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Ronnie Dawson

  • Blogs

    December 30, 2011

    For Your Weekend Listening Pleasure: Townes, Guy and Ray Wylie at the Three Teardrops

    ​Whenever I drive down this stretch of IndustrialRiverfront, which is often, I think about what used to be there: the Three Teardrops Tavern, the honky-tonk that served as home-away-from for old-timers (Boots Bourquin was a regular), newcomers (Ed Burleson got his start there) and those in-between ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 12, 2011

    Here Holy Spain remembers the Galaxy Club, among other first shows

    ​ With plans for a follow-up to this year's acclaimed Division, 2012 looks good for pop-punk trio Here Holy Spain. To tide you over, they have a song on this year's Idol Christmas compilation called "God-Damn This Christmas." As the band wraps up the year, all three recently shared with us t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2011

    Legacy's Releasing Three "Unreleased" Johnny Cash Songs Recorded in Dallas. Unreleased?

    Johnny Cash at the Big "D" Jamboree in the mid-'50s​A good Friend of Unfair Park who knows of my fondness for Johnny Cash and the old Big "D" Jamboree -- and those magical moments when they meet on a piece of paper -- was kind enough to send along this Columbia/Legacy press release issued yesterda ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 9, 2011

    Sons of Hermann Hall to Erect Plaque Honoring The Fallen Musicians Who've Played The Venue

    Patrick PerezMany greats have played Sons' stage.​Mike Snider is sick of area musicians dying. Worse, he's sick of seeing how the whole community comes together in the wake of a death -- not because there's anything wrong with that, he's quick to say, but because he doesn't understand why we can't ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 18, 2011

    There's One Borders Left in Dallas. If a Savior Doesn't Step Up Tuesday, There May Be Zero.

    Courtesy Paula BosseByron Nelson signing copies of his 1993 book at the Preston Royal Borders​A few weeks ago, my old friend Paula Bosse posted to her Facebook page a collection of random photos taken over the years at the Preston Royal Borders, which, of course, is on its way to becoming a Centra ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 27, 2011

    Next To The O's, The Reverend and Ronnie Dawson, Madison King Gets Deep Ellum Mural

    Madison King will watch over you when you park at Deep Sushi. Or at least this mural will.​ Pop quiz, hot shot: Name all the artists who're currently honored with murals depicting their likeness in Deep Ellum.Hmm. Tough one. Off the top of my head, let's see: Erykah Badu, The Reverend Horton Heat, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 29, 2006

    Best Night of Local Music Ever. Oughta Be, Anyway.

    Madison King will watch over you when you park at Deep Sushi. Or at least this mural will.​ Pop quiz, hot shot: Name all the artists who're currently honored with murals depicting their likeness in Deep Ellum.Hmm. Tough one. Off the top of my head, let's see: Erykah Badu, The Reverend Horton Heat, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 7, 2006

    Magical History Tour

    Madison King will watch over you when you park at Deep Sushi. Or at least this mural will.​ Pop quiz, hot shot: Name all the artists who're currently honored with murals depicting their likeness in Deep Ellum.Hmm. Tough one. Off the top of my head, let's see: Erykah Badu, The Reverend Horton Heat, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 29, 2006

    Something Special

    Madison King will watch over you when you park at Deep Sushi. Or at least this mural will.​ Pop quiz, hot shot: Name all the artists who're currently honored with murals depicting their likeness in Deep Ellum.Hmm. Tough one. Off the top of my head, let's see: Erykah Badu, The Reverend Horton Heat, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 30, 2006

    "Dallas Rag" and Other Stomps

    Madison King will watch over you when you park at Deep Sushi. Or at least this mural will.​ Pop quiz, hot shot: Name all the artists who're currently honored with murals depicting their likeness in Deep Ellum.Hmm. Tough one. Off the top of my head, let's see: Erykah Badu, The Reverend Horton Heat, ... More >>

  • Music

    March 1, 2001

    Girl Power

    The Gals of the Big "D" Jamboree remain the sweethearts of the wrestling ring

  • Music

    February 1, 2001

    Out & About

    Sons of Hercules

  • Music

    August 31, 2000

    Out There

    Rockabilly Rave-Ups

  • Music

    July 6, 2000

    Across the Bar

    X'd out; Columbia compiles rockabilly; Hellions tribute to the Circle Jerks; Gig plugs galore; And Street Beat is ch-ch-ch-changing?

