Rich Connelly​
Jimmy Webb was a one-man hitmaking machine back in the 1960s, cranking out an incredible number of long-remembered songs in a three-year period.
He's never replicated that success (possibly no one could), but he's continued to write songs, musicals, a book and tour with a one-man show.
He brought that show to Dosey Doe Coffeehouse in The Woodlands Friday night, and while the place was only half-full, the 100 or so in attendance had a hugely entertaining night as Webb sang and to
A Bugatti Veyron, sans pelican​Here is a sentence with so many strange and wonderful parts in it that it's best just to let it speak for itself:A Lufkin man drove his $2 million Bugatti sportscar into a Galveston-area lagoon after being distracted by a pelican.First, who spends $2 million on a car? And second, of all the places you'd expect such a person to be from, Lufkin would be right behind oh, say, La Porte. Third, you've got the whole aspect of the vengeful, possibly jealous, pelican. It
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
