s - Dylan, the Dead, CSNY and a lot more besides - into their hour-long set Friday, and MuteMath, neighbors from New Orleans whose echoing guitar, prop

  October 5, 2009

• Million-Dollar Mud

  October 8, 2009

• Please, Kenny Rogers, Just Sing and Spare Us the Pictures of Your Kids

  Photos by Eric Sauseda/ Click here for a slideshow​ Kenny Rogers is now 71 years old. And, as of a few years ago anyway, his boys can still swim. Aftermath knows this because we were treated to a slideshow of Rogers' twin five-year-old sons - even some shots from the delivery room - as he sang the ballad "To Me" with the Houston Symphony at Jones Hall Thursday night. Cute kids and all, but it made for about five of the most squirm-filled minutes we've experienced at a concert, well, ever. It w

  November 6, 2009