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  Wise Beyond Their Years: The Peterson Brothers Bring the Blues to Houston

  June 20 at 4 a.m.

  Some musicians age in dog years, one normal year of gigging can give them up to seven years of experience. The Peterson Brothers may have only recently reached the legal drinking age but both have built up some serious experience since they started performing as preteens. The Brothers will perform...

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  Legendary "Lost" Treatise on Texas Blues Finally Unearthed

  June 14 at 4 a.m.

  The Blues Come to Texas: Paul Oliver and Mack McCormick’s Unfinished Book Compiled by Alan B. Govenar with contributions by Kim Lornell 472 pp. $95 Texas A&M University Press To understand this story, you must first know the story behind the story. In 1959, two fans and writers about blues...

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  The Man - and the Myth - of Robert Johnson, Finally Unraveled

  June 6 at 4 a.m.

  Up Jumped the Devil: The Real Life of Robert Johnson By Bruce Conforth and Gayle Dean Wardlow 320 pp. $30 Chicago Review Press Myth is a powerful thing. Even more so when it’s a fantastical myth that has survived and thrived over generations. And it is Music Journalism Law that...

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  MFAH Puts "Jazz on Film" and In Your Ear

  May 30 at 5 a.m.

  For the seventh anniversary of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s “Jazz on Film” series, Founder and Curator Peter Lucas has once again put together a screening schedule as varied as the music itself. Running over three weekends, it includes a mixture of material from the Jimmy Stewart drama Anatomy...

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  Stanley Booth's Half-Century of Writing About Memphis and the Blues

  April 23 at 4 a.m.

  Red Hot and Blue: Fifty Years of Writing About Music, Memphis, and Motherf**kers By Stanley Booth 400 pp. $19.99 Chicago Review Press Of all the American music journalists who invented the genre and cut their teeth in the ‘60s and ‘70s – names like Paul Nelson, Richard Meltzer, Lillian Roxon,...

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  Local Legend Bubbha Thomas Celebrated on Record Store Day

  April 11 at 5 a.m.

  Asked to name an important or influential musician to come out of Houston, many will trippingly trot out the Usual Suspects of Beyoncé, Lightnin’ Hopkins, ZZ Top, or even Kenny Rogers (also, of course, an influential name in the chicken business). A name lesser known – but no less important...