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txmusic newsletter v3 - Texas Music Magazine
EXTRA news click here to read calendar click here to read releases click here to read Shelley King crowned On April 19, Austin-based singer-songwriter Shelley King will make history by becoming the first woman to serve as the official Texas State Musician. She’ll celebrate her appointment for 2008 at Shelley King a VIP reception on April 16. King joins Lone Star luminaries Dale Watson, Billy Joe Shaver, Johnny Gimble, Ray Benson and James Dick in holding the honor. She will be presented with a limitedrun Gibson Acoustic Elvis King of Rock guitar to commemorate her appointment. “I can’t even express what an honor it is to be the State Musician of Texas,” says King. “I am doubly honored because I am the first woman to receive the appointment. With so many amazing Texas women musicians whom I greatly respect and admire, I feel really humbled and privileged to be the first of, I am sure, many. It’s very exciting, and I am looking forward to all the opportunities to represent the state of Texas with my music.” King will spend her term touring the world promoting Texas music. Her first appearance as Texas State Musician will be at the Lubbock Arts Festival on Thursday 04 10 08 artist q&a click here to read chart click here to read and Friday, April 17 and 18, at Lubbock’s Memorial Civic Center, at which she will perform four concerts for 2,000 local schoolchildren. King plans to tour Europe, Japan and Australia during her reign. King has won Austin Music Awards for Roots Rock Band of the Year (2005) and Song of the Year for “Call of My Heart” (2001). Her songs have been covered by nationally and internationally known artists such as the duo of Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood, and Toni Price. King’s post is one of four arts appointments made by the Texas Commission on the Arts, which also designates a state poet laureate and artists for two-dimensional and three-dimensional media. The committee consists of seven members appointed by the governor, lieutenant governor and house speaker. Headliners include Ray Wylie Hubbard, Eliza Gilkyson and Terry Allen. For more info, visit www.stingareemusicfestival.com. “Nash” Hernandez, McKinley “Kenny” Dorham, Roy Montelongo and Tary Owens. Long time coming Willie Nelson is bringing Independence Day — or his picnic, at least — back home to the Lone Star State for 2008. This year’s Fourth of July celebration will take place in Selma at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater just north of San Antonio. Austin finally got its own musicians hall of fame with the dedication of the Austin Music Memorial March 30 at the brand new Long Center for the Performing Arts. The late greats inaugurated into the hall were saluted by some of Austin’s Ray Benson, Shandon Sahm finest, including Ray Benson, Joel Guzman, Marcia Ball, Cindy Cashdollar, Rosie Flores, Maryann Price and Shandon Sahm. The inaugural group of inductees are: Doug Sahm, Carl William Besserer, Roosevelt “Grey Ghost” Williams, Virgie Mae DeWitty, the Rev. Lavada “Dr. Hepcat” Durst, Americo Paredes, Ignacio EXTRA PUBLISHER/ EDITORS Just as his major-label debut, Trouble in Mind, hits the streets, Hayes Carll is also busy putting together a three-day music festival. The second annual Stingaree Music festival, which Carll co-founded last year with his manager, is a tribute to singersongwriters. It takes place April 18-20 at Crystal Beach on the Texas Gulf Coast. LY N N E M A R G O L I S RICHARD SKANSE A S S O C I AT E E D I T O R S ART DIRECTOR CODEY ALLEN T O R Q U I L S C O T T- D E WA R www.txmusic.com WEB SITE DESIGNER Songwriters hit the beach S T E WA R T R A M S E R EDITOR-IN-CHIEF MAILING ADDRESS W I L LT H I N G PO BOX 50273 AUSTIN, TX 78763 SUBSCRIPTIONS: 1-877-35-TEXAS OFFICE: 512-638-8900 E-MAIL: INFO@TXMUSIC.COM COPYRIGHT © 2008 BY TEXAS MUSIC, L.L.C. