Milton Hopkins

Milton Hopkins & Jewel Brown

Saturday: iFest in Downtown Houston -- War, Bombino & More

Houston International Festival Downtown Houston April 28, 2012 Check out our slideshows from this weekend: iFest bands and food and faces from iFest. Also, be sure to read our write-up of iFest's artistic and cultural offerings. It's hard to know what to experience first at iFest. Long before you ... More >>

The Rest Of The Best: Houston's Top 8 Blues Clubs

Like our neighbors over at Eating Our Words, Rocks Off would like to tell you about some places that didn't quite make the cut in our few most recent Best of Houston issues (categories change every year, mostly), but that are worthy on their own merits; today we begin our weekly journey with blues c ... More >>

Big Night

A well-timed NEA grant finally brings several local blues greats to the Jones Hall stage.

Houston and the Blues

Viva the Houston Blues Scene.

What A Houston Blues "Walk Of Fame" Could Look Like

Lightnin' Hopkins marker photo by Matthew Keever​It was a real pleasure for Rocks Off and Lonesome Onry and Mean to bring you this week's Houston Press cover story, "Old School," but it was also bittersweet. Not to put too fine a point on it, but none of these people are getting any younger - ... More >>

Old School: Class of 2011

Inside this week's cover photo shoot

Old School

Musicians in their 70s and 80s are keeping Houston's traditional blues scene real.

Lightnin' Hopkins Finally Gets What's Coming To Him

This week Rocks Off is counting down our choices for the Top 5 local music stories of 2010. Matthew KeeverR. Eric Davis, Texas Johnny Brown and Milton Hopkins at the Lightnin' Hopkins Historical Marker dedication ceremony, November 13​WHAT HAPPENED? Coming in at No. 5 on our year-end list is ... More >>

Sam's Place

Lightnin' Hopkins finally gets his own historical marker.

Lightnin' Hopkins Dedication Draws Overflow Crowd

Photos by Matthew KeeverL-R: R. Eric Davis, Texas Johnny Brown, Milton Hopkins. For more photos from Saturday, see our slideshow here.​Lightnin' Hopkins is official. Saturday morning, a crowd that overflowed the tent erected due to the inclement weather (though it never actually rained) showe ... More >>

Lightnin' Hopkins Historical Marker Dedication

Photos by Matthew KeeverL-R: R. Eric Davis, Texas Johnny Brown, Milton Hopkins. For more photos from Saturday, see our slideshow here.​Lightnin' Hopkins is official. Saturday morning, a crowd that overflowed the tent erected due to the inclement weather (though it never actually rained) showe ... More >>

Top 10 Honorary Texas Musicians

West Vita​Right here, right now, and in print all damn week, you can read the Houston Press' interview with perhaps the hottest new band on the South 40, San Antonio's Hacienda (above). Whether or not they go on to become a South Texas Kings of Leon - Hacienda is also three brothers and a cous ... More >>

House Of Blues Debuts Free Monthly "Blues Monday" Series Tonight

Mark BritainMilton Hopkins and Texas Johnny Boy at House of Blues' IHOBF fundraiser in May​Back in May, Dan Aykroyd was in town to grand marshal the Art Car Parade and emcee House of Blues' fundraiser for its educational/cultural outreach nonprofit arm, the International House of Blues Foundat ... More >>

Little Joe Washington Is A National Treasure

Photos by Mark Britain​ For more pictures from Saturday night, see our slideshow here. Aftermath is still trying to get our heads around what we witnessed at Saturday night's benefit for the International House of Blues Foundation in House of Blues' Bronze Peacock Room. In a way, it was one of tho ... More >>

Distant Early Warning: Colbie Caillat, Cyndi Lauper, Delta Spirit, Jerry Jeff Walker, Knitters, Nas, Supersuckers, Etc.

​America: Fri., June 25. Stafford Centre. American Sharks, Scorpion Child, Betaplayer: Thu., April 22. Boondocks. Cyndi Lauper: Thu., Aug. 12. House of Blues. Colbie Caillat: Fri., Aug. 27. Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion. Delta Spirit, David Vandervelde, The Romany Rye: Wed., July 16. Mango's. "D ... More >>

Two Upcoming Benefits Well Worth Your Time And Money

​Magnolia City Mixtape has already reported on actor/vodka mogul/sunglasses model/blues aficionado Dan Aykyroyd's impending visit to Houston, where he'll serve as grand marshal in the 2010 Art Car Parade and host a night of local blues at House of Blues' Bronze Peacock Room Saturday, May 8, a coup ... More >>

Tonight: Michael Hardie and Milton Hopkins at Red Cat Jazz Cafe

​Magnolia City Mixtape has already reported on actor/vodka mogul/sunglasses model/blues aficionado Dan Aykyroyd's impending visit to Houston, where he'll serve as grand marshal in the 2010 Art Car Parade and host a night of local blues at House of Blues' Bronze Peacock Room Saturday, May 8, a coup ... More >>

Rodney Crowell, Forever the Houston Kid

Gasoline Dreams

Carol Fran Benefit

Gasoline Dreams

Farewell T-99

Show business is sure going to miss Jimmy Nelson

Playbill: Texas Johnny Boy & Milton Hopkins

Show business is sure going to miss Jimmy Nelson

Get the Boo Blues

Show business is sure going to miss Jimmy Nelson

Letters

Storage Containers, Not Ready for Prime Time, The Well Runs Dry

Benefit for Pete Mayes and Hamp Simmons

A concert for under-the-weather bluesmen

Houston Honker

Grady Gaines helped Little Richard create rock and roll. And he's not finished yet

Static

Grady Gaines helped Little Richard create rock and roll. And he's not finished yet

More Blues Than You Can Use

Grady Gaines helped Little Richard create rock and roll. And he's not finished yet

Young and Stylin'

Grady Gaines helped Little Richard create rock and roll. And he's not finished yet

Night & Day

May 21 - 27, 1998

Static

May 21 - 27, 1998

Press Picks

May 21 - 27, 1998

Still King

May 21 - 27, 1998

Press Picks

May 21 - 27, 1998

Static

May 21 - 27, 1998

Critic's Choice

Lovett Again

Picks

Lovett Again