BLAH BLAH By Bellicose Bullfeather T HE STOCKYARDS MUSIC Down Easy,” “Way Down Under,” to bring something new to the songs; TFestival with Hank Williams Jr. “Fat Man,” “Rooster Rag,” “Willin,’” “ most are faithful to the Cash ver- and all his rowdy friends is planned Church Falling Down,” “Spanish sions. Among the singers are Willie for September 2 at Billy Bob’s Moon,” and — of course — “Dixie Nelson, Brandi Carlile, Buddy Miller, features Williams, Pat Green, Merle Chicken.” For all you folks that wanna Lucinda Williams, Carolina Choco- Haggard, David Allan Coe, Whiskey take a Jamaica vacation, The Feat late Drops, Iron & Wine, Kris Myers, the Turnpike Troubadours Fan Excursion #11 with Little Feat Kristofferson, Shelby Lynn, Jamey and others. The venerable Fort Worth and Hot Tuna are playing on the Johnson and Sheryl Crow. The boxed venue will hold it’s annual Pickin’ for beach at Breezes Grand Resort & Spa set includes a DVD of the show plus Preemies the next night. Negril Jamaica from March 6-9 2013. CDs of Cash’s “greatest” duets, coun- The SonsStock 2012 Music & try songs, gospel songs, and number Events Arts Gathering is scheduled for Au- one songs. ON AUGUST 31, THE Great gust 18, Noon to Midnight at the MONTHLY LEASES AVAILABLE NOW! Recession Orchestra will headline a Sons of Hermann Hall and will ben- KNON benefit at the Sons of efit SOH Columbia Lodge #66. Per- Hermann Hall. The orchestra in- formers include Frank in the Middle, The PREMIER Rehearsal Facility cludes BUDDY Texas Tornado Floyd Twist of Fate, Black Dirt Tango, Zen Domino, Maryann Price, Damon Bubba, John Nelson & Peter in the Metroplex! Gray, J.D. Smith, Warren Bubba Giardina, Lisa Byrn Trio, Pete Stephens, Michael Holleman, Gary Barbeck & Seventh Son, ,HOURLY BLOCK RATES IN 3 SIZES Bristol, Ray Austin and special guests. Rattlers and Robbie Saunders & The event includes free BBQ from Tweed EQ. Visit We’ve got a rehearsal space for every budget the Alligator Cafe. Visit KNON.org sonsofhermannhall.com for a complete for more information and for tickets. lineup. Tickets are also available at Record The deadline to submit your Town, Bill’s and Forever Young. online entries for consideration at The 2012 Kerrville Wine & Mu- the 2012 Texas Independent Music FREE WIFI sic Festival is scheduled for Labor Expo Performing Com- Day Weekend, August 31 through petition is September 30. Mailed He will hold CD release parties at September 2. The annual celebra- entries must be postmarked by this Love and War in Texas: Bobby Duncan tion of and Texas Wines date. This year the date of the event Clean, Safe and Secure Environment will be held at the Quiet Valley Ranch, is November 17 and it will be held, Bobby Duncan will hold a CD outside of Kerrville. Not a typical once again, at Sons of Hermann Hall Release party for his new Faith Hope “wine and beer tasting” event, this from Noon to 10 PM. Before entering, and Everything Else at Love and War WELL LIT PARKING three-day festival is mostly about the please go to the website in Texas Plano on August 13 and in music and will feature three 6-hour texasindependentmusicexpo.com to Grapevine on August 18. evening concerts and two 2-hour read the entry and performance The The Blanco Sessions, the final al- Attentive, Courteous Staff afternoon concerts with more than prize packages will also be announced bum by rockabilly legend Janis Mar- two dozen singer-songwriters. The soon. tin, produced by lifelong fan and performers includes The Farewell accomplished singer-songwriter Drifters, Lost and Nameless Orches- New Releases Rosie Flores and Bobby Trimble, is 3420 Avenue K, Ste. 317 tra, Gregory Alan Isakov, Kenny TOPCAT RECORDS NEW CD due to be released on September 18. White, Brother Sun, Guy Forsyth, Ray will celebrate it's 20 years of Keepin’ Flores will bring the to life — Plano, TX 75075 Bonneville, Javier Chaparro & Salud, Them Blues Alive ”n’ Kickin’! and is almost — with a U.S. tour this fall by The SteelDrivers and many others. scheduled for release in October. performing music from the album as 972-943-9824 Each of the evening concerts start at The CD by the -based record well as classics from Martin’s storied 7 pm. A schedule of events, per- company features music and songs career. In 2006, Flores left Los Ange- former line-up and tickets for the by Muddy Waters, Robert Ealey, U.P. les to return to Austin and found festival as well as information on Wilson, Big Mama Thornton, Bugs Trimble, an old friend from Big Sandy seminars, performers, camping, arts Henderson, Jim Suhler, Mike Mor- & the Fly-Rite Boys, living there, too. & crafts vending, RV sites and local gan, Texas Slim, Tu-Tones, Robin The team of musicians cut eleven accommodations can be found by Sylar, Mike Morgan, Bobby songs in two days. Martin died of visiting kerrvillefolkfestival.org or by Chitwood, Holland K. Smith, Rocky lung cancer four months later. calling the festival office at 830-257- Athas, Solon Fishbone, Big Gilson, Jason Cassidy’s new country CD, 3600. Josh Alan, Johnny Mack, Cricket My Redemption, features one Cassidy Melody Syer reported from the Taylor, Cold Blue Steel, Alex Rossi, song, nine co-writes, and two by Little Feat performance at the Fernando Noronha, and Phil Guy other writers. The songs explore the Granada Theater on July 26 saying The most interesting album in honky-tonk life, romance, once- the crowd was as diverse as the Car- the five-CD, one-DVD box set of loves, and, as the title indicates, re- ibbean and southern beats of the Johnny Cash releases from Sony’s demption. bongos and drums. Little Feat’s Legacy Records imprint is We Walk New from Shellee Coley is Where lineup, with BUDDY Texas Tornado the Line: A Celebration of the Music of It Began, a collection of a dozen folk, keyboardist Bill Payne. Fred Tackett, Johnny Cash, a collection of 20 songs Americana, country-pop songs from Paul Barrere, Sam Clayton, Kenny Cash made or helped make famous, the recent Texan and former Nash- Gradney made the crowd scream, featuring more than two dozen mu- ville resident. Coley is often some- shout and dance. The set list in- sicians from a live April 20, 2012, what plaintive, fitting the album’s cluded “Rocket in my Pocket,” “Hon- show at The Moody Theater in Aus- undercurrent even with its quota of est Man,” “Just a Fever,” “Mellow tin. A few of the artists even manage sunshine, butterflies, etc. ■

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