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. R E P R O D U C T I O N I N W H O L E O R PA R T I S P R O H I B I T E D . Willie’s Picnic comes home Lone Stars jam against cancer Kevin Fowler, Cross Canadian Ragweed, the Eli Young Band, Cory Morrow, Roger Creager, Wade Bowen, Bleu Edmondson, Adam Hood, Ryan James and the Bart Crow Band will come together for the Lone Star Jam, April 26 at Waterloo Park in Austin. Young Texans Against Cancer and Dell Children’s Hospital are beneficiaries. For info, go to www.lonestarjam.com. LETTER FROM THE EDITORS W WELCOME TO the first issue of Texas Music Extra, our new e-zine supplement to Texas Music magazine. We’ll be sending this your way regularly, so you can keep track of the latest musical developments between issues of the print publication, and watch the progress of your favorite artists on various charts (beginning with a Texas-countrythemed MySpace chart in this issue). With artist spotlights, reviews, insights and inside information about the latest releases, newsmakers and events, we hope you’ll look forward to every issue. And best of all — it’s free. You are welcome to forward this file, or your friends and colleagues can sign up for their own copy at www.txmusic.com. If you have something you think is newsworthy, you can reach us at newsletter@txmusic.com. news calendar releases artist q&a chart click here to read click here to read click here to read click here to read click here to read Tejano star Emilio still critical GUITAR HEROES: (from left) Visual artists Shanny Lott and Debra Samples; musicians Lloyd Maines, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Terri Hendrix, Ray Benson and Sara Hickman; and visual artist Ann Pinion. Big guitars, bigger check Ray Benson, Terri Hendrix, Lloyd Maines, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Sara Hickman and Austin Mayor Will Wynn were among the luminaries who came out to participate in the giant check-passing when the Gibson Foundation gave $586,085, the proceeds from its Austin GuitarTown auction, to four Austin-area charities on April 2. The event, held at the Gibson Guitar Showroom, was the culmination of a twoyear project that featured local artists decorating 10-foot-tall Gibson guitar replicas, which were then displayed around town before being auctioned off in October along with a few regular-sized, celebrity-designed axes. Hendrix and Maines performed at the event, and Benson, who chaired the project, was presented with quite a yard decoration: the burnt-orange prototype Gibson sculpture. The four charities receiving equal portions of the donation were American Youthworks, Austin Children’s Museum, Austin Museum of Art and the Health Alliance for Austin Musicians. Prayer vigils were still being held last week around Texas for Tejano superstar Emilio Navaira, who was critically injured on Easter Sunday when the tour bus he was driving slammed into a concrete highway median as he and his band were heading home to San Antonio after a gig. According to reports, he remains in critical but stable condition. Trying a new form of treatment, doctors induced hypothermia following the accident to reduce brain swelling, then slowly brought his body temperature back to normal. The Emilio Navaira Benefit Fund has been set up for donations at the Amegy Bank of Texas, P.O. Box 4837, Houston TX 77210. Reckless Kelly lands new label After a run on Sugar Hill, Reckless Kelly has found a new home on a North Carolina label — Chapel Hill’s Yep Roc Records. The band’s new album, Bulletproof, will be released this summer; it will be their first album of new material since 2005’s Wicked Twisted Road. The band’s last release was a two-CD/DVD set titled Reckless Kelly Was Here. Jack Ingram sings Astros off Houston native Jack Ingram got to indulge a favorite singer’s fantasy when he reached for the high notes during his rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner” at the Houston Astros/St. Louis Cardinals season opener April 7 at Minute Maid Park in Houston. Zane Lewis joins AUE roster Rising country artist Zane Lewis has signed with Austin Universal Entertainment Inc. to be his exclusive booking agent. Lewis also was recently named by the Country Music Association as One to Watch for 