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Rob Patterson

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Silver and Gold (and Green)

Some artists make holiday records for the beauty, not the bucks

By Rob Patterson
Dec 23, 1999

Jewel, Kenny G, Ringo Starr, the Beach Boys, Bill Engvall, Celine Dion, Take 6, The Irish Tenors, Paul Brandt, 98š and Natalie Cole with her deceased father (again). These are just some of the artists who are releasing Christmas records this year. And they are all so utterly worthless that...
Remembering Doug Sahm

The Texas Tornado is gone, but not forgotten

By Rob Patterson
Dec 16, 1999

The night after Doug Sahm died of heart failure, I tried to explain his significance to an Austin newcomer who didn't know who he was. I offered an analogy: It was like losing Duke Ellington, Count Basie or Miles Davis. It was that important. A few days later, someone else...
Swamp Ghosts

Racial tensions still haunt Geno Delafose's Louisiana stomping ground

By Rob Patterson
Nov 25, 1999

Although New Orleans is the main attraction in Louisiana for music fans, as too many House of Blues T-shirts attest, the state's real musical magic, and maybe the best food too, is actually found in the heart of Cajun country to the west of the Crescent City. In fact, the...
The Dish

Native Houstonian Trish Murphy's new record is something to talk about

By Rob Patterson
Oct 21, 1999

Trish Murphy's a living study of the nature versus nurture question. Is she so talented because she's got music in her veins? Or because she grew up surrounded by musicians? Or maybe because she works so damn hard? Murphy's first solo record, Crooked Mile, introduced her as a roots rocker...
Rotation

New Releases Reviewed

By Rob Patterson
Oct 7, 1999

Various Artists Bleecker Street: Greenwich Village in the '60s Astor Place Recordings If you were to walk down Bleecker Street between Sixth Avenue and University Place in New York City, it might be hard to imagine that that stretch of blocks, along with nearby MacDougal Street, were once the epicenter...
Roundabout Way

Cornell Hurd finally finds his musical niche

By Rob Patterson
Sep 9, 1999

The Cornell Hurd band performs Friday, September 10, at 9 p.m. at Blanco's Bar & Grill, 3406 West Alabama. Call (713)439-0072.
North and South

Tranquil Canada flavors San Antonian Doug Sahm's rustic music

By Rob Patterson
Jul 22, 1999

One might imagine that Doug Sahm came up with the idea of forming the Texas Tornados — his Tex-Mex supergroup with Chicano country crooner Freddy Fender, conjunto music legend Flaco Jimenez and Sahm's Sir Douglas Quintet compadre Augie Meyers — while sipping Corona con lima in a rustic cantina south...
Unexpected Success

Just when he thought fame had passed him by, Austinite Jon Dee Graham gets rediscovered

By Rob Patterson
Jul 1, 1999

One of the prime tenets of Hinduism and its Buddhist offshoot is the notion that becoming unattached to temporal objects and issues provides the means to achieve nirvana. By giving up the small shit, we can get the big enchilada. Simple, right? Hardly. Life on this earth is so fraught...
Rotation

By Craig D. Lindsey, Rob Patterson and David Simutis
Mar 11, 1999

Mystikal Ghetto Fabulous No Limit/Jive Silkk the Shocker Made Man No Limit/Priority Did you just hear that clicking sound? That was the sound of Master P switching on the reel-to-reel machine again so he can record tracks for yet another No Limit album. Master P churns out albums the same...
Hot Country Punksters

By Rob Patterson
Feb 4, 1999

In Austin, the obsessively self-referential city that calls itself "The Live Music Capital of the World," there is an unwritten book of frequently apocryphal notions about its music scene. One of the major fancies that turns out to be true is that it's a place where most anyone with the...
Rotation

By Rob Patterson, David Simutis, Jim Caligiuri and Paul J. MacArthur
Feb 4, 1999

Ray Wylie Hubbard Live at Cibolo Creek Country Club Misery Loves Company Mythology can be a very powerful and sometimes dangerous thing. This is something Dallas native Ray Wylie Hubbard no doubt understands. A veteran of the early 1970s' great progressive country scare, he mainly left myths in his wake...
Rotation

By Paul J. MacArthur, David Simutis, Craig D. Lindsey and Rob Patterson
Jan 28, 1999

Miles Davis The Complete Bitches Brew Sessions Columbia Legacy Over a quarter century after it shocked the music world, Miles Davis's watershed album, Bitches Brew, still generates controversy. Considered the most important jazz work of the past 30 years by some and penultimate commercial bastardization by others, Bitches Brew changed...

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