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Atlantic Records co-founder Jerry Wexler and songwriter Jerry Leiber both relayed this anecdote: Leiber never went out to see live music — not even his own groups like...
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Jimmie Vaughan is the blues guitarist who reinvented "less is more." On his website bio, younger brother Stevie is quoted as saying, "I play probably 80 [percent] of what I can...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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...
