Doug Supernaw - - Music - Houston - Houston Press | Most Recent | Most Popular Sign up for free stuff, music info & more! | Log In | Help Music Share Like 1 p Submit 0 tweet 0 Most Popular Stories Doug Supernaw Viewed Commented eMailed Former country superstar. Now starring in a courtroom near you. When We Ruled H-Town Doc revisits Houston's '90s music scene. By John Nova Lomax Thursday, May 10 2007 Comments (48) A A A ...continued from page -1 Wanted More Dead Than Alive Even by his own standards, which have grown increasingly bizarre over the past ten years, the Gurf Morlix reflects on compadre Blaze Foley. show Doug Supernaw was putting on in an April pretrial hearing in Brazos County Court at Law Professor Trill Bun B examines hip hop and religion in his Rice U course No. 2 was pretty strange. The Pomplamoose Revolution How a band with no CDs or record deal is changing the music The one-time country star, whose early 1990s industry run of hits included the No. 1 smash “I Don't High Frequency Call Him Daddy” and the Top 5 songs “Reno” For a pair of upstart Internet broadcasters, if it ain't local, it ain't live. and “Not Enough Hours in the Night,” saw his career slip off the rails in dramatic fashion in More Most Popular>> the late '90s. Beginning in 1998 and intensifying after 2002, his arrests and trials have grown more numerous while his concerts, save for drunken karaoke performances, have dwindled and his albums have ceased. His rap sheet since 1998 includes arrests for Photos Courtesy DougSupernaw.com Doug Supernaw: Former country superstar. Now nonpayment of child support, driving while starring in a courtroom near you. intoxicated, public intoxication, assault of a police officer and several incidences of possession of marijuana. He has been acquitted of some of those charges and juries have hung on some of the others, but he has compounded more than a few of those remaining by allegedly jumping bail and skipping hearings. According to a report in The (Bryan-College Station) Eagle, Supernaw was on the docket before Judge Jim Locke for allegedly evading arrest after a wee-hours incident in Bryan in 2004 that also resulted in a public intoxication Photos courtesy of DougSupernaw.com Long tall Texan: Doug Supernaw in his high- charge of which Supernaw was acquitted. rolling BNA days. Supernaw's version of that night's events is as follows: He was walking down the street singing Houston Press on Facebook the Gourds' country-fried cover version of the Like You like Houston Press. Unlike · Admin Snoop Dogg hit “Gin and Juice,” a song that Page · Insights · Error You like http://www.houstonpress.com/2007-05-10/news/doug-supernaw/print/[2/28/2011 11:55:06 AM] Doug Supernaw - - Music - Houston - Houston Press contains several profanities, whereupon he was this. Unlike · Admin Page · Insights · Error apprehended by a man in pajamas who claimed 12,475 people like Houston Press.12,474 people to be a policeman but could have been anyone. like Houston Press. Facebook social plugin That was why he ran from the man, you see. Arresting officer Brent Boswell, who was in fact off-duty at the time of the incident, had a for free stuff, music info & more! different take. According to The Eagle, he says he showed his badge to Supernaw, who was Supernaw in the Harris County lockup, April 2007. “obviously intoxicated” and loudly screaming curse words and gesticulating obscenely. Supernaw then ran from him and wheeled around in what Boswell characterized as a Slideshows fighting posture. Boswell had no choice then but Music Macabre: Honky Tonk Blood to level his pistol at the singer. Of course Boswell would say that, Supernaw contends. He is one of them. According to The Eagle's report, Supernaw believes that Boswell Lucero at is a cog in an immense international plot to Fitzgeralds silence him, “a political economic conspiracy” Daniel Kramer the existence of which Supernaw claims to have Supernaw plucked Justin White out of UT and proved “time and time and time again.” made him a songwriting partner and bandmate. According to Supernaw, the details of this Konichiwa! Robyn scheme were many and various, and, after at Warehouse Live telling the court that he had ridden to this hearing from The Woodlands on a bicycle, he went on to detail these shadowy dealings. In The Eagle's telling, Supernaw hinted that it More Slideshows >> began with his birth as the secret love child of John F. Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe, and that things started to intensify in 2002, when he was, Houston Classifieds as he put it, “held hostage in Paris” for two Courtesy of Justin White Possum Eatin' Cowboys: Supernaw (center) buy, sell, trade (11,150) musician (572) weeks in a top secret “mentally retarded home flanked by guitarist Justin White (right) and Tim rentals (2,727) jobs (1,457) for terrorists.” Since then, he served as a “test 'Buck' Buckley at Rockefeller's in 1994. monkey” in an experiment studying the effects personals (472) adult entertainment (9,231) of marijuana on baseball players, and was later attacked by two police officers from the town of Montgomery, who wanted to break his arm and Entertainment thus bring about an end to the 46-year-old's professional pitching career. 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The one tipping us off about the hearing was in the latter camp. It was his response to Steve Jackson, his attorney in Find A Coupon the Harris County case, which Supernaw copied Search by Category to us. Jackson sent along a reminder that Courtesy of Justin White Supernaw would have to be at court at nine in Search Supernaw and Clay Walker talk Texas at the morning on April 13 — Friday the 13th — to Nashville's Fan Fair in 1995. discuss his competency. As his e-mail made Popular Coupons Just $29 for Dinner! $20 Lunch clear, Supernaw had other ideas. Angus Grill Brazillian Steakhouse 6106 Westheimer Houston, TX 77057 “I need more advanced notice as that my only Free Ring Cleaning transportation at present is a bicycle,” he wrote. Box & Box Jewelers “I was planning on leaving Magnolia on Sunday 2414 Rice Blvd. Houston, TX 77005 to make it there for my trial on Tuesday morning. As I do not like to pedal in long More Popular Coupons » britches, hopefully it will be OK if I were shorts in court. Also, at present I have a flat on my bicycle and about 14 cents in my pocket, and of course I am not competent to stand trial, as I Courtesy of Yvette Tisdale Yvette Tisdale: She calls herself Supernaw's have read in the papers that I am an alchaholik, girlfriend. He's not so sure. bi polar, not fit to be a father, MF.” And true to his word, he didn't show up in court the next day, long britches or no. As a matter of fact, that very day found him up in Montgomery County getting arrested for public intoxication. Again. “As I travel down that blue bonnet highway /I'm thankful I was born a lucky man /And I know that I will live and die my own way / Daniel Kramer Somewhere between the Red and Rio Yvette was about to lose her horses when she http://www.houstonpress.com/2007-05-10/news/doug-supernaw/print/[2/28/2011 11:55:06 AM] Doug Supernaw - - Music - Houston - Houston Press met Supernaw again. Grande”— Doug Supernaw, “Red and Rio Grande” Related Content Sampler Plate: This Week In Food Blogs I'm sitting in the Harris County downtown jail, July 21, 2010 shouting at Supernaw through a hole in Curve's Franco Stevens: Five Top Moments Of plexiglass. After my aforementioned weeks of e- The Iconic Lesbian Magazine July 21, 2010 mails and traipsing around Central Texas trying 2011 Texas Yoga Conference to find him, I wrote my story. Two days later, I February 24, 2011 got a tip that Supernaw had just been arrested Craigslist's Houston Missed Connections: Highlights, Including Leia Doing Han Solo In His — in Houston of all places — and was only a few Car July 14, 2010 blocks from my office. Paul Wall Shows His Skillz On Heart of a Champion July 23, 2010 Having nothing else to do, Supernaw agreed to see me. The last time I saw anything other than a photograph of him, he was filling my TV More About screen, singing “Long Tall Texan” with the Doug Supernaw Christmas Tisdale Reviews Beach Boys. It was an apt choice, for he is well Justin White Yvette Tisdale over six feet, and back then, in his cowboy duds, Arts, Entertainment, Live Reviews Record Reviews and Media he looked as Texas as smoked brisket on grease NASA's New Comet Recordings: Worth Sampling Or Not? paper.