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21. Music

    Roadshows

    By Josh Alan Friedman

    Published: November 14, 1996

    Professionalism never sounded so good Marshall Crenshaw opened last year's performance in Deep Ellum with the offhand greeting "Hello, we're professional rock musicians." He...

22. Music

    House of David

    Fathead comes home

    By Josh Alan Friedman

    Published: October 17, 1996

    David Newman's Oak Cliff home contains a living-room wall of fame--the "Fathead National Museum"--adorned with his 28 album covers in chronological order. They date from 1959's...

23. Music

    The good fight

    Keb' Mo' makes the fat ladies get up and dance

    By Josh Alan Friedman

    Published: September 19, 1996

    Bluesy singer-songwriter Keb' Mo' (street vernacular for Kevin Moore) has reached critical mass with his second OKeh/Epic album, Just Like You, setting the stage for a national...

24. Music

    The circle unbroken

    Doc Watson still likes to pick

    By Josh Alan Friedman

    Published: August 8, 1996

    Doc Watson--one of the purest and most soulful figures in country music history--has never been on commercial radio and was denied Young Country's chance to reap teen coin. "If...

25. Music

    Fire and fury

    Blues hero Sam Myers is the Rocket in the pocket

    By Josh Alan Friedman

    Published: May 9, 1996

    In Sam Myers' East Dallas space-age bachelor-pad apartment, the bluesman keeps vintage 1950s LPs of Louis Jordan, Percy Mayfield, T-Bone Walker, and, of course, his old partner...

26. Music

    The beautiful loser

    Keith Ferguson keeps a loose grip on Fabulous past

    By Josh Alan Friedman

    Published: March 28, 1996

    "I have to admit, there's a guaranteed future in dirty dishes, which there ain't in blues," Keith Ferguson concedes. "I seem to be the only one who regards himself as a...

27. Music

    Winedale nation

    A man, his guitar, and a last-chance bar on Greenville Ave.

    By Josh Alan Friedman

    Published: November 9, 1995

    In 1992, when I began performing Monday nights at the Winedale Tavern on Lower Greenville Avenue, it was Skid Row's royal palace in Dallas. There, some patrons behave as if...

28. Music

    Roadshows

    By Josh Alan Friedman

    Published: September 21, 1995

    Jeff's boogie There was a time when only one man in the world generated guitar sounds that millions of musicians now take for granted. Though John Lennon plucked the first...