Story and photos by Mary Jane Farmer. Click on the underlined link below for more photos Hank Williams Jr. brought his mix of southern rock, country, and jazzy blues to Choctaw Casino’s Grand Theater (Durant, Okla.) Friday night (June 9, 2017) including eight back-up players. (Sorry, couldn’t get good pix of all the players.) Hank […]
Story and photos by Mary Jane Farmer. Click on the links, underscored, for many more photos. More could be added later. It was small, it was friendly, it was filled with good music, it was the first Mountain Jam, held on land occupied by Texoma musician Dustin Perkins. That land sits at below — but […]
PS Up Front: Watch for Alice Cooper photos to be posted very soon. They aren’t officially ‘behind’ or ‘late’ yet! So far behind, so many great concerts, and here’s a few photos to remember them by. Peruse, to get the entire feel of the Grand Theater stage and all it offers in respect for all […]
TEA PARTY AND CRAFT SHOW Red River Valley Chorus is having their annual Tea Party and Craft Show at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, May 13, at the Park Avenue Church of Christ, 3000 Park Avenue in Denison. Public Relations Coordinator MarChessa Taylor said about this annual event, “It will be a lovely event for Moms right before […]
Story and photos by Mary Jane Farmer Tuesday at LJT Fest — Blog style (forgive me, but just gotta do this this time.) Click here for all photos in one file Great line-up, it moved from the T-Birds Garage Pub stage with Randy Brown, who is always a champ at keeping country music alive and […]
Story and Randy Brown and other photos by Mary Jane Farmer. South by Southwest and Asleep at the Wheel photos by Daren Davis. For photos, click here: This is the 29th year for the Larry Joe Taylor Texas Music Festival, and each year seems to bring out even more of the classic and red dirt musicians. Monday, […]
For Turnpike Troubadours photos, click here: For Bonham Brothers photos, click here: The Turnpike Troubadours were the last to play in the old Event Center at Choctaw Casino in Durant, and returned to their old stompin’ grounds April 1, 2017, to play in front of a packed, sold-out Grand Theater house. The band, Evan Felker […]
“Black Bottom Bandits” by Vicki Welch Ayo and Gean Kearns, Independent Label A review by Billy Keith Bucher From the first paragraph, the cadence of “Black Bottom Bandits” by Vicki Welch Ayo and Gean Kearns just explodes. It changes the pace of the first book, “The Davis Gang,” and it swallows the readers up totally […]
9 Stevie Ray Vaughan at Celebrate Austin Music
Because you asked… The Celebrate Austin Music Festival at Zilker Park, circa April 15, 1984, was filled with Austin-based touring acts with generous sprinklings of up-and-comers. A lot of that information is in Rod Kennedy’s book, Music of the Heart, written many years before his 4-14-14 death. It had been a long three-day event, and […]
This was first in Buddy Magazine, August 2016 issue. People ask me a lot — why am I in the music business? OK, I’ll share the secret – it was a guy who got me into all this. While teaching school in El Paso, I met another teacher, a musician, out there and that chance meeting and […]
(I’m sorry, but we got absolutely NO photos of these people.) Ake Pecha — I was told this means “Start fresh, my friend.” It was probably around 1982 when Kerrville Festival Producer Rod Kennedy took a trip to the southeast, where he met a group of travelers from the Scandinavian countries. This was the “International School […]
Three things to think about before quitting.
This took a lot of prayer and thanksgiving for me to write and publish. This was one changing quote in my life… From the movie “Mozart,” this statement by composer Salleri: “Why?… implant the desire (for music)… like a lust in my body? And then deny me the talent?” Early on, I could not figure out myself […]
I (this is Mary Jane here) think I will do a daily blog similar to what I could do at Larry Joe Taylor Fest. Blog being ‘I’m included’ compared with Website being ‘It’s all about the other person.’ The staff orientation is tonight (Wednesday, May 20), but it isn’t by any chance the beginning of happenings […]
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