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  Roundtrip Ticket To The Blues: The Mighty Orq Releases Live Album

  September 24 at 5 a.m.

  It’s no secret that Houston has an abundance of great blues, past and present. It has been the stomping ground for many great blues men and women. The Mighty Orq is no exception, he has been a fixture in the Houston blues scene since 2002, and even got his name...

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  Bluesman Sparky Parker Lights Up the Dark

  September 12 at 4 a.m.

  When Eric “Sparky” Parker was 13, he began a love affair. Not with a beguiling classmate at a school dance, but with the guitar. And while there’s a noisy graveyard somewhere out there of instruments that were abandoned by teenagers, you won’t find one of his axes there. “I was...

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  SRV's Life Told by Those Who Knew Him at His Best...and Worst

  July 31 at 4 a.m.

  Texas Flood: The Inside Story of Stevie Ray Vaughan By Alan Paul and Andy Aledort 368 pp. $29.99 St. Martin’s Press He was one of Texas’ greatest guitar heroes, a fiery player with one foot in the blues and one in rock who had a growing base of fans and...

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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...