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  Dale Watson Gets Lucky on New Record

  February 25 at 4 a.m.

  Dale Watson has been thinking a lot about luck lately. Not because he’s just released his nearly 30th studio album since 1995 titled – appropriately enough – Call Me Lucky (Red House Records). But because he’s reflecting on how the concept has played out in his own career. “Well, being...

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  Bands by The Strand: First Look at Mardi Gras! Galveston Headliners

  February 8 at 4 a.m.

  Desperately seeking more live music? Cast your concert nets a bit wider this month, because Texas country star Pat Green ("Three Days") is headlining February 23 during opening weekend of Mardi Gras! Galveston. GA tix are affordable enough at about 15 bucks, but hardcore "Texas Red Dirt" fans should check...

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  Ruston Kelly Gives Houston a Musical TED Talk on Art and Sobriety

  January 26 at 8:03 a.m.

  Last night, a bunch of Houstonians with sharp music sensibilities gathered at House of Blues’ Bronze Peacock Room to take in a set by country singer-songwriter Ruston Kelly. He’s touring in support of his captivating new album, Dying Star. The rest of what you’d normally read here would be about...

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  Guit With It and See Junior Brown at McGonigel's Mucky Duck

  January 18 at 5 a.m.

  Junior Brown is a country western workhorse. Consistently touring for decades, he began as a back up musician for such acts as The Last Mile Ramblers and Asleep at the Wheel. “I had no other skills in life than playing music,” Brown has said. “I played more nights in honkytonks...

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  James McMurtry Ponders the State of the Union

  Friday, November 30, 2018 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

  Tuesday, November 27, 2018 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...