2008. AUE’s other clients include Billy Joe Shaver, Bleu Edmundson, Two Tons of Steel, Austin Collins, Josh Grider, Ty England and Zona Jones. Old Settlers Fest 21 years young Delbert McClinton and Charlie Musselwhite are adding a blues infusion to the 21st annual Old Settlers Music Festival, the April 17-20 music-and-camping fest at the Salt Lick Pavilion at Camp Ben McCullough, outside of Austin. Other artists set to perform include Martin Sexton, Bettye Lavette, Todd Snider, Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives, Terri Hendrix, Eliza Gilkyson, the Belleville Outfit, the David Grisman Bluegrass Experience, Ralph Stanley & His Clinch Mountain Boys, JD Crowe & the New South, Peter Rowan, Blackie & the Rodeo Kings and plenty of others. For more info, go to www.oldsettlersmusicfest.org. Squeeze kings Houston-bound Texas and Louisiana’s hottest young accordion stars will face off in a semi-finals round May 11 as part of Texas Folklife’s second annual Big Squeeze accordion contest. The competition will be held at Austin’s Mexican American Cultural Center, 600 River St., at 1:30 p.m. Los Texmaniacs will perform afterward. The show is free. Finalists will square off at the start of Texas Folklife’s 19th annual Accordion Kings show, June 7 at 7 p.m. at the Miller Outdoor Theatre in Houston. The free concert features co-headliners Step Rideau & the Zydeco Outlaws and La Tropa F, with openers the Knights of Dixie Orchestra. The contest winner will receive $500 cash, plus a day of recording time at Houston’s SugarHill Recording Studios, professional support services and other goodies. For more info, see www.texasfolklife.org. news calendar releases artist q&a chart click here to read click here to read click here to read click here to read click here to read Choffel chomps competition Austinite Suzanna Choffel is Texas’ latest grand-prize winner in the Famecast pop competition. Choffel earned $10,000 in the Season 4 segment; more than 400 bands competed nationwide for the prize. Last fall, Austin’s Wendy Colonna took home the same 10-grand prize. Choffel will release her next album in the fall. Palo Duro launches new festival Palo Duro Records founder Chris Thomas is launching a new festival, the Chattahippie Music Festival, which will take place Sept. 18-21 in Chattanooga, Tenn. Billed as a celebration of peace, love and great Americana music, the festival will feature a roster heavy on Texas-based artists, including Dallas Wayne, Trent Summar, Walt Wilkins & the Mystiqueros and Miles from Nowhere. Camping is invited; there are some onsite spaces and many more offsite ones. For more info, visit www.chattahippie.com. Texans take top ISC honors El Pasoan Blu Sanders took first place in the country category of the 2007 International Songwriters Competition for a ballad titled “Just Past the Milky Way.” Laredo’s Arturo Varak took first place in the Latin category for the tune, “Layla.” Honorable mentions went to several Texans, including James Hyland and Dennis Ludiker of Austin’s South Austin Jug Band, for “Chicago,” in the Americana category; Brenham resident Russell Grimmer of the band Stevens Lane, in the country category, for “Little Dream”; San Antonio-born siblings Patricia Vonne and Israel Rodriguez, for “Mujeres Desaparecidas” in the Latin category; and Austinite Charlie Lang of Parkers Break for “The Better Part” in the Pop/Top 40 category. Complete results are at www.songwritingcompetition.com news calendar releases artist q&a chart click here to read click here to read click here to read click here to read click here to read calendar Guitar Festival 24-27 Dallas Market Hall Dallas Texas State Championship Fiddlers’ Frolics Texas Hill Country Wine & Food Festival www.guitarshow.com Knights of Columbus Hall Various locations Stingaree Music Festival Austin Tiki Beach Bar and Grill www.texaswineandfood.org Crystal Beach 25-27 www.stingareemusicfestival.com Denton Arts & Jazz Festival APRIL 10-13 11-13 Hallettsville www.fiddlersfrolics.com Quakertown Park Poteet Strawberry Festival 18-20 & 25-27 Denton Festival Grounds Texas Crawfish & Music Festival www.dentonjazzfest.com www.strawberryfestival.com Preservation Park 25-27 & 5/1-4 Old Town Spring 11-19 www.texascrawfishfestival.com New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival Galveston County Fair & Rodeo 18-27 New Orleans, La. Jack Brooks Park Fiesta San Antonio www.nojazzfest.com Hitchcock Downtown and various venues www.galvestoncountyfair.com San Antonio 26 www.fiesta-sa.org Eeyore’s Birthday Party Poteet 12-13 Fair Grounds Race Course Pease Park Art City Austin 19 Austin Caesar Chavez St. from Colorado to Lamar Red Hot & Soul Gala www.eeyore.sexton.com Austin Palmer Events Center www.artallianceaustin.org Austin Lone Star State Jam www.zachscott.com Waterloo Park Austin Peace, Love, Happiness Ride Cowboy Harley-Davidson/Buell 19-20 Austin Austin Reggae Festival www.peacelovehappiness.com Auditorium Shores 26-27 Austin Crawfish Festival www.austinmarleyfest.com Kemah Boardwalk 17-20 www.lonestarjam.com Kemah Lubbock Arts Festival Lubbock Memorial Civic Center 19-20 & 26-27 Lubbock Houston International Festival www.lubbockarts.org Downtown 27 Houston Edgefest Main St. Fort Worth Arts Festival www.ifest.org Pizza Hut Park Downtown 19-24 Fort Worth Cowboy Cool Cruise www.msfwaf.org Galveston to Cozumel, Mexico and Progresso 29-5/1 Yucatan Family Music Festival www.cowboycoolcruise.com Long Center Old Settler’s Music Festival www.kemahboardwalk.com Frisco www.kdge.com Austin Salt Lick Pavilion Austin 24 www.oldsettlersmusicfest.org Umlauf Garden Party www.austinsymphony.org Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum 30 18-20 Austin Willie Nelson’s 75th Birthday Dallas International www.umlaufsculpture.org JAMES MCMURTRY Just Us Kids (Lightning Rod) James McMurtry doesn’t rant, he needles, and with the skill of a doctor, he once again makes bull’s-eye pricks at some of society’s worst ills. This time out, he also injects some melody into his always-brilliant diatribes. LYNNE MARGOLIS GEORGE STRAIT Troubadour (MCA Nashville) Not all of his albums are going to be as loaded with great songs as 2006’s It Just Comes Natural was. But it’s a testament to George Strait’s commitment to his craft that he never turns in a less than than sterling performance — whether the songs are worthy of his voice (“Troubadour,” “House with No Doors”) or not even close (“River of Love”). RICHARD SKANSE SOUTH AUSTIN JUG BAND Strange Invitation (www.southaustinjugband.com) The South Austin Jug Band is now down to a trio. But as indicated by the one cover here, Beck’s “Jack Ass,” they’re boldly forging new progressive directions while still bringing the string-band foundation along (a la Nickel Creek) to create their most original and ingenious set yet. ROB PATTERSON news calendar releases artist q&a chart click here to read click here to read click here to read click here to read click here to read AARON WATSON Angels & Outlaws (www.aaronwatson.com) If anyone didn’t know Aaron Watson was a born-and-bred Texas good ol’ boy before they listened to Angels & Outlaws, this song collection will leave no doubt. The titles alone make it obvious: There’s “Hearts are Breaking Across Texas,” “Whiskey on the Fire” and a throwback named “Breaker Breaker One Nine,” done at about 90 miles an hour (don’t let that Smokey catch ya!) With twangy gee-tar, twin fiddles, pedal steel and the other classic country elements, it all sounds just like you’d expect it to — which means almost a little formulaic. But it’s a formula that can keep a lot of fans very happy. One standout is “Can’t be a Cowboy Anymore,” which Watson delivers with a crag in his voice and a “cain’t” in his lyrics. It’s a twinge-of-sadness/sort-of-happy-ending look at a man’s tug-of-war between his lifestyle and his lover, one of which will have to win sooner or later. (Hint: It ain’t the horse.) He also gives a sweet twang to John Mayer’s “The Heart of Life” and a strong reading to the Waylon Jennings nugget, “Tulsa.” LYNNE MARGOLIS new releases April 1 April 1 April 1 April 1 April 1 April 8 April 8 April 8 Aaron Watson George Strait Willie Nelson South Austin Jug Band Various