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KNON's Don O. Knows The Dallas Blues

Don O. has been spinning blues records on KNON since 1983, literally about a month after they went on the air. See, he was a listener of the pre-KNON station at that frequency, KCHU, from '75 until they were switched off in '77. Heartbroken at the station's demise and subsequent absence of blues on ... More >>

Q&A: Marty Stuart Talks Life After Chart Success, The Importance of Preserving Country Music's Past and Writing Alongside Johnny Cash.

Marty Stuart​Traditional country music champion Marty Stuart hasn't been a major force on the Billboard country charts for some time now. But don't confuse that absence as a sign of Stuart having slowed down in the least. In fact, the man's arguably more relevant today than he was during his wave ... More >>

This Week In Dallas Music History: Course Of Empire Headlines Trees Outdoor Music Festival

​In this week's edition of This Week In Dallas Music History, former Dallas Observer music editor Gilbert Garcia answers a popular question among Dallas music fans in 1992: What's going on with Course Of Empire?Seems the guys in COE had basically disappeared from the local music scene for almost a ... More >>

Top 10 Mayor Tom Photos of '09

Mayor Tom Leppert isn't an easy interview to snag these days. At least, not for us here at the Observer. But that doesn't stop us from catching a glimpse of the man whenever we get the chance, and, of course, capturing snapshots along the way. Yup, we've developed quite a fondness for the unique and ... More >>

Now, Victory Is Theirs, as Hillwood Officially Hands Over Victory Park to Germans

Alexander FloresAround the same time the folks at the Hard Rock Cafe were showing local media the new Victory Park digs, Hillwood was handing over the development's keys to US Treuhand -- the German investors who, back in March, warned that Ross Perot Jr.'s company was in danger of defaulting on a $ ... More >>

Vacation Scorecard: Dallas v. Seattle

Took this pic out my airplane window. I was not flying over Dallas.Spent the first half of my vacation in the Pacific northwest. Seattle, to be exact. I'd been there several times, covering Cowboys-Seahawks and Mavericks-Sonics after my initial trip in 1987 for, would you believe, Dallas ... More >>

Angela Hunt is Pissed

Ghosthustler Resurrects '80s Synth Beats

Ghosthustler's sound leaves you nostalgic for the future

Bones to Pick

Is the 2006 invasion of culinary foreigners killing off our local character?

Star Factory

At Septien Vocal Studio, anyone can make it in music. But you've got to be cute. And a million bucks would help too.

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

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Radio Ready

How The Vanished's "My Favorite Scar" became my favorite guilty pleasure

The Enemy Within

Plus: Fat Chance; Naming Rites

Club Directory

Papa Tried

Family man Smith goes soft in a story about a Girl

Out With the Old, in With the Blues

More changes in Deep Ellum

Club Directory

That's Not Him

When Jack Ingram chose the path of most resistance, he stumbled across himself

2002 Dallas Observer Music Awards

These are your choices, not ours, for the best musicians in town

"A Good Guy"

Dallas says goodbye to another local musician

Gimme Some Mo

Corn Mo makes an appearance on Total Request Live

Go the Distance

Centro-matic's Will Johnson chases the ghosts of Mississippi

2001 Dallas Observer Music Awards

Narrow margins remind us that everyone's a winner

Set to stun

The Deathray Davies love math, drunk ventriloquists, Chinese checkers, and Devo records

Best Case scenario

Rhett Miller makes Wilonksy's shit list

Paris, Texas

Though sometimes pricey, Jean-Michel Sakouhi's new bistro fits Dallas to a T

The preacher and the Prophet

Why can't we all just get along? The history, or not, of Russell and Jeff's Deep Ellum

Fatal Perfection

Don Crowder was obsessed with being the best--as a lawyer, family man, and friend. So why did he kill himself?

The only one

Wilco's Jeff Tweedy spent years trying to prove he was better than everyone thought. Now, with Summer Teeth, nothing's ever gonna get in his way again.

Night & Day

November 26 - December 2, 1998

Legendary stardust cowboy

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

Steady breakin'

Jeff K and Kelly Reverb put the needle on the record and dance, dance, dance

Blues for Freddie

The family of a Dallas guitar legend fights to protect his legacy

The glory of Bugs

Texas guitar hero Bugs Henderson wouldn't swap family for fame

Holiday Highlights

Houses of blues

Homeowners near Lower Greenville had seen enough of drunken nightclubbers; then they met their new neighbor

Just meat and potatoes, ma'am

The American Fuse gets elemental

Shooting craps

U2 takes over the world--and turns it into a commercial

'What is that, a muffler?'

Texas is home to an eccentric group of outsider artists celebrated as far away as New York. But if you want to see their work here, you'll have to travel to a renegade art gallery in Waxahachie.

Saddlesore

How Fort Worth's rhinestone socialites bushwacked the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame

No Dough

Richard and LaJeanne Williams had big dreams for their bakery--until a bank figured their plan was just pie in the sky

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

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

Events for the week

Winedale nation

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

Roadshows