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  Turkey Day Pro Tips with Gnar World Order's Pete Hesher

  November 21 at 6:11 a.m.

  You’ve got mere hours left to get the Thanksgiving meal on the table for your family and friends and maybe you need a little 11th-hour help. Martha Stewart is unlikely to waltz into your kitchen, so we’ve asked the next best person to step in and help save the day...

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  Vince Guaraldi's "Thanksgiving Theme" is the Only Song You Need for This Holiday

  November 21 at 6:02 a.m.

  As a music fan, it’s easy to overlook Thanksgiving. Halloween is a bag stuffed with creepy goodies like “Thriller,” “Monster Mash,” “Ghostbusters,” and a personal fave, “Werewolf Bar Mitzvah” (co-written by Childish Gambino!) Christmas’ selections are too numerous to count - though we can clearly all agree none is greater...

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  That’s Fun! Your Guide to the Five Best Wurstfest Polkas

  November 9 at 5 a.m.

  It’s the final weekend of Wurstfest, the New Braunfels-based annual festival which celebrates German food, beer and, of course, music. The festival began as a single-day event in 1961, an homage to that most delectable meaty treat, the sausage. Ed Grist, the city’s meat inspector, founded the event from those...

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  Monday Night Shows Aren't Automatically Doomed to Fail

  November 8 at 4 a.m.

  What did you do last Monday night? Did you invite all your rowdy friends over to drink cheap domestic beer and cheer on the hapless Dallas Cowboys as they dropped a Monday Night Football game? Maybe the weekend’s time change fooled your body clock into a way-too-early bedtime and you...

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  Houston’s Kathryn Hallberg Makes “Lightning” After Six Years Gone

  October 31 at 4 a.m.

  Kathryn Hallberg is one of Houston’s best singer-songwriters. It’s been six years since she released her EP Nocturnal, and I figured that she’d hung up her guitar for good. Then out of the blue, I got a note from her that she’d released a new song, “Lightning.” It’s the harbinger...

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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...