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Guitarist Kenny Wayne Shepherd Ready To Rock On Saturday
The bluesy teen-aged guitarist who stormed out of Shreveport two decades ago, got dubbed "the next Stevie Ray Vaughan," scored a big hit with...
The Appraiser
To say that Kevin Aldridge has just made the record of his career is a bold statement. The 39-year-old singer-songwriter has been churning out...
Justin Time Machine
Justin Sherburn is reconnecting with his roots. Sort of. Keyboardist for Austin-based indie darlings Okkervil River, Sherburn is a Fort Worth guy (graduate of...
Ted Nugent Talks Obama, Guns At Billy Bob’s
The president, "big" women, and machine guns were a few of the topics that redneck philosopher and rock guitarist Ted Nugent touched on during...
I Want To Party With Randy Travis
I'm diggin' up bones / I'm diggin' up bones
Exhuming things that's better left alone
Country songbird Randy Travis dug up more bones last night.
That makes...
Reality Bites
For your columnist, the ’90s were a mix of dread (I was in college), drunken haziness (I was in college), joy mixed with pain...
Killer or Filler?
The Toadies’ Play.Rock.Music
Let’s get this out of the way first. Play.Rock.Music, The Toadies’ fifth studio album since first forming in the late 1980s, doesn’t...
Punk Drunk
Perhaps one of the most tired arguments that can arise between two humans is the one that tries to define punk rock. People who...
Live Oak Grows Cooler
The Near Southside’s Live Oak Music Hall & Lounge (1311 Lipscomb St., 817-926-0986) just got a much-needed infusion of youngblood in the form of...
Cliburn Video Contest Winner Announced
I got so caught up in the Olympics that the Van Cliburn's Amateur Piano Video Competition slipped under my radar. Rather than make weak...


















