R.L. Burnside

Get To Know Your 2012 DOMA Best Blues, Country and Hardcore Nominees

Leading up to our November 10 showcase, we'll be getting you familiar with some of our Dallas Observer Music Awards nominees, either via past features we've done on them, or new ones. You can vote for your favorite acts, venues and more right here. Best Blues Act Hunter Hendrickson Band It hasn't ... 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 >>

Unexpected Influences: Like The Rest of Us, Jonathan Tyler Loved Oasis As A Kid. And, Yes, He Wanted a Vanilla Ice Haircut, Too.

Welcome to a Unexpected Influences, where we talk to musicians about the music no one expects them to like. Patrick MichelsJonathan Tyler​With the help of his band, The Northern Lights, Jonathan Tyler has used a passion for a variety of musical influences to fuel his soul-infused brand of Souther ... More >>

Cedric Burnside Talks Learning The Blues From His Grandfather (Some Guy Named RL Burnside).

Drummer and vocalist Cedric Burnside, grandson of the late, great blues guitarist R.L. Burnside, brings his brand of funk-infused delta blues to the House of Blues tomorrow night for a free 9 o'clock show in the venue's restaurant. The 30-year-old Burnside, who grew up playing in juke joints and st ... More >>

Lee "Scratch" Perry

Repentance (Narnack)

Lucinda Williams

West (Lost Highway)

Everlasting Sounds

Ten of the year's most timeless records

Familiar Chord

Blues rock duo intoxicates with Magic Potion

Death Pool For Cutie

Check the Vegas odds-- it's time to predict this year's rock star deaths

Feeling Blue

Fat Boys

An elderly gang of seedy Mississippi bluesmen anchors Fat Possum Records and the label's documentary

Deep Down

Deep Ellum has too many opening acts and not enough headliners

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.

Tale of the Tapes

With headliners like Mike Judge and an impressive list of films, the Dallas Video Festival once again wins by knockout

Dirty South

For the North Mississippi Allstars, the blues ain't nothing but dance music

Out & About

R.L. Burnside

Let's get it on

Andre Williams may be 63 years old, but he's still agile, mobile, and hostile

Out Here

Out There

Rock and roll over

In today's music business, tomorrow's revolution is yesterday's fad

Out Here

Out There

Out There

Out Here

A brighter shade of blues

J. Bone Cro presents Brian Eno and John Lee Hooker to the aliens