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  Son Of Sahm: Shandon Sahm Brings Tribute Show To Houston

  October 15 at 4 a.m.

  Shandon Sahm, son of Texas legend Doug Sahm, provides the final quote in the documentary, Sir Doug and the Genuine Texas Cosmic Groove, saying “He was put on this earth, like the Texas tornado that he was, came in, left us all this beautiful great body of work and music...

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  Authors of Stevie Ray Vaughan Book Open the Gates to a Texas Flood

  October 8 at 4 a.m.

  It’s October 3 when Alan Paul and Andy Aledort – co-authors of the new biography Texas Flood: The Inside Story of Stevie Ray Vaughan – are on the phone. The date is appropriate because it would have been the 65th birthday of the book’s subject, had he not died tragically...

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  The Next Waltz: Bruce Robison Goes Back To The Basics In The Studio

  October 1 at 4 a.m.

  Waylon Jennings wisely sings about the benefits of “going back to the basics of love “ in “Luckenbach,” though he may have been crooning to a love interest, the advice can also apply to life in general. Bruce Robison has recently launched a platform based on going back to the...

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  From Downey To Lubbock: The Long And Shared Journey Of Dave Alvin And Jimmie Dale Gilmore

  September 23 at 5 a.m.

  Every Houstonian knows the sounds of a heavy storm, especially after last week's visit from Imelda. Elements in nature feed off of each other to create perfect storms. Last years, From Downey To Lubbock, a collaboration between Texas Flatlander, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, and California Blaster, Dave Alvin, melted natural elements...

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  Remembering Daniel Johnston, Lo-Fi Guru of Do-It-Yourself Music, Dead at 58

  September 16 at 5 a.m.

  Though a transplant from West Virginia, and born in California, Daniel Johnston was synonymous with Austin’s unique and weird music ecosystem for years. Despite suffering from a sometimes debilitating schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, he became a bona fide lo-fi guru of Do-It-Yourself music-making. On Wednesday, September 11, he died, likely...

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  Bluesman Sparky Parker Lights Up the Dark

  September 12 at 4 a.m.

  When Eric “Sparky” Parker was 13, he began a love affair. Not with a beguiling classmate at a school dance, but with the guitar. And while there’s a noisy graveyard somewhere out there of instruments that were abandoned by teenagers, you won’t find one of his axes there. “I was...