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  Felix Cavaliere is Still ''Groovin'"

  August 23 at 4 a.m.

  It’s exactly 50 years to the day of the opening of the Woodstock festival when Felix Cavaliere picks up the phone. He remembers that, while his NY-based group the Rascals were both from and in the region during those three days of “peace, love, and music,” his band would not...

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  The Highs and Lowes of the Jesus of Cool

  August 21 at 4 a.m.

  Cruel To Be Kind: The Life and Music of Nick Lowe By Will Birch 416 pp. $28 Da Capo Press For the average music listener in America, familiarity with Nick Lowe and his music begins and often ends with his 1979 song “Cruel To Be Kind” and its accompanying video,...

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  By The Time We Got To Woodstock's 50th Anniversary, No One Bothered To Play Along

  August 16 at 5 a.m.

  This weekend marks the 50th anniversary of Woodstock. The historic music festival was held August 15-17, 1969 on Max Yasgur's dairy farm outside Bethel, NY. You're going to see various stories and articles reliving those "3 days of peace and music," others comparing/constrasting the America of yore with that of...

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  Gerry Beckley on Solo Record and 50 Years of Radio Gold with America

  August 13 at 4 a.m.

  Gerry Beckley spends a lot of time in airports. A lot. As co-founder of the ‘70s hitmaking-and-still-touring group America, the singer/guitarist, partner Dewey Bunnell, and their band play 100+ gigs a year. That means they’re out there on the road about 200 days annually, which means a lot of waiting...

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  The Community Music Center of Houston Celebrates 40 Years with Lessons Learned (and Still Learning)

  August 8 at 5 a.m.

  It’s 9:45 on a Saturday morning at St. Mary’s United Methodist Church on Scott Street in the Third Ward, and music is coming from inside. But instead of a hymn or gospel tune that you might expect on the next day, it’s the sound of several violins cautiously playing Bach’s...

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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...