Cactus Music
2110 Portsmouth, 713-526-9272
www.myspace.com/cactusmv1. Ryan Bingham, Roadhouse Sun
2. Dave Matthews Band, Big Whiskey & the Groo-Grux King
3. Steve Earle, Townes
4. Grizzly Bear, Veckatimest
5. Elvis Costello, Secret, Profane & Sugarcane
6. Eric Clapton & Steve Winwood, Live at Madison Square Garden
7. Neil Young, Archives vol. 1
8. Crosby, Stills & Nash, Demos
9. Bob Dylan, Together Through Life
10. The Flatlanders, Hills & Valleys
Sound Exchange
1836 Richmond, 713-666-5555
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Note: see Part 1 here and Part 2 here.
For most of 1969, the Beatles were pretty much comatose - after the disastrous Get Back sessions (which would later spawn the Phil Spector-produced Let It Be), they reconvened to the studio that spring to record the music for what would become their final recorded opus, Abbey Road.
But the soon-to-be former members of the band were not in any way inactive. On September 13, John Lennon and Yoko Ono assembled a pick-up band formed by Eric Clapton, Klaus Voor
Craig HlavatyThe Phish of the Southwest and king of Houston's summer concert hill: George Strait​Online ticket broker StubHub.com released its annual list of America's Top 20 "Most Rockin' Cities" Friday, with Houston holding steady at No. 17 for the second year in a row. We probably would have been even higher - in several ways - if Vermont jam-band overlords Phish, who reunited this summer for the first time since 2004, weren't such pussies and booked some shows south of the Mason-Dixon line
