05 Jan 10 Blues Festival To Benefit Community Radio
Community radio station KNON will bring the Texas music blues to downtown Dallas with its 11th annual Blues Festival. Continue reading
Posted by: Sam Moore
Tags: Blues, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Texas music
03 Dec 09 El Paso To Talk Stevie Ray Tonight
Texas music icon Stevie Ray Vaughan will be the topic of tonight’s lecture series at the El Paso Museum of History. Continue reading
Posted by: Sam Moore
Tags: Stevie Ray Vaughan, Texas music
26 Aug 09 Mudcat Prepares to Go Global
A taste of Texas music gets a global air play on Internet television Thursday night. Continue reading
Posted by: Sam Moore
28 Jul 09 The Jeff Strahan Band at Dan Electro’s Guitar Bar in Houston
Photo by Dale Kennemer
Dawson County is about as West Texas as West Texas gets. For all the monotony in its landscape, this part of the world has produced more than its share of gifted musicians.
Jeff Strahan, for example, is from Dawson County. Lamesa to be precise, roughly halfway between Midland… Continue reading
Posted by: baspinwall
03 Jun 09 Album Review: The Snakecharmers – Been Gone Too Long
The Snakecharmers formed in 2002 as a family affair. Marie Angell, Will Blumentritt and their son Eric Blumentritt brought together diverse musical backgrounds to form an incredible blues sound. The missing element for the band was a lead guitarist that could feel the music and integrate into “the family”. They found that in the person of Larry Meeker, a saxophonist by… Continue reading
Posted by: John South
Tags: Eric Blumentritt, Larry Meeker, Marie Angell, The Snakecharmers, WIll Blumentritt
20 May 09 Album Review: Mike Darnell – The Promised Land
Mike Darnell brings us an offering of the “flues” as he calls it – a combination of Folk and the Blues. Like much of Texas music, it’s really the confluence of the many events, people and music that have impacted Darnell. He moved around the country as a youth and was impacted by folk and rock that he heard.
Darnell… Continue reading
Posted by: John South and Sam Moore
Tags: Big Lizard Boys, Bill Aspinwall, Lloyd Daniel, Mike Darnell, Smythe and Taylor
11 May 09 Blues Icon Dies in Corpus Christi
Rocky Benton, honoree of the South Texas Music Walk of Fame, dies in Corpus Christi. Continue reading
Posted by: Sam Moore
Tags: Blues, Corpus Christi, Rocky Benton, Texas music
10 May 09 Album Review: Connie Mims “Go Deep”
At the recent Texas Music Awards, Connie Mims was named Songwriter of Year. Though that is an honor in itself, Connie also found herself that afternoon among a quintet of Houston songwriters, all excellent musicians and performers. This year, Connie stood out among that elite group of peers as the one selected to be Songwriter of the Year.
Behind that… Continue reading
Posted by: John South
Tags: Connie Mims, Songwriting
23 Apr 09 Album Review – Blues Rockers: For Adults Only
This album has been out for a while, but it is notable from several aspects – production value, the songwriting, and the performance. The versatility of the singer/songwriters comprising the Blues Rockers is evident in the diversity of compositions presented. From the heavy rock aspects of “Democracy” and “Window Pain” to the exquisitely heart-wrenching story in “Appletown” to the bluesy “Dreaming”… Continue reading
Posted by: John South
Tags: Appletown, Blues Rockers, Micheal Reames, Wayne Folse
11 Apr 09 To Be Young and Talented
Here at the Texas Music Journal, we often get tips about young performers from Texas who are sure to be “the next big thing.” Often, however, they fall a little short of the promise. We were referred to a young blues singer and guitarist who would be playing in McKinney. After sitting through his sets, in our opinion, he could very well be … well, you know.
Colton O’Neill… Continue reading
Posted by: Sam Moore and John South
Tags: Colton O'Neill, Texas blues
