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Crash hospitalizes Jon Dee
had returned to the intensive care unit at
Brackenridge Hospital after emergency surgery and “will remain hospitalized for several
more days.”
Electric Touch keeps buzzing
Jon Dee Graham at Continental Club in May
Photo by Cindy Royal
Austin Music Awards Hall of Fame member
and acclaimed solo artist Jon Dee Graham
was hospitalized after a harrowing car crash
on I-35 on his way home from a Friday night
gig in Grand Prairie. According to his family’s
post on his MySpace page, Graham fell
asleep at the wheel and hit a median barrier;
no other cars were involved, but Graham’s
Volvo was totaled. Mark Finkelpearl, director
of the recent Graham documentary, Swept
Away, informed friends in an e-mail that the
songwriter suffered broken ribs, a concussion, a problem with his spleen and “issues
with his back.” “He is pretty banged up,” his
family wrote, adding, “Evidently, driving a
Volvo really did save his life. The Volvo died;
thank God Jon Dee didn’t.” An update to
MySpace on July 28 reported that Graham
The Austin-based rock quartet Electric Touch
will continue its high-profile conquest of
America by hooking up with the Fratellis and
Airborne Toxic Event! for a national tour kicking off Sept. 1 in Cleveland. The band — featuring British expat Shane Lawlor (formerly
of the IV Thieves) on vocals, Christopher
Leigh on guitar, Louis Messina Jr. on drums
and Ross Dubois on bass — has already
played or been booked on nearly every major
U.S. music festival of the year, including
Coachella, Bonnaroo, this weekend’s
Lollapalooza and September’s Austin City
Limits Music Festival. Their self-titled debut
will be released by Texas-based Justice
Records on Aug. 26.
compounded by relentless touring. “I was
referred to Vanderbilt Medical Center, where
they confirmed that there is a blood-filled
polyp taking up about a third of my right
vocal cord,” Boland wrote. “It is totally treatable, but if ignored, the damage will become
more serious and permanent. Once the
phrase ‘could be career-ending’ was uttered,
taking a break ceased to be an option and
became the only choice.” Boland added that
he expects to know more after his next trip to
the Nashville hospital, but ended on an optimistic note: “Fear not, we will return, as
always, with vigor and vengeance.” Boland
and his band, the Stragglers, will release
Comal County Blue Aug. 26.
Franke drops Gulf Coast Blue
Veteran Texas singer-songwriter Denise
Franke, a contemporary of the same Houston
and Austin folk circles that spawned Nanci
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New Braunfels-based Red Dirt/Texas country
mainstay Jason Boland had to cancel a handful of recent concert dates after developing a
serious nodule on his vocal cord — brought
on, he explained in a letter to fans, by the
strain of finishing up his forthcoming album,
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Griffith and Eric Taylor, will release Gulf Coast
Blue on Certain Records Aug. 5. Produced by
Mark Hallman and featuring a guest appearance by Eliza Gilkyson, among other notables,
the album is a collection of character portraits and snapshots inspired in large part by
Franke’s adopted hometown of Galveston.
This is Franke’s third solo release and first
since 2001’s Taylor-produced Comfort.
It’s a family affair
Gary P. Nunn, Steven Fromholz, Eleven
Hundred Springs, Johnny Bush, Walt Wilkins,
Ed Burleson, Sunny Sweeney and the Band of
Heathens are just some of the 32 acts
booked for Texas-centric singer/songwriter
Tommy Alverson’s 11th Family Gathering, to be
held Oct. 2-4 at Loyd Park on Joe Pool Lake
in Grand Prairie. (A lake named after a Pool in
a Prairie. Only in Texas.) Advance tickets for
the BYOB event are $50, on sale at tommyalverson.com. Full hook-up campsites also
are available; more info on those at
loydpark.com or 817-467-2104.
