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  The Suffers and the Houston Symphony Are a Natural Fit

  June 19 at 5 a.m.

  Carefully arranged and artfully crafted, the performance reinvigorated songs that local fans have heard hundreds of times.

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  Massive Reissue Campaign Helps Stax Revive Soulsville U.S.A.

  June 13 at 4 a.m.

  Perhaps more than any other label, Stax did the most to introduce and elevate R&B and soul music.

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  Boz Scaggs, From Urban Cowboy to Smooth Sailin' With Michael McDonald

  June 12 at 3:30 a.m.

  I just consider Houston one of the places where people ‘get it,’ says the sublime R&B crooner.

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  South Houston Crawfish Fest Delivers Soulful Food with a Zydeco Beat

  May 28 at 7:45 a.m.

  The South Houston Crawfish Festival showed us that crawfish season isn't over yet, delivering steaming hot food (courtesy of Creole Creajuns and Crawdaddy Catering), live music (Ruben Moreno, Jerome Batiste, Tejano Roze, Keyun & the Zydeco Masters) and much more. DJ Jack Frost was live in the mix, keeping the jams flowing. It all went down on May 27 at the Hobby Event Center. Booyah!

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  Back 2 Life: The Rediscovery of Letoya Luckett

  May 19 at 5 a.m.

  Eight years is a long enough time to learn, get your heart broken and release your best album to date.

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  Coco Montoya Learned the Hard Truth From Blues Legends Like Albert Collins

  May 10 at 4 a.m.

  The California-born bluesman studied under the best, as in Houston icon Albert Collins and British bluesbreaker John Mayall.