Artists Hayes Carll Marcia Ball Rodney Parker &50Peso Reward April 8 ElizabethWills April 8 Spain Colored Orange April 15 James McMurtry April 15 Gene Autry April 22 Nelo April 29 No Justice April 29 Steve Earle May 6 T Bone Burnett May 6 Johnny Solinger May 6 Eleven Hundred Springs May 6 Mike McClure Band May 13 Old 97’s May 13 The Black Angels May 20 Guy Forsyth May 20 Cory Morrow May 20 The Band of Heathens May 27 Adam Carroll May 27 Lisa Loeb June 3 Mother Truckers June 3 Pinetop Perkins June 10 Alejandro Escovedo news calendar releases artist q&a chart click here to read click here to read click here to read click here to read click here to read Angels & Outlaws Troubadour One Hell of a Ride (box set) Strange Invitation The Very Best of Outlaw Country Trouble in Mind Peace, Love & BBQ The Lonesome Dirge AaronWatson.com MCA Nashville Columbia/Legacy SouthAustinJugBand.com Legacy Lost Highway Alligator RodneyParker.com Fly Sneaky Like a Villain Just Us Kids Favorites Nelo Live at Billy Bob’s Copperhead Road (deluxe ed.) Tooth of Crime Johnny Solinger Country Jam did7 Blame It On Gravity Directions to See a Ghost Calico Girl Vagrants & Kings The Band of Heathens Old Town Rock N Roll Camp Lisa (children’s album) Let’s All Go to Bed Pinetop Perkins and Friends Real Animal Erian Lucid Lightning Rod Acrobat Justice Smith Music Geffen Nonesuch Smith Music Palo Duro MikeMcClureBand.com New West Light in the Attic Small & Nimble Sustain BandofHeathens.com AdamCarroll.com Furious Rose Funzalo Telarc Back Porch Pinetop Perkins boogie-woogies toward 95th birthday Not many artists celebrate their 95th birthdays with a new album and a Grammy win, but dapper blues/boogie-woogie pianist Pinetop Perkins is like the Energizer Bunny — he just keeps going and going. He’ll undoubtedly cut the cake at Antone’s when he hits the big 9-5 on July 7, a month after his latest disc, Pinetop Perkins & Friends, drops. Among those featured on the album are Eric Clapton, B.B. King, fellow Austinite Jimmie Vaughan and Willie Kent. In February, he picked up his first Grammy, for Last of the Great Mississippi Delta Bluesmen: Live in Dallas, which also featured David “Honeyboy” Edwards and the late Robert Lockwood Jr. and Henry James Townsend. The album was released by the Blue Shoe Project, a Colleyville-based non-profit dedicated to spreading the legacy of the blues to new generations of listeners. Q&A Hayes Carll Texas Music caught up with singer-songwriter Hayes Carll on the eve of releasing his third album and Lost Highway debut, Trouble in Mind. He was busy delivering copies to players on the album, picking up his guitarist from the airport and sweating out the final details of his upcoming Stingaree Music Festival, but was game for a 10-minute chat about where he’s been, where he’s headed and his favorite music for the road. Congrats on the big day! Do you get really antsy right when a new record comes out, or have any release-day rituals you do? I’ve never really had a real release day for a record before. On the last one, we just started selling them at shows, and my first one was so long ago, I can’t remember how that went! But it feels good. It’s just kind of chaotic, because we’ve got the release and our festival, which are kind of our two biggest events of the year, in a 10-day period. So we’re kind of just scrambling right now. It seems like we’ve done so much preparation for everything, I’m ready to just go out and sing. How involved are you with the brass tacks of putting on your festival? Are you there sorting out the brown M&Ms for the artist riders and figuring out the schedule, or do you leave that stuff to other folks and just have fun? It’s sort of a mix. The festival was my idea, but my manager, Mike Crowley, has more experience with festivals and this kind of news calendar releases artist q&a chart click here to read click here to read click here to read click here to read click here to read stuff, so a lot of the day-to-day work falls on him — everything from lining up port-ojohns to working with the Chamber of Commerce and advertisers and