Rattlesnake Inn, the full-length debut from The Texas Red Legs, recently hit the streets, and the North Texas quartet has kindly offered up a fine cut from the album for your listening pleasure. Check it out...Bonus mp3: The Texas Red Legs -- "Long Way to Lubbock"Very reminiscent of The Band and Dylan--and that's not a bad thing at all. I dig Richard Davis' world weary vocals and that wall of (country) sound production. If the rest of Rattlesnake Inn is as pleasurable as this track, this could r
Machelle DunlopThe groundbreaking at the Kessler in Oak Cliff on Friday evening provided one of the most surreal sights I've seen in my seven years of covering local music: a dread-locked musician standing side-by-side with the mayor of a major city, as both used golden shovels to dig into ceremonial dirt piles. Specifically, Jeff Liles and Dallas mayor Tom Leppert were among the handful of officials and musicians to join theater owner Edwin Cabaniss in the symbolic beginning of the restoration
An artist's rendering of Richard Davis, last seen somewhere between Plano and Lubbock.​Last week, I blogged about how one of my favorite local alt-country acts, The Texas Red Legs, were competing in the most recent installment of the Shiner Rising Star Contest.Well, lo and behold, Richard Davis and crew went out last week and won the contest's first installment at Plano's Love and War in Texas. Here's the video, complete with the judges' commentary--plus various inebriated hooting from the fei
Constable Jaime Cortes​During a last-minute hearing this afternoon, a judge ordered that data seized from Precinct 5 Constable Jaime Cortes's office computer be returned -- only, not to Cortes, as his lawyers, Larry Friedman and Domingo Garcia, had demanded, but to the court, where it will remain under seal until an upcoming hearing to determine what should be done with it. The hearing is just the latest piece of what has become a swirling cloud of accusations surrounding Cortes and Precinct
