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Watch Max Frost Busk in Deep Ellum

By Brad LaCour

Apr 10, 2019

In Globe Trek Productions' latest busking video, Max Frost, dressed in a San Francisco 49ers jacket, serenades Deep Ellum wanderers as the sun makes its steady descent on the shops and restaurants. Playing his songs “Money Problems” and “Good Morning,” Frost broke the hum of passing cars and echoing footsteps with...

Watch Old 97's Busk in Their Old Dallas Apartment

By Brad LaCour

Jan 3, 2019

Gathered around a fire at Italian mainstay Terelli’s on Greenville Avenue, the Old 97’s explain how the long-standing restaurant was the true hard rock café of Dallas. It’s there on the patio, close to where dreams of being a rock star were taking their first unsteady steps to becoming true,...

Sarah Jaffe was someone we busked with this year.

12 Days of Busking From Globe Trek Productions

By Casey Carr

Dec 24, 2018

Our music series Busking with the Dallas Observer is now in its fifth year and heading into its 43rd episode (Old 97’s later this month). So I sat down with my co-producer Mike Williams (that’s Dallas Observer’s Best-Magician-in-Dallas Mike Williams) over some suspiciously chunky eggnog to take a look back...

Watch Joshua Ray Walker Busk Outside Lakewood Landing

By Brad LaCour

Dec 5, 2018

Joshua Ray Walker pulled the brim of his hat down and braved the cold winds of Dallas as he performed two of his songs, “Working Girl” and “Canyon,” at an otherwise silent strip mall. Browning leaves swirled around his feet as they found a new place to gather, before Walker...

Busking With John Pedigo at the State Fair of Texas

By Brad LaCour

Oct 30, 2018

There were numerous musical acts performing at the State Fair of Texas this year, but only one that brought the show to you instead of occupying a stage. Globe Trek Productions followed Dallas musicians John Pedigo and Corey Graves strolling through the State Fair of Texas as they played “Wet...

Leon Bridges Surprises a Busking Ryan Forbes by Playing His Guitar in Deep Ellum

By Jacob Vaughn

Jul 17, 2018

Ryan Forbes, a Dallas singer-songwriter, does not believe in superstition. But he says that is the best way to explain the turn of events that led him to play for Leon Bridges while busking on the streets of Deep Ellum. Normally, Forbes sets up in front of B4, a thrift...

Busking With The Bacon Brothers at the Belmont Hotel in Dallas

By Paige Skinner

Jun 22, 2018

Globe Trek Productions caught up with The Bacon Brothers — that's Kevin Bacon and his brother Michael — before their gig at the Kessler earlier this month. On the balcony of Room 51 at the Belmont Hotel in Dallas, Kevin and Michael and their band performed two songs from their new...

Watch Justin Nozuka Busk Outside Granada Theater While Rain Pours

By DC9 At Night

Mar 8, 2018

While it was pouring rain in Dallas, our friends at Globe Trek Productions caught up with singer-songwriter Justin Nozuka while he was in town on tour with Good Old War. With his backing band, Nozuka, who is the nephew of Kyra Sedgwick, played some songs from his album that is being...

Busking the Blues: Watch Charley Crockett Transform His Life on the Road Into Inspired Music

By Molly Mollotova

Nov 23, 2016

If there's one thing Charley Crockett knows about, it's busking. Arguably our city's most rambling artist, Crockett has a reputation for hopping on trains and crossing borders to find his next pop-up venue. He's played the streets everywhere from New Orleans to Paris. That said, it should surprise no one...

Watch Deep Blue Something Busking at Off-Site Kitchen

By Jeff Gage

Sep 23, 2016

Do you remember Denton in the '90s? Okay, so you may not have been around for that (and, if you're attending UNT right now, you may have only barely been born.) But you almost definitely remember "Breakfast at Tiffany's," the hit song by Denton natives Deep Blue Something — who...

Reverend Horton Heat Goes Busking, Gives Deep Ellum History Lesson

By Jeff Gage

Nov 19, 2015

Last weekend was a pretty good weekend for Jim Heath. For the fourth year running, he got to enjoy the spoils of performing at his own music festival (well, combination music and tattoo festival) as his alter ego, the Reverend Horton Heat, with not one but two performances during the...

Blitzen Trapper Cover Townes Van Zandt While Busking at Off the Record

By Jeff Gage

Nov 9, 2015

While we've talked plenty in recent months about how on-point Deep Ellum has been of late, there's one thing that we haven't necessarily seen that much of: Impromptu live music inside bars. Okay, there's plenty of live music in neighborhood bars, but the busking keeps mostly to the streets. Not...

The Travoltas Go Busking at The Foundry With a Woman in a Bear Mask

By Jeff Gage

Oct 21, 2015

What's a guy to do when he's not recording award-winning albums or producing ones for other artists at his own recording studio? Why, start up a side project, that's what. For anyone familiar with Salim Nourallah's body of work, which most recently includes manning the knobs on the Old 97's...

Somebody's Darling Go Busking in Oak Cliff

By Jeff Gage

Jul 30, 2015

If you haven't been paying close attention, you might have missed that one of Dallas' most popular bands is no longer with us. Well, let's rephrase that: They're no longer here, in Dallas. Earlier this year, Somebody's Darling — winner of the 2014 Dallas Observer Music Award for Best Country...

Robert Earl Keen Goes Busking at Billy Bob's Texas

By Kelly Dearmore

Jun 12, 2015

Before there was any so-called Texas Country craze, dating back to the mid-1980s, Robert Earl Keen was packing honky-tonks and bars around the state with his brand of blended folk, rock and country. There's little doubt that many Keen classics, primarily, the epic "Road Goes on Forever," and the drunkenly...

Austin's Blue Healer Go Busking at Gold Dust Tattoo [VIDEO]

By Jeff Gage

Apr 30, 2015

What's the worst part about getting a tattoo? Is it having to sit still for hours on the end? The potentially excruciating pain of going under the needle? Being sober? Most likely the first answer that comes to mind isn't "the lack of live music inside the tattoo parlor," but...

The Deathray Davies Go Busking at Kessler Theater [VIDEO]

By Jeff Gage

Apr 9, 2015

It's hard to beat a warm spring night at The Kessler Theater in Oak Cliff. The sun beginning its descent toward the horizon, artistic director Jeff Liles tossing around a football out front and maybe even a band playing some impromptu songs on the front patio. Just about the only...

Luke Wade Goes Busking at Mockingbird Station [VIDEO]

By Jeff Gage

Feb 6, 2015

Luke Wade made a heck of a go of it on The Voice last fall. He proved a more than likeable addition to the NBC reality show with his "small town" charm (who's ever heard of Fort Worth, right?) and made it pretty deep into the competition. In fact, he...

VIDEO: Christmas Carols With the Polyphonic Spree

By Gavin Cleaver

Dec 23, 2014

Normally Christmas carols are sung by tuneless people in the street in the hope of getting some money. Well, not in this case. Denton's Polyphonic Spree met up with our good friends at Globe Trek Productions for a Christmas party singalong to put you in the festive spirit. Even the...

Busking with The Voice Star Melanie Martinez

By Jeff Gage

Dec 2, 2014

Oftentimes when we feature an artist on the ongoing Globe Trek Productions busking series, it's someone who's local or whom at least has ties to Texas. That could mean local rapper Blue, the Misfit, or it could mean Austin-based singer-songwriter Slaid Cleaves. But sometimes, as with our most recent episode...

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