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UPDATED: Meet The Rhodes Kids, Houston's Mobbed-Up '70s Family Band

By Nick DiFonzo
Jun 28, 2010

UPDATE (April 10, 2014): According to a letter we received today from Gary Rhodes, currently a worship pastor in Waco, the Rhodes family had very little idea who they were really doing business with in the early '70s. "We (including our parents) were totally unaware of any ties the record...
Irlene Mandrell: Work Those "Thighs Of Texas"

By Nick DiFonzo
Apr 29, 2010

Irlene Mandrell Texercise (1983) You already know the greats of Texas' recorded history. Roy Orbison. Lightnin' Hopkins. ZZ top. Jandek. But no Texas record collection is complete without this regional remnant of the exercise album craze, Irlene Mandrell's Texercise. Born in Corpus Christi, Irlene grew up in the shadow of...
Nixon-Era Album Reveals Highway Between Heaven And Houston, Texas

By Nick DiFonzo
Apr 15, 2010

Rev. C.L. Jackson You Can Go To Heaven From Houston, Texas Preach on, Brother Jackson Cutout Bin got a record (yeah). In a thrift store in Houston, Texas (yeah). I was feelin' low (yeah). Like the world was out to get me (that's right). So I put on the record...
Cutout Bin: The Rev. Mr. Goodwill Fairley's Musical Guide To Race Relations

By Nick DiFonzo
Mar 3, 2010

Rev. Mr. Goodwill Fairley Pull Up a Chair and Listen Meet Rev. Mr. Goodwill Fairly. With a name like that, you just know he has something to say. And, by God, you're going to listen. Pull up a chair. Don't worry, he'll get one for you. Wait a sec as...
Cutout Bin: Jeff "Crazy Heart" Bridges Also Collects Awful Album Covers

By Nick DiFonzo
Jan 21, 2010

Tuesday afternoon, Cutout Bin received a breathless phone call from a friend: "Are you watching Ellen??" Um, no... Some people work for a living. Not me, but some people. So it turns out Jeff Bridges is on Ellen, and wouldn't you know it, he has his "bad album cover collection."...

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