stuff. Basically I’m just an idea guy. I pull in a bunch of favors to get people to come in and play for cheap, and I do a lot of the scheduling, but Mike does a tremendous amount of the actual work on it. What’s been the best advice that you’ve ever received in regard to your career? There’s two things that I think about; one was from Ray Wylie Hubbard, and the other was from Jack Ingram. Ray will tell anybody that it comes down to the song. When I was coming up, it seemed like there was a lot of other guys doing really well and I was not. Ray said, “It’s about the songs. A lot of guys are gonna have success, but it’s not gonna last if you can’t keep putting out good songs. At the end of the day, that’s what it comes down to.” And that’s always been really reassuring to me, in that I try not to get too wrapped up in whether I’m the flavor of the month with the college kids that year, and just remember that if I keep doing good work, I’ll be in it for the long haul. And what Jack told me was, his career was ahead of his art when he started out. He said he got going and had a lot of success right away, and it took a while for his songs to catch up to his career. And I was sort of in a reverse situation, where he thought I was doing good stuff, but I had like five people a night at my shows. At the time, that made me feel a lot better. In retrospect, I feel fortunate in that I didn’t have that immediate success. Jack works his ass off, but a lot of guys, when success comes too easy, they can get lazy and take it for granted. I was forced to just keep working, and slugging my way through the bars and the clubs and the folk coffee houses and stuff made me a better songwriter, and it’ll pay off in the long run. Plus, if you start off big, sometimes you’ve got nowhere else to go but down. I started at the bottom, so every little incremental step upwards felt really good, and I felt like I earned it. Given the opportunity to play just one of your original songs for somebody that you really wanted or needed to impress — be it a loved one, a hero or, say, St. Peter, which one would you sing? I assume in the case of St. Peter, it wouldn’t be “She Left Me for Jesus.” [Laughs] I’d find out real quick if he had a sense of humor! I don’t know, maybe “Long Way Home” off of Little Rock, or I’m partial to “Arkansas Blues.” I’d play something real- ly long and wordy and depressing. That’s some of my favorite stuff. They don’t always take off at shows, but for me, those are some of the ones I’m most proud of. What’s your all-time favorite record, at least at this particular moment? I’m just going to go contemporary. The thing that I’ve listened to the most in the last five years is Todd Snider’s East Nashville Skyline. It came late in the game for me, but as far as just pure listens, and something I haven’t been able to put down for a long time, that record just blew me away. If I went back a ways, I might say another Skyline record — Dylan’s Nashville Skyline. Dylan’s records were my obsessive records growing up. So we can say Dylan early life, and Todd for the last few years. RICHARD SKANSE news calendar releases artist q&a chart click here to read click here to read click here to read click here to read click here to read CHARTS: myspace Country TW Artist Points 1 Dixie Chicks 102,507 2 George Strait 85,214 3 Dierks Bentley 74,481 4 Miranda Lambert 72,726 5 Gary Allan 45,258 6 Eli Young Band 23,968 7 Willie Nelson 22,288 8 Jack Ingram 19,626 9 Cross Canadian Ragweed 19,546 10 Pat Green 18,606 11 Randy Rogers Band 18,204 12 Kevin Fowler 15,769 13 Shooter Jennings 13,506 14 Roger Creager 10,597 15 Reckless Kelly 9,415 16 Wade Bowen 8,136 17 Jason Boland & the Stragglers 7,777 18 Brandon Rhyder 7,324 19 Cory Morrow 6,255 20 Johnny Cooper 5,428 21 Aaron Watson 4,964 22 Honeybrowne 4,934 23 No Justice 4,666 24 Bart Crow Band 4,665 25 Bleu Edmondson 4,392 Rankings for the MySpace chart are determined by a point system factoring in the number of profile views, song plays and friends on the artists’ official MySpace pages. 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