Bonnie Raitt

Glory Days

The Houston 100: From Charles Brown to Sippie Wallace

Ring in the Holidays at Charles Brown Blues Fest

Tonight: Back Door Slam at Warehouse Live

Pass the Salt

Veruca Salt -- The Resentments

Keb' Mo'

The Door (Sony 550/Epic)

The Art of Getting Broken

Mary Cutrufello wanted to be a rock star. For a moment she was.

Tonight: Gary Nicholson at Dosey Doe

Mary Cutrufello wanted to be a rock star. For a moment she was.

Rotation

Mary Cutrufello wanted to be a rock star. For a moment she was.

Hip and Hawaiian

Mary Cutrufello wanted to be a rock star. For a moment she was.

Press Picks

Mary Cutrufello wanted to be a rock star. For a moment she was.

Static

Mary Cutrufello wanted to be a rock star. For a moment she was.

Out of the Swamp

Mary Cutrufello wanted to be a rock star. For a moment she was.

The Nickel: A Musical History of the Fifth Ward, Part 2

[Note: Part 1 is here, and the Eating Our Words entry that inspired this series is here.] To tell the story of music in the Fifth Ward with anything like the sweep it deserves, we will have to go way back to the 19th century. On a November day in 1898, Beulah Thomas was born to Fanny Bradley an ... More >>

Rotation

[Note: Part 1 is here, and the Eating Our Words entry that inspired this series is here.] To tell the story of music in the Fifth Ward with anything like the sweep it deserves, we will have to go way back to the 19th century. On a November day in 1898, Beulah Thomas was born to Fanny Bradley an ... More >>

Night & Day

April 23 - 29, 1998

Born to Sing

April 23 - 29, 1998

More Blues Than You Can Use

April 23 - 29, 1998

Another Rock Mag Bites The Dust: Performing Songwriter Says Goodbye

Print publications focusing on music continue to fall like pine trees in a hurricane. The latest to close its doors is 16-year-old Performing Songwriter. Editor/publisher Lydia Hutchison announced Wednesday that the June issue would be the last. The magazine joins No Depression, Blender and Count ... More >>

Selecting The Proper Valentine's Day Soundtrack

A Fine Romance

Garlic-Chomping Reggae Royalty Toots Hibbert

The Harder They Come

Men Will Be Boys in Step Brothers

Ferrell, Reilly, McKay & Co. still don't wanna grow up. And thank God for that

Carolyn Wonderland: Miss Understood

Ferrell, Reilly, McKay & Co. still don't wanna grow up. And thank God for that

Pro Athlete Musicians

Athletes step off the field and into the studio

Alan Haynes

Even in Austin, this blues guitarist stands out

Annie Lennox, Songs of Mass Destruction

CD Review

The Coattails Are Hers

CD Review

Patty Griffin

Children Running Through Ato Records

Ian McLagan & the Bump Band

Ian McLagan & the Bump Band perform Saturday, October 28, at the Continental Club, 3700 Main. Call 713-529-9899 for more info.

Bonnie Raitt

Bonnie Raitt appears Saturday, October 7, at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, 2005 Lake Robbins Dr., The Woodlands. Call 281-363-3300 for more info.

Teresa James and the Rhythm Tramps

Saturday, September 24, at Dan Electro's Guitar Bar, 1031 East 24th Street, 713-862-8707.

Playbill

Saturday, September 24, at Dan Electro's Guitar Bar, 1031 East 24th Street, 713-862-8707.

Taj Mahal & the Hula Blues, with Susan Tedeschi

Sunday, May 2

Norah Jones

Feels Like Home (Blue Note)

Hot Torch

Feels Like Home (Blue Note)

Rotation

Feels Like Home (Blue Note)

Lonesome Onry and Mean: R.I.P. Stephen Bruton

Photos courtesy New West Records Stephen Bruton, one of Austin's great pickers, songwriters, and good citizens, died Saturday of throat cancer, which he had battled for years, according to a press release by his label, New West Records. The 60-year-old Bruton came out of the school of influential Fo ... More >>

Aftermath: Bonnie Raitt at Verizon Wireless Theater

Photos by Craig Hlavaty For someone with such a deep California/New England pedigree - daughter of Broadway/Hollywood actor John Raitt, schooled at Radcliffe and the Northeast coffeehouse '60s folk scene, now living in Northern California - Bonnie Raitt sure gets Texas music. She could almost be the ... More >>

Ghosts of Washington Avenue

Noise goes whistling through the scenester artery's music venue graveyard.

