Calvin Owens

Houston’s Golden Horn Is Silenced: Calvin Owens, R.I.P.

Wax Museum: MP3s from Leon Mitcheson, Calvin Owens and Carl Carlton

A Hard Case of the Blues

Roy Ames and his Home Cooking records have spread the sound of Houston blues around the world. Some local musicians are wondering why he hasn't spread more of the wealth as well.

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-songw ... More >>

Press Picks

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-songw ... More >>

Static

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-songw ... More >>

Static

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-songw ... More >>

Static

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-songw ... More >>

More Blues Than You Can Use

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-songw ... More >>

Blowing His Own Horn

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-songw ... More >>

Racket

Cedric Turner ventures into an abyss far deeper than ones traveled by most bluesmen

Crashing the Sidecar

Plus: Oliver Returns, Mary's Memories, No Yellow-Dog Democrat

Texas Albums

2007's best Texas albums, from Houston, Austin and beyond

Carol Fran Benefit

2007's best Texas albums, from Houston, Austin and beyond

Calvin Owens Orchestra, Barbara Lynn, Evelyn Rubio, Pete Mayes, Rue Davis, Tweed Smith

The Calvin Owens Orchestra and special guests perform 9 p.m. Saturday, August 4, at the Howling Coyote, 6536 FM 1960 West, 281-444-3401.

Yvonne Washington

Tuesday, February 14, McGonigel's Mucky Duck, 2425 Norfolk, 713-528-5999.

Evelyn Rubio y Calvin Owens Orchestra Azul

La Mujer

Houston International Fest 2007

The Bayou City's biggest festival continues making strides toward total recovery

Johnny Bush

Honky-tonk hero explores his hardscrabble Houston roots with an autobiography and a CD

The Head of the Class

Allen Hill leads the cheers for Houston's only American Idol contestant

Trudy Lynn with the Calvin Owens Blues Orchestra

I'm Still Here

Gutbucket Blues, Chopped and Screwed

The North Mississippi Allstars and Houston DJ Jimmy D team up on a revolutionary EP

The Unplugged Menace

New Model Army's show will have all of punk's power -- at a reasonable volume

Roll Over, Eric Clapton. And Tell Stevie Ray the News.

The blues is back -- rawer and louder (and punker) than ever

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

The blues is back -- rawer and louder (and punker) than ever

The South's Done It Again

Southern rock comes in for another revival

Wham, Bam, Thank You MAMH

The proposed Museum of American Music History could be the solution to our "image problem"

Double Standards?

Plus: Defining Moment, Egg on the Face, Get Off Death Row!

Grady Gaines and the Texas Upsetters / Calvin Owens

Jump Start (Gulf Coast Records) / The House Is Burnin' (Sawdust Alley)

The Nickel Burger

How is a falling-apart Fifth Ward joint turning out the best burgers in town? Adrian's has history.

Identity Crisis

Mary Cutrufello's leaving makes us wonder: Is your band a Krogers, Randalls or a Fiesta?

Racket

Pinpointing when Texas music jumped the shark

Calvin Owens

Stop Lying in My Face (Sawdust Alley)

Letters

Storage Containers, Not Ready for Prime Time, The Well Runs Dry

Benefit for Pete Mayes and Hamp Simmons

A concert for under-the-weather bluesmen

Soul Survivors

The '70s Soul Revue and The Lone Star Shootout and Gulf Coast Blues Blowout

Kick the Horns, G!

The '70s Soul Revue and The Lone Star Shootout and Gulf Coast Blues Blowout

Amplified

Out In Sight

1998 Houston Press Music Awards Winners

Out In Sight

A Musical Guide to Post-Secession Texas: Houston and "Brazoria"

The final installment of our Five States of Texas project brings it all back home, to the new state of Brazoria, encompassing all of Southeast Texas from the Brazos Valley to Sabine Pass. ​Patron Saint: Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown. A master of rock and roll, country, Cajun/Creole, blues and jazz, n ... More >>

Top 10 Honorary Texas Musicians

West Vita​Right here, right now, and in print all damn week, you can read the Houston Press' interview with perhaps the hottest new band on the South 40, San Antonio's Hacienda (above). Whether or not they go on to become a South Texas Kings of Leon - Hacienda is also three brothers and a cous ... More >>

A Fistful of Soul

One righteous vintage vinyl party.

Eldorado Ballroom: A Concise History By Dr. Roger Wood

David Bush/ houstondeco.comThe Eldorado Ballroom in 2006​Rocks Off was pleased as punch to report last week that, thanks to the efforts of the Texas Blues Project's R. Eric Davis and Project Row Houses, which has owned the historic Third Ward venue since 1999, the Eldorado Ballroom will receiv ... More >>