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  The Godfather of Swamp Pop is Honored with New CD and Book

  December 6 at 4 a.m.

  He’s known as the “Godfather of Swamp Pop”—but not because any rivals to the title met an unexplained end in a river while wearing concrete shoes. It’s because at 82 years of age, Warren Storm is the oldest of the genre’s originators still actively performing. Swamp pop, which began in...

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  Don Felder Checks Out of the Hotel California and Into the Dosey Doe for Two Intimate Shows

  December 5 at 4 a.m.

  The title of Don Felder’s most recent solo album is pretty straightforward: American Rock ‘n’ Roll. In the leadoff title track, the singer/guitarist gives a bit of a history lesson on the genre with namecheck sampling ranging from Jimi Hendrix, Carlos Santana, Aerosmith, and Bob Seger to Tommy Lee, Slash,...

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  The Krayolas Pay Tribute to Their Dad on Christmas Record

  December 3 at 4 a.m.

  Growing up in San Antonio in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, Hector Saldana, Jr. and younger brother David say they enjoyed especially close familial ties with their parents and three sisters. Holidays were always special, but none more so than Christmas. And while they freely admit that it was...

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  Kansas Returns to the Point of Know Return

  November 22 at 4 a.m.

  Kansas guitarist Rich Williams vividly remembers a certain day in 1977 that still has an impact on his life and career in 2019. His band had just finished playing a show in Chicago when they headed for a studio which had been set up for them to be filmed miming...

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  Coco Montoya's Hot New Record Sparks Houston Memories

  November 21 at 5 a.m.

  It’s a common tale in the annals of contemporary music that a newly-minted blues fan first discovers the genre not from any of the African-American originators and descendants, but through the mutations played by white, younger, and often English blues rock acolytes. That’s was certainly the case for the Coco...

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  The Jacks: Putting the "n" in Rock 'n' Roll

  November 18 at 4 a.m.

  Though they certainly would be categorized in the “rock” section of any playlist, chart, or record store, the young Los Angeles-based band the Jacks wants to make a distinction: they play rock ‘n’ roll. And according to drummer Josh Roossin, there is a difference. “I think rock ‘n’ roll has...