Guy Clark

The Texas 30: The Third Runners-Up, Albums 60-51

Friday, Rocks Off told you about our "Texas 30" project, compiling a list of the best 30 albums of the past 30 years. Today we're about to show you the first of three bubbling-under appetizer lists we did just to put a little oil on the gears. Here, starting with No. 60, is where it gets interestin ... More >>

Houston Scores Big-Time In Latest Edition Of Encyclopedia Of Country Music: Part 6

Mickey Newbury paved the road from Houston to Nashville for a Hells Angels-ish, hard-drinking, hard-drugging gaggle of songwriters who, like Newbury, would go on to make a serious mark on Music City. Ornery, belligerent, cocky, literary, opinionated, and super-talented, this group of Houston transp ... More >>

Health Department Roundup: KFC, Pizza Buffets and the Wok of Shame

We're going to start with a tale from fast food. The KFC at 6505 Hillcroft had a pretty good inspection -- the only issues the city turned up were floors not in good repair and not enough light in working areas. That's nice and all, but according to our mom, who worked at a KFC when she was in high ... More >>

Darrell Scott: Loving Life Way Outside The Nashville Mainstream

Since moving to Nashville in 1995, 52-year-old Darrell Scott has had a career most who take that Hillbilly Highway to Music City USA would envy. A triple-threat talent, Scott was for years a session warhorse, a guy who could play about anything with strings on it as well as possessing a fantastic ea ... More >>

Guy Clark To Play Galveston's Old Quarter In May

Houston boys gone to Viet Nashville​ Guy Clark, the quintessential Texas singer-songwriter, has just announced a one-off gig at Galveston's historic Old Quarter Acoustic Café for May 15. According to club owner Wrecks Bell, he had been negotiating to get Clark to Galveston for some time, but ... More >>

Towering Townes

Fifteen years after the death of a legend, there are a few stories left untold.

Crusty Texan Bounces Watch The Throne From Amazon's Top MP3 Album Spot

Now Kanye has something else to cry about.​Proving once again that old age and treachery beats youth and skill every time, grizzled Texas singer-songwriter emeritus Guy Clark has knocked Jay-Z & Kanye West's Watch the Throne from the top MP3 albums sales spot on Amazon.com. Employing the same ... More >>

The Storyteller

Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Townes Van Zandt...Ramblin' Jack Elliott has an anecdote for everyone.

Lonesome Onry and Mean: "Nashville Phantom" Goes Off on the Scene's Country Music Poll

​Another 30-plus-year vet of Viet Nashville got his bowels in an uproar about the Nashville Scene's country music poll. In a long email to Lonesome Onry and Mean, this denizen of the songwriting trenches and the recording alleys who has had songs recorded by Johnny Cash, Emmylou Harris and other g ... More >>

American Central Dust: The Americana Class of 2009, Part 1

​We spent 2009 sorting through piles of folk and Americana releases, revising this list in our heads till the bitter end and failing repeatedly to understand the hype behind the Avett Brothers in the process. While a year of listening brought no shortage of pleasant surprises, our hands-down favor ... More >>

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 >>

Win a Songwriting Session With Guy Clark... For a Price

Imagine getting some pointers on the links from Tiger Woods, cooking lessons from Bobby Flay or a one-on-one session with Bernie Madoff where the infamous Wall Street financier explains how to bilk investors out of millions of dollars. When it comes to songwriting, especially of the Texas persuasion ... More >>

Before We Go: A Thousand Cranes, the Muses, Johnny Bush, the Old Quarter, Katy Perry, a Numbers Documentary and More

The above cartoon - give it a minute; it'll show up - is somehow tied into Saturday's show at Avant Garden featuring A Thousand Cranes, How I Quit Crack and Metal Rouge. Rocks Off wishes he could tell you how, but he digs the Monty Python and the Holy Grail homage. Colorado traditional Celtic duo t ... More >>

The Menu of Guy Clark's "Texas Cookin'"

If you're like Rocks Off, you've probably, finally, eaten your way through the last of the holiday leftovers. (If you've never had deep-fried Cajun turkey, by the way...) You could always start that healthier diet you're always talking about, and exercise, but who are we kidding? It's time to re-st ... More >>

The Menu of Guy Clark's "Texas Cookin'"

If you're like me, you've probably, finally, eaten your way through the last of the holiday leftovers. (If you've never had deep-fried Cajun turkey, by the way...) You could always start that healthier diet you're always talking about, and exercise, but who are we kidding? It's time to re-stock tha ... More >>

Lonesome Onry and Mean: Sounds of Texas Music Series Announces 2009 Season

Guy Clark, "L.A. Freeway," live in Utrecht, The Netherlands, 2006 In response to last week's feature on the Conroe/The Woodlands/Montgomery County Americana scene, we've just received word from the Sounds of Texas Music Series people regarding their 2009 season. Quote-unquote, "Season ticket ... More >>

Live Nation Cancellations and Postponements

Guy Clark, Nanci Griffith

Just How Texan are Hayes Carll and Miranda Lambert?

No Mas No Depression: The Alt-Country (or Whatever That Is) Journal Shuts Down

Googlism with Houston Musicians, or Why Beyonce Is Stealing My Mojo

Darrell Scott

The Houston 100: From Sir Douglas Quintet to Guy Clark

The Houston 100: From Guy Clark to Don Williams

Hey, Look Over There

Lomax on Lomax

Catfish Reef: Happy Woman Blues

Terry Allen

Terry Allen performs Friday, December 29, at McGonigel's Mucky Duck, 2425 Norfolk, 713-528-5999.

Dan Crump

Truth Is

Ripe for Eatin' or Throwin'

Various Artists

Heartworn Highways

Buddy Mondlock

Friday, March 10, at Anderson Fair, 2007 Grant, 713-528-8576

Eric Taylor

Saturday, January 21, at Anderson Fair, 2007 Grant, 713-528-8576.

Codeine Country

Houston was the city of syrup long before DJ Screw came on the scene

Richard Dobson

Friday, April 1, at the Old Quarter Acoustic Café, 413 20th Street in Galveston, 409-762-9199. Dobson also appears Saturday, April 2, at Anderson Fair, 2007 Grant, 713-528-8576.

Defending the Dirty Thirty

And coping with Yankee slander

Funeral Blues

Three local music figures are cut down in one week

Chip Taylor and Carrie Rodriguez

Tuesday, October 28

Songbird Silenced

Pioneering singer/songwriter and native Houstonian Mickey Newbury passes away

Racket

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

World Class?

Houston can't join the ranks of other cities until it has an anthem of its own

Meet the New Boss

John Nova Lomax

Bert Wills

Tell Me Why (Gold Rhyme)

Mornings with Woody

Slaid Cleaves "collaborates" with the father of folk music, while blazing his own trail

Long Haul

As the rest of Americana crumbles around him, Guy Clark just keeps getting better

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