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OOR DAVID’S PUB IS CELebrating its 39th anniversary as
the oldest continuously running
venue supporting Texas music, with
its signature style a lineup not to be
missed and giveaways that include a
lifetime ticket to concerts at this Dallas venue. This year’s anniversary
month lineup includes some performers who have been making music there and across Texas for just as
long. For instance, March 12 will
have Walt Wilkins on the PDP stage,
and on March 12 it’ll be Brave Combo,
some burlesque, and prizes given
away. David Card, AKA Poor David,
said, “The first 39 years are the hardest!” In anticipation of the next 39
years, David has already announced
that John Sebastian will be playing
on September 23 and that Kathy
Mattea will be here for Poor David
Pub’s 40th anniversary, performing
on March 9, 2017. Tickets will “fly
off the shelf like drones on steroids,”
David said. Tickets are available on
FrontGateTickets.com.
Tanya Tucker will headline the
March 18 Kenneth Threadgill Concert Series at the historic Greenville
Municipal Auditorium in downtown
Greenville. Kimberly Dunn will open.
For more information go to
Greenville-texas.com
KNON’s Blue Lisa has put together the 7th Annual KNON Blues
Fest on March 20 at Lola’s 2736
West 6th Street in Fort Worth. It’s
one day and two stages of great Blues.
Making a special appearance this year
will former hometown Blues man
Randy McAllister coming from North
Dakota. Also appearing Keri Lepai
with Andrew Jr. Boy Jones, Tone
Summers Guitar Army, James Hinkle,
Larry Lampkin, Jason Elmore,
Michael Lee, Guthrie Kennard, KM
Williams, Paul Byrd and more.
KNON’s 3rd Annual Chili Cookoff is
Sunday April 3rd at The Gas Monkey
Bar and Grill with special guest
Tommy Alverson
The sixth Rusty Wier singer/
songwriter challenge will have come
to a conclusion on March 6, with the
final seven artists having met on the
Love & War in Texas stage in Plano.
Making it into the final seven are:
Saille Branch, Ian Dickson, Michael
O’Neal, Brad Purdom, Marina Rocks,
Tin Man Travis, and Stephen
Valenzuela. Sponsored each year by
Love & War in Texas, the contest has
produced such past winners as
Michael Prysock, Guthrie Kennard,
Mark Shelton, Scott Sean White, and
Mick Tinsley.
The White Elephant Saloon’s
Battle of the Bands is in full swing,
now halfway through its first round.
This is held every Wednesday night
at the Fort Worth Stockyards’ venue,
with Brad Hines opening at 7 pm,
and the competing bands beginning
at 8 pm KHYI 95.3 The Range is a cosponsor of this contest, which offers
many career-enhancing prizes to its
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top band, and those prizes include
an automatic entry into KHYI’s yearly
Shiner Rising Star band contest.
New releases
On March 12 Andy Meadows will
celebrate the release of his new Modern Day Crooner CD with a CD Release Party at the Stagecoach Ballroom in Fort Worth. Hear a sample
mix of the new tracks right now at
andymeadows.net. Along with four of
his own songs Andy brings his unique
blend of jazz, country, blues and
swing to some classic tunes like,
“Just One of Those Things,” “You’re
Something Special to Me,” “One for
My Baby and One for the Road,” and
a duet with Kayley Nell on, “House
of Blue Lights.” Recorded at Patrick
McGuire Recording Studios in Arlington Kayley Nell will open at 8:30
pm and the show will also feature a
swing dance competition with a $100
cash prize.
Down in Austin, the psychedelic
folk band Calliope Musicals is releasing its debut CD Time Owes You Nothing, on April 15 at the Central Presbyterian Church, 200 E. 8 th St. This
band mixes vibraphone, tribal drums,
bass, lead guitar and vocals in a 6piece group that also includes bass
guitar. The band has been featured at
the Arkansas festival, Wakarusa, along
with the Backwoods Music Festival
and others. Cold and Bitter Tears: The
Song of Ted Hawkins was released from
Austin-based Eight 30 Records. It’s
the first tribute album to the soulful
Venice Beach street performer. Lots of
familiar and welcome names on the
track listing: “Big Things” sung by
James McMurtry, “Cold and Bitter
Tears” by Kasey Chambers and Bill
Chambers, “One Hundred Miles” by
Tim Easton, “Sorry You’re Sick” by
Mary Gauthier, “Strange Conversation” by Jon Dee Graham, “Happy
Hour” by Sunny Sweeney, