Subject: Lee Greenwood

• Do We Have to Play the National Anthem Before Every Single Sporting Event?

  April 4, 2008

• Where To Indulge Your Obama-Mania In Houston

  No one's going to be getting much work done around 11 a.m. Houston time tomorrow.That, of course, is when John McCain will be sworn in as the nation's first old-white-guy President; assuming you're down from the amazing high of Sunday's Lee Greenwood/Hank Williams Jr. concert at the Mall, you'll want to watch his uplifting Inaugural Speech.The rest of us in Real World will be watching Obama.Assuming you didn't make it to DC -- hey, at least you won't be freezing your ass off -- where best to wat

  January 19, 2009

• Blues Without Blinders

  June 27, 1996

• Tonight: Toby Keith at Reliant Stadium

  Just think, if not for September 11, Toby Keith would probably still be as bland as dry toast and just as exciting. The horrific events of that day, and our nation's rapid retaliation, suddenly sprung the Oklahoma-born Keith into action - he soon began a whole new career as a political firebrand, a sort of Lee Greenwood on steroids. Keith already had a decade of numerous pop-country hits like ""A Little Less Talk and a Lot More Action" and "How Do You Like Me Now?", but it wasn't until

  March 10, 2009

• Hard 'n Phirm

  Horses and Grasses

  December 29, 2005

• Answering the Musical Question

  Wesley Willis's ghost in the machine pays rock 'n' roll tribute to notorious Houstonians

  September 15, 2005

• Beyond the Bovine

  Christian cowboys, carnivals and Chianti await you at the rodeo

  February 24, 2005

• Rockin' in the Free World

  Soundtracks for your Election Night shindigs

  October 28, 2004

• Songs Of Freedom

  Perhaps the candidates running in the 2004 election could use some help selecting their campaign music

  August 12, 2004

• Brother, Where Art Thou?

  A hot historic painting gets a cool Crawl reception

  December 11, 2003

• Apocalypse Cow

  Finding the press box at Reliant Stadium proves to be a journey into the heart of darkness

  March 6, 2003

• ¡Viva Compadre!

  Texas's greatest living songwriter signs with a Houston indie label

  August 8, 2002

• Moment in the Sun

  Clem Snide's Eef Barzelay talks about God, Zionism and rock and roll manners

  March 14, 2002

• Musicians Sound Off

  For Nick Cooper, music and politics are hard to separate

  November 29, 2001

• What We Lose, And What We Gain, If Texas Secedes

  Rick Perry, our governor, has taken a steep dive off the sanity cliff with his preachin'-to-the-Rush-choir talk of seceding from the United States.This may be hard to imagine, but we think Perry might not have thought the whole thing through so well. And not just because he's presented the image of a white, Southern-accented governor foaming on about "state's rights," but because there are certain things Texas would have to give up -- and put up with -- if we became an independent country.What w

  April 17, 2009

• Sean Hannity To Torture Houston's Wallets

  Photo courtesy bobgo29What would you pay to see Sean Hannity in concert? No, we don't mean seeing him be waterboarded -- although he said he'd do that for charity, and Keith Olbermann offered to pay $1,000 to an Army charity for every second Hannity stood it, Sean-o somehow hasn't agreed to it yet.Hannity doesn't think waterboarding is torture; then again he doesn't think a concert line-up of Billy Ray Cyrus, the Charlie Daniels Band and Lee Greenwood is torture either.That's what he'll be bring

  May 14, 2009

• Distant Early Warning: The Cult, Billy Joe Shaver, English Beat, Fall Out Boy, Talib Kweli and More

  Asleep At The Wheel: Sat., Aug. 1. Sengelmann Hall (Schulenburg). Balaclavas, Cave, Twisted Wires: Thu., June 4. Mango's. Babasonicos: Thu., Aug. 20. House of Blues. Billy Joe Shaver: Tue., Aug. 4. Dosey Doe Coffee Company. "Sean Hannity Freedom Concert" with Billy Ray Cyrus, The Charlie Daniels Band, Lee Greenwood, Michael W. Smith: Sun., Aug. 9. Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion. Fall Out Boy, Asher Roth, Chester French: Wed., Sept. 23. Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion (with Blink-182). Bun B &

  May 26, 2009

• Things the Devil Should Have Done Besides Go Down to Georgia

  Today marks the 30th anniversary of the release of the Charlie Daniels Band's "The Devil Went Down To Georgia." The song, which climbed all the way to No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and lives on today as a "boss battle" in Guitar Hero 3, made its first appearance on the group's 1979 album Million Mile Reflections.It's actually hard for us to believe that the song is 30 years old, since it always seemed way older. Daniels and his band - who appear at the "Sean Hannity Freedom Concert" August 1 a

  June 23, 2009

• Feeling The Sweet Flow Of Freedom With Sean Hannity

  Photo by Pete Vonder Haar​Conservative radio/TV host Sean Hannity began hosting his "Freedom Concert" series, benefiting Oliver North's Freedom Alliance Scholarship Fund for the children of soldiers killed or disabled in action, back in 2003. Last Saturday the 2009 incarnation kicked off at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, boasting a powerhouse lineup featuring the likes of Billy Ray Cyrus, Lee Greenwood, and other acts that haven't been relevant since the 1980s, if ever, and Hair Balls wa

  August 3, 2009

• He Said She Said: Hot, Sweaty, Angry Workout Songs

  ​When it comes to exercise, men and women don't have many different reasons for doing it. Mainly, both genders want to look better naked if perchance they find themselves without clothes on around a stranger they want to sleep with. Life expectancy, general health, and mental well-being are all secondary to looking hotter for your mate or potential slutty karaoke night hook-up. That being said, most guys forgo the treadmill for free weights and the uneasy comaraderie between you and other dude

  August 27, 2009

• Lonesome Onry and Mean: We Are Not Ready for Christmas Music in October... or Ever, Really

  ​Let the Madness begin. No, not March Madness, nincompoop - it's October. Christmas Madness. Lonesome Onry and Mean doesn't know who officially decides these things, all we know is that it's the first week of October, Halloween hasn't even come and gone yet, but in the past 24 hours we've received a Frank Sinatra Christmas CD, a Ray Charles Christmas CD and an email tout for a Lee Greenwood Christmas CD. Nothing depresses LOM more than Christmas music. LOM is not normally subject to the evils

  October 7, 2009

• Distant Early Warning: Anvil(!), David Cook, Lee Greenwood, Skatalites, Tanya Tucker, Tegan & Sara, etc.

  ​"13th Annual Pimp-N-Prostitute Ball" With MINIKISS, The Crisis, DJ Looney, DJ Jager, DJ Velvet: Sat., Oct. 31. Warehouse Live. Ali Zafar: Sat., Oct. 24. Arena Theatre. Anvil: Sun., Jan. 24. House of Blues. Brave Combo: Fri., Dec. 11. Dosey Doe Coffee Company. Buxton, Surfer Blood, F.G. and the Gunz: Tue., Nov. 3. Mango's. Dave Guetta: Fri., Nov. 20. Planeta Bar-Rio. David Cook: Sat., Nov. 7. Warehouse Live. Epica, Daath, Blackguard, Of Raven And Ruin: Wed., Feb. 24. Scout Bar Clear Lake.

  October 13, 2009