Subject: Etta James

• Just Released CDs

  June 5, 2007

• 1999 Houston Press Music Award Winners

  July 29, 1999

• B.B. King Sure Has a Lot of Friends

  Is there anyone who doesn't love B.B. King? If you're talking about the 83-year-old bluesman's fellow musicians, the answer is a resounding "No!" King has probably sat in with with more players (and vice versa) than anybody else save perhaps Willie Nelson, with whom of course King has teamed up countless times both live (above) and on record. In honor of his two-night stand at House of Blues - both shows are close to selling out - this weekend, Rocks Off combed YouTube to find a few of the kin

  November 21, 2008

• Blues Kudos & Burb Buzz

  April 21, 1994

• Tonight: Cedric Burnside & Lightnin' Malcolm at House of Blues

  Colin McAuliffe When you first hear the first few songs on Lighnin' Malcolm & Cedric Burnside's 2 Man Wrecking Crew, you just can't believe it's just two guys playing live in the studio. But working with legendary producer David Z (Jonny Lang, Etta James, Prince), Malcolm and Burnside nailed fourteen tunes in just three days of work - an astoundingly short period at a time when many bands spend months just to perfect a lousy guitar solo. Rocks Off caught up with Burnside over th

  January 8, 2009

• Rotation

  December 8, 1994

• At Last: Beyonce Serenades President & Mrs. Obama

  Beyonce stepped back into her Cadillac Records character Etta James to sing "At Last," and sing the hell out of it, for President and Mrs. Obama's first dance at last night's HD Neighborhood Inaugural Ball in Washington, D.C. It's hard to imagine either a better singer or song for the occasion - sorry, Etta - especially the line "I found a dream that I could speak to/ A dream that I could call my own." Cadillac Records, which by the way is excellent, is due on DVD March 10.

  January 21, 2009

• Nails in the Coffin

  May 15, 1997

• Sound Check

  July 31, 1997

• Rotation

  August 27, 1998

• Aftermath: One Wild Weekend

  Craig Hlavaty The Imani School Student Jazz Ensemble Craig Hlavaty Erykah BaduRocks Off is still in the very early recovery stages from this weekend, which was one of the most satisfying musical whirlwinds he's been sucked into in quite some time. He started off Friday evening at the Arena Theatre (his new favorite local venue) for Erykah Badu's retro-futuristic benefit for Houston's Imani School. The local private academy's jazz ensemble - no member was over age 13 - ev

  March 9, 2009

• Rotation

  January 21, 1999

• Internalizing the Blues

  January 28, 1999

• Exit Strategy

  May 27, 1999

• Behind the Music (City)

  Is she rock? Is she soul? Jonell Mosser keeps 'em guessing

  July 6, 2000

• Cadillac Records Can't Handle the Truth

  Spinning Blues into Lies

  December 4, 2008

• Beyoncé's Back

  November 20, 2008

• Is Your Band in Trouble?

  November 20, 2008

• Janiva Magness

  September 4, 2008

• The TSU Toronadoes

  The twisted history of "Tighten Up"

  December 13, 2007

• Noise for Toys

  Mucky Duck does it for Christmas

  November 29, 2007

• Houston's Very Best Songs Ever

  September 27, 2007

• Tianna Hall & the Mexico City Jazz Trio

  Lost in the Stars

  July 5, 2007

• The Edge of the Spotlight

  Trouble for "Texas Troubadour" Chris Knudson

  August 24, 2006

• The O.G. of Love

  Johnny "Guitar" Watson gets his due with a terrific two disc set

  October 13, 2005

• Tony Joe White

  Friday, September 30, at McGonigel's Mucky Duck, 2425 Norfolk, 713-528-5999.

  September 29, 2005

• Letters

  May 5, 2005

• Etta James

  Tuesday, April 27

  April 22, 2004

• The Gossip

  Saturday, February 7

  February 5, 2004

• Scoring the Super Bowl

  NFL Films' music may be stirring, but these songs tell the real story of the big games

  January 29, 2004

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  July 3, 2003

• Club Directory

  April 10, 2003

• Songbird Silenced

  Pioneering singer/songwriter and native Houstonian Mickey Newbury passes away

  October 10, 2002

• Big John and Little Joe

  Space City's tallest and shortest musicians rule the 2002 Houston Press Music Awards

  August 1, 2002

• Murder in Small Town X

  A cheese maker bites it in Actors Theatre's melodrama

  May 9, 2002

• Young Blood

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

  April 15, 1999

• Hot Torch

  January 11, 1996

• Soul Nite

  From Motown to the Orange Show, that’s quite a trip

  April 30, 2009

• This Week In Beyonce: Obsessed No. 1 No More, Parisian Holiday, Glamour Cover, Dutch Tantrum and More

  Jezebel, via infdaily.comWell, what's Beyonce been up to this week? For starters, Wolverine blew B's semi-erotic thriller Obsessed out of the No. 1 box-office spot, notching $87 million last weekend. Obsessed was also edged by Matthew McConaughey's equally panned romcom Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, which took in $15.3 mil to Obsessed's $12.2 mil. No matter. Beyonce can sleep better knowing her movie will be the last non-blockbuster-type flick to top the box office until probably September. You kn

  May 7, 2009

• This Week In Beyonce: B Acts... Like What?

  Rocks Off can't argue with the fact that Beyonce Knowles is a stone-cold fox when she gets on the microphone and belts out a song, dripping in glitter and wearing a barely-there outfit. Her voice is at once menacing and thundering, but also femininely fragile. Plus she has to be super-cool behind the scenes for Jay-Z to call her his girl, because we are pretty sure he doesn't dig on crazy women as much as we do. But sweet baby Jesus, she can't read lines or emote into a camera unless she's filmi

  July 1, 2009

• Aftermath: Beyonce at Toyota Center

  Photos by Daniel Kramer Imagine, if you will, being invited to the most lavish party, held just for you and about 15,000 of your closet friends. The host, a beauty from McGregor, whose only mission is to give her guests 100 percent of herself and satisfy their needs for a night of entertainment. In a nutshell, that is what going to a Beyonce concert is like. From the opening of the show when she tempts the audience with parts of "Deja Vu" and then goes into her first solo single "Crazy in Love,"

  July 6, 2009

• Aftermath: Depeche Mode's Black and Blue Celebration at The Woodlands

  Photos by Eric Sauseda​ Far, far away from the group once known for bubbly synth-pop anthems like "Just Can't Get Enough" and "Everything Counts," Depeche Mode circa 2009 has pressed its small army of keyboards and electronics into the service of primal urges and raw sexuality. Not terribly surprising from a band that once sang about playing "Master and Servant," perhaps, but the degree to which the trio (plus another keyboardist and drummer) has infused bleeding-fingernail blues into its once

  August 31, 2009