Marcus Lindsey and Big Gus Samuelson
George Ducas
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It wasn’t really a pre-party, because everybody at Southern Junction Friday night was party-ing hard. It was more of a Texas Music Revolution preview party that night, March 18, with Big Gus & Swampadelic, Marcus Lindsay Band, and George Ducas Band keeping the packed house on the dance floor.
George Ducas came back to the area and sat down Tuesday morning with KHYI morning personalities Big Gus and Chance Cody. It was part of his radio tour promoting his new single, “Breaking Stuff,” off his 2011 6-song CD project called “Volume Up Windows Down.”
A little more about Ducas, simply because he’s making so many major changes in his career. He has co-written with such North Texas heroes as Radney Foster, who played Saturday’s TMR, and Randy Rogers. “Breaking Stuff” moved up on the Texas chart this week, hitting it at No. 34 and climbing. He said in the morning interview that he decided to return to his Houston-area Texas home, and concentrate more on songwriting than on performing. The world is in for a treat with that, if such artists as George Jones and Garth Brooks continue to cover George’s songs.
George said that he’s spending about half his time in Nashville, and his on-line Website shows him traveling Texas with his band, not bombarding the Lone Star State, entertaining it. Go to his Website for more information on his career and successes, his touring schedule, and if you get near one of those shows, by all means, catch it.
Also on the bill that night were Big Gus & Swampadelic. This band used to be called something else, I forget what now, because Swampadelic is who they are: a musical meeting between Texas fiddle and swamp-funk, based in the bayous but standing firmly in north Texas.
Following that musical visit to the swamplands, Marcus Lindsey and his band stepped up, proud and strong in country roots. Marcus, like Texoma’s Brent Frailicks, played and traveled with Janie Fricke, and also is a songwriter like Big Gus and George. The similarities are continued in spite of the different styles of music, with all three groups giving the Southern Junction packed house a bang-up good show for their money.