Subject: Hank Williams

• Sunday Afternoon: Ramsay Midwood at Under the Volcano

  April 15, 2008

• A Review of Sing Me Back Home: Love, Death, and Country Music by Dana Jennings

  August 24, 2008

• Another Time, Another Country

  January 21, 1999

• Beyonce and Luke the Drifter

  Because her public appearances are stage-managed to the hilt, and otherwise she generally stays out of trouble (or out of sight altogether), Beyonce is of constant interest but limited use to gotcha!-media outlets like TMZ. "It's hard to imagine Beyonce scratching an itch without undergoing a little media training first," Blender senior editor Jonah Weiner writes in "Pop Dopplegangers," an interesting article Rocks Off ran across today on Slate.com. Playing off Beyonce's decision to reco

  November 26, 2008

• Aftermath Extra: The Best Concerts of the Year, Part 3

  Sean Reefer & the Resin Valley Boys, Boondocks, April 28: "Reefer and friends can be a benign ensemble whose greatest sin (and virtue) is defibrillating the shade of Hank Williams Sr. for an audience whose appetite for debauchery is more in line with grandson Hank III." Mike Ness and Jesse Dayton, Meridian, May 6: "Ness' hard-luck characters took an unplanned back seat Tuesday to-the-all too real predicament of opener Jesse Dayton. En route from Dallas, Dayton's tour bus was pulled over

  December 31, 2008

• New Theater on the Block

  July 7, 1994

• Bad Licks for Dumb Hicks

  July 21, 1994

• Big Sandy and his Boys

  September 15, 1994

• Full Nelson

  June 29, 1995

• Vintage Sounds

  August 22, 1996

• Right Number

  December 5, 1996

• Hats Off

  August 14, 1997

• iFest Unveils Complete Lineup

  Photos courtesy of iFest BeogaSince we're already playing hangman today, here's another riddle: What do America's finest genre-hopping Latino band, Houston's best Guinness-chugging rockers, a daughter of the nation's premiere gospel family, a perennially unsung honky-tonker who sounds like the ghost of Hank Williams, a bayou-born boogie-woogie piano queen, a Grammy-winning Tejano godfather, two of Louisiana's hottest young Cajun groups, more regional zydeco groups than you can shake a Hoh

  February 19, 2009

• Under(ground) Achievers

  May 28, 1998

• Wild Man Blues

  July 2, 1998

• Album of the Week: Heartless Bastards' The Mountain

  Heartless Bastards The Mountain www.heartlessbastards.com Gnarlier than a century-old Live Oak, Heartless Bastards' The Mountain plugs the Cincinnati-born trio's scorching postmodern blues - their debut, 2006's All This Time, could skin a cat - into the eerie backwoods folk of Greil Marcus' semi-mythical "old, weird America." Opener "The Mountain" is an epic Neil Young & Crazy Horse earth-mover, with psychedelic pedal-steel flourishes that help singer Erika Wennerstrom (who has since

  March 12, 2009

• Original Punks

  July 1, 1999

• Heartless Bastards: The Mountain

  March 19, 2009

• Don't Stop Believin'

  January 29, 2009

• Me and Mr. Jones

  November 20, 2008

• Music to Shuffle Off This Mortal Coil

  October 30, 2008

• Truth Be Told

  Lee Roy Parnell finds his roots everywhere but Nashville

  August 23, 2001

• Dr. Roger Wood's Matagorda Island Discs

  May 29, 2008

• Diana Jones

  Diana Jones will be performing Thursday, May 17, at Mojo Risin' Coffee Shop, 1600 Shepherd, 713-426-1505

  May 17, 2007

• Honeydripper Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

  March 20, 2008

• Dash Rip Rock

  January 24, 2008

• Charlie Louvin

  October 11, 2007

• Raul Malo

  September 13, 2007

• Max Stalling, blacktopGYPSY

  September 6, 2007

• Woodbelly

  Woodbelly performs Friday, March 30, at Dan Electro's Guitar Bar, 1031 East 24th, 713-862-8707.

  March 29, 2007

• Starry Lullabye

  Ailing Houston-area native David Schnaufer has taken the Appalachian dulcimer to the mountaintop

  August 24, 2006

• Pinmonkey

  Thursday, May 25, at McGonigel's Mucky Duck, 2524 Norfolk, 713-528-5999

  May 25, 2006

• Hank III

  Straight to Hell

  March 30, 2006

• Overlooked in '05

  Ten great discs that were underserved by the media but are more than worthy

  December 8, 2005

• The Gourds, with the Sidehill Gougers

  Thursday, August 4, at Heritage Place Amphitheatre, 500 Collins Street in Conroe, 936-525-4782. Free.

  August 4, 2005

• Greg Trooper

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

  April 28, 2005

• Playbill

  January 6, 2005

• Wigged Gigs

  October 7, 2004

• Best Jukebox

  Under the Volcano

  September 25, 2003

• West Virginia Wild Man

  Though he loves to salute them in songs, chickens aren't all that's on the Hasil Adkins diet

  February 13, 2003

• Superjoint Ritual

  Saturday, June 29

  June 27, 2002

• Please Pass the Carcinogens

  Some advice for those who fret about naturally occurring toxins in holiday meals: Stuff it

  December 14, 2000

• On the Off-Road Again

  Country legend Ray Price continues to take the path less traveled

  November 23, 2000

• Urbane Cowboy

  Lyle Lovett is smart, funny and wears Armani. That's right: He is from Texas.

  May 6, 1999

• Tonight: Volbeat at Warehouse Live

  Photo by Andreas BondingEvery time us Yanks think we've got the market cornered on strangeness, along come those darn Europeans to show us how much we still have to learn. It's most entertaining when they do it by re-interpreting classic American concepts such as gangsters, country music and punk rock as interpreted by '80s Southern California bands like Bad Religion and Social Distortion. That's what Denmark's Volbeat, a Copenhagen four-piece formed in 2001, does on third album Guitar Gangsters

  May 12, 2009

• Burnin' for You

  June 25, 2009

• George Strait Week, Part 2: Cajun George

  After Tuesday's look at the shockingly Morrissey-like sentiments of the many George Strait songs where his love interest is either already gone or on her way out the door, Rocks Off thought today we'd take a look at a much happier - and, it should be said, significantly smaller - subcategory of King George's prodigious catalog.​Distinguished by lively fiddle/accordion interplay and an up-tempo two-step or waltz rhythm, Cajun music has been cropping up in country at least since Hank Williams'

  August 5, 2009

• He Said She Said: Songs That Remind Us of Our Grandfathers

  ​ She Said has something she wants to admit. Here goes nothing. We... like... country music. No big deal, right? You wouldn't think so, unless you grew up in a town filled with racist rednecks who thought the glitz of '90s Nashville qualifies for the only music worth listenin' to. She Said rebelled by listening to bands like the Stones and Bikini Kill, cutting off all her hair, and begging her dad to buy her combat boots at the Army Surplus store, which she wore Angela Chase-style with flow-y

  November 5, 2009

• Wednesdays are Honky-Tonk Heaven In Houston, and Thursdays are Hillbilly Hell

  Photos by Chris GrayRobert Ellis & the Boys, under the blue neon​ It's no secret Rocks Off is a big fan of the country music, which is why we're starting to get a little excited about the inner-loop honky-tonk scene that's taking root. Over the weekend, we caught Sean Reefer & the Resin Valley Boys doing their hemped-up Hank Williams thang at the West Alabama Ice House, and Miss Leslie & Her Juke-Jointers' Sunday-evening sets (6-9 p.m.) at the Continental Club, a fine way to wind d

  November 5, 2009

• Honky-Tonk Revival

  November 19, 2009