Houston Women's Festival

Noise goes whistling through the scenester artery's music venue graveyard.

Stirred and Shaken: The Tavern's Bay Breeze

​I had been asked to leave establishments for unbecoming conduct, but never for trying to cover a place for the paper. So I was surprised when that happened at Dirt Bar (222 Yale, 713-426-4222), where media types are apparently not welcome -- at least not while on the job. The bartender told ... More >>

THE TAVERN'S BAY BREEZE

​I had been asked to leave establishments for unbecoming conduct, but never for trying to cover a place for the paper. So I was surprised when that happened at Dirt Bar (222 Yale, 713-426-4222), where media types are apparently not welcome -- at least not while on the job. The bartender told ... More >>

2009 Concert Rewind, May: No Doubt, Dave Matthews, Fleetwood Mac, Steve Earle, Fischerspooner, Bob Log and, Um, BuzzFest

Craig Hlavaty​Dave Matthews Band, Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, May 1: "It's hard to label what exactly they do, but it can't be called 'jam.' As limitless and expansive the bands who get stuck in that genre may be, folks like String Cheese Incident, O.A.R. and Dispatch cannot hold a flickering ... More >>

Vince Gill Heads Huge Weekend Of Music In Conroe

​This one has sorta snuck up on us, but this weekend Conroe is bulging with top quality Americana and country music. The centerpiece of the weekend is Saturday's writers-in-the-round at the Crighton Theater, which features Country Music Hall of Famer Vince Gill, big-time songwriter Tony Ara ... More >>

She's Got Rhythm: Jazz-Pop Upstart Nikki Yanofsky, 16 And Swingin'

myspace.com/nikkiyanofsky​Nikki Yanofsky has been "singing since I could talk, basically." And doing it well: When her dad asked the Montreal native to sing a few songs with his garage band at a charity event, it was a little different than practicing in the garage. In the audience was the fou ... More >>

Grace Potter & the Nocturnals

myspace.com/nikkiyanofsky​Nikki Yanofsky has been "singing since I could talk, basically." And doing it well: When her dad asked the Montreal native to sing a few songs with his garage band at a charity event, it was a little different than practicing in the garage. In the audience was the fou ... More >>

Top 10 Texas Movie Soundtracks

​This weekend, as the rest of the world catches Harry Potter mania for (perhaps) the final time, Houston gets a serious dose of Urban Cowboy nostalgia. Theater Under the Stars' production of the Tony-nominated 2003 musical - which The New York Times called "a conclusive demonstration that it's ... More >>

Discovery Green Lands Roots-Rock Royalty For Free Fall Concerts

Jason WolterTexas Tornados at Discovery Green, September 2010​A return engagement from Tex-Mex supergroup the Texas Tornados, reunited (after a fashion) roots-rock polymaths NRBQ - now featuring a former Houstonian on drums - and the honky-tonk hero who told Tiger Airways a thing or two highli ... More >>

Happy Birthday Don Was: His Five Best Production Jobs

Vicky Sapp​Nerds like us - you have to be a music nerd if you're reading a blog on Don Was - have favorite producers, like some sports guys have favorite coaches. Sometimes we listen to an album just because someone we like produced it, or it somehow gives it us extra cred even if we may not l ... More >>

NRBQ

Vicky Sapp​Nerds like us - you have to be a music nerd if you're reading a blog on Don Was - have favorite producers, like some sports guys have favorite coaches. Sometimes we listen to an album just because someone we like produced it, or it somehow gives it us extra cred even if we may not l ... More >>