Mark Chesnutt’s bus rear-ended
Mark Chesnutt’s tour bus was involved in an
accident Sunday while transporting the
Beaumont native’s band back to Nashville
after a performance at Billy Bob’s in Fort
Worth. Traveling during the early morning
hours, the bus was rear-ended by a vehicle
traveling 100 mph. Chesnutt was not on
board; he had flown back to his home in
Beaumont. But the majority of his band —
Delaney Jackson, Cary Stone Lee Kelley,
Steve Ledford, Bob Gulley and Don Bradley,
along with driver Dave Simon and road manager Kenny Thurman — was. Fortunately, no
one was injured. According to the Nashville
Tennessean, the young male driver of the car
that struck the bus allegedly had been drinking and was driving without a license. His
vehicle was demolished. “I’m really, really glad
all the boys are all right. Thank God.”
Chesnutt said. “... inasmuch as I was in the
air, I’d still rather drive than fly! I love the
bus!”
SPI fest lineup announced
The second
annual South
Padre
International
Music Festival,
Oct. 31-Nov. 2 on
South Padre
Island, has a
Fastball
Photo by Cindy Royal
knockout lineup
headlined by Willie Nelson, Alejandro
Escovedo, Fastball, Grupo Fantasma, Los
Lonely Boys, Ghostland Observatory, Del
Castillo, Sarah Hickman, Vallejo and a couple
of classics: Blue Öyster Cult and Foghat. And
that’s just the top of the list. More than 40
acts will haunt more than 10 beach venues at
this Halloween-weekend event, which got
great reviews from those who attended last
year. Early-bird tickets, at $78 (plus fees), will
be available till Aug. 24; a portion of each
ticket sold will go toward Hurricane Dolly
relief efforts in the Rio Grande Valley. They’re
available at Ticketmaster outlets or
spimusicfest.com, or by phone at 956-6687740 or 866-448-7849 (Ticketmaster
Express).
PBS airs Cash, label remixes him
Technically, he’s not a Texan, but he did his
U.S. Air Force basic training and met his first
wife in Texas, and it is Johnny Cash, after all,
so that makes him worthy of mention here —
particularly because Johnny Cash: The Man,
His World, His Music captures Cash at his
peak. The 1969 documentary, produced and
directed by Bob Elfstrom (cinematographer
on the Maysles brothers’ Gimme Shelter),
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catches Cash and Bob Dylan in the process of
recording Dylan’s “One Too Many Mornings”
and shows Cash discussing his shared sharecropper/Sun Records (and drug abuse) background with Carl Perkins, along with live performances of some of the Man in Black’s
most beloved songs. The film airs Aug. 5;
check local PBS schedules. In conjunction
with the film, Houston-based label Compadre
Records/Music World Music is releasing
Johnny Cash Remixed, featuring Cash’s
songs as interpreted by dance and hip-hop
mixmasters including Snoop Dogg. A highend vinyl version will be released Sept. 23 to
indie record stores; the CD-online version
drops Oct. 14. More info at
www.pbs.org/pov/johnnycash.
Trae Day in Houston
Houston rapper Trae tha Truth was recognized Tuesday with a leadership award by
UniverSoul Circus, the Atlanta-based entertainment operation featuring AfricanAmerican performers. Only six people are
receiving the honor this year; among them
are Denzel Washington, LL Cool J and Steve
Harvey. Houston Mayor Bill White also
declared July 22 as Trae Day. The rapper is
being honored for his efforts on behalf of
Houston’s disadvantaged children and youth
and No More Victims Inc., an advocacy group
for children of incarcerated parents. The
block party Trae threw to celebrate Trae Day
brought more than 5,000 fans, who were
treated to free performances, rides and
school supplies.
