Subject: Jackson Browne

• Get Lit: I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon, by Crystal Zevon

  August 20, 2007

• Get Lit: A Turtle’s Life

  September 13, 2007

• The East End Trek

  September 13, 2007

• John Royal's Astros Recap. In Song.

  October 2, 2007

• The Art of Getting Broken

  Mary Cutrufello wanted to be a rock star. For a moment she was.

  May 17, 2001

• Playbill

  July 29, 2004

• Lost Tuneage: Terry Reid

  L-R: Waddy Wachtel, Keith Richards and Terry Reid Who Dat? Though unfortunately best known to rock trivia buffs for what he didn't do than for what he did, Terry Reid was (and is) an extremely well-regarded British blues-rock singer/guitarist. He began warbling as a toddler when his mother would perch him on a box to sing popular songs while she picked fruit. He joined a school band, the Redbeats, and then Peter Jay's Jaywalkers, which issued the single "The Hand Don't Fit the Glove" in 1966

  January 9, 2009

• Sounding Out Mary

  April 6, 1995

• Hippie Chic

  March 7, 1996

• Hold the Tonic

  September 5, 1996

• Rotation

  September 5, 1996

• Thompson's Time

  October 3, 1996

• Splendid Isolation

  October 31, 1996

• All for One?

  January 23, 1997

• Fixed Up

  April 24, 1997

• Never Too Old to Rock and Roll

  June 5, 1997

• Cry Tough

  January 15, 1998

• Night & Day

  April 2, 1998

• Static

  August 6, 1998

• The Sound of Money

  January 7, 1999

• Richie Havens, Still Looking Forward

  The Old Balladeer

  January 15, 2009

• Jack's Mannequin

  October 16, 2008

• Another Bump

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

  July 5, 2007

• Geekology 101

  Judd Apatow explains himself.

  June 7, 2007

• Musical Food Groups

  If singers were cheese, what kind of cheese would they be?

  February 22, 2007

• Bonnie Raitt

  Bonnie Raitt appears Saturday, October 7, at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, 2005 Lake Robbins Dr., The Woodlands. Call 281-363-3300 for more info.

  October 5, 2006

• The Damnwells

  Air Stereo

  August 31, 2006

• Funtime Is Over

  It's the end of the road for AstroWorld

  October 6, 2005

• Play "Free Bird"!

  Using the Bob-O-Meter to rate cover songs

  July 7, 2005

• Roadie Royalty

  Houstonian author and Webmaster Karl Kuenning is a prince among road dogs

  January 13, 2005

• Trend-Spotting

  In a scandal-ridden election year, the year's top ten music stories were all about winning the popular vote

  December 23, 2004

• Trend-Spotting

  In a scandal-ridden election year, the year's top ten music stories were all about winning the popular vote

  December 23, 2004

• A Thin Line...

  Introducing the most hated men in rock (besides Sting)

  September 23, 2004

• Strings Attached

  Will Linden move on to become a music mecca or fall beneath the weight of a racist past?

  June 17, 2004

• David Lindley

  Saturday, September 27

  September 25, 2003

• Coal Miner's Brother

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

  September 18, 2003

• Reconsider Him

  At the end, Warren Zevon's past is finally unearthed

  July 17, 2003

• Mauled Eagles

  The hipster’s First Commandment: Thou shalt not dig the Eagles

  June 12, 2003

• Fallon Fast

  Saturday Night Live's prime player is rapidly outgrowing television's small screen

  August 22, 2002

• Wizard of Boz

  Boz Scaggs evolves along with his beloved R&B

  October 18, 2001

• A Fan's Notes

  After Jerry Maguire, Cameron Crowe comes of age...finally

  September 14, 2000

• Long Haul

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

  April 27, 2000

• Silver and Gold (and Green)

  Some artists make holiday records for the beauty, not the bucks

  December 23, 1999

• Native Talent

  Indigenous Americans blow blues-rock smoke

  September 23, 1999

• Aftermath: The Houston Press Music Awards Ceremony

  Photos by Chris GrayUmbrella Man​ As Maureen McGovern once sang, there's got to be a morning after. And it's about as pleasant as you imagine it is. It's not even that Rocks Off is hung over (much), it's more that after Thursday night's Houston Press Music Awards ceremony, we literally left it all on the field. The tank is empty. Even Jackson Browne has no idea how spent we are. Even so, we'd be lying if we said we didn't have a good time at the awards. Or that we're not proud as a peacock tha

  July 31, 2009

• Distant Early Warning: AC/DC, Alice In Chains, Insect Warfare, Jackson Browne, Puscifer, Son Volt, etc.

  ​12 Stones, Wake The Light, Saturate, Dine Alone: Wed., Sept. 30. Scout Bar Clear Lake. Aaron Neville Quintet's Christmas Show: Fri., Dec. 4. House of Blues. The Accused, Krum Bums, Owl Witch, H.R.A.: Sun., Oct. 11. Walter's on Washington. AC/DC: Sun., Nov. 8. Toyota Center. Baroness, Iron Age, Dark Castle: Tue., Dec. 8. Warehouse Live. Billy Joe Shaver: Fri., Dec. 18. The Firehouse Saloon & Eatery. Birds Of Avalon, Hell City Kings, Fired For Walking: Fri., Sept. 25. Rudyard's. Bob Saget:

  September 8, 2009

• Lonesome Onry and Mean: Celtic Accordion Queen Sharon Shannon

  ​One of Lonesome Onry and Mean's favorite Pogues tracks is actually Steve Earle's great anti-war song "Johnny Come Lately" from Earle's Copperhead Road album. Earle has frequently spoken of his affinity for Ireland, particularly Galway, which we might call one of his retreats. It was through Earle, and his song "Galway Girl" on 1999's Transcendental Blues that LOM first learned of Irish accordion virtuoso Sharon Shannon. After the Earle introduction, LOM became somewhat obsessed with Shannon,

  October 23, 2009

• Send Lawyers, Guns & Money: Nine Non-Boring Songs About the Work Attorneys Do

  Rocks Off's local watering hole is frequented by a lawyer named Eugene Lawley, whom we always refer to as our Walker Percy. Lawley has more than a small literary bent - we hardly ever mention a book he hasn't read - and has a fine ear for song lyrics. His sister wrote themes for television and movies. I recently suggested that he put together a list of lawyer songs. According to Lawley, who works in the title/leases/land end of the oil and gas business, "There aren't many songs actually about l

  November 17, 2009