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Woody Guthrie

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    May 21, 2012

    Friday Night: Dave Matthews Band At The Woodlands

    Dave Matthews Band Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion May 18, 2012 On the way to Friday's Dave Matthews Band show, the question was raised as to the difference between what Radiohead is doing now -- the improvised jams that were birthed this past year -- and what the DMB does on a nightly basis. The o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2012

    SXSW: Tom Morello, A Vigilant And Emphatic Nightwatchman

    Besides Music World Gospel, New West Records is probably the most locally connected sub-major record label, and owner/partial Houstonian George Fontaine has long worn his heart on his sleeve about local music in general and recent New West additions the Wild Moccasins, Robert Ellis, Buxton and Grand ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 7, 2012

    Southern Discomfort: Kinky On the Road

    The one-liners come out of Kinky Friedman's mouth so fast you need a protective shield. "The only thing Rick Perry managed to do with his Presidential campaign was to make George W. look like Thomas 'Fucking' Jefferson." "Real people don't get into politics. The only people who get into politics ... More >>

  • Music

    December 8, 2011

    Ellis Paul

    The one-liners come out of Kinky Friedman's mouth so fast you need a protective shield. "The only thing Rick Perry managed to do with his Presidential campaign was to make George W. look like Thomas 'Fucking' Jefferson." "Real people don't get into politics. The only people who get into politics ... More >>

  • Music

    July 14, 2011

    Half a Paycheck

    Dave Alvin is an inveterate troubadour and staunch advocate for Houston's blues history.

  • Blogs

    June 24, 2011

    Another Bio Of Bob Dylan: Not Dark Yet, But Getting There

    ​The Ballad of Bob Dylan: A Portrait By Daniel Mark Epstein Harper Books, 512 pp., $27.99 Another biography of Bob Dylan? Does even the most rabid fan at this point need another rehash of Hibbing, Woody Guthrie, folksinger-goes-electric, that "wild, mercury sound," Nashville, Blood on the Tra ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 29, 2011

    Johnny Dowd Joins Ranks Of Oklahoma Music Greats

    johnnydowd.comJohnny Dowd, one of the weirdest musical Okies of them all.​Poet, musician, avant-garde musical thinker and doer, Johnny Dowd may live in upstate New York these days, but that fellow is 100 percent died-in-the-wool Okie through and through. When Dowd opens his mouth to sing, Dust ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2010

    Five More Severely Depressing Christmas Songs

    ​Last year, we rounded up quite a collection of depressing Christmas songs to darken your mood just in time for the holidays, but - as many people were quick to point out - we left a few off the list. Well, we're nothing if not thorough, and this year we've found five more monsters of morosen ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 9, 2010

    Mason Lankford: "Born-Again Texan" Leads A Folk Family Revival

    Mark C. Austin​Tonight at Warehouse Live you can catch Robert Ellis & the Boys with Mason Lankford and the Folk Family Revival, all for free. Ellis and his gaggle of musicians are ramping up activity ahead of their weekly Whiskey Wednesdays debut at the new-era Fitzgerald's on September 29. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 24, 2010

    Want To "Support The Scene"? Avoid Open-Mike Nights

    Fat Man & Little Boy (and friend)​Let Lonesome Onry and Mean see if we've got this straight. Because we've written an article about how bad an open-mike night at Salt Bar was, we are tearing down - or not supporting - the Houston music scene? Well, that's bullshit. You want to know what's wr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2010

    Patti Smith On KPFT At Noon; At UH Tonight

    ​The iconic photograph of Patti Smith on the cover of her first album, Horses (1976), was taken by her longtime friend and sometime lover Robert Mapplethorpe, the controversial photographer who died in 1989 from AIDS-related complications. Five years later, Smith's husband, MC5 co-founder Fred "So ... More >>

  • Music

    March 18, 2010

    Chatter: All in the Family

    Woody Guthrie's descendants keep the folk flame alive.

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2010

    My Friends Are Gonna Be Strangers: 18 Readings From The Book Of Hag

    ​ When Merle Haggard and Kris Kristofferson take the Verizon stage for tonight's "Who's More Grizzled?" grudge match, they'll bring with them a century of experience as two of the most iconoclastic, poetic voices in popular song, country or any other genre. No disrespect to Kristofferson (four wor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 25, 2009

    Hiding on the Backstreets, Part 2: Bruce Springsteen Brings The River, Born In the U.S.A., Tunnel of Love and Tom Joad to Town

    Daniel KramerBruce Springsteen and Miami Steve van Zandt at Toyota Center, April 2009​ As Bruce Springsteen fans come to grips with the unfortunate reality that this past weekend's show in Buffalo, N.Y., may well have been the final offical tour date - although surely not the final show - from the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 2, 2009

    Paolo Nutini, Moby, Pink, Lady GaGa and Other Artists Manlier Than John Mayer

    ​We don't always hate John Mayer. No, really. Sometimes dude seems downright likable, like when he's hanging out in the Comedy Cellar in NYC, or releasing self-effacing web videos, or popping up for cavalier, amusing chats with our XM favorites Ron & Fez. Even his Twitter account is worth read ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 11, 2009

