Eric Clapton

The Best of Rocklahoma 2013, Including an On-Stage Wedding at 2 a.m.

It's always best at festivals like these when you go looking for the party in the campsite rather than let it come to you. Directly around us were several bands, the longest running flip cup tournament of all time, a tiki tent of some sort complete with bar and swimming pool, an official Jägermeist ... More >>

The 10 Best Jukeboxes in Dallas

Jukeboxes serve a simple yet critical role in bars everywhere. They can help you cope after a breakup, relax you after a long day of work, remind you of what you love most or fire you up and give you something to dance to. A jukebox used to be the imprint of a bar's spirit, hosting a select set of ... More >>

Dallas Police Chief David Brown Casually Tweets About Firing Cops Before Asking for Blues Recommendations

I've got a really tough day ahead...not looking forward to the decisions I will have to make on some officers careers— David O. Brown (@DPDChief) March 1, 2013 If you follow Dallas Police Chief David Brown on Twitter, you were greeted this morning with the ominous announcement above. We're s ... More >>

Interview with Sue and Marc Cassel About Their Storied Culinary Careers and New Spot, 20 Feet Seafood Joint

Sue and Marc Cassel opened their quaint new spot, 20 Feet Seafood Joint, just last week. Neighbors of Good 2 Go Tacos and Goodfriend, it's a well-played parlay in East Dallas dining. Sue and Marc have spent time at many notable area restaurants, like Star Canyon, Hotel Zaza and Park and they were pa ... More >>

ACL 2012: Sunday's 10 Best & Funniest Moments at Zilker

The rains came early on Sunday morning, but by the time the ACL opened up for business before noon, there was hardly a cloud in the sky, making for an extremely warm and muddy day. The biggest acts of the day -- Red Hot Chili Peppers, Iggy & the Stooges, Crystal Castles, and the Avett Brothers -- he ... More >>

Edie Brickell: "I Worked The Booth At The Granada Theater. I Was In That Booth All By Myself and Daydreamed When I Wasn't Working."

Edie Brickell might not live in Dallas anymore, but she still thinks very fondly of her roots here. Her latest project is The Gaddabouts, a supergroup featuring session musician legends like drummer Steve Gadd and bassist Pino Palladino, and they released the double-disc set Look Out Now! last week. ... More >>

Blues For Bugs: A Few Friends Remember the Dallas Guitar Hero

The Best of SXSW Music: Thursday 3/15/2012

If you're familiar with chaos theory, which in its basic form is the attempt to find patterns in the random acts of shit on Earth, then you may understand the difficulty that comes with describing a full day at SXSW. To break down the bright, scintillating chaos, Village Voice Media's roving music e ... More >>

Finally, Freddie King's in Rock Hall of Fame

98kzew.comKing at KZEW's Armadillo Festival at Fair Park on April 27, 1975​I hear jingle bells: Freddie King's in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Per this morning's heads-up from Cleveland, the Gilmer-born guitarist, singer and songwriter is this year's entry in the Early Influence category; damn ... More >>

Influential Blues Guitarist Bugs Henderson Diagnosed With Cancer, Benefit Concert Scheduled

Bugs Henderson​Many music fans in Dallas know guitarist Bugs Henderson for his influence on the international blues community. In this week's paper edition of DC9 at Night, local blues musician and historian Jim Suhler talked about how Eric Clapton and the late Freddie King would go see Bugs Hende ... More >>

Robert Johnson's Dallas Recording Studio Gets Pulled From Purgatory.

Landmark OK's Plans for 508 Park Ave., So What Now? A Recording Studio, For Starters.

What First Presby expects 508 Park Avenue to look like within, say, two years​The marble-and-concrete building at 508 Park Avenue, once the Warner Bros. Film Exchange and Brunswick Records's regional office, will get a much needed face lift after all, now that the Landmark Commission unanimously a ... More >>

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: Robert Cray and Stevie Ray at Club Redux For Q102

​Back in January 1987, if memory serves, Club Redux stood at the site of the present-day Taco Cabana on Lower Greenville, and that old Observer ad you see at right more or less hints at the kinds of acts that played there back when -- a little bit of this, a whole lotta that. But that advertisemen ... More >>

And Whatever Became of First Presby's Plans to Buy and Restore 508 Park Avenue, Anyway?

The latest look at plans to redo the block that includes 508 Park Avenue, complete with amphitheater​It's been, what, four whole months since last we visited 508 Park Avenue and the surrounding properties, which remain in limbo at this late date. (Though better that than a heap of bricks.) First P ... More >>

Listomania: 11 Songs That Remind Us Of Charlie Sheen's Winning Ways.

Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinning.​It doesn't seem to matter what's going on in Libya, Egypt or even Washington D.C.; somehow, a pretty mediocre actor's personal life has been managing to lead every newscast and dominate discussion on every talk radio show throughout the past week. I ... More >>

Q&A: John McLaughlin Talks Miles Davis, Indian Philosophy and Frank Zappa's Jealousy

At 68, legendary guitarist John McLaughlin has nothing left to prove. He's played with everyone from Miles Davis to Jimi Hendrix. And, as leader of the Mahavishnu Orchestra in the '70s, McLaughlin created a bold new fusion of jazz, rock and Indian influences that remains some of the most challenging ... More >>

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: West, Bruce & Laing Climb the Mountain at Memorial

Back when bootlegs had great album covers​Late-afternoon legal matters yesterday ate into the usual work-week-ending rock-and-roll-and offering. So, then, straight to it via a legendary Swingin' Pig LP digitized for your protection: Leslie West, Jack Bruce and Corky Laing at Memorial Auditorium in ... More >>

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: George Harrison Brings Friends to Fort Worth in '74

​Legend has it George Harrison's '74 tour, kicked off shortly before the release of Dark Horse late that year, was a fiasco best forgotten -- in large part because the former Beatle, whose wife Pattie had just left him for Eric Clapton, had gone on the road following the same bout of laryngitis th ... More >>

A Sneak Peek at Just Where They're Gonna Dance That Mess Around Fair Park Next Week

​I've been trying to figure out: How much of Fair Park will actually get used one week from tomorrow, when it turns into the biggest effing dance party this town's ever seen (I guess, whatever, close to). Because, in case you haven't heard, on June 19 the Electric Daisy Carnival -- a Los Angeles i ... More >>

Q&A: Robert Randolph On Making His New Record With T Bone Burnett--And Hobnobbing With Bob Dylan, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss

Robert Randolph​For the past decade, few artists have become as synonymous with their instrument as has Robert Randolph with his blazing steel guitar. And, given his place on Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Guitar Players of All Time list, Randolph had quite the luxury in choosing from an elite list ... More >>

Jeff Beck

Sunday, April 25, at the Nokia Theatre, Grand Prairie

Staff Trax: Bonjay, Tommy Keene, The Helio Sequence, Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, Derek and The Dominoes

May TruongBonjay​Bonjay -- "Gimmee Gimmee"I was fortunate enough to catch these guys, completely at random, this past week at SXSW--and they impressed the heck out of me with their high-energy performance, and an eclectic, beat-heavy, R&B-tinged sound. Bonjay, which calls Toronto home, release ... More >>

Doyle Bramhall, Bugs Henderson

Saturday, March 6,at the Granada Theater

A Case For Air Guitar

A Cure For Tinnitus at UTD?

Radio, Radio: Ayo Says Adios, While We Look at Just What Passes for "Quality Rock"

Two follow-ups in this particular radio round-up. First, I exchanged a few messages with Alan Ayo via Facebook, and the long and short of it is, he's not at all upset that Clear Channel gave him his walking papers yesterday. Writes the former midday host and music director at KDGE-FM:I'm feeling rat ... More >>

Friends Of Freddie

Celebrate the King of Big D blues

Buddy Guy, Muddy Waters Band, Pinetop Perkins

Friday, August 31, at Billy Bob's, Fort Worth

Ian McLagan, Bugs Henderson

Friday, July 27, at the Granada Theater

Grail for Sale?

Blues for Sam Myers

Ian McLagan and the Bump Band

Spiritual Boy: An Appreciation of Ronnie Lane (Maniac)

King Six-String

B.B. brings the blues to Bass Hall

Music Club of Doom

Nobody is safe from Sheryl Crow--not even herself

Walker, Texas Ranger

From Dallas came the man who first plugged blues into an amp--and into popular culture

Odds & Ends

Club TV USA hits town, Crossroads Fest coming out on DVD andlessons from Mail Bag

Rites of Spring

Bernardo Bertolucci revisits young love with The Dreamers

Oopsie

It's not easy selecting the Best of Dallas

Buddy Guy

May 4

Kids Play

The Moss Brothers are a novelty act -- until you hear them

Britneymania!

What would the face of rock history have looked like if the British Invasion had been a Britney Invasion instead?

Young man inside an old man

With Mock Tudor, Richard Thompson proves you can go home again

Out There

The great divide

Levon Helm, the heart and soul of The Band, looks back in anger

Letters

Cry tough

Essential bassist Tommy Shannon hangs in there

You invent the future

How ignoring their past left Fleetwood Mac a band out of time

Cream of the crop

Jack Bruce follows his own path

Roadshows

Letters