Hip-hop the vote
Dallas/Fort Worth and Houston are among
the 17 cities targeted for a new grassroots
voting campaign launched Monday by the
Hip-Hop Caucus and Grammy-winning rapper
T.I. Targeted toward 18- to 29-year-olds who
are not college students, the campaign will
use the slogan “Respect My Vote!” on Tshirts and elsewhere. Celebrities, athletes
and other influential types will create radio,
television and online promo spots, make
personal appearances, drop mobile and email alerts and use online resources to
encourage registration — and actual voting
in November. Caucus president the Rev.
Lennox Yearwood Jr. says statistics show
one in four eligible young voters who
attended college voted on Super Tuesday,
compared to only one in 14 eligible voters
with no college education. Maybe T.I. will be
able to get power couple Beyonce and Jay-Z
on board; one of T.I.’s 2006 Grammy nominations was for Best Song Collaboration on
“Soldier” with Houston’s Destiny’s Child and
Lil Wayne. More info at Hiphopcaucus.org.
Texans jam for the cure
The 36D Red Dirt Rockettes aren’t a new
band (though that would be catchy); they
are a Texas-based team of women taking
part in the Breast Cancer 3-Day, a November
fund-raising hike in San Diego. They have
already put together an attention-getting
show for Aug. 24 at Cheatham Street
Warehouse in San Marcos. Headliners Cody
Canada, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Randy Rogers,
and Stoney LaRue will be rounding up some
talented friends to start the fund-raising a
little early; the show and the hike will be
benefiting the Susan G. Komen Foundation
for the Cure.
Honky-tonkin’ for the kids
When Austin singer-songwriter Aaron
Navarro decided to throw a benefit for the
Firewalker Foundation, which helps children
of firefighters killed in the line of duty, he
didn’t have much trouble finding a venue
(the biker-friendly Cedar Creek roadhouse
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Cindy’s Gone Hogg Wild) and a whole slew of
Central Texas musicians to fill out the bill.
Meagan Tubb, Andrea Marie, Ben Morris &
the Great American Boxcar Chorus, Mike
Ethan Messick and Kevin Carroll (among others) will be joining Navarro & his band
onstage Aug. 10.
Click & fish with Trent
Tired of the same old ways to mindlessly
waste time online? Country singer Trent
Willmon and the folks at Houston’s
Compadre Records — in association with
PlanetCazmo.com and Country Weekly —
have launched a new online game to promote the Aug. 5 release of “Cold Beer and a
Fishin’ Pole,” the latest single off of the West
Texan’s Broken In album. The object of Trent
Willmon’s Fishing Game (on
www.trentwillmon.com) is to click on a pool
of water and reel in as many fish as possible
in two very long minutes. We caught what
looked like a minnow and a beer can in
about a minute, but then had to get back to
work.
Escovedo steps in for the Boss
As Texas Music Extra has mentioned in past
issues, veteran Austin singer-songwriter
Alejandro Escovedo recently shared the
stage and the E Street Band with his most
famous fan, Bruce Springsteen, in front of a
packed Toyota Center in Houston. The Boss
shared a potentially even bigger stage on
July 28, giving Escovedo free run of his
Sirius satellite radio channel for an hour.
Escovedo, true to gracious form, planned to
use the time less for self-promotion and
more for spinning tracks from his friends,
favorites and influences.
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First Thursday Free Concert
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with Wayne Toups & Bayou Roux
Music Under the Star
with Austin Nights Brass Band
Heritage Place
Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum
www.downtownconroe.org
Conroe
Austin
www.thestoryoftexas.com
Moonlight Margarita Run
Lady Bird Lake
Lollapalooza Aug. 1-3 in Chicago.
Lollapalooza
3
Austin
KGSR Live at the Lake
www.moonlightmargaritarun.com
with Carolyn Wonderland
Grant Park
Lakeway Resort and Spa
8-9
Chicago, Ill., Aug. 1-3
Austin
Navasota Blues Fest
www.kgsr.com
Navasota Blues Alley
A trip to Chicago at the peak
of summer sounds pretty
good about now, with thermometers stuck in the threedigit range here in Texas.
