13 Mar 09 Billy Bob’s Texas – Special Announcement
Pam Minneck from Billy Bob’s announced this morning on WBAP that there will be a special showing at Billy Bob’s Texas on Thursday, March 19th of Bill Bob Thornton and the Boxmasters along with ZZ Top! This is an earlier show than normal starting at 9:00 PM. The tickets go on sale at 10:00 AM on Monday, March 16th at Billy Bob’s box office and on Ticketmaster. Ticket prices are $50…
Posted by: John South
Tags: Billy Bob Thornton, Billy Bobs Texas, ZZ Top
09 Mar 09 A Ride With Bob
The premise is simple. You’re a very talented musician in your own right, and you have an opportunity to spend a few minutes talking to one of the greatest living legends in Texas music. That gentleman, however, is too tired to talk to you that night, but you’re promised that he will be available the next day. As fate would have it, the music icon has a stroke that night…
Posted by: John South
Tags: Asleep at the Wheel, Bob Wills, Leon Rausch, Ruby Jane Smith, The Quebe Sisters Band
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
03 Feb 09 One Door Closes, Another Opens
A flip of a coin, the flu, bad weather and an inexperienced pilot changed the face of music at 1:00 AM, fifty years ago today. America woke up on February 3, 1959 to find that Charles Hardin Holley, Richard Steven Valenzuela and Jiles Perry Richardson, Jr. were killed in an early morning airplane accident. Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and J.P. Richardson (the Big Bopper) had played at the Surf Ballroom…
Posted by: John South
Tags: American Pie, Buddy Holly, Don McLean, J.P. Richardson, Lloyd Maines, Richie Valens, The Big Bopper
