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Mark Rubin Schleps His Instruments Across The World In The Name of Klezmer
By Josh Alan Friedman
Published: August 27, 2009
WARNING: Americans have a Fear of Music; they close their ears to unfamiliar sounds and avert their eyes from reading unpronounceable names. So be prepared as you read on, my...
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Remembering Jerry Wexler
A friend recalls the legendary record man
By Josh Alan Friedman
Published: August 28, 2008
Jerry Wexler, one of the greatest record men of the 20th Century, passed away on August 15. But, before that, I flew to Sarasota, on June 12, for one last visit with him. And...
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Dr. John
All By Hisself: Live at the Lone Star (Skinji Brim)
By Josh Alan Friedman
Published: December 18, 2003
Mac Rebennack, a.k.a. Dr. John, is America's answer to Vladimir Horowitz. He is the foremost master of boogie-woogie and barrelhouse piano, as well as having invented a large...
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Sam and Larry
The Winedale Tavern has an eclectic clientele. And at least one impostor.
By Josh Alan Friedman
Published: November 15, 2001
I've always believed that the humble Winedale Tavern, a shotgun railroad bar on Lower Greenville, attracts the most democratic mix of humanity of any club in Dallas. Both the...
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Easy as A-B-C
In DJ Jerry Thomas, shoulda-been hits have a champion. And a future.
By Josh Alan Friedman
Published: April 19, 2001
Like DFW Airport is to travel, the ubiquitous ABC Radio Network is an international hub for standardized radio formats. And like DFW Airport, and unbeknownst to the listening...
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Jeff Beck
You Had It Coming (Epic)
By Josh Alan Friedman
Published: March 29, 2001
You can bestow the title of History's Greatest Rock Guitarist upon Jeff Beck, and few could provide a convincing argument to the contrary. He produces his wizardry...
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The Ackermans
Code of the West (Made in Texas Records)
By Josh Alan Friedman
Published: October 26, 2000
Bob and Sally Ackerman are sterling examples of Hometown Syndrome. The greatest husband-wife duo since Mickey and Sylvia, this local Dallas duo has built an audience a hundred...
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Sandy Knox
Pushin' 40, Never Married, No Kids (American Originals)
By Josh Alan Friedman
Published: October 26, 2000
This is a superb album by a songwriter who chooses to sit out the rat race of performing and the club circuit. Sandy Knox sounds too good not to be onstage. Soulful and...
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Jamal Mohamed
By Josh Alan Friedman
Published: May 11, 2000
Jamal Mohame Beledi (Self-titled) Jamal Mohamed is that most honorable of all curses -- a musician's musician. On top of that, he's a drummer's drummer. Meaning: He may be...
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Small-mouthed bassists
By Josh Alan Friedman
Published: November 18, 1999
Buddy Mohmed American Bedouin (Blue Cedars Records) Chicago-born, Dallas-based Buddy Mohmed is perhaps the finest jazz upright-bass player in Texas. He's also a...
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The ponce
The sort-of true adventures of a kind-of real rock star and her not-made-up boyfriend
By Josh Alan Friedman
Published: September 2, 1999
I am what some in the business refer to as a "ponce." That is, I'm the emasculated little man behind a famous female, from whom I derive my sense of self worth, and through...
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The Brian Setzer Orchestra
Bronco Bowl, August 5
By Josh Alan Friedman
Published: August 5, 1999
Brian Setzer Orchestra With the exception of just a few -- Duke Ellington, Count Basie, and the Tonight Show Orchestra -- big bands went out of fashion after World War II....
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Stacks of wax
Adventures at the bottom of the music trade
By Josh Alan Friedman
Published: July 29, 1999
Regent Sound Studios, at 24 W. 57th St. in Manhattan, was my alma mater. What began as a lucky summer job when I was fresh out of high school became a two-year hitch. I dropped...
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Mose's better blues
A trip to Long Island reveals an Allison wonderland
By Josh Alan Friedman
Published: October 15, 1998
Mose John Allison, Jr. That's the way it's written in the book Don't call me Moss, don't call me Moose It's not some made-up show biz hook You can call me Mose ...
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Little boy blues
Andrew Baxter Jr. may be a mere child, but the 11-year-old guitarist is no novelty
By Josh Alan Friedman
Published: July 2, 1998
Andrew Baxter Sr. is a distribution manager for a computer warehouse, and his wife, Angela, is a travel agent; theirs is a happy, healthy home in the middle of middle-class...
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The glory of Bugs
Texas guitar hero Bugs Henderson wouldn't swap family for fame
By Josh Alan Friedman
Published: February 19, 1998
Longtime fans still come up to Texas guitar hero Bugs Henderson, asking why he's not a bigger star, why he's not enshrined on Mount Hendrix with rightful peers like Stevie Ray,...
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Cry tough
Essential bassist Tommy Shannon hangs in there
By Josh Alan Friedman
Published: December 25, 1997
Tommy Shannon and his wife, Kumi, are raising four elegant horses--three of them Trakehners, an athletic European breed--on their Austin ranch. This land, where the Shannons...
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Cream of the crop
Jack Bruce follows his own path
By Josh Alan Friedman
Published: July 24, 1997
Jack Bruce--singer, songwriter, composer, bassist, and elder statesman of rock--says people wrongly assume that British rockers of the '60s all know each other, like some elite...
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The quiet man
Cornell Dupree is the ultimate un-showoff
By Josh Alan Friedman
Published: February 27, 1997
He is the king of non-flash guitar, the guitar man on an estimated 2,500 pop and R&B records of the sort where you don't necessarily recall the guitar parts. Cornell Dupree...
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Glory and injustice
Is bass legend Chuck Rainey falling through the cracks?
By Josh Alan Friedman
Published: November 28, 1996
Asked if anyone in history has played bass more than himself--in terms of sheer numbers of successful records--Chuck Rainey shrugs. "I don't think so," he says. Rainey's bass...
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