That’s probably what C3
Presents had in mind when
they revived Lollapalooza in
Wade Bowen performs at Cavender Chevrolet
2005. A sister to C3’s Austin Music Series on Aug. 6
City Limits Festival (less than Schulenburg Festival
two months away!), the forwith Roger Creager & Honeybrowne
Wolters Park
mer traveling road show is
Schulenburg
now Chicago’s annual megafestival. Radiohead, Nine Inch www.schulenburgfestival.org
Nails and Rage Against the
Houston International Jazz Festival
with Ruben Studdard & more
Machine headline, but the
Downtown
Lone Star State is dutifully
Houston
represented in the lineup by
www.jazzeducation.org
Explosions in the Sky, Iron and
Wine, Toadies, Okkervil River, 6
What Made Milwaukee
Cavender Chevrolet Music Series
Famous, the Octopus Project, with Wade Bowen & Bill Rice
The County Line
Black Joe Lewis, Electric
San Antonio
Touch and middle-school rock- www.countyline.com
ers We Go To 11. Aug. 1-3. Grant
95.9 FM The Ranch Texas Music Series
Park, Chicago, Ill. Visit
with Bleu Edmondson & Travis Mitchell
www.lollapalooza.com.
8.0 Restaurant and Bar
Follow Texas Music’s own Cindy
Royal during Lollapalooza at
www.onthatnote.com.
Fort Worth
www.959theranch.com
Navasota
www.navasotabluesfest.org
10
KGSR Live at the Lake
with Shawn Sahm & the Tex-Mex
Experience
Lakeway Resort and Spa
Austin
www.kgsr.com
13
Cavender Chevrolet Music Series
with Austin Collins & Aaron Tilt
The County Line
San Antonio
www.countyline.com
Tommy Alverson performs at 95.9 FM The
Ranch Texas Music Series in Fort Worth
95.9 FM The Ranch Texas Music Series
with Tommy Alverson & Max Stalling
8.0 Restaurant and Bar
Fort Worth
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Jackopierce
Promise of Summer
(jackopierce.com)
Acoustic duos walk a thin line
– one that can quickly fade
from “sublime” to “enough
already.” But on Promise of Summer, their
first album since reconvening in 2002 after a
five-year break, one-time Texas pair
Jackopierce (Jack O’Neill and Cary Pierce)
don’t quite slip over that edge; they manage
to walk along it without flailing. An adventurous step or two wouldn’t have hurt, however.
Most of this album has the feel of power-ballad hits-in-waiting (rising notes and big drums
before the final chorus, etc.). In other words,
it’s a fairly mellow affair, the country-pop-rock
equivalent of smooth jazz, but with gorgeous
harmonies, thoughtful lyrics and some strong
moments of tension as the songs build – the
kind of songs that bigger stars might indeed
turn into hits. Maybe their SMU pal Jack
Ingram, whose first album was produced by
Dallas resident Pierce, will snatch one up. An
obvious candidate would be “Texas,” but it’s
far from the only one. LYNNE MARGOLIS
“Goodbye Girl” shows that the band might,
given time to mature, write their own
“Tuesday’s Gone.” ETHAN MESSICK
Carrie Rodriguez
She Ain’t Me
(Back Porch)
Call it the buddy system.
