Subject: Rick Mitchell

• Overblown and Underrated

  So you know Houston's goats, heroes and high points? Think again.

  February 1, 2001

• Racket

  Local music goes unnoticed in the Bayou City

  October 18, 2001

• Pop Moment

  February 16, 1995

• iFest: This Is Our Party

  Better music than ACL and fewer hippies

  April 16, 2009

• Sgt. Pepper at Discovery Green

  April 24, 2008

• Damming the Streams

  The major labels want the Internet to be as arid as the airwaves

  July 4, 2002

• The Houston International Festival Is Upon Us

  April 17, 2008

• Doug Supernaw

  May 10, 2007

• Houston International Fest 2007

  The Bayou City's biggest festival continues making strides toward total recovery

  April 19, 2007

• Johnny Bush

  Honky-tonk hero explores his hardscrabble Houston roots with an autobiography and a CD

  March 8, 2007

• The Return of the Band of Rhythm and Pleasure

  The Hollisters reunite to rock the East Texas pines

  March 31, 2005

• ¡Viva México!

  The International Fest casts light on one of the world's most underrated musical nations

  April 24, 2003

• Death of a Bar Band

  May 16, 2002

• Creative Interpretations

  Vindication comes a year after "Agent 307" prevented Mahotella Queens from performing at I-Fest

  April 18, 2002

• The Saga Continues

  The fat lady has yet to sing at KPFT

  December 13, 2001

• Lonesome Onry and Mean: Jody Nix Does Western Swing Right

  As we reported some weeks ago in this column, if you're down with hardcore Western Swing twin fiddle dance music of the Bob Wills variety, you should be in heaven Saturday when Jody Nix and the Texas Cowboys make a rare Houston appearance on the iFest Texas Stage. Nix is old-school, so old school he doesn't drink and the members of his band don't either, at least not when they're on the road with him. He harkens back to a more innocent time when the Saturday-night dance was what people look

  April 17, 2009