Jeff Beck

B.B. King Gave the House of Blues His Picks, His Bracelets and a Holy Blues Masterpiece: Review

"Electrifying," "Magnetic," "Memorable" are just some of the words that people used to describe an evening with B.B. King at the House of Blues in Dallas. His sophisticated style of soul-wrenching guitar playing inspired tears of joy and calls of "Amen," "Preach it, brother" and "Oh Lord, I'm coming ... More >>

Photographer Brian Ullrich on Star Wars, Rush and Getting the Right Angle

"When you're not shooting it, you're thinking about it. Part art, part science, it's all passion. Being in the moment through the lens, hearing the music, all you're thinking about is getting that one shot..." Thus begins the homepage of F/stopme Photography. Brian Ullrich scouts new and local mu ... More >>

The Top Ten North Texas Blues Albums

See also: The best Texas songs of all time, #100-80 See also: The best Texas songs of all time, #79-60 Alex Moore, Alex Moore Barrelhouse pianist "Whistling" Alex Moore spent all of his life in Dallas, recording for Columbia in 1929, Decca in 1937, and RPM/Kent in 1951. During the '60s blues reviv ... More >>

Kirby Warnock Opens Buddy Vaults to Show Off Rare Early Pics of Stevie Ray, Jimmie Vaughan

I noted this a few weeks back, but for those who've forgotten: Jimmie Vaughan will make his Oak Cliff homecoming on Thursday with a show at the Texas Theatre, part of the ongoing "Soul of Oak Cliff" series organized by Kirby Warnock. And leading up to that momentous occasion, Warnock -- there at the ... More >>

20-Year-Old Guitar Prodigy Tyler Bryant Tells Us How To Be a Jeff Beck-like Guitar Hero

Tyler Bryant​It's probably fair to still call Tyler Bryant a guitar prodigy. Even though he's currently 20 years old, the Honey Grove, Texas, native has been slinging since before he was the fresh-faced 15-year-old winner of the Robert Johnson Blues Foundation's New Generation Award. Actually, Bry ... More >>

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: Clapton, Beck & Page's Reunion at Reunion in Nov. '83

​This work-week ender is a double-header -- two nights in November 1983, back-to-back benefits for the great Ronnie Lane, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1976. It was Lane himself who came up with the benefits, held beneath the banner of Action for Research into Multiple Sclerosis -- ... More >>

Picture Show: Jeff Beck at the Verizon Theatre

Mike Brooks / commiebike.comJeff Beck performed at the Verizon Theatre earlier this week.​This, I believe, is what you call karma: Earlier this week, photographer Mike Brooks of CommieBike.com was perusing our site and came across a promotion from our marketing department that was offering up a fr ... More >>

Tonight, Tonight: Jeff Beck at Verizon Theatre, Papercuts at The Loft, Chris Johnson at Bar Belmont, and Smells Like Green at Hailey's

Not a bad bunch of shows we have this Monday evening, especially if you like legendary guitarists and cool indie pop.

Jeff Beck

Monday, April 4, at the Verizon Theatre, Grand Prairie

The Grammy Awards: My Top 10 Observer-ations

​10. Was it just me or did Puff Daddy/P. Diddy/Sean Combs sound just like Mike Tyson? 9. Acceptance speeches are always fascinating. Last night Lady Gaga thanked Whitney Houston and Arcade Fire thanked all of Canada. But strangest of all, Train lead singer Pat Monahan gave a shoutout to Howar ... More >>

Show Announcements: Sorta Reunion, Bitter End, Fair To Midland, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Sarah Jaffe, Murder By Death, Ozomatli, Sevendust, Jeff Beck, Yanni and More.

Sorta​It's no secret that the folks over at AllGood Cafe have always loved the band Sorta, the now-defunct Dallas supergroup that called it quits shortly after the untimely and shocking death of Dallas music legend Carter Albrecht. Since that breakup, the band's members haven't disappeared from th ... More >>

Unexpected Influences: Denton's DJ Yeahdef On How He Became A Fan of Jazz Fusion

Welcome to a Unexpected Influences, where we talk to musicians about the music no one expects them to like. Yeahdef​Long-hailed as one of the region's Meccas for live music, Denton is a fine place to become well-known. And popularity is just what DJ Yeahdef, née Joey Lietchy, has achieved in t ... 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 >>

Tonight, Tonight: John McLaughlin at The Granada, Brokencyde at The Loft and Hinder at The Palladium Ballroom

Not a bad selection of shows for the Monday after Turkey Day. But, OK, maybe not the best, either.

For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: The Shape of Jeff Beck to Come at Louann's in '68

R.E. BarnesThis is an actual photo from that July '68 show at Louann's. The story behind it can be found here.​Three, almost four years ago I first mentioned it -- Jeff Beck at Lou and Ann Bovis's joint on Lovers Lane and Greenville Avenue in '68, with Rod Stewart and Ron Wood among those roundin ... More >>

Q&A: Cyndi Lauper Still Wants to Have Fun. But, These Days, She's Got The Blues.