Carrie Rodriguez’s second solo
release artfully melds rootsy
origins with pop sensibilities by teaming her
up with some of the most prolific modern
songsmiths. She co-wrote the title track with
Minneapolis’ Dan Wilson, who won a 2006
Grammy for the Dixie Chicks’ “Not Ready to
Make Nice.” His signature is evident in chord
progression and arrangement, conjuring his
own indie-pop roots from his days leading ‘90s
band Semisonic. The lyrics evoke a traditional
cheating-spouse theme, but the jilted party
comes across as quietly confident rather than
pathetic; more his loss than hers (“whoever
Miss Whoever is, she ain’t me”). Another
Minneapolis legend, Gary Louris (Jayhawks,
Golden Smog), stamps four songs with his own
brand of alt-country-leaning pop. Folk
songstress Mary Gauthier, former Son Volt
Whiskey Myers
bassist Jim Boquist and Australian singer
Road of Life
Sandrine all log writing credits, further raising
(Smith Entertainment)
the star quality of the liner notes. Rodriguez’s
It looks like the influence of
voice is a pleasant lilt, at times channeling
Lynyrd Skynyrd on the modSuzanne Vega, Shawn Colvin, Edie Brickell,
ern bar band is going to stick
Fiona Apple and maybe even a dusting of
around a little longer. When this band of East
Carole King. Then it’s right back to a sound
Texans plays the title track, the guy in the
that is uniquely hers. Pulling it all together is
crowd shouting “Free Bird” might be justifiDaniel Lanois protégé and producer Malcolm
ably mistaken instead of simply unoriginal.
Burn (Emmylou Harris, Chris Whitley). It would
The CD is packed with electric guitar dexterity be easy for a young artist like Rodriguez, not
and crowd-pleasing classic-rock dynamics, and quite 30 years old, to lose herself under the
producer Mike McClure lends them grit and
spell of these veteran heavyweights. But her
polish. The lyrics, though, might not be every- strong musicianship and point of view remain
body’s cup of Jägermeister. The rebel clichés
the core. She Ain’t Me renders songwriting
of the first several songs might grate on lisgems from start to finish, a virtual textbook on
teners outside the band’s college-cowboy fan- the subject. And Rodriguez, as star pupil, gets
base. On the upside, the subtler appeal of
an A+ for teamwork. CINDY ROYAL
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Bruce Robison explores The New World
Singer-songwriter Bruce Robison continues to explore the eclectic roots-pop direction he
began on last year’s It Came From San Antonio EP on his new full-length, The New World,
due Sept. 2 on his own Premium Records label. Robison produced the 10-song collection at
his own state-of-the-art Premium Recording Service studio in Austin. Musicians/guest
singers on the album include Robison’s wife, Kelly Willis, Lloyd Maines, Kevin McKinney, the
Grooveline Horns and Willie Nelson bandmates Paul English and Mickey Raphael.
melody together, and a couple lines and not
much more than that. I actually left thinking,
“I don’t know if that will turn into anything.”
What’s the most important thing you
learned from your years collaborating with Then when I got home by myself, I just startCarrie Rodriguez Chip
ed writing verses to the song. I was inspired
Taylor?
You might think Carrie Well, aside from learning how to sing (laughs), by someone who I had recently met, who
unfortunately was cheated on by his wife. All
Rodriguez gets all the I would say just learning about songwriting
of
a sudden, I’m writing these verses and ebreaks. An invitation to from him was such a huge thing. He’s probamailing
them and singing little snippets over
play fiddle with veteran bly one of the most prolific songwriters of the
the
phone
to Dan. He wrote a chorus and
musician Chip Taylor
last 100 years, and getting to watch him do
was
singing
it over my voicemail. We put that
turned into a seventhat up close was really such a privilege.
song
(“She
Ain’t
Me”) together in a couple of
year singing and songdays
via
e-mail
and
phone calls.
On
your
first
solo
album,
Seven
Angels
on
a
writing gig. On She
Bicycle,
Chip
was
still
involved.
She
Ain’t
Ain’t Me, her second
I was wondering who that song was about.
solo release, she got to Me marks a clean break. How do you think
Well,
luckily it’s not autobiographical. Not yet
write with some of the your sound has evolved with this record?
(laughs).
