Subject: Max Stalling

• Last Night: Adam Carroll & John Evans at McGonigel’s Mucky Duck

  June 11, 2008

• Ozzy Lore

  Several Texans are trying to separate Ozzy the myth from Ozzy the man

  April 25, 2002

• Today: SpringFest in Old Town Spring

  Allison V. Smith/ www.maxstalling.comLots of twangy stuff going on in the North Woods this weekend. Scroll down a bit for the Texas Independence Day in downtown Conroe (starring Mr. "Screw You, We're From Texas" himself, Ray Wylie Hubbard) or, if you prefer, there's SpringFest - including wine tastings courtesy of nearby vineyards - a few miles down the road in Old Town Spring. This one's got folk and honky-tonk from Shake Russell (4:30 p.m.), Davin James (6 p.m.), Dallas' Max Stalling (a

  March 7, 2009

• Tonight: Blacktop Gypsy at the Firehouse Saloon

  Not many acts on MySpace list as their influences Merle Haggard and Fleetwood Mac. Or George Jones and Sheryl Crow. But Dallas outfit Blacktop Gypsy does, and it doesn't take many listens to their music to get the connections. Certainly the template is country but with three women in the mix there's lots of room to paint outside the lines of traditional country. And while there's no testosterone, that doesn't mean there's no muscle.

  March 20, 2009

• Houston Music Festivals

  The last three weeks of this month promise to be hard on your wallet, eardrums and liver

  April 3, 2008

• Max Stalling, blacktopGYPSY

  September 6, 2007

• SoundExchange Wants to Kill Internet Radio

  On "lost" artists, found money and the murder of free enterprise

  May 17, 2007

• Dan Crump

  Truth Is

  July 6, 2006

• Max Stalling

  Sellout -- Live at Dan's Silverleaf

  February 16, 2006

• White By Whitebread No More

  This year's South By Southwest makes room for plenty of local rap. Why can't our rockers get with the program?

  March 3, 2005

• McKay Brothers

  McKay Brothers (Texas Archipelago Records)

  January 29, 2004

• Letters

  April 24, 2003

• Vive le Max!

  French existentialism meets its Texas cousin in the work of Dallas songwriter Max Stalling

  March 27, 2003

• Mark David Manders

  November 7

  November 7, 2002

• No Need for Nashville

  Houston Marchman fights for our cool country culture

  January 10, 2002

• Rocks Off Checks Out Corpus Christi

  Photos by Craig Hlavaty This past weekend, Rocks Off took a respite from sweltering H-Town to visit family in our equallly sweltering, ball-sweat-inducing neighbor to the south. Corpus Christi is rather small compared the teeming ant farm we have here, topping just over a quarter of a million beachified and sunburned folks. Rocks Off has been coming to "The Sparkling City by the Sea" to visit his grandparents and burn layers off his skin since he was born. Over the past decade or so, Corpus has

  June 22, 2009

• Lonesome Onry and Mean: Blacktop Gypsy and Shurman

  Two fine bands who don't come through much are playing just blocks apart tonight. Dallas's Blacktop Gypsy will be knocking the audience out with their amazing harmonies and the virtuosity of fiddler Heather Stalling (wife of Max Stalling) and former Lake Jackson resident Rodney Pyeatt. Stalling was raised in a family of string players and has been doing fiddle contests since she was four years old. She's played with Ed Burleson, Mark David Manders, and others in the Texas music scene. Pyeatt wa

  July 30, 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