    A Musical Guide to Post-Secession Texas: "Palo Duro"

    View Five States of Texas in a larger map As any proud Texan can tell you, the Lone Star State is entitled constitutionally to split into five states if it so wishes. The scenario has rarely been more in the news than it has relatively recently, when Gov. Rick Perry played to the wingnut gallery in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 29, 2008

    Aftermath: Robert Earl Keen at House of Blues; Dash Rip Rock at the Continental Club; Hayes Carll at Warehouse Live

    Photos: Hayes Carll/ Craig Hlavaty; Dash Rip Rock, Robert Earl Keen/ Chris Gray On their 1996 self-titled debut LP, Hee Haw-loving Nashville ironists BR5-49 cut a song called "Little Ramona (Gone Hillbilly Nuts)." Anyone who has read either the paper or this site in the past few weeks wi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 27, 2008

    Lonesome Onry and Mean: Phil Lee's So Long, It's Been Good to Know You

    Phil Lee & the Sly Dogs, "A Night In the Box" The inimitiable Phil Lee is not one of your grandma's Nashville stars. No, he's one of those barely discovered left-side-of-Nashville writers who probably doesn't even know where Music Row is. On his third solo album, So Long It's Been Good T ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 29, 2008

    Q&A: Rich Williams of Kansas Talks History, Houston and Will Ferrell

    Phil Lee & the Sly Dogs, "A Night In the Box" The inimitiable Phil Lee is not one of your grandma's Nashville stars. No, he's one of those barely discovered left-side-of-Nashville writers who probably doesn't even know where Music Row is. On his third solo album, So Long It's Been Good T ... More >>

  • Film

    December 6, 2007

    Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten

    Joe Strummer transcends punk, and the music lives on

  • Film

    September 14, 2006

    The Black Dahlia

    True-crime noir goes searching for Hollywood's heart of darkness

  • Music

    September 14, 2006

    Ronny Elliott, Ramsay Midwood, Dan Colehour

    Thursday, September 14, at McGonigel's Mucky Duck, 2425 Norfolk, 713-528-5999

  • Music

    July 28, 2005

    Breakdown Lane

    Chevy's unlikely new pitchman

  • Music

    June 23, 2005

    Jimmy Lafave

    Friday, June 24, at McGonigel's Mucky Duck, 2425 Norfolk, 713-529-9899.

  • Music

    March 11, 2004

    Quiet Riot Grrl

    Thea Gilmore plots a folk-rock revolution on the cheap with great songs and $60 videos

  • Music

    September 18, 2003

    Coal Miner's Brother

    Chris Knight extracts songs from the same ravaged west Kentucky earth he once rehabilitated

  • Music

    August 28, 2003

    Eric Hisaw, with Greg Wood

    Thursday, August 28

  • Music

    July 31, 2003

    Everything Old Is New Again

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

  • Music

    April 24, 2003

    ¡Viva México!

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

  • Culture

    August 22, 2002

    Fallon Fast

    Saturday Night Live's prime player is rapidly outgrowing television's small screen

  • Music

    March 21, 2002

    World Views

    Jimmie Dale Gilmore loses fans over his political views

  • Music

    June 21, 2001

    The Coffeehouse Kid

    Stardom might be cool for Adam Carroll. But mainly he just wants to be your friend.

  • Music

    March 1, 2001

    Bowing to Pop

    A Muslim by choice, Jawad couldn't deny the will of his music

  • Music

    September 23, 1999

    Amplified

    Local Music News

  • Music

    March 25, 1999

    Sympathy for the Angel

    Wilco's Jeff Tweedy and the scourge of great art

  • Music

    September 10, 1998

    Rotation

    Wilco's Jeff Tweedy and the scourge of great art

  • Music

    August 6, 1998

    Rotation

    Wilco's Jeff Tweedy and the scourge of great art

  • Music

    July 23, 1998

    Rotation

    Wilco's Jeff Tweedy and the scourge of great art

  • Calendar

    April 9, 1998

    Night & Day

    April 9 - 15, 1998

  • Music

    March 26, 1998

    Radio Shy

    April 9 - 15, 1998

  • Music

    November 27, 1997

    Holiday Gestures

    April 9 - 15, 1998

  • Music

    November 6, 1997

    Rotation

    April 9 - 15, 1998

  • Music

    October 2, 1997

    Rotation

    April 9 - 15, 1998

  • Music

    August 14, 1997

    Rotation

    April 9 - 15, 1998

  • Music

    June 12, 1997

    No Frills Allowed

    April 9 - 15, 1998

  • Music

    September 12, 1996

    Rotation

    April 9 - 15, 1998

  • Music

    January 18, 1996

    Static

    April 9 - 15, 1998

  • Music

    January 4, 1996

    Static

    April 9 - 15, 1998

  • Culture

    September 14, 1995

    Caught on History's Wheel

    The Kentucky Cycle ends with a bang, and a burial

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