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  Steve Boone Offers Another Taste of The Lovin' Spoonful

  February 6 at 5 a.m.

  It was the evening of August 23, 1966. In the bowels of New York's Shea Stadium—though only they knew it—the Beatles were preparing for what would likely be their final concert in front of a paid audience. But instead of pacing the floor, the biggest band in the world were...

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  Tweed Smith Keeps Her Birthday Party Rolling

  January 24 at 5 a.m.

  Growing up in 1950s/60s Houston, young Alice Faye Smith – named for the popular performer from a couple of decades earlier – always knew she wanted to be a singer. There was really no other career path for her, simply because it was all around her. Everyone in her family...

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  Lettuce Funks Up the Jam Band Scene

  Friday, December 21, 2018 at 4 a.m.

  Part of the appeal of having SiriusXM satellite radio and its scores of music channels (with even more on the app) is that pretty much every single band or performer past or present will be played on at least one station. For the Boston-bred Lettuce, that channel is Jam On...

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  Fastball Celebrate Two Decades Since Breakthrough Album and "The Way"

  Tuesday, December 4, 2018 at 4 a.m.

  The members of Fastball are in a pretty good mood these days. The Austin-based band have just released a 20th anniversary reissue of their breakthrough album All the Pain Money Can Buy that includes the original album’s 13 tracks, plus 9 more rarities, demos, and outtakes. “We wanted to mark...

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  Houston All-Stars Pay Tribute to the Texas Tornado

  Friday, November 16, 2018 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

  Tuesday, October 30, 2018 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...