CD Review by Sean Mitchell (Devot) Weiss J. Cole: 2014 Forest Hills Drive, Dreamville, Roc Nation, Columbia Records J. Cole has really put together a whole package in this album, 2014 Forest Hills Drive, that takes you down some roads that are at times relatable, but also very personal into his life. The title, 2014 […]
For more photos, click on the links below. The White Elephant Saloon is the perfect host and perfect sponsor its 10th year of the Texas Music Showdown… good food, good friendly service, great sound man in Ted, and all-around good people everywhere. And, after the contest this past Wednesday, there was a special surprise, short performance […]
For all photos, click on the link below. There’s a new plaque that will be hanging inside Love & War in Texas‘ Plano restaurant. It’ll take a couple of days, because owners Tye and Tory Phelps have to add a 5th name to those already on it. It’s the plaque listing all the winners of […]
Well, time’s a’wastin’, to quote the great American cartoon character, Snuffy Smith. Thus, this is now a VERY SHORT report, but with all the photographs from the night. Round 1, Week 2 of the White Elephant Saloon’s 10th yearly Texas Music Showdown was Wednesday, Feb. 18, and included the front-line duo of Larry Sumpter and Dan […]
First printed in the February 2015 issue of Buddy Magazine The Bodarks The Bodarks Independent Release The Bodarks, a genre-creating string band from around the Metroplex, opens their first and self-titled CD appropriately with “Life Americana,” and then adds 12 more songs which prove they have developed their own unique Americana music. This is a freshman […]
For more photos, click on the link below The second group of eight singers and songwriters competing to go into the 5th Annual Rusty Wier competition Sunday (Feb. 16) brought their best to the Love & War in Texas (Plano) stage — actually on the Rusty Wier pavilion — Sunday, and had the crowd eating […]
For many photos, click on the links below It was one duo and two trios, the first three bands that kicked off the 10th yearly White Elephant Saloon Texas Music Showdown. One of those bands, though, was from Oklahoma. Competing Wednesday (Feb. 11, 2015) were the Josh Halverson band from Denton, Moonlight Social […]
Originally printed in the February 2015 issue of Buddy Magazine Taking West Texas by storm, Dix Hat Band is also about to come out with its first full-length CD project. And the songs coming out on that little round disc well represent the eclectic mix of each band member’s musical styles, talents, and influences. Adam […]
I wrote this for the newspaper with which I worked for 14 years, in Sherman. Wrote it in September 2004. It could have been written yesterday, as the feelings I wrote then were exactly what I felt on my recent weekend at Kerrville Folk Festival. The color of the day was tie-dye; people stood […]
Lesson learned from Rod Kennedy: The book cover doesn’t tell all the story. In the early 1980s, I witnessed a classical music concert specifically for children. Producer Rod Kennedy, who loved and taught me to love all sorts of music, put together a plethora of music acts to show children that “Serious Music Can Be […]
Like I said earlier, it was a boyfriend who turned me on to the Kerrville Festivals. He was in the New Folk contest in 1975, didn’t win, but fell in love with the festivals. He and I broke up between then and 1976 Festival Time. We were still talking, but when I told him I […]
4. Surprise honor brings more memories
On a recent visit to Quiet Valley Ranch, I got to stay in my old cabin, which is now called and used for the green room. It was like old home week, even with the changes and improvements in the 10×20 foot building. One day, I went in to clean a bit in the new […]
3. Friends of Bill W at Kerrville
That first festival came around after I had seven months of sobriety under my belt. In those seven months between October 1980 and May 1981, I had become very used to getting in-town help from my 12-step friends, nightly and sometimes during the day as well. The prospect of going 5 or 6 days without […]
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