Carl Perkins

Smokey But No Fire at WaterTower Theatre, While Amphibian's Understudy Underwhelms

The 100 Best Texas Songs: The Complete List

100. Tripping Daisy, "Sonic Bloom" Before this album, the band had a grunge-pop affectation, but this song, from 1998's Jesus Hits Like the Atom Bomb, was more heartfelt than anything they'd done before. - Daniel Hopkins 99. Pleasant Grove, "The Plaque at 16ft" Bret Egner wrote "The Plaque at 16ft, ... More >>

The Best Texas Songs of All Time: #100-80

"Between the Hank Williams pain songs And Jerry Jeff's train songs And blue eyes cryin' in the rain Out in Luckenbach, Texas Ain't nobody feeling no pain" - Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson, "Luckenbach, Texas" With that introduction, welcome to the first in a five-part series, in which we attempt ... More >>

Over The Weekend: Drive-By Truckers and Centro-matic at the Granada Theater

Drive-By Truckers, Centro-maticGranada TheaterSeptember 2Better than: "Freebird."Drive-By Truckers​In the Drive-By Truckers documentary The Secret to a Happy Ending, a young female fan jokes that she often wears diapers to DBT shows, just so she won't miss any of the show waiting in a bathroo ... More >>

Legacy's Releasing Three "Unreleased" Johnny Cash Songs Recorded in Dallas. Unreleased?

Johnny Cash at the Big "D" Jamboree in the mid-'50s​A good Friend of Unfair Park who knows of my fondness for Johnny Cash and the old Big "D" Jamboree -- and those magical moments when they meet on a piece of paper -- was kind enough to send along this Columbia/Legacy press release issued yesterda ... More >>

Last Night: Tiger Army at Granada Theater

Something Special

Drive-By Truckers

The Dirty South

Twist at the End

Sometimes the worst movies have the best soundtracks

The Late, Great

Ronnie Dawson proved there are indeed second acts in rock and roll

Don't Know How

On her way to the Top 10, Norah Jones had to decide what to do--and what not to do

Johnny Cash

The Essential Johnny Cash / The Fabulous Johnny Cash / Hymns by Johnny Cash / Ride This Train / Orange Blossom Special / Carryin' On With Johnny Cash & June Carter (Columbia Legacy)

Girl Power

The Gals of the Big "D" Jamboree remain the sweethearts of the wrestling ring

Life is Messy

Rodney Crowell chases old ghosts down to Houston

Baby, Get Back

"Autobiography" and bootleg box prove that when it comes to the Beatles, you can never just let it be

Jimi Hendrix

The Jimi Hendrix Experience

Out There

Rockabilly Rave-Ups

Across the Bar

X'd out; Columbia compiles rockabilly; Hellions tribute to the Circle Jerks; Gig plugs galore; And Street Beat is ch-ch-ch-changing?

Good rockin' last night

A new CD resurrects the echoes of the long-gone Big "D" Jamboree, where Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and some forgotten heroes made Saturday nights swing

Hot damn, Jamboree

Slick 57

Drunk Life (Deuce-Hi Records)

Good at being the best

The youngest man in rock and roll, Ronnie Dawson gets hitched and grows up (sort of)

Out Here

Eyesight to the Blind

A historian and a playwright bring a Dallas blues legend's story to the stage

Legendary stardust cowboy

"Groovy" Joe Poovey dies just as his Greatest Grooves are set for release

Fake the money and run

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

Back in black

Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash are still our greatest Storytellers

Everything old

Rockabilly queen Kim Lenz moves ahead by looking backward

In the gutter

Penelope Spheeris wallows in the Decline of Western Civilization one more time

Git it

After years of detective work, Gene Vincent's Lost Dallas Sessions resurface

Down in the tube station

Mary Lou Lord nears the end of her 15 minutes

Rave on cats, he cried

Carl Perkins, 1932-1998

A dream deferred

Gene Summers hasn't had to work a day job since 1958, but it took him more than 30 years to get back to the music he loved

Rock 'n' roll high school

Rock, Baby, Rock It! is classic kitsch, but there's a lesson amid the cheese

Pop mart

South by Southwest '97: Will guitars give up the ghost? Yes and no, but mostly no

Out Here

Water from a deeper well

TV special documents the building of Wrecking Ball

Truckin' man

New traditionalist Dale Watson

Hillbilly deluxe

BR5-49 represents the conscience of the new Nashville

Out Here

Bootlicking

Some of the best records are the ones never released

More a legend than a band

Sloppy and perfect, Golden Smog is the best of all worlds

King Curtis

A rockabilly hero is revered abroad, ignored at home

Roll over, Chuck Berry

In rock and roll, 'legend' is another word for 'forgotten'

Ghosts in the machine

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

Big star

Robert Gordon's new book reveals Memphis is once and forever music's Shangri-La

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