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  Houston All-Stars Pay Tribute to the Texas Tornado

  November 16 at 4 a.m.

  The name Doug Sahm would not make any list of the Top 20 Most Famous Texas Musicians. Nor would it likely appear on a Top 50 roster. But among diehard fans of Texas music, his name and influence ranks far higher. After all, this is the guy who wrote “Texas...

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  Gary Lewis is Still a Playboy

  October 30 at 4 a.m.

  It’s fairly unusual for a band to hit  No. 1 on the charts with their very first single – and especially considering they had never even gone on a tour before. But that’s exactly what happened in February 1965 when the debut by Gary Lewis and the Playboys, the tale...

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  Judy Collins & Stephen Stills Rekindle Relationship of the Musical Kind

  October 29 at 4 a.m.

  As musician couplings go, the romantic tenure of singer/songwriters Stephen Stills and Judy Collins was fairly brief – less than two years in the late ‘60s, as both of their careers were in sharp ascension. She as a folksinger and he about to launch Crosby, Stills and Nash. Though their...

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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...

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  ElectroLuv 2018 Celebrates All Things Jam Band

  September 26 at 5 a.m.

  “We live in the best time in the history of this planet for music,” Hank Lamb enthuses. “Because everything you’ve ever heard is in play now. And it’s being played as well as ever, if not better, and by more people than ever before. Music has really taken off.” That...

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  Nobody's Girl Launches Country-Folk-Pop Band of Sisters

  September 21 at 4 a.m.

  In the comic book world, a familiar storyline move is to put heroes who have established their own books and storylines together at some point to form a super team (think the Avengers or Justice League of America). When it comes to Texas-based contemporary folk and country bands, three of...