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 first note of the Carl Belew/W. S. Stevenson classic made famous by Patsy Cline, "Stop the World and Let Me Off."
Doe's bruised-and-damaged-man vocals work perfectly with Roger Miller's tearjerker "Hus
Pin Lim, Forest PhotographySeveral stage shows are giving their final perfomances this weekend, and it's also your last chance to see unknown Houston artists aim for recognition in the Lawndale Center's annual Big Show.The Houston Shakespeare festival always does a bang-up job with the Bard, and this year's Twelfth Night is no exception. Our Lee Williams raved about the production, saying "the jovial, sexy, wonderfully funny cast guided the audience through plot twists and difficult language
[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."]
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Trinity
Capital: Dallas
Patron Saint: Blind Lemon Jefferson
Lesser Icons: T-Bone Walker, Alex Moore, Old 97's, Pantera, The D.O.C., Ray
As Hair Balls pointed out, we've only got three more of these weird number/same number/same number days left this century after today. Such chronological repetition appeals to the hidden obsessive-compulsive in all of us, so join us as we wash our hands nine times, lock the door nine times, and listen to nine great songs featuring the number nine.
The Clovers - Love Potion No. 9: The titular love potion that turns this song's protagonist into a maniac who starts "kissin' everything in sight"
Arty Hill is a Baltimore, Md., honky-tonker who has been playing regularly in Austin the past couple of years. He also reads Lonesome Onry and Mean's blog religiously and has already penned a couple of new songs based on the goings-on in these pages. He recently contacted LOM about Mike Stinson's list of great honky-tonk drinking songs, noting that none of Stinson's featured women in the central roles.
Hill writes to LOM: "I really liked Mike's list of his favorite drinking songs. Then I starte