It
does
mark
a
break,
and
I
did
that
consciousmost sought-after
Photo by Sarah Wilson artists of the moment,
ly, as hard as it was. It was a big struggle to
You taped an episode of Austin City Limits
write all the songs without Chip’s help. But I
as well as celebrated producer Malcolm
also thought I needed to search a little deeper a few weeks ago. What was it like to perBurn. An opening slot on Alejandro
within me and find out what I would sound like form in that iconic setting?
Escovedo’s tour and an Austin City Limits
It was so dreamlike. It took me two days to
taking Chip out of the equation, just to find
taping round out this charmed life. But
out a little bit more about myself. I think it was actually realize that I had done it. I can’t tell
delivering on all these breaks must require
just a very comfortable zone, writing with and you how surreal it was. I’ve watched that
something beyond luck. Apparently,
working with Chip, so I wanted to get out of
Rodriguez knows what we all should have
that comfort zone a little bit.
learned in kindergarten: how to play nice
with others. For that, she has earned some
influential friends and more than just a few How did people like Dan Wilson and Gary
karma points. We caught up with Rodriguez Louris get involved?
Each one was different. I had never met Gary
as she cruised down the highway somewhere between Birmingham, Ala., and New before. Growing up in Austin, the Jayhawks
Orleans, to talk about collaboration, change were rock stars. I was a little nervous, because
I didn’t know him. I just showed up at his
and what it’s like when life exceeds your
doorstep with my guitar and fiddle. He was
dreams.
just immediately so warm, and he’s got a
great, self-deprecating sense of humor. He
You worked with legendary producer
Malcolm Burn on the new album. How did made me feel like it was OK to be as stupid as
I needed to be at the early stages of writing a
he get involved with the project?
song (laughs). I just immediately felt comfortMalcolm has been one of my favorite producers for a long time. I first became famil- able. Then with Dan Wilson, that was another
iar with his work on a Chris Whitley record. one where I had never met him, and just flew
In high school, my girlfriend and I were huge out to Minneapolis and showed up at his
doorstep. I hadn’t slept at all, like zero hours
Chris Whitley fans. I realized, years later,
that Malcolm Burn had produced his Living of sleep. I was coming from South By
With the Law album. Later, he produced Red Southwest, and the way the flights worked,
there was literally no time to sleep. I came
Dirt Girl, which won a Grammy — the
there in a crazy state of mind, which maybe
Emmylou Harris album. It’s one of my
thinking back, helped me to be more creative
favorites. He’s just been on my radar for a
long time. It was real exciting to get to work (laughs). But he was totally cool, and we had a
lot of fun that day. We came up with the
with someone of Malcolm’s caliber.
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show my whole life. It was just so incredible
to actually be on that stage, to be playing
with my favorite musicians on the planet. I
had my band, and in addition, had Greg Leisz,
who is a master pedal-steel player from L.A.,
Michael Ramos on keys and Gary Louris
singing harmony vocals. The whole thing was
just like a dream, honestly.
As someone who didn’t even start out as a
singer, what do you make of all that has
happened to you in the last seven years?
Is it beyond your wildest dreams?
It is definitely beyond my wildest imagination.
I could never say beyond my wildest dreams,
because it was never my dream to do what
I’m doing. It was my dream to play music for
the rest of my life, so I guess in that sense it
is, but sometimes it’s so strange to me that I
don’t really know what to make of it. I’m
grateful for everything that’s happened to
me. I don’t quite understand it, but there’s a
lot of things I don’t understand in life.
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James McMurtry
Billy Joe Shaver
Steve Earle
Charlie Sexton
Lyle Lovett
Abra Moore
Alejandro Escovedo
Jesse Dayton
Kelly Willis
The Greencards
The Dedringers
Sorta
Guy Forsyth
Carolyn Wonderland
Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash
Bruce Robison
Points
17,688
17,325
17,109
16,843
10,160
10,095
6,094
6,032
4,897
4,658
4,631
4,197
3,882
2,720
2,477
2,154
2,003
1,967
1,680
1,504
1,499
1,481
1,444
1,188
1,174
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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