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  The (Steven) Marshall Plan to Make it in Music

  October 8 at 4 a.m.

  It was a Saturday evening at the Ranch Bar + Kitchen in the north Houston suburb of Cypress. Steven Marshall sat alone on the small stage, dressed casually in jeans and a T-shirt, just him and his acoustic guitar. The crowd was fairly sparse at the time—it was still fairly...

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  Country Blues are a Big Damn Deal to This Musical Preacher

  October 5 at 5 a.m.

  Call the Rev. Peyton a “throwback,” and he’ll likely take it as a compliment. Looking like he stepped out of a 1930s kinescope about rural mountain people (or a “Popeye” cartoon), the singer/guitarist/songwriter gets both inspiration from and is a practitioner of the kind of acoustic fingerpicking country blues that...

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  Nobody's Girl Launches Country-Folk-Pop Band of Sisters

  September 21 at 4 a.m.

  In the comic book world, a familiar storyline move is to put heroes who have established their own books and storylines together at some point to form a super team (think the Avengers or Justice League of America). When it comes to Texas-based contemporary folk and country bands, three of...

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  Lyle Lovett and Robert Earl Keen Added to the Big George Strait Rodeo Show

  September 18 at 12:19 p.m.

  A George Strait show basically sells itself. He’s the King of Country music after all, and you could probably sell 10,000 tickets to see him tune his guitar and sing a line and a half during a soundcheck. The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, however, is a little more giving,...

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  Ball and Chain: The Best Houston Music of The Week

  September 12 at 4 a.m.

  This week Houston has options from Social Distortion, Rise Against, Fat Tony, The Crystal Method, First Aid Kit, Owen, The Daphne Blue, and The Hates. Tonight you could catch the punk sounds of Chicago's Rise Against over at Revention Music Center. These guys have been going hard for a good...

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  King of the Road Puts Contemporary Spin on the Legacy of Roger Miller

  September 10 at 5 a.m.

  Among his classic country peers, you’d be hard pressed to find an artist more universally respected and admired than Roger Miller (1936-1992). As both a performer of his own material and as songwriter for others, the Texas-born singer/guitarist/actor is best known for tunes like “Dang Me,” “England Swings,” “Chug-a-Lug,” and...