  • Music

    April 6, 2000

    Scene, heard

    Conspiracy theories; Bella Union strikes; a Wreck of a Room; X marks the spot

  • Music

    March 30, 2000

    Thanks, but no thanks

    D Magazine has an interesting take on the local music scene

  • Music

    December 9, 1999

    Out Here

    The Mag Seven
    12Lb. Test

  • Music

    September 23, 1999

    Hot damn, Jamboree

    The Mag Seven
    12Lb. Test

  • Music

    July 29, 1999

    Truth in advertising

    A tour through music misses a stop

  • Music

    March 25, 1999

    Put up a fight

    With bands like these, who needs Austin anyway?

  • Music

    March 11, 1999

    The rules of rock

    With bands like these, who needs Austin anyway?

  • News

    January 14, 1999

    Letters

    With bands like these, who needs Austin anyway?

  • Music

    January 7, 1999

    Read? What am that?

    The year in rock books which isn't such an oxymoron, really

  • Calendar

    October 15, 1998

    Night & Day

    October 15 - 21, 1998

  • Music

    October 8, 1998

    Out Here

    October 15 - 21, 1998

  • Culture

    September 17, 1998

    Absolute perfection

    Reed Easterwood's record is one of the year's best. Good luck finding it

  • Music

    August 13, 1998

    Not fade away

    Two garage-rock compilations raise The Esquires, Irving's psychedelic-rock greats, from the dead

  • Music

    April 23, 1998

    Everything old

    Rockabilly queen Kim Lenz moves ahead by looking backward

  • Music

    February 5, 1998

    Roadshows

    Rockabilly queen Kim Lenz moves ahead by looking backward

  • Music

    January 29, 1998

    Facing the music

    Local music exec's departure is a sign of better things than you might at first think

  • Music

    November 27, 1997

    Too cool for us

    According to Spin, Columbus, Ohio, is more of a music town than Dallas-Fort Worth

  • Music

    October 2, 1997

    Just meat and potatoes, ma'am

    The American Fuse gets elemental

  • Music

    September 11, 1997

    Bang a gong

    Or, in Layne Redmond's case, a tambourine

  • Music

    February 20, 1997

    Out Here

    Or, in Layne Redmond's case, a tambourine

  • Music

    February 13, 1997

    More better blues

    Pat Boyack begins to define himself

  • Music

    December 26, 1996

    Water from a deeper well

    TV special documents the building of Wrecking Ball

  • Music

    October 24, 1996

    Junkyard jazz

    The Calways go a little crazy

  • Music

    October 17, 1996

    Time captured in its flight

    James Bland's postcards from the edge of a scene

  • Music

    April 11, 1996

    1996 Dallas Observer Music Awards

    James Bland's postcards from the edge of a scene

  • Music

    March 14, 1996

    Out Here

    James Bland's postcards from the edge of a scene

  • Music

    February 1, 1996

    Surf and turf

    Austin's Teisco Del Rey resurrects the lost art of the twang

  • Music

    January 11, 1996

    Roadshows

    Austin's Teisco Del Rey resurrects the lost art of the twang

  • Music

    November 30, 1995

    There's a tear in his beer

    Carrol Collyer struggles to pay the tab at Naomi's Lounge

  • Music

    July 6, 1995

    Collyers of the wild

    Lone Star Trio offshoot sprouts deep country roots

  • Music

    May 4, 1995

    No frills, no joke

    The Mullens are not the Not the Ramones, and for all the right reasons

  • Music

    April 27, 1995

    Ghosts in the machine

    When the vinyl jukebox dies, so will a little piece of the music it played

  • Music

    April 20, 1995

    King of the mild frontier

    Adam Ant's back, so unplug the jukebox and do us all a favor

  • Music

    April 6, 1995

    Good rockin' last night

    Dallas' forgotten Star Talent Records label got there before Sun's rise

  • Music

    December 8, 1994

    Dis and demos

    From the bottom of the drawer come real gems and fool's gold of local music

  • Music

    November 17, 1994

    Survivor, alive

    Two decades after stardom, John Nitzinger tries to prove he ain't "D.O.A."

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