Subject: Leadbelly

• Lomax on Lomax

  June 14, 2007

• A Paean to Texas Blues in Arlington?

  September 27, 2007

• Drenched in Blog: Hall of Fame Nominations a Big Cleveland Steamer

  October 1, 2007

• Radio Houstoned: Black Pearl Sings at Stages Repertory Theatre

  October 17, 2007

• Day of the Dead at the Graves of Southeast Texas Music Legends

  November 5, 2007

• Drenched In Blog: Nirvana’s Unplugged on DVD

  November 20, 2007

• Blast from the Past

  Bridging Lead Belly is a new release of recently discovered songs

  December 16, 1999

• Houston Press Music Awards 2000

  Your guide to the Music Awards Showcase

  July 13, 2000

• Leary of Home

  The forgotten treasure found at King's X

  July 20, 2000

• Parks's Big Score!

  Gordon Parks paved the way for modern African-American directors

  September 27, 2001

• Noise Extra: "I've Found My Weakness in You" and Billy Joe Shaver on Houston

  In this week's installment of Noise, Rocks Off's bass-playing friend and neighbor Nick Gaitan talks about how our building inspired his song "I've Found My Weakness in You," and how his boss Billy Joe Shaver liked it so much he decided to record it. Part of our conversation veered into Shaver's experiences in the Bayou City, but first, the song... Rocks Off: I was wondering how much time he's spent here. Nick Gaitan (smiles): He's always talking about how rough it is. RO: What does he say ab

  January 14, 2009

• Sex Sells

  May 2, 1996

• Static

  May 23, 1996

• Jazz Friendly

  July 25, 1996

• Rotation

  October 2, 1997

• Guinness Time

  June 17, 1999

• God, Texas and Tom Waits

  Tom Waits may not come from around here, but a good chunk of his favorite music does

  June 19, 2008

• Free for All

  A brief history of musicians giving it away

  November 8, 2007

• Stage Capsule Reviews: Arsenic and Old Lace, Black Pearl Sings, The Daughter of the Regiment, Fools and Rumors

  November 1, 2007

• Black Pearl Sings

  Stages presents world premiere

  October 11, 2007

• Houston's Very Best Songs Ever

  September 27, 2007

• Drain You

  An often-exasperating boxed set offers the final word on Nirvana's legacy

  December 9, 2004

• Another Bump

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

  July 5, 2007

• Rockin' Renewal

  The imminent launch of new venue Warehouse Live makes it official: Downtown is now Houston's live music hot spot

  October 13, 2005

• The Real Deal

  Who is the more "authentic" bluesman -- Bobby Bland or T-Model Ford?

  August 5, 2004

• Armand Van Helden

  New York: A Mix Odyssey (Tommy Boy)

  July 8, 2004

• Blues Lucifers

  San Antonio's Boxcar Satan rumbles in from the west with its punk-roots noise

  March 4, 2004

• The Gossip

  Saturday, February 7

  February 5, 2004

• Ronny Elliott

  Hep (Blue Heart Records)

  January 8, 2004

• Banjos and Body Piercings

  William Elliott Whitmore brings old-school bluegrass to the punk underworld

  November 20, 2003

• City Under Siege

  Musicians provide HPD with plenty of overtime pay

  November 6, 2003

• Bluegrass Meltdown, Montrose-Style

  Medicine Show, J.W. Americana and Two Star Symphony have the cure for the Monday-night blahs

  August 21, 2003

• War on War Songs

  Iraq and roll don't go together well when rockers protest

  March 27, 2003

• Sloppy Joes

  For Austin's Weary Boys, energy and exuberance trump technique

  September 5, 2002

• Angola Bound

  The Neville Brothers have toiled long and hard to win freedom from prisons of the body and mind.

  October 11, 2001

• World Class?

  Houston can't join the ranks of other cities until it has an anthem of its own

  June 14, 2001

• Meet the New Boss

  John Nova Lomax

  March 29, 2001

• Bowing to Pop

  A Muslim by choice, Jawad couldn't deny the will of his music

  March 1, 2001

• Folk Art

  More than 30 years after opening "Alice's Restaurant," Arlo Guthrie still packs 'em in

  October 12, 2000

• Lost Legends

  Tary Owens helped rescue the early roots of Texas music. Then those songs saved Owens from himself.

  January 13, 2000

• Rotation

  New Releases Reviewed

  October 14, 1999

• Amplified

  Local Music News

  September 23, 1999

• Mo' Better Blues

  Art imitates life in the music of Keb' Mo'

  July 15, 1999

• Bob Dylan: Together Through Life

  May 14, 2009

• Defending Bob Dylan and the Mac Guy

  May 21, 2009

• Texas Traveler: Huntsville

  Most Houstonians probably know Huntsville for the colossal Sam Houston statue, designed by Texas artist David Adickes, himself a graduate of Sam Houston State University and a Huntsville native. At 67 feet tall, "Big Sam" is dubbed The World's Tallest Statue of an American Hero. Or maybe they know about Huntsville thanks to the news. The town is, after all, home to the Texas State Penitentiary, the oldest state prison in Texas, which provides our state with the dubious honor of performing the m

  June 22, 2009

• House of Blues Takes Area Students to Blues School

  Photos by Chris Gray Class has begun, school is in session and all the pupils are attentively waiting to hear what the teacher has in store. But there are no desks, tests or No. 2 pencils anywhere in sight. These H.I.S.D. students are seated at a special assembly to receive a lesson of great importance: Music appreciation, specifically the blues. Uprooted from a typical school day, Friday morning these Houston-area kids left their traditional schools behind and enrolled in what House of Blues li

  June 29, 2009

• A Musical Guide to Post-Secession Texas, Part 2: "Trinity"

  [Note: This week Rocks Off is looking at the musical heritage, highs and lows, for each of the five possible states that might result should Texas secede from the U.S. like Gov. Rick Perry wants it to. Yesterday we began with the Panhandle/West Texas "Palo Duro" territory; today it's northeastern quadrant "Trinity."] View Five States of Texas in a larger map Trinity Capital: Dallas Patron Saint: Blind Lemon Jefferson ​Lesser Icons: T-Bone Walker, Alex Moore, Old 97's, Pantera, The D.O.C., Ray

  August 12, 2009

• True Blood, Episode 8: Lyle Lovett's Prison Song and Redemption on a Dallas Hotel Roof

  Alan Ball was known for his masterful use of music in Six Feet Under. He's lost none of his touch when it comes to his current HBO series, True Blood - which happens to be set in the Louisiana swamps, not terribly far from Houston. Though we're picking up midway through Season 2, from here on out as each new episode airs, Rocks Off will bring you a short report on the featured music.​The South continues to rise again on True Blood, as Episode 2.8, "I Will Rise Up," features music from a certai

  August 18, 2009

• A Musical Guide to Post-Secession Texas: Houston and "Brazoria"

  The final installment of our Five States of Texas project brings it all back home, to the new state of Brazoria, encompassing all of Southeast Texas from the Brazos Valley to Sabine Pass. ​Patron Saint: Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown. A master of rock and roll, country, Cajun/Creole, blues and jazz, no one area musician sounded more like Southeast Texas. That he spent his life moving all over the area, on both sides of the Sabine, only serves as evidence in favor of one of our geographical hypothe

  August 18, 2009