Subject: Hayes Carll

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

  February 19, 2008

• Playbill: Corb Lund and Hayes Carll at Dosey Doe

  May 16, 2008

• Last Night: Adam Carroll & John Evans at McGonigel’s Mucky Duck

  June 11, 2008

• The Wayback Machine: 5, 10 and 15 Years Ago in Houston Music

  June 20, 2008

• Lonesome Onry and Mean: Hayes Carll Wins Americana Song of the Year

  September 20, 2008

• Stingaree Music Festival and Texas Crab Festival in Crystal Beach, Texas

  Photos by J.C. ReidReason to celebrateTwo of the biggest annual events at Crystal Beach on the Bolivar Peninsula east of Galveston are the Texas Crab Festival and the Stingaree Music Festival. In its 24th year, the Crab Festival traditionally has occurred on Mother's Day weekend and celebrates everything culinary and cultural about those tasty Gulf Coast critters known as blue crabs. The Stingaree Music Festival, in its third year, usually has taken place in April and is the brainchild of countr

  June 2, 2009

• Hayes Carll is "Grateful for Christmas"

  Houston's own Hayes Carll, whose smash Trouble in Mind LP you will no doubt see strewn across Best Album lists for the next month, has a Christmas tune, "I'm Grateful for Christmas This Year," available for download on his label's Web site. The track was recorded during an appearance on "Imus in The Morning. It's a Texas Christmas song that will bring you back to your youth, even if it's not over yet. Drunk relatives, burnt dressing, missing dead Grandpas, and snow in Houston. Remember tha

  December 18, 2008

• Tonight: Hayes Carll at Warehouse Live

  Woodlands native turned Austin dweller Hayes Carll had an up-and-down year in 2008. His first Lost Highway release, Trouble In Mind, garnered worldwide attention. As he relaxed in the Ozarks with his in-laws before heading to Warehouse Live for tonight's gig with Band of Heathens and Adam Carroll, we caught up with him to look back... and forward.  Rocks Off: What were the highlights of 2008 for you as an artist? Hayes Carll: The Stingaree Music Festival, playing the

  December 26, 2008

• Aftermath: Robert Earl Keen at House of Blues; Dash Rip Rock at the Continental Club; Hayes Carll at Warehouse Live

  Photos: Hayes Carll/ Craig Hlavaty; Dash Rip Rock, Robert Earl Keen/ Chris Gray On their 1996 self-titled debut LP, Hee Haw-loving Nashville ironists BR5-49 cut a song called "Little Ramona (Gone Hillbilly Nuts)." Anyone who has read either the paper or this site in the past few weeks will no doubt know that little Rocks Off has likewise gone hillbilly nuts. He hasn't stopped listening to other kinds of music completely, but lately, to paraphrase someone who was most definitely not a

  December 29, 2008

• Lonesome Onry and Mean: 2008's Heavy Rotation

  For the second (third?) year in a row, LOM didn't vote in either the Nashville Scene's best of country music poll or the Village Voice's Pazz & Jop best of American music poll. I'm just not a good list-maker. Detest that stuff. Just trying to compile a list of possibles makes my brain hate me. Anyway, I rarely get serviced by the major labels, and I don't listen to the radio stations that kowtow to the major labels, so I don't feel I have much context in which to wrestle with the important

  December 30, 2008

• The Best Videos of 2008, Part 2

  5. Killer Mike feat. Ice Cube, "Pressure" 4. Weezer, "Pork and Beans" 3. Justice, "Stress" (above) 2. Hayes Carll, "She Left Me for Jesus" And the best video of 2008 is... 

