Patsy Cline

Remembering Patsy Cline, 50 Years After Her Fatal Plane Crash

On March 5, 1963, country singers Patsy Cline, Cowboy Copas, and Hawkshaw Hawkins died in a plane crash near Camden, Tennesee, about 90 miles west of Nashville. Around 6:20 p.m., their Piper Comanche PA-24 aircraft slammed into the ground, killing everyone on board instantly and leaving a six-foot-d ... More >>

Love And Madness: The Top 5 Songs Named "Crazy"

Starting in 1992, October 10 has been known as World Mental Health Day. Started by the folks at the World Federation For Mental Health, it's a day that helps promote awareness and education of depression and other mental health illnesses. It's one of those "days" that isn't nearly as big as those t ... More >>

Rest Of The Best: Houston's Top 8 Jukeboxes

Along with pickled pig's feet and a steady supply of Slim Jims, a good jukebox is a prime element for any great bar. But, like dinosaurs, jukeboxes are a vanishing breed. Unlike digital jukes, iPods or DJs, jukeboxes require love, care and maintenance, as well as -- among the truly great ones -- som ... More >>

ACL: Adele & Mumford & Sons - Not Here, But Here

Photos by Marco TorresTrain a-Comin': The Secret Sisters​3:30 p.m. Still they file in. Watching the crowds trudge along Barton Springs Road, their eyes fixed on the pavement about five yards in front of them (not their phones), always reminds Rocks Off of a pilgrimage. And each festival has i ... More >>

Always...Patsy Cline

More New Year's Eve Fun From Around Houston

Rocks Off hopes you're recovered from New Year's Eve. We are...almost. You've already seen and read about Fitzgerald's massive NYE blowout, but there was lots more going on around Houston to ring in 2011. Here are a few more highlights. Lauren Cohen​The mechanical bull was about the only thin ... More >>

First Look at Natachee's Supper 'n Punch

Crystal Hot Sauce saves the day at Natachee's.​"Is there anything better than eating peach cobbler while listening to Patsy Cline?" asked my friend Marc over a dish of the dessert that we were splitting with our friend Linda. The peach cobbler was lovely, if a bit too mushy and doughy, with fa ... More >>

R.I.P. Hank Cochran, Author Of "I Fall To Pieces"

​Hank Cochran, one of the elite songwriters in country music, died earlier today. He was 74. Born in Mississippi, Cochran worked for a while with rocker Eddie Cochran (no relation) in a California band styled The Cochrans. In 1960, Cochran moved to Nashville and teamed up with songwriting le ... More >>

Capsule Stage Reviews: 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, A Life in the Theatre/Tuesdays with Morrie, Always...Patsy Cline, Boeing-Boeing, The Complete History of America (Abridged), Cuckoos

Fear of Ducks, Tomfoolery

Always, Patsy Cline Extended Run

Get a peek at the real woman behind one of country music's legendary voices

Rocks Off Sets You Straight On Musical Happy Hours

​On newsstands now - or soon, depending on where in the metro area you live - you will find the Houston Press' new cover story, "It's Five O'Clock Somewhere" - a guide to Jimmy Buffett's discography our city's varied, vibrant happy-hour scene, in which Rocks Off had some input. Naturally, we cover ... More >>

Country Gravy and Other Obsessions

Julia Kay Laskowski and Patti Rabaza open their first show under the Magic Butterfly moniker

Aftermath: The Examples, Johnny Gunhand & The Ramblin' Reverends And A Middle-School Band At Fitzgerald's

Photos by Matthew KeeverJohnny Gunhand & the Ramblin' Reverends​ Aftermath went to Fitzgerald's Saturday night to cover two bands: The Examples and Johnny Gunhand & the Ramblin' Reverends. We were sent by someone whose musical taste we respect, so we were looking forward to what we were su ... More >>

He Said She Said: Songs That Remind Us of Our Grandfathers

​ She Said has something she wants to admit. Here goes nothing. We... like... country music. No big deal, right? You wouldn't think so, unless you grew up in a town filled with racist rednecks who thought the glitz of '90s Nashville qualifies for the only music worth listenin' to. She Said rebelle ... More >>

Dive Bars

A handcrafted tour of the best, most obscure places to lean on a stool in Houston.

Lonesome Onry and Mean: John Doe & the Sadies' Country Club

Lonesome, Onry and Mean likes him some country music done right, so it was with considerable delight that we listened to Country Club by X bassist/singer John Doe and the Sadies. An L.A. rocker and a Canadian alt-country outfit seem like unlikely musical bedfellows, but Country Club works from the f ... More >>

Selecting The Proper Valentine's Day Soundtrack

A Fine Romance

Capsule Stage Reviews: Always...Patsy Cline, A Fertle Holiday

Songs Not To Play At Intercontinental Airport's New Karaoke Booth

So now there's a karaoke booth at Intercontinental Airport. According to the Houston Chronicle, travelers can choose from "hundreds of titles."We got to wondering this morning about what's in their song selections there and more to the point -- what isn't.We imagine that the management of IAH's kara ... More >>

Capsule Stage Reviews: Always...Patsy Cline, Beauty and the Beast, A Fertle Holiday, The Receptionist, Sunshine Boys

Capsule Stage Reviews: Always...Patsy Cline, Baby with the Bathwater, Electile Dysfunction, In the Middle of the Ocean, Smoke on the Mountain: Homecoming

Capsule Stage Reviews: Always...Patsy Cline, Electile Dysfunction, Fine Arts Fascists, Smoke on the Mountain: Homecoming

Capsule Stage Reviews: Always...Patsy Cline, Company, Electile Dysfunction, Smoke on the Mountain: Homecoming

Always…Patsy Cline…Always

Always…Patsy Cline

Stages celebrates 30 years with a show about the queen of country music

Miss Leslie: Between the Whiskey and the Wine

Carrie Ann & the Apocalyptics

Noise for Toys

Mucky Duck does it for Christmas

Stage Capsule Reviews

Our critics weigh in on local theater

Stage Capsule Reviews

Our critics weigh in on local theater

South By Flores Alvarez

Girl in a Coma

Monday, August 21, at the Engine Room, 1515 Pease, 713-654-7846

Twang Gang

Neko Case

Fox Confessor Brings the Flood

Miss Leslie & Her Juke-Jointers

Honky Tonk Revival

Capsule Reviews

Our critics weigh in on local theater

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Best Second Banana

So Many Faces

The Hotel Play is huge

Lone Star, Anyone?

Stanton Welch serves up the uneven but fun Tales of Texas

Best AM Radio Personality

Paul Berlin

Polished Patsy

Country queen Cline's great music accents an awesome Stages play

Always...A Fan

Opera singer Julia Kay Laskowski takes on the role of country singer Patsy Cline

Willie Nelson

Crazy: The Demo Sessions (Sugar Hill Records)

Libbi Bosworth

Libbiville (Ramble Records)

Best Karaoke

Spotlight Karaoke

Best Jukebox

Warren's Inn

Cher Thing

The Zydeco Louisiana Diner doesn't stand on ceremony

The Reason of Rimes

LeAnn Rimes has taken country music by storm. She's only 14. And that's the rub.

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