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Joe Cripps

  • Blogs

    July 26, 2012

    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 >>

  • Music

    May 29, 2008

    The Echo Lab Is An Extension Of Denton's Scene

  • Blogs

    October 8, 2007

    Review: Rock Lottery 10th Anniversary

  • Music

    November 7, 2002

    Deep Down

    Deep Ellum has too many opening acts and not enough headliners

  • Music

    May 30, 2002

    Bad Business

    The snooze alarm is going off, and the folks in the music bizneed to wake up and take notice

  • Music

    May 23, 2002

    Pine Bluffing

    Joe Cripps spent the past couple of years trying to coax a new record out of Delta blues legend CeDell Davis. In August, he finally will.

  • Music

    May 23, 2002

    Brave Combo

    Joe Cripps and Barrett Martin ride a Fast Horse to record-label utopia

  • Music

    January 31, 2002

    A Marked Man

    Pimpadelic, Tommy Boy Records split

  • Music

    September 27, 2001

    Scene, Heard

    Selected songs disappear from the playlists at Clear Channel stations

  • Music

    June 14, 2001

    Dream On

    For Todd Deatherage, the waiting is the hardest part

  • Music

    March 1, 2001

    Scene, Heard

    The hiatus is over for The Legendary Fritz

  • Music

    January 18, 2001

    Scene, Heard

    A flood of inaugural party invites hits our mailbox

  • Music

    September 21, 2000

    Hijinks at Trees

    Long-overdue debuts

  • Music

    August 17, 2000

    Scene, Heard

    Smirnoff sucks them in; The Rocket Summer waits 'til fall; Jeff Buckely's mom; North Texas Music Festival jab; Plus, much, much more

  • Music

    March 30, 2000

    Out Here

    Gropius

  • Music

    February 24, 2000

    Scene, heard

    Cheap tricks, SXSW, record releases, and lots of words in bold type

  • Music

    February 3, 2000

    South by so what

    Putting the jest in music fest

  • Music

    December 9, 1999

    Scene, heard

    Bad mouthing good bods; Keeping up with the Buck Joneses; the Broose is loose; Tim DeLaughter speaks; And much more

  • Music

    July 15, 1999

    Rocket from the Cripps

    Joe Cripps leaves Brave Combo for brave new worlds

  • Music

    July 8, 1999

    Back to the Future

    Brave Combo reunites its nuclear polka family as it celebrates its 20-year anniversary

  • Music

    April 15, 1999

    Havana good time

    Brave Combo's Joe Cripps goes to Cuba, becomes friends with Peter Buck, and talks to Castro

  • Music

    January 21, 1999

    Hope floats

    Three compilations later, Chris Lewellyn is one of Dallas music's last, best friends

  • News

    July 3, 1997

    Musician, heal thyself

    A Denton shrink plumbs the murky psyches of self-destructive rock artists and concludes they don't have to die young, drunk, and depressed

  • Music

    July 3, 1997

    Out Here

  • Music

    August 29, 1996

    Blast from the past

    In days of old, when nights were bold

  • Music

    January 18, 1996

    Out Here

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