Otis Redding

2003 Dallas Observer Music Awards

Look Ahead

D.A. Pennebaker doesn't make history, but he's captured so much of it

Cajun against the machine

Wayne Toups tries to unite the worlds of Zydeco and Cajun music. Wait, they weren't already?

Love Hurts

A new record pays homage to Gram Parsons, a hero before his time

Macha men

More than a decade after fronting one of Dallas' first new-wave bands, Joshua and Mischo McKay go out of this world

The oldest story in the world

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

Souled out

After 25 years of Texas' best rock, Q102 bids a tearless farewell

Extrapolating rhythm and blues

Cajun monarch Marcia Ball spreads her wings

The quiet man

Cornell Dupree is the ultimate un-showoff

The maitre d' of R&B

Elvis T. Busboy drives his soul train into the future

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

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

Channel surfing

The 1994 Dallas Video Festival mixes equal parts ineptitude and brilliance

Peace and happiness

Ted Hawkins' music isn't about his difficult past, but his promising future