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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...

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  Judy Collins & Stephen Stills Rekindle Relationship of the Musical Kind

  Monday, October 29, 2018 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

  Friday, October 5, 2018 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...