Lightnin' Hopkins

Henry Rollins Remembers Roky, Stevie and Texas

Alan Govenar to Oversee, Curate "Museum of Street Culture" Planned for 508 Park Avenue

​We were reminded just last week: First Presbyterian Church plans not only to install a recording studio inside 508 Park Avenue, a nod to the building's storied history as one of only two spots where bluesman and myth Robert Johnson recorded the music that serves as rock-and-roll's backbone, but t ... More >>

Everything Must Go: Will Ferrell Hits Bottom

​We were reminded just last week: First Presbyterian Church plans not only to install a recording studio inside 508 Park Avenue, a nod to the building's storied history as one of only two spots where bluesman and myth Robert Johnson recorded the music that serves as rock-and-roll's backbone, but t ... More >>

Last Night: Hayes Carll, Bobby Bare Jr. and Travis Linville at the Granada Theater

Hayes Carll, Bobby Bare Jr. and Travis LinvilleGranada TheaterDecember 30, 2010 Better than: attending an SMU fraternity keg party Hayes Carll​About three songs into his set, country singer-songwriter Hayes Carll addressed his crowded Granada Theater audience and brought up the ticket ... More >>

Made a Playlist, Now Checkin' it Twice: By Request, Last Night's Christmas Music Show

​Many thanks to the many folks who tuned in and called in during last night's late-night Christmas-music spectacular, which gets a replay on KTCK-AM (1310, The Ticket) beginning, why, right this very moment. (That'll be just the three-hour yuletunes special, not the two hours of pirate-radio non-h ... More >>

Houston Press Writes Blog Post Saying Dallas Music Sucks, Presumably Because There Was No Interesting Houston Music News To Report.

​Listen: I'm not one to get into too many Internet flame wars. Especially not inter-city ones. (We've got plenty of petty bullshit to put up with here, thanks.) But, OK, since these dudes think I should say something about the post written yesterday by our pals at the Houston Press music blog call ... More >>

Eat Local! Eat Cheetos!

​The death of Cheez Doodles creator Morrie Yohai last week spawns this New York Times piece today about the myriad other cheese-flavored snacks available, well, everywhere. And it reminds us of another great inventor: Charles Elmer Doolin, the father of Frito and the creator of the Cheeto:Througho ... More >>

Steve Earle

Townes (New West)

Gig Alert: Pops Carter at Dan's Silverleaf Tonight

Some blues you can use: Tonight at Dan's Silverleaf in Denton, the 88-year-old Pops Carter will bust out his hardcore blues, funk and soul sound to teach the young folk a thing or two.Don't know Carter? You should; he's been living in Denton since 1969. His musical beginnings came out of Louisiana a ... More >>

The Top 10 Reissues of 2008

It's time to rank the best of what went around and came around again. BILLY JOEL The Stranger (Columbia/Legacy) As punk and disco exploded, the Piano Man's deeply unhip 1978 breakthrough proved that top-shelf Broadway/Brill Building songwriting could still sell - and, occasionally, rock. "Scen ... More >>

Good Friday: Granada Fourth Anniversary, Skate or Rock, Bridges and Blinking Lights and more

It's time to rank the best of what went around and came around again. BILLY JOEL The Stranger (Columbia/Legacy) As punk and disco exploded, the Piano Man's deeply unhip 1978 breakthrough proved that top-shelf Broadway/Brill Building songwriting could still sell - and, occasionally, rock. "Scen ... More >>

Black Joe Lewis Bringing His Blues and Soul Sound to Dallas

It's time to rank the best of what went around and came around again. BILLY JOEL The Stranger (Columbia/Legacy) As punk and disco exploded, the Piano Man's deeply unhip 1978 breakthrough proved that top-shelf Broadway/Brill Building songwriting could still sell - and, occasionally, rock. "Scen ... More >>

Making a List, Checking It Twice

It's time to rank the best of what went around and came around again. BILLY JOEL The Stranger (Columbia/Legacy) As punk and disco exploded, the Piano Man's deeply unhip 1978 breakthrough proved that top-shelf Broadway/Brill Building songwriting could still sell - and, occasionally, rock. "Scen ... More >>

John Lee Hooker

Hooker (Shout Factory)

Of Lost Legends and Found Heroes

Hooker (Shout Factory)

A Pack of Mutts

Need a little alt in your country? These ten don't.

B-Sides

Suicidal tendencies, gut locker lovers and men who wail on their axes

Feeling Blue

Suicidal tendencies, gut locker lovers and men who wail on their axes

Texas weakly

The Monthly's music issue strikes a bum note

Lost legends

Tary Owens helped rescue the early roots of Texas music. Then those songs saved Owens from himself.

Candy corn

Or: What do cake walks, the Backstreet Boys, and Jon Cunningham have in common?

The oldest story in the world

Fourteen years after breaking up, the Plimsouls return with a new record and an old sound

Letters

Fourteen years after breaking up, the Plimsouls return with a new record and an old sound

Out There

Fourteen years after breaking up, the Plimsouls return with a new record and an old sound

Behind the lines

From reds to feds to blues

I made this!

Blues dudes grow their own--albums, that is

The 1997 Dallas Observer Music Awards

Blues dudes grow their own--albums, that is

Lost Art

Dallas' most compelling art museum is hidden away in an old East Dallas firehouse

Lonely Hunter

After a self-imposed exile in Mexico and obscurity, a Texas bluesman comes home

Flush with Fame

Guitarist Patrick Owen's career is in the toilet--and he couldn't be happier

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

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

Swingin' the blues

Big Al Dupree makes his recording debut after 72 years

1995 Dallas Observer Music Awards (Part II)

Big Al Dupree makes his recording debut after 72 years