Ellen Von UnwerthCyndi Lauper still has fun.​At 57, Cyndi Lauper is as feisty today as she was when her debut album, She's So Unusual, was released back in 1983. Still performing in those outlandish outfits with an ever-changing array of multi-colored wigs, Lauper has always been a new wave pop an ... More >>

Texas Rangers Auction Showdown: Mark Cuban vs. Nolan Ryan

Chuck Greenberg: Chief Stalking Horse​In advance of tomorrow's bankruptcy auction in Judge Michael Lynn's Fort Worth court room, initial bids must be in by 8 tonight. Up for sale: The Texas Rangers. Prospective buyers: Chuck Greenberg/Nolan Ryan and Mark Cuban. While Dallas businessman J ... More >>

The Texas Rangers Thrive while Owner Tom Hicks' Sports Empire Crumbles.

Before the Rangers' Skipper Takes the Stand, the Box Score From Yesterday's Hearing

Sam MertenRangers manager Ron Washington will step off the field and into a Fort Worth federal courtroom on Thursday.​Tuesday's testimony in the Texas Rangers bankruptcy case from the court-appointed chief restructuring officer and one of the lenders revealed four potential competitors to the ... More >>

This Morning, Questions About Whether Bud Selig's Balls Will Strike Out Rangers Sale

​What was it Tom Hicks said Tom Hicks said Saturday night? Ah, yes: The sale of Your Texas Rangers -- to Chuck Greenberg, Jim Crane, Mark Cuban or The Still-Living Ghost of Brad Corbett -- is a "complex proceeding." (What's wrong with the family-friendly "clusterfudge"?) But those needing some sum ... More >>

Tom Hicks Hasn't Said Much About Rangers Sale Lately. Except Tonight. About Parking Lots. Not, Oh, JPMorgan's Suit Over Ballpark Lease.

​Seldom is Tom Hicks drawn offside. There's been hardly a peep from Hicks whilst attorneys battle it out over the auction, or not, of Your Texas Rangers -- even after JPMorgan Chase filed a separate suit yesterday contesting Hicks Sports Group's right to sell Rangers Ballpark as part of the packag ... More >>

If You Want to Buy the Texas Rangers, You Now Have Till August 4 to Submit Your Bid

​At this very moment, Sam is sitting in the parking lot outside the federal courthouse in Fort Worth, where, moments ago, details concerning the auction of Your Texas Rangers were announced. Sam reports that the auction will take place at 9 a.m. on August 4 in Judge Michael Lynn's courtroom. T ... More >>

It Would Appear Rangers, Stars Bound Together Even After Tom Hicks is Out of the Picture

​Well, well, well -- the Texas Rangers Baseball Partners have filed a "revised" Chapter 11 plan, and Maury Brown, so far, seems to be the one guy who thinks this might could maybe be the redo that gets this sale over the hump. Or not. Which may not be the most interesting development in a case I h ... More >>

Jeff Beck

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

Q&A: Warren Haynes of Gov't Mule Shares His Thoughts on Turning 50, Jimi Hendrix, David Allan Coe and More

​Besides being ranked 23rd on Rolling Stone's Greatest Guitarists of All Time list, Warren Haynes is also one bad mother on stage.But, off stage, the Allman Brothers/Gov't Mule guitarist turned out to be a pretty affable guy who spoke quite eloquently about a number of subjects--beginning with wha ... More >>

Show Announcements: King Khan And The Shrines To Play Sons of Hermann Hall, More

​YES! King Khan And The Shrines, one of my favorite acts at last year's SXSW, is coming to Dallas in April on what's being billed as a "comeback tour." The band is hitting 17 cities in late March and the first half of April, but perhaps wisely altogether avoiding Kentucky, where Khan and his BBQ S ... More >>

Your Second Friday (Acid) Flashback: A Saturday in the Life of KNUS, Ads Included

KNUS99.com​We wrap our broadcast week with yet more from the KNUS vaults currently in the possession of one George Gimarc. What you'll find below are few minutes of what aired on Gordon McLendon's FM freak-out on August 22, 1970 -- some of the sounds and some of the smells, dig? The best part: the ... More >>

Rod Stewart

Sunday, July 26,at the Nokia Theatre, Grand Prairie

Today In Music News: There Are Some New Hall of Fame Inductees; Ryan Adams Says He's Done; Neko Case Teases For A Good Cause

Your daily dose of national music news for Thursday, January 15, 2009... Run-DMC (the Kings of Rock!), Metallica and Jeff Beck are the newest inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I wonder who's going to DJ for Run-DMC since Jam Master Jay has passed? I pray to god it's not Grand Mas ... More >>

One of the Best Rock Photos You've Never Seen, Taken By a Local 39 Years Ago

Rolling Stone Teases with Best Bootleg Ever (or Something), But We Actually Deliver

And Another Thing

A New Texas Jam

Crossroads Guitar Festival celebrates six-strings and the men who make them famous

Twist at the End

Sometimes the worst movies have the best soundtracks

Beat This

Terry Bozzio bashes out his coolness for the drum geeks

Jeff Beck

You Had It Coming (Epic)

Holidaze

Unwrapping our annual roundup of musical season's greetings--and beatings

The sideman

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame acknowledges Scotty Moore, the guitarist behind the King

Young man inside an old man

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

The mind's ear

Jimmie Vaughan is two albums into a solo career he didn't necessarily want

1998 Dallas Observer Music Awards Nominees

Cry tough

Essential bassist Tommy Shannon hangs in there

'Kill him again, he's not dead yet'

Memories of Ronnie Lane, 1946-1997

Going against typecasting

Don't call Carolyn Wonderland and the Imperial Monkeys a blues band

The good fight

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

Out Here

More a legend than a band

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

Roadshows

Trouble blues

Buddy Guy doesn't want money or fame, just a little respect