Subject: Delbert McClinton

• Weekend Music: Jucifer Doubles Your Pleasure

  February 22, 2008

• Dan Aykroyd on the (Mostly Texan) Blues Brothers Band, Our New House of Blues, Lightnin' Hopkins, Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, Houston Kinfolk, SNL in Campaign '08 and More

  October 17, 2008

• Tonight: Gary Nicholson at Dosey Doe

  November 8, 2008

• Nail Noise

  April 28, 1994

• A Uniquely Pervis Perspective

  December 8, 1994

• Live Shots

  December 22, 1994

• Doug Sahm Tribute Album Due March 24

  Vanguard Records (Billy Bob Thornton & the Boxmasters, Kim Richey, the Watson Twins) announced today it will release Keep Your Soul: A Tribute to Doug Sahm, a 14-song disc honoring the late musican known as Sir Doug, March 24. Artists include Delbert McClinton, Los Lobos, Alejandro Escovedo, Dave Alvin, Terry Allen, Charlie Sexton and former Afghan Whigs lead singer Greg Dulli. Sahm's two sons, Shandon and Shawn, are also featured on Keep Your Soul. Shandon, who now fronts his own heav

  January 21, 2009

• Rotation

  November 20, 1997

• Static

  January 1, 1998

• Letters

  January 22, 1998

• Rotation

  January 21, 1999

• Rotation

  February 4, 1999

• Lost Tuneage: Jerry Lynn Williams

  Who Dat? www.myspace.com/jerrylynnwilliamsI'd forgotten about Fort Worth rocker and soul man Jerry Lynn Williams until the other day when I was reading Eric Clapton's autobiography. Warner Bros. had returned Clapton's tapes from sessions in Montserrat and, to keep his Warner's deal, Clapton agreed the company should suggest songs they thought were hit single material. They sent him three songs by Williams: "Forever Man," "Something's Happening" and "See What Love Can Do." Clapton agreed

  April 3, 2009

• Album of the Week: Keep Your Soul: A Tribute to Doug Sahm

  As much as he deserves one - make that several - Doug Sahm is a tricky subject for a tribute album. The late San Antonio native known as "Sir Doug" was a true musical polymath, a master of just about every form of post-WWII popular music, both the big ones - country, blues, rock and roll - as well as more regionally specific genres like conjunto, Norteno, Cajun and swamp pop. More often than not, Sahm would roll several of the aforementioned styles into one son

  April 7, 2009

• Texas Music on Sirius/XM's Outlaw Country

  December 4, 2008

• On The Scene At The Houston Tea Party

  In the end, it exceeded the expectations of even its once-seemingly wildly overenthusiastic organizers. Approximately 3,500 pissed-off demonstrators packed Jones Plaza for a warm-up blues-rock concert and harangues about high taxes, debt, bail-outs, and socialism.     You'd have to think the crowd was decidedly of the Outside the Beltway persuasion. All in all, there hasn't been this many melanin-challenged people in Jones Plaza since Cory Morrow played here back in '03, and t

  April 15, 2009

• Scene But Not Heard

  Houston's student shortage forces the indie scene to go the blue-collar route

  June 7, 2001

• Shawn Phillips Is Stranger Than Fiction

  Meet Navy rescuer and true rock and roll Zelig

  March 20, 2008

• Racism Goes Unchecked at Regent University, Meanwhile the Melanin-Challenged Turn Out to Protest... Something.

  April 23, 2009

• Seth Walker: Leap of Faith

  April 23, 2009

• Mike Therieau

  Living from a Suitcase

  July 20, 2006

• Tommy Castro

  Saturday, March 18, the Continental Club, 3700 Main, 713-529-9666

  March 16, 2006

• If It's Not Scottish, It's Crap!

  Wack puts this whole Franz Ferdinand thing into context

  October 13, 2005

• Teresa James and the Rhythm Tramps

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

  September 22, 2005

• Greg Trooper

  Saturday, April 30, at McGonigel's Mucky Duck, 2425 Norfolk, 713-528-5999.

  April 28, 2005

• This Week's Houston International Festival Highlights

  Saturday and Sunday, April 23 and 24, downtown in an area bounded by Dallas, Rusk and Louisiana streets and Sam Houston Park. For information, call 713-654-8808.

  April 21, 2005

• The Sick Old Man of the Festival Circuit

  An open letter to the organizers and music bookers of the Houston International Festival

  April 21, 2005

• Los Super 7

  Heard It on the X

  March 24, 2005

• Playbill

  October 14, 2004

• Playbill

  August 19, 2004

• The Main Event

  January 29 - February 1

  January 29, 2004

• Little Joe Washington

  Every Wednesday

  July 3, 2003

• Kenny G.'s Revenge

  Smooth-jazz fans blast Racket

  December 5, 2002

• Tab Benoit

  Friday, May 10

  May 9, 2002

• Mike Barfield

  Friday, March 22

  March 21, 2002

• Age-Old Axiom

  The Axiom can't seem to shake its past

  March 14, 2002

• Emo-tional Music

  Montrose music gets pushed out towards the Heights

  January 10, 2002

• Toro! Toro! Toro!

  Home to pop queens and dance hall kings, Texas is still bullish about the music market

  January 3, 2002

• Roy Head

  Head On! (Music Club)

  December 13, 2001

• Racket

  At Tim Murrah's Metropol, it's about music, not style

  August 23, 2001

• 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 Fort Worth roots-rockers: Delbert McClinton, Jerry Lynn Williams, T-Bone Burnett and countless others. He was working on a film with Burnett in Los Angeles when his health deteriorated and he passed awa

  May 12, 2009

• 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 female Delbert McClinton, in fact, except that Delbert's songs generally don't get made into Julia Roberts movies. Thursday night at Verizon Wireless Theater, Raitt was talkative and congenial - very

  May 15, 2009

• Sahm Does Sahm

  July 23, 2009

• A Musical Guide to Post-Secession Texas: "Palo Duro"

  View Five States of Texas in a larger map As any proud Texan can tell you, the Lone Star State is entitled constitutionally to split into five states if it so wishes. The scenario has rarely been more in the news than it has relatively recently, when Gov. Rick Perry played to the wingnut gallery in an attempt to outflank primary opponent Kay Bailey Hutchison on the right discussed secession as a viable possibility. But Rocks Off doesn't care a whit about any of that political BS. We do care abou

  August 11, 2009

• Lonesome Onry and Mean: Delbert McClinton Should Go Honky-Tonkin' More Often

  ​LOM has been listening to Delbert McClinton's new album Acquired Taste (New West), which hits stores next Tuesday, quite a bit lately. We've always been a fan of Delbert's and consider him to be one of the leading proponents of what we consider Texas music. Much like Doug Sahm, the Fort Worth native has always had blues, country and rock mixed up in the proper Texas proportions, and for us, that's Texas music. LOM will never forget the first time we heard McClinton's album Victim of Life

  August 13, 2009

• Walter's on Washington Leaves Its Namesake Avenue Behind.

  September 3, 2009

• Why the Hell Not — Again?

  September 10, 2009

• Five Direct Beatles Connections to Texas

  Four postcards included in the limited edition of The Beatles: Rock Band​ Looks like Beatlemania 2.0 is in full swing. Rocks Off may have mentioned how excited we are to play The Beatles: Rock Band at Coffee Groundz tonight, with prizes, drink specials and much laughter as we try to gnash our way through "I Saw Her Standing There." Shortly after noon, we called over to Cactus Music to see how the freshly released remastered Beatles catalog was selling. The complete box set sold out in pre-sale

  September 9, 2009

• Distant Early Warning: Cactus Music Second Anniversary, Delbert McClinton, the Marley Brothers, Mindy Smith, Queen Latifah, the Slackers, Vallejo, etc.

  ​"Cactus Music 2nd Anniversary Party" With The Flamin' Hellcats, DJ Joey McKeel: Fri., Oct. 30, 7 p.m. Cactus Music and Video. Arthur Yoria, Colin Lake: Wed., Oct. 28. Warehouse Live. Delbert McClinton: Sat., Dec. 26. Verizon Wireless Theater. Dir En Grey: Mon., Nov. 2. Warehouse Live. "ArrowFest 2009" With The Doobie Brothers, Foreigner, Eddie Money, Foghat, WAR, Starship, Blue Oyster Cult: Sun., Nov. 1. Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion. Doug Martsch (DJ Set): Fri., Oct. 23. The Mink.

  October 6, 2009

• Send Lawyers, Guns & Money: Nine Non-Boring Songs About the Work Attorneys Do

  Rocks Off's local watering hole is frequented by a lawyer named Eugene Lawley, whom we always refer to as our Walker Percy. Lawley has more than a small literary bent - we hardly ever mention a book he hasn't read - and has a fine ear for song lyrics. His sister wrote themes for television and movies. I recently suggested that he put together a list of lawyer songs. According to Lawley, who works in the title/leases/land end of the oil and gas business, "There aren't many songs actually about l

  November 17, 2009