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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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  Last Night: The Drive-By Truckers at the Heights Theater

  November 15 at 6:51 a.m.

  An Evening with the Drive-By Truckers November 14, 2019 Heights Theater As Matthew Keever pointed out in his review of the recent Black Keys show, a good chunk of the near capacity audience at the cavernous Toyota Center likely was familiar with just the band’s radio (er…streaming) hits. The complete...

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  Drive-By Truckers Ready New Album on Signs of the Times

  October 25 at 4 a.m.

  While they haven’t been pegged as a “political band,” the Drive-By Truckers have certainly had a decent amount of songs that cover political and social topics – albeit usually told through the experiences of characters in story songs. That edge got sharper with their last record, as 2016’s American Band...

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  Joe Walsh Hits Houston with All-Star VetsAid 2019 Mega Concert

  October 18 at 4 a.m.

  Throughout his decades-long career in rock and roll, Joe Walsh has been all over the world. And there may indeed be no place like home. But on this October morning in 2019, Joe Walsh wants to be somewhere else. “Well, Bob, I’m in Colorado and yesterday we woke up to...

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  Vivian Campbell's Last in Line Mixes Dio Legacy and New Tunes

  October 14 at 4 a.m.

  Ronnie James Dio played with a lot of different bands and musicians throughout his career. Arguably the owner of heavy metal’s finest voice, he’s graced albums by Elf, Rainbow, Black Sabbath, and his own long-running band Dio. For many fans, his pinnacle was the 1983-85 run of those first three...