Subject: Waylon Jennings

• The Houston 100: From Scarface to Robert Earl Keen

  September 26, 2007

• Give Us a Hand

  October 9, 2007

• MySpaced Out: A MySpace Mixtape

  February 29, 2008

• Introducing…Lonesome Onry and Mean

  April 15, 2008

• Last Night: Sean Reefer & the Resin Valley Boys at Boondocks

  April 29, 2008

• Lonesome Onry and Mean Extra: Billy Joe Shaver Indicted for Aggravated Assault

  September 19, 2008

• 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 karaoke bar had to have studied the infamous September 2001 Clear Channel memorandum of songs with "questionable" lyrics, some of which concerned aerial death and disaster. If they did, they would know to

  December 4, 2008

• Can't Get It Out of My Head: "Ain't Livin' Long Like This"

  Waylon Jennings, "Ain't Livin' Long Like This," live in 1980 Rocks Off is a big musical-phase guy. It's not unusual for him to get stuck - if "stuck" is indeed the proper word - listening to an artist or genre for weeks or months at a time. This summer it was Tom Petty (which he's still far from over) and the Rolling Stones; more recently the Pretenders, Wilco and the Band; and lately the classic/alt-country hybrid of Sirius/XM's Outlaw Country. Phases should never be forc

  December 9, 2008

• Mail Call: Post-AC/DC Edition

  AC/DC may be gone (sniff), although the ringing in several of Rocks Off's friends' ears (and his own) lingers on, but the mail goes on... Waylon Jennings & the .357s (Littlefield/Nashville, R.I.P.), Waylon Forever (by request): "'I'd been playing my dad the music I was inspired by at the time,' [son] Shooter explains. 'Whether it was Nine Inch Nails, Skinny Puppy, Pink Floyd or Cream, he really enjoyed being part of my musical journey. It was then he suggested we do an album together." C

  December 15, 2008

• Rotation

  September 15, 1994

• Sound Check

  January 4, 1996

• Rotation

  February 1, 1996

• Static

  February 1, 1996

• Static

  April 4, 1996

• Same Old Waylon

  June 20, 1996

• Static

  June 27, 1996

• It's Been 50 Years Since the Music Died

  Fifty years ago today - February 3, 1959 - the world lost three of its early pioneering rock and rollers in a fiery plane crash over Clear Lake, Iowa. Texan Buddy Holly, Chicano rock godfather Ritchie Valens, and Sabine Pass-born disc jockey/songwriter J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson all lay dead along with inexperienced pilot Roger Peterson in a frozen cornfield. They were on a Midwestern tour that had already suffered scheduling difficulties and bad weather at almost every turn. Half a

  February 3, 2009

• Bite This!

  July 10, 1997

• All-Terrain Vehicle

  July 31, 1997

• Rotation

  November 13, 1997

• Rotation

  July 2, 1998

• New Year's Eve Blastoff

  December 24, 1998

• Steve Forbert: The Place And The Time

  February 26, 2009

• Willie Nelson: One Hell of a Ride

  May 1, 2008

• Shake Russell

  The singer/songwriter still packs ‘em in

  August 9, 2007

• Another Bump

  Ten of the best coke anthems, plus a shortlist for the Cocaine Hall of Fame

  July 5, 2007

• The Other Man in Black

  Waylon Jennings, Nashville Rebel

  October 5, 2006

• Funtime Is Over

  It's the end of the road for AstroWorld

  October 6, 2005

• Tony Joe White

  Friday, September 30, at McGonigel's Mucky Duck, 2425 Norfolk, 713-528-5999.

  September 29, 2005

• White Trash

  There's nothing good about this remake of an awful ol' show

  August 4, 2005

• Shooter Jennings

  Put the O Back in Country

  April 14, 2005

• Defending the Dirty Thirty

  And coping with Yankee slander

  May 6, 2004

• The Dirty Thirty

  The worst songs of all time from Texas

  April 29, 2004

• Endless Boogie

  Former Squirrel Nut Zipper Jimbo Mathus gets back to basics

  August 7, 2003

• Everything Old Is New Again

  What do punks the Dropkick Murphys have in common with soulful Norah Jones? More than you think.

  July 31, 2003

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  July 10, 2003

• Billy Ray Reynolds

  Whole Lot of Memories (Compadre Records)

  January 30, 2003

• Larry

  Among Friends (Lauan Records)

  November 22, 2001

• Choo Choo Ch'boogie

  The Derailers get back on track with a major-label deal

  August 9, 2001

• Billy Joe's Blues

  Billy Joe Shaver has known great blessings and great curses

  July 26, 2001

• Playbill

  Steve Young

  June 21, 2001

• Local Rotation

  Local Music Reviewed

  September 23, 1999

• It's a Family Affair

  Willie Nelson brings along his pals for his annual musical picnic

  July 29, 1999

• Urbane Cowboy

  Lyle Lovett is smart, funny and wears Armani. That's right: He is from Texas.

  May 6, 1999

• Jimmy Webb

  July 30, 2009

• Aftermath: Jimmy Webb at the Dosey Doe Coffeehouse

  Rich Connelly​ Jimmy Webb was a one-man hitmaking machine back in the 1960s, cranking out an incredible number of long-remembered songs in a three-year period. He's never replicated that success (possibly no one could), but he's continued to write songs, musicals, a book and tour with a one-man show. He brought that show to Dosey Doe Coffeehouse in The Woodlands Friday night, and while the place was only half-full, the 100 or so in attendance had a hugely entertaining night as Webb sang and to

  August 3, 2009

• Billy Joe Shaver

  August 13, 2009

• Jesse Dayton - Sorry, "Captain Clegg" - on Rob Zombie and His Role In Halloween II

  Jesse Dayton's star just keeps rising. You have to give the former Beaumont lad credit, he works at it steadily, and these days has his finger in writing, performing, producing, and acting as well as operating a label. As anyone who checks Facebook knows, Dayton posts something about every twenty minutes about his role as Capt. Clegg, murdererous psychobilly band leader in Rob Zombie's latest horror flick, Halloween 2, which was #3 in box office receipts last week. We caught up with Dayton bri

  September 1, 2009

• Steve Young

  October 15, 2009

• Artist of the Week: Country Store Buffalo on Breast Implants, Beer-Drinking Bison and That Old Devil Cocaine

  Each Wednesday, Rocks Off arbitrarily appoints one lucky local performer or group "Artist of the Week," bestowing upon them all the fame and grandeur such a lofty title implies. Know a band or artist that isn't awful? Email their particulars to introducingliston@gmail.com.​ You are in the enviable position of someone about to witness history. Get ready for it. To help with the mood, why don't you go ahead and pretend like there are horns blaring in the background and somebody just released a f

  November 11, 2009