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.
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.
Posted by: Sam Moore
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 early training who turned to the guitar in a…
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 counts “…Buffalo Springfield, The Byrds, Stephen Stills, Neil Young, Jackson…
Posted by: John South
Tags: Big Lizard Boys, Bill Aspinwall, Lloyd Daniel, Mike Darnell, Smythe and Taylor
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 award is a career of songwriting and performing that started…
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” and “Coins and Lace”, the musicians illustrate how flexible…
Posted by: John South
Tags: Appletown, Blues Rockers, Micheal Reames, Wayne Folse
20 Feb 09 Friday Night at the Cadillac
For those of you who missed last Friday’s show at Cadillac Pizza in McKinney, you missed a standing room only viewing of a hard charging, true Texas blues group, Junior and the Journeymen. Lead by frontman Mike Clark, J&J rocked the house with their powerful interpretation of the blues. Mike shared the duties on stage with each of band members including Johnny Marshall on keyboards, Bobby Chitwood on bass and…
Posted by: John South
Tags: Cadillac Pizza, Junior and the Journeymen, Paul Reed Smith, Quinten Hope
17 Feb 09 A G-Chord on an Old Martin – An Evening with Quinten Hope
Texas Music Journal caught up with Quinten at the Granada Theater in Dallas on Sunday, February 8, 2009 where he was opening for Andy McKee (quite a guitar player in his own right). Since the show highlighted acoustic guitars, Quinten left his Strat in the case and played his repertoire on an old acoustic – his Dad’s Martin.
Posted by: John South
Tags: Blues, Granada Theater, Jazz, Quinten Hope
