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Bobby "Blue" Bland

  • Music

    March 1, 2012

    Preview: Drake at College Park Center

    Friday, March 2, at College Park Center, Arlington

  • Blogs

    February 29, 2012

    In Defense of... Drake's "Take Care"

    At the end of last year, I took back misgivings I had about Drake since his studio debut, Thank Me Later, dropped a couple years back. One of reasons I changed my mind "aboat" the Canadian rapper was the title track from his sophomore album, Take Care, released last year. "Take Care" follows a chai ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 18, 2011

    It Only Took 33 Years For Dallas Filmmakers to Get Due Credit For "Lost" Stones Concert Film

    Jagger and Richards in Some Girls Live shot in Fort Worth​A reminder: Tonight and tonight only is that big-screen screening of The Rolling Stones: Some Girls Live In Texas, shot during the band's Will Rogers Auditorium stopover on July 18, 1978, under the moniker the "London Green Shoed Cowboys." ... More >>

  • Music

    August 11, 2011

    Scenes From R.L.'s Blues Palace #2

    Jagger and Richards in Some Girls Live shot in Fort Worth​A reminder: Tonight and tonight only is that big-screen screening of The Rolling Stones: Some Girls Live In Texas, shot during the band's Will Rogers Auditorium stopover on July 18, 1978, under the moniker the "London Green Shoed Cowboys." ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 7, 2011

    Watch: Que P -- "Ain't No Mo Love (feat. Slim Gravy of A.Dd )"

    Que P​Less than two weeks after the premiere of their debut music video (for their lead When Pigs Fly single "Likeamug"), Dallas-based hip-hop duo A.Dd once again has the Internet on fire today, with various hip-hop-focused sites posting download links for the just-leaked second single from the g ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2010

    Tonight, Tonight: KXT's One-Year Anniversary Party at Gilley's, Bobby Patterson at The Kessler, In This Moment at Trees and Traffic 911 Benefit at Dan's Silverleaf

    An interesting array of shows taking place around our area this Thursday evening. A celebration in one corner of town, some legendary soul at another, some inspired metal in yet another corner, and, up north, some impressive local acts working it for a worthy cause.

  • Blogs

    August 15, 2010

    For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: Eric Clapton Was God at Dallas Convention Center in November '76, But Freddie Was Still King

    ​Of all the weekend-listening suggestions I've posted since whenever this started, that Freddie King KZEW revue ranks high on the list -- I've listened to it start-to-finish a dozen times since posting two weeks ago. Hard to see how it gets much better than that, but after sitting through back-to- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 6, 2008

    Echoes And Reverberations: The Ghosts Of The Longhorn Ballroom

    ​Of all the weekend-listening suggestions I've posted since whenever this started, that Freddie King KZEW revue ranks high on the list -- I've listened to it start-to-finish a dozen times since posting two weeks ago. Hard to see how it gets much better than that, but after sitting through back-to- ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 28, 2008

    Friends Of Freddie

    Celebrate the King of Big D blues

  • Music

    August 30, 2007

    Living Large

    We love it when you call us Big Poppa

  • Music

    January 25, 2007

    B.B. King

    Tuesday, January 30, at Bass Hall, Fort Worth

  • Calendar

    October 26, 2006

    The Blues for Radio

    Tuesday, January 30, at Bass Hall, Fort Worth

  • Music

    December 11, 2003

    Get the Word Out

    Promotion was the priority at the Dallas Music Festival

  • Calendar

    October 23, 2003

    Dead Dance

    Ballerinas rattle their bones

  • Music

    May 31, 2001

    Various Artists

    Chitlin Circuit Soul (Rhino Records)

  • Music

    November 23, 2000

    A Legend in the Making

    The Blond Bomber flies from Waxahachie to Alan Freed, with a Strat as his sole defense

  • Music

    August 31, 2000

    Scene, heard

    Bluh; Pleasant Grove in Germany; The Early Line; Trees turns 10; Rubber Gloves gets wet; And so much more

  • Music

    March 11, 1999

    Soul brother No. 1

    Quiet! Do not disturb while Bobby Patterson is making love to a microphone on KKDA-AM

  • Music

    March 4, 1999

    Up on Cripple Creek

    Chris Flemmons is finally moving upstream with his band, the Baptist Generals

  • Music

    January 14, 1999

    Caught in a trap

    Peter Guralnick's Careless Love sheds new light on the opaque unraveling of Elvis Presley

  • Music

    August 13, 1998

    Fake the money and run

    Steve Miller learned everything he knows about music while living in Dallas--but has he forgotten it all?

  • Music

    July 2, 1998

    Little boy blues

    Andrew Baxter Jr. may be a mere child, but the 11-year-old guitarist is no novelty

  • Music

    June 18, 1998

    The King's man

    "Jr. Boy" Jones played with them all--now, he plays for himself

  • Music

    January 22, 1998

    Behind the lines

    From reds to feds to blues

  • Music

    June 5, 1997

    Out There

    From reds to feds to blues

  • Music

    May 22, 1997

    Keeping up with the Joneses

    Dallas blues history according to two who lived it

  • Music

    April 3, 1997

    No retreat

    After the setback of the Cartwrights, Donny Ray Ford gets a taste of success

  • Music

    March 20, 1997

    Soul survivor

    Four decades after his first record, Solomon Burke is still in the studio and in God's arms

  • Music

    September 19, 1996

    The good fight

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

  • News

    June 13, 1996

    Lost Art

    Dallas' most compelling art museum is hidden away in an old East Dallas firehouse

  • Music

    March 14, 1996

    Out Here

    Dallas' most compelling art museum is hidden away in an old East Dallas firehouse

  • Music

    February 15, 1996

    Lonely Hunter

    After a self-imposed exile in Mexico and obscurity, a Texas bluesman comes home

  • Music

    January 18, 1996

    T.C.B. or T.Y.A.

    Bobby Patterson, Dallas' great unsung soul singer, gets his Second chance

  • Music

    November 2, 1995

    Out Here

    Bobby Patterson, Dallas' great unsung soul singer, gets his Second chance

  • Music

    September 21, 1995

    Hank, junior

    Wayne Hancock rides shotgun down the Lost Highway

  • Music

    April 27, 1995

    Ghosts in the machine

    When the vinyl jukebox dies, so will a little piece of the music it played

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