Huey Meaux

Houston's Top 10 Record Stores

Record Store Day (recordstoreday.com) is six weeks away, but a good Houstonian should never need an excuse to visit one of our city's many record stores. These fine brick-and-mortar shops have been doling out music for years and even decades in some instances. Run by some of the finest music lovers ... More >>

RIP Johnny Perez: Sir Douglas Quintet Drummer Dies at 69

Johnny Perez, drummer for legendary '60s Texas garage-rockers the Sir Douglas Quintet, has died. Perez passed away in a hospital near Los Angeles due to complications of cirrhosis of the liver, according to the San Antonio Express-News. He was 69. Perez was a Golden Gloves-level amateur boxer and ... More >>

50 Rad Things Now on the Sig's Lagoon Walls

Within the past month, the walls of Sig's Lagoon have been transformed into a sprawling pop-culture collage of posters, photos, newspaper clippings, magazine covers, picture discs and cardboard cutouts courtesy of former Sundance Records owner Bobby Barnard. Since the longtime San Marcos music stor ... More >>

Still Treating Em Right

After 50 years as one of Texas's top powerhouse entertainers, Roy Head calls son Sundance the real star in the family.

The Relatives, Kool & Together

In Memoriam: Musicians And Industry Giants We Lost In 2011

For Rocks Off, one of the creepiest parts of our job is to report on deaths in the industry. Now matter how old or young the musician or mogul is, it's hard to try to quantify a person's life over the course of a few hundred words. How can you? Professional obit writers must be touched by the hand o ... More >>

Kickass Names For MetroRail's Newest Train Stops

Metro is throwing a competition to name 20 new stations along the upcoming East End, North and Southeast lines. Quoting their press release, or at least the one they released yesterday, Metro wants "to make sure these stations accurately reflect the character, culture and history of the vibrant comm ... More >>

Huey Meaux Not Forgiven Or Forgotten, Says Associate

SugarHill StudiosHuey P. Meaux (left) at SugarHill in the 1970s​The death of legendary - and genuinely kinked-up - record producer Huey P. Meaux is a time of mixed emotions for SugarHill Studios co-owner and chief engineer Andy Bradley. Bradley began working with Meaux in 1984 and eventually b ... More >>

Sir Douglas Quintet's Augie Meyers Remembers Huey P. Meaux

​To say that Huey Meaux was a complicated man is an epic understatement, but one guy who prefers to remember only the good in the late Crazy Cajun is Augie Meyers, keyboardist in the Sir Douglas Quintet. Though touring prevents him from attending Meaux's funeral, Meyers says he will be there i ... More >>

Controversial Producer Huey Meaux Dead At 82

​Huey P. Meaux, the onetime studio and record-label owner and chart-topping producer who helped define the Gulf Coast sound through hits by the Sir Douglas Quintet, Freddy Fender and Barbara Lynn, died this morning at age 82. Known as the "Crazy Cajun," Meaux died at his home in Winnie, his n ... More >>

"Whacko From Waco" & 10 Other Batsh!t Texas Songs

Texas: You're soaking in it.​Happy Texas Independence Day, everyone. Today The Only State That Matters officially enters its 175th year of pissing off the lesser 49 states and producing the best music anywhere on Earth. One of Texas' biggest honky-tonk heroes is of course Billy Joe Shaver, who ... More >>

R&B Legend Ivory Joe Hunter To Get State Historical Marker

​Rocks Off's predecessor John Nova Lomax, who normally reports on much more sordid goings-on in East Texas, tipped us off to a story in today's Beaumont Enterprise that reports late Texas R&B legend Ivory Joe Hunter will have an official Texas State Historical Marker erected at his gravesite n ... More >>

SugarHill In The '90s: Jazz, Jazz, Jazz... And A Little Group Called Destiny's Child

Ed Note: All this week, to celebrate the release of Dr. Roger Wood and Andy Bradley's new book House of Hits: The Story of Houston's Gold Star/SugarHill Recording Studios and preview this weekend's related festivities at Sig's Lagoon and the Continental Club, Rocks Off and Lonesome Onry and Mean are ... More >>

Hitsville, Texas

A new book documents the shady past and solid-gold singles of Houston's SugarHill Studios.

Freddy Fender And Huey Meaux Reel Off A String Of SugarHill Hits In The '70s

Ed Note: All this week, to celebrate the release of Dr. Roger Wood and Andy Bradley's new book House of Hits: The Story of Houston's Gold Star/SugarHill Recording Studios and preview this weekend's related festivities at Sig's Lagoon and the Continental Club, Rocks Off and Lonesome Onry and Mean are ... More >>

Roy Head, Sir Douglas Quintet Help SugarHill Swing Into The Psychedelic '60s

Ed Note: All this week, to celebrate the release of Dr. Roger Wood and Andy Bradley's new book House of Hits: The Story of Houston's Gold Star/SugarHill Recording Studios and preview this weekend's related festivities at Sig's Lagoon and the Continental Club, Rocks Off and Lonesome Onry and Mean are ... More >>

R.I.P Former Sugar Hill Studios Chief Engineer Mickey Moody

Courtesy of Sugar Hill StudiosLeft-right: Huey P. Meaux, Leo O'Neil and Mickey Moody​ Former Sugar Hill Studios engineer Mickey Moody, who - unlike his boss Huey P. Meaux - was a quiet, behind-the-scenes man, died in Fort Worth over the weekend. Moody, chief engineer and right-hand man during Meau ... More >>

Listology: Blues In Hi-Fi DJ Clint Broussard's Favorite R&B 45s

​ Clint Broussard is a local boy who was born with the music of the Gulf Coast in his chromosomes. Broussard works as a bartender at Ginger Man, a clerk at Cactus Records and volunteer disc jockey with a great old-time R&B radio show on Rice University station KTRU. Rocks Off asked Broussard, ... More >>

Lonesome Onry and Mean: Remembering Doug Sahm - 10 Years Gone Already?

"You just can't live in Texas if you don't have a lot of soul" - Doug Sahm, "At the Crossroads" ​If the Texas music scene ever had a soul, it belonged to Doug Sahm, the leader of the Sir Douglas Quintet who passed away ten years ago Wednesday. It didn't matter whether he was knee-deep in the blu ... More >>

Long Reach

Which guitarist do Mark Knopfler, Vince Gill and Erics Clapton and Johnson look up to? Louisiana's Sonny Landreth.

Freddie Krc

Sole of Houston: Airport Drive, The Finale (Including Unwanted Puke)

And here is the final installment of David Beebe and John Lomax's 20-plus mile hike from Intercontinental Airport to Spanish Flowers restaurant. Part one is here and part two is here.David Beebe's accounts of the same hike are here and here.Airline's furthest reaches are lined by sprawling and run-d ... More >>

Wax Museum: MP3s from Allison & South Funk Blvd., the Royal Masters and the Chocolate Glass

Slip Inside This House: MP3s from Yesterday's Obsession, the Liberty Bell and the Lavender Hour

Slip Inside This House: MP3s from the Great Believers, Bobby Mabe and the Outcast and the Ninth Street Bridge

Freddy Fender is 'El Bebop Kid'

Houston's Ten Worst Songs

…and we're still not as bad as Dallas

Houston's Very Best Songs Ever

...otherwise known as the H-Town 20

The Houston 100: From Sir Douglas Quintet to Guy Clark

Pa Rum Pum Pum Pum

Christmas is the weirdest time of the year. Who better to musically document the season than John Waters?

A Pair of Aces

John Evans and Jesse Dayton drop career-defining records two weeks apart

Midtown Getdown

Rich's goes straight, and the wait for a first-class, midsize Houston venue could be over

Sonny Landreth

Saturday, April 17

Legends of the Oldies Dance Party with Roy Head and Archie Bell

Saturday, August 30

Change of Beat

Just like the rest of Houston, the local music scene saw plenty of ups and downs

Moby Pick

Beaumont's Barbara Lynn lucks out with a song that almost died

Clear Channel Cajun Invasion

April 5 through 7

Roy Head

Head On! (Music Club)

Freddy Fender / Doug Sahm

Exitos en Español: The Spanish Side of Freddy Fender (Music Club) /The Roots of Doug Sahm, Son of San Antonio (Music Club)

Amplified

All People Considered

Static

Alison Cook looks back at 1996: Year of the Rat

Goin' South

I learned many things when I accompanied a trio of bounty hunters to Mexico to fetch a fugitive drug suspect. Foremost among them: never leave your map at home...

Letters

Letters

Perry Deep

Wasted Days, Wasted Lives (Part II)

Record producer Huey Meaux was a legend in the music business. Now he's an accused pedophile on the run.

Wasted Days, Wasted Lives (Part I)

Record producer Huey Meaux was a legend in the music business. Now he's an accused pedophile on the run.

Not the Sahm Old Thing

Hot Sounds in the City

The 5th Annual Houston Press Music Awards