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  James McMurtry Ponders the State of the Union

  November 30 at 4 a.m.

  Since the events of the last U.S. Presidential election, there’s one regular social event that has gotten a lot more, um, interesting. And that’s the family gathering! I mean, what could possibly go wrong when you throw together in one confining house relatives who may not have seen each other...

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  American Aquarium Dips Their Toes into Political Waters

  November 27 at 4 a.m.

  Like about half the people in the country, BJ Barham and his wife went to bed late on the evening on November 8, 2016 a bit shocked in how the U.S. Presidential Election was trending, but confident the tide would change when the final results came in. When that didn’t...

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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,...