Subject: Keith Richards

• Drenched In Blog: I'll Take "Sad" for $200, Alex

  August 13, 2007

• Get Lit: Exile on Main Street: A Season in Hell with the Rolling Stones, by Robert Greenfield

  August 28, 2007

• Get Lit: Rock & Roll Heaven, by Robert Dimery and Bruno MacDonald

  October 30, 2007

• Get Lit: Ronnie, by Ron Wood

  November 26, 2007

• Get Lit: Twenty Thousand Roads: The Ballad of Gram Parsons and His Cosmic American Music, by David N. Meyer

  December 14, 2007

• Ike Turner, 1931-2007

  December 12, 2007

• Drenched in Blog: Say Ya Want a Resolution?

  January 2, 2008

• Album of the Week: Christmas a Go-Go

  One thing about Christmas songs, every single artist to ever pick up a guitar or drumstick seems to have recorded at least one, a company that apparently includes Joe Pesci, Soupy Sales (kids, ask your grandparents) and garage gods the Electric Prunes. Guaranteed, Christmas a Go-Go is the only place you'll hear Bob Seger and his pre-Silver Bullet band the Last Heard do a kick-ass James Brown on the Mitch Ryder-worthy "Sock It to Me Santa." It's a Little Steven production all right. No Springste

  December 11, 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

• Bill-bored

  December 15, 1994

• Aftermath: The Magpies and Sideshow Tramps at the Continental Club

  Photos by Chris Gray It didn't look good at the beginning. A few minutes after 9 p.m. Wednesday, the posted start time for visiting Cleveland roots-rockers the Magpies, the "count" at the Continental Club front door was all of 16 paying customers, and the band was nowhere in sight. Two chicken tacos at Tacos a Go-Go and one Lone Star at the Big Top later, things were much improved. The room was considerably fuller - and would go on to be one of the biggest Wednesday-night crowds Aftermath ha

  January 8, 2009

• 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

• Static

  June 26, 1997

• Rotation

  October 2, 1997

• Last Man Standing

  December 25, 1997

• Idol Beat: The Final 36, Group 2

  Michael Becker/ Fox Adam LambertThere were a few seconds during the Rolling Stones' 2006 Super Bowl halftime performance where formaldehyded guitarist Keith Richards let his inner demon peek out. I can't remember for the life of me which song the band was playing, but Richards let loose with a bit of gnarly fret nastiness where he could've played it straight; it was a quick, effective display of virtuosity, a reminder that dude could've run away with the entire mini-set if he'd so chose.

  February 26, 2009

• Symphony of Setbacks

  August 6, 1998

• Texas Music on Sirius/XM's Outlaw Country

  December 4, 2008

• Shine a Light, The Stones and Scorsese

  This film is a treat for movie and music fans alike

  August 7, 2008

• Bayousphere

  July 17, 2008

• Charlie Sexton

  May 22, 2008

• Sex, Drugs and Amputees in "Apertura-Colombia"

  The Station's at its best

  April 24, 2008

• Indie Rock Rediscovers the Motherland

  Kinky Afro

  March 6, 2008

• Richard Lloyd

  The Radiant Monkey

  January 10, 2008

• An XL Party

  February 2, 2006

• Dan Electro's Guitar Bar

  A visit to the Blues Jam

  May 17, 2007

• Jonny Lang

  Turn Around

  October 5, 2006

• Fool's Gold

  The Pirates are back, and they're out to ransack your wallet

  July 6, 2006

• Murder Inc.

  Not many musicians have health insurance, but Murder by Death does

  June 8, 2006

• The Tipsy Clover

  Closer

  May 4, 2006

• Jeans Pool

  Nature vs. nurture, billiards and mixed signals on a dive-bar Monday night

  April 13, 2006

• Andre Williams

  Thursday, March 16, the Continental Club, 3700 Main, 713-529-9666

  March 16, 2006

• Buddy Guy

  Saturday, December 3, at Verizon Wireless Theater, 520 Texas, 713-225-8551.

  December 1, 2005

• Old Folks Rock

  McCartney doesn't pretend to be anything but a sap. And Jagger still acts like he's God's gift to sexdom.

  December 1, 2005

• Super Furry Animals

  Love Kraft

  October 27, 2005

• The Black Godfather

  The wit and wisdom of Andre Williams

  February 24, 2005

• Time Trial

  After nine months in a body cast and years of neglect in his home country, aging rocker Ed Hamell still aims to conquer America

  October 9, 2003

• Eric Hisaw, with Greg Wood

  Thursday, August 28

  August 28, 2003

• Depp's of the Sea

  In Johnny and the crew's slick and handsome Pirates of the Caribbean, more is somehow less

  July 10, 2003

• Garbage

  Thursday, May 16

  May 16, 2002

• Lucinda Williams

  Essence (Lost Highway)

  June 14, 2001

• Crowes Feat

  Black Crowes make rocking and rolling rock and roll

  April 29, 1999

• New Blues

  December 2, 1993

• Houstonians Learn the "Thriller" Dance

  Craig Hlavaty Who would have ever imagined just a little over a week ago that Houstonians would be convening on the lush confines of Discovery Green to learn to do the "Thriller" dance? Or in the sweltering dog days of July for that matter? The dance seems way more like a Halloween affair than anything else. But a week ago Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, was still shuffling around this mortal coil with the rest, albeit in a much more sedated and euphoric state than most. The guy seems to get

  July 3, 2009

• Requiem for Michael: The Last Rock Star

  Amid the past two weeks of Michael Jackson worship, the details of his drug use were slowly leaked out. The man had done enough painkillers and random legal narcotics that would make all-star druggies like Keith Richards and Lemmy Kilmister shudder and cower away. It's funny that this small and sprightly man, who enchanted everyone with his dancing and vocalizations, would be a walking pharmacy. In hindsight his erratic, yet meticulous behavior can now be chalked up to hard partying and narcissi

  July 7, 2009

• Tres Hombres

  July 16, 2009

• Aftermath: Mike Stinson at Under the Volcano

  Photos by Chris Gray​ At his first proper gig since relocating to Houston last month, suit-clad Mike Stinson raised the bar for honky-tonk around here a little. Maybe a lot. Joined by guitarist Lance Smith and Winfield Cheek on keyboards, steel and mandolin, Stinson sang his way through a jukebox's worth of field notes on various fools on stools in a nasal tone reminiscent of Buck Owens' Bakersfield buddy Webb Pierce. Stinson, Smith and Cheek eased into the first of their two sets, alternatin

  August 6, 2009

• He Said She Said: Breakup Songs to Help You Bawl, Part 2

  Ever since men and women set eyes upon each other at the beginning of time, there have been break-ups, and painful dissolutions of romantic escapades have made the best art in the world. Hell, somewhere in the world there is a probably a cave painting of a pretty young Neanderthal girl with devil horns and a tail drawn on her in disgust. The entire blues genre is based on the fact that men and women generally can't get along. That, and various demonic possessions of said females. Love lost is a

  August 11, 2009

• Lonesome Onry and Mean: Oscar-Nominated Songwriter Gwil Owen and Toni Price at McGonigel's Mucky Duck

  Toni Price hasn't played in these parts much since her move from Austin to California a couple of years ago. But for Lonesome, Onry and Mean, her show tonight is made all the more interesting by the inclusion of Nashville songwriter Gwil Owen. Owen isn't a household word, but the guy has written more songs than he can even count anymore, like "Deuce and Quarter," a song he cowrote with Kevin Gordon that was covered by Keith Richards and Levon Helm on their album All The King's Men.

  August 14, 2009

• Dust in the Wind

  November 5, 2009