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J.J. Cale

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    April 29, 2011

    Johnny Dowd Joins Ranks Of Oklahoma Music Greats

    johnnydowd.comJohnny Dowd, one of the weirdest musical Okies of them all.​Poet, musician, avant-garde musical thinker and doer, Johnny Dowd may live in upstate New York these days, but that fellow is 100 percent died-in-the-wool Okie through and through. When Dowd opens his mouth to sing, Dust ... More >>

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    April 26, 2011

    Five Essential Boogie-Rock Albums

    ​Boogie-rock has probably been derided by critics more times than people have torched a doob while listening to BTO. Intellectual types tend to write it off as guys with feathered bangs, mustaches and shirts open to their navel playing songs about cars, girls and partying (and partying in cars ... More >>

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    February 14, 2011

    Saturday Night: Robin Thicke At Arena Theatre

    Photos by Marco Torres​Robin Thicke Arena Theatre February 12, 2011 Is describing a show as an aural roofie politically incorrect? Because Saturday night's Robin Thicke show at the Arena Theatre seemed to put all the women in the crowd into a sexy soul-fog with a syrupy thicke-ness. We even s ... More >>

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    October 5, 2010

    Five Songs Classic Rock Radio Should Kill NOW

    ​Rocks Off is a prisoner of the airwaves. At home we can listen to just about anything we want thanks to the comforts of 24-7 satellite radio. Actually, we rarely tune in anything besides Outlaw Country, but that's another story. We can't bring the satellite receiver to work, where we spend th ... More >>

  • Music

    September 23, 2010

    Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, ZZ Top

    ​Rocks Off is a prisoner of the airwaves. At home we can listen to just about anything we want thanks to the comforts of 24-7 satellite radio. Actually, we rarely tune in anything besides Outlaw Country, but that's another story. We can't bring the satellite receiver to work, where we spend th ... More >>

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    September 15, 2010

    Music's Top 10 Biggest Post-Drug Comebacks

    ​The list of drug casualties in rock and roll is a long and sad one. All the suicides, car crashes and the stray gang-related murder are outweighed by the amount of people who just can't stop putting junk into their system, or at least moderate it to a point where they aren't lying cold on a h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 24, 2009

    2009 Concert Rewind, July: Beyonce, Coldplay, Aerosmith/ZZ Top, Judas Priest, Rod Stewart... and the Trae Day Gunplay

    Craig Hlavaty​ Wooden Birds, Other Lives, Walter's on Washington, July 2: "This is Andrew Kenny's latest project away from American Analog Set. That band is currently on hold while Kenny and the rest of the group go off to pollinate elsewhere. The Birds don't fall far from the AmAnSet tree at all, ... More >>

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    December 8, 2009

    Lonesome Onry and Mean: The Second Act of Onetime "New Dylan" Larry Hosford

    ​Unless you're a professional Trivial Pursuit player, chances are high you've never heard of Larry Hosford. But there was a time when Hosford was hailed as the next Bob Dylan and was hanging around Shelter Records with the likes of George Harrison, Leon Russell and J.J. Cale. Lonesome, Onry and Me ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 6, 2009

    Lonesome Onry and Mean: Jesse Winchester and Ian Hunter Prove 70 Is the New 30

    Those of us who read Tom Friedman's July 28 New York Times column about 59 being the new 30 like it was a lost edition of the Dead Sea Scrolls should be cheered by the musical efforts of two 70-year-olds who just keep on keepin' on. So far this year, both Jesse Winchester and Ian Hunter have issued ... More >>

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    July 14, 2009

    Lonesome Onry and Mean: Meet Mark Selby and Selby Mills Lemaire

    LOM still can't get over the death of Tim Krekel. Nor can we get over that he was, for the most part, so underrecognized and underappreciated by the world at large. Several late-night dinner parties have passed at our house in the weeks since his passing, and we always seem to end up listening to T ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 8, 2009

    Aftermath: Betty Soo at McGonigel's Mucky Duck

    Photos by Hope Peterson It took Spring native Betty Soo a little while to get it rolling Tuesday night, but once she did she wowed the Mucky Duck's capacity crowd with her voice, lyrics and gentle personality. Working in fresh-off-the-road Jon Dee Graham bassist Joshua Zarbo for the first time, it t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2009

    Seven Skynyrd Songs Better than "Sweet Home Alabama" or "Free Bird"

    Allow Rocks Off to let the cat out of the bag for a second: this evening at the Woodlands, Lynyrd Skynyrd will close with "Sweet Home Alabama" and "Free Bird." Taking nothing away from either song - they are, after all, a serious rebuke to Dixie-haters and Southern racists alike disguised as a pools ... More >>

  • Music

    March 12, 2009

    Bam, It's Kam!

    Houston's genre-hopping indie darling eyes SXSW

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    August 11, 2008
  • Music

    April 17, 2008

    Bettye LaVette's an old soul, through and through

    Houston's genre-hopping indie darling eyes SXSW

  • Music

    February 28, 2008

    Carolyn Wonderland: Miss Understood

    Houston's genre-hopping indie darling eyes SXSW

  • Blogs

    August 29, 2007

    Last Night: Randy Weeks at the Mucky Duck

    Houston's genre-hopping indie darling eyes SXSW

  • Music

    July 5, 2007

    Another Bump

    Ten of the best coke anthems, plus a shortlist for the Cocaine Hall of Fame

  • Music

    June 22, 2006

    Randy Weeks

    Friday, June 23, at the Continental Club, 3700 Main, 713-529-9899

  • Music

    January 5, 2006

    Bonnie "Prince" Billy

    Summer in the Southeast

  • Music

    April 7, 2005

    The Bolivar Kid Strikes Again

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

  • Music

    June 3, 2004

    Playbill

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

  • Music

    January 1, 2004

    Colorado River Blues

    For New Mexico-bred singer-songwriter Eric Hisaw, the move to Austin is just starting to pay

  • Music

    September 18, 2003

    Coal Miner's Brother

    Chris Knight extracts songs from the same ravaged west Kentucky earth he once rehabilitated

  • Music

    May 10, 2001

    Eric Clapton

    Reptile (Reprise)

  • Music

    February 26, 1998

    Rotation

    Reptile (Reprise)

  • Music

    June 22, 1995

    It's Still Timbuk Time

    A decade after their fluke hit, Timbuk 3 is doing just fine, thank you

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