  January 1, 2009

• Lonesome Onry and Mean: The Gourds, Part 2

  Andy Goodwin [Note: Part 1 of this interview is here.] Lonesome Onry and Mean: You guys have been on several labels, have probably heard all the too-good-to-be-true come-ons, been to the meetings with label radio gurus and all. How do you look at the label system and the way things are done in the business today? Kevin Russell: The Gourds still operate from the position that radio should be free-form directed by DJs who are well-versed in the history of the music they play, and the label shou

  January 7, 2009

• Lonesome Onry and Mean: Miss Leslie Takes Top Honors in Freeform Americana Radio Awards

  Miss Leslie and Her Juke-Jointers, "Yes Ma'am" Houston's own Miss Leslie Sloan of Miss Leslie and Her Jukejointers was tipped for a slew of honors in the most recent Best of 2008 voting by FAR (Freeform Americana Radio) members. She was voted Female Artist of the Year over Eliza Gilkyson and Carrie Rodriguez, and Songwriter of the Year over another Houstonian, Hayes Carll. Leslie's Between the Whiskey and the Wine took home top album honors, while Carll's Trouble In Mind was slotted at No

  January 9, 2009

• Annual Pazz & Jop Results Released

  Congrats, TV on the Radio! This morning our sister paper in Manhattan's Cooper Square, the Village Voice, released the results of its annual Pazz & Jop poll, where hundreds of music writers and editors rank their favorite albums of the past year in what has to be an absolute nightmare for the people who actually compile the thing. Participants are given 100 points to among their favorite ten albums and singles. Check it out here. Unsurprisingly, TV on the Radio's Dear Science - which top

  January 21, 2009

• Robison Brothers Too Sick to Play Mucky Duck; Hayes Carll and John Evans Step In

  Rocks Off just got an email from McGonigel's Mucky Duck owner Rusty Andrews (so did everyone else on the venue's mailing list, but never mind) saying that Bruce and Charlie Robison have had to cancel tonight's show due to illness; he says a reschedule date is planned, but doesn't know when that might be. Pinch-hitting are a couple of old Duck hands: Hayes Carll - above, who just sold out the joint last Friday - and John Evans, billed as "The Ego Brothers." Those with tickets for the Robiso

  January 27, 2009

• Lonesome Onry and Mean: Good Trouble for Hayes Carll in 2008

  We freely admit we are homers, as big a fans of Hayes Carll as Milo Hamilton is of the Astros, but the Press isn't the only media outlet in the country impressed by Carll's first Lost Highway album, Trouble in Mind. The album, which featured the Americana Music Association's song of the year, "She Left Me For Jesus," was Amazon.com's #1 country album, R&R Americana album of the year, and Amazon's #9 album overall. It also scored a #2 in the annual poll of No Depression writers, as well as a #2 i

  January 30, 2009

• Tonight: The Magpies at the Continental Club

  [A review from the Magpies' January Continental show is here.] Chris GrayMy son, a guitar plunker raised on huge doses of Rockpile and Joe Ely, tipped me to the Magpies. He saw them at Hayes Carll's Stingaree Festival about a year ago and pronounced them the hardest-rocking band of the whole soiree. Tooling over to MySpace, it only took a brief introduction to the band's work to convince me that he might be onto something. Not only does the band rock, it has smart lyrics and, with keybo

  April 14, 2009

• The Magpies

  January 1, 2009

• 2008 in Texas Albums and Local EPs

  January 1, 2009

• Santa Baby

  What a few musicians want under their trees this year

  December 25, 2008

• Rex "Wrecks" Bell Is Just Playing

  September 25, 2008

• Hayes Carll

  Flowers and Liquor (Compadre)

  August 8, 2002

• Just How Texan are Hayes Carll and Miranda Lambert?

  August 7, 2008

• Hayes Carll

  April 10, 2008

• Houston Music Festivals

  The last three weeks of this month promise to be hard on your wallet, eardrums and liver

  April 3, 2008

• Graham Weber

  Settling in Austin by way of Los Angeles and a broken heart, this singer/songwriter is making a name for himself in Americana circles

  January 3, 2008

• Stingaree Music Festival

  Hayes Carll hosts a sandy shindig in a reverse hurricane

  April 26, 2007

• Talk to Mee

  A dialogue with a local indie punker about the cultural cringe

  February 15, 2007

• Houston Band Cartography

  The launch of our blog brings forth a quixotic attempt toward a local music atlas

  July 6, 2006

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  November 10, 2005

• 2006 Houston Press Music Awards Supplement

  July 27, 2006

• Houston's Gone Gaaga for Haaga

  August 4, 2005

• The Bolivar Kid Strikes Again

  Hayes Carll continues H-town's hot streak with Little Rock

  April 7, 2005

• White By Whitebread No More

  This year's South By Southwest makes room for plenty of local rap. Why can't our rockers get with the program?

  March 3, 2005

• Playbill

  November 11, 2004

• ¡Viva H-town!

  Latinos come to the fore in this year's music awards

  August 5, 2004

• Music Awards Survey

  A rundown of every act on this year's bill

  July 22, 2004

• Hayes, Dude

  A fresh and brainy country alternative

  December 18, 2003

• Hothouse Flowers

  August 14, 2003

• Rock You like a Hurricane

  The Press Music Awards Showcase brings a category-five storm of tunes

  July 24, 2003

• The Whole Package

  Medicine Show is packed with talent, youth, and charm

  January 2, 2003

• Big John and Little Joe

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

  August 1, 2002

• Hayes of Wine & Roses

  Galveston's Hayes Carll sets aside sin long enough to come up with Flowers & Liquor

  January 24, 2002

• The 2009 Houston Press Music Award Nominees

  Here they are, folks. You nominated 'em, we mulled 'em over and sorted out the stuffers, and now the 2009 Houston Press Music Awards ballot is set. Normally Rocks Off would say something cute like read 'em and weep, but since we've been listening to almost nothing but '80s hard rock and new bands that totally sound like '80s hard rock (Low Man's Joe, The Answer, Charm City Devils) for the past couple of days, we'll just say this: Eat 'em and smile. Just kidding. We know this is serious stuff, an

  May 21, 2009

• Houston Press Music Awards: And The Nominees Are...

  Here they are, folks. You nominated 'em, we mulled 'em over and sorted out the stuffers, and now the 2009 Houston Press Music Awards ballot is set. Normally Rocks Off would say something cute like read 'em and weep, but since we've been listening to almost nothing but '80s hard rock and new bands that totally sound like '80s hard rock (Low Man's Joe, The Answer, Charm City Devils) for the past couple of days, we'll just say this: Eat 'em and smile. Just kidding. We know this is serious stuff, a

  May 21, 2009

• Running the Numbers

  May 28, 2009

• MP3 of the Day: Hayes Carll

  Some basic facts that cannot be disputed. Our economy is in the shitter; parts of downtown Houston smell like a little boy's bathroom, puddles and all; and singing good country music is no easy feat. The next artist on Rocks Off's week-long visit through the HPMA Best Local Song nominees is Hayes Carll's "Bad Liver and a Broken Heart," written by Scott Nolan. Carll sings, repeatedly, "Come in clean, leave torn apart/ A bad liver and a broken heart." These lyrics are not meant for the celebrati

  July 21, 2009

• Lonesome Onry and Mean: My Son, the Guitar-Slinger

  William Michael SmithLance Smith (left) and Mike Stinson​ LOM grew up in the oil patch, made a good living in it, saw the world because of it. So it made sense to want our son, Lance, to grow up to be a petroleum engineer. Alas, it was not to be. Now he's a guitar player. Two years into the petroleum engineering program at University of Houston, LOM and the wife pulled the plug on Lance's financing. The logic? Exxon doesn't hire engineers with C averages who majored in frat party and skirt-cha

  August 5, 2009

• 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, no one area musician sounded more like Southeast Texas. That he spent his life moving all over the area, on both sides of the Sabine, only serves as evidence in favor of one of our geographical hypothe

  August 18, 2009

• The Best Roots-Rock Band You Never Heard Of Is In Town... Again

  ​Cleveland roots-rockers The Magpies pull into Cactus Music today for an instore performance. They were unable to book a Houston gig during the current swing though Texas and Oklahoma, but arranged an instore anyway because "we need to keep working Houston," according to keyboardist Justin Gorski. The Ohio foursome stole the show two years ago at Hayes Carll's Stingaree Festival at Bolivar and have been working Houston steadily since. They killed at the Continental in January. If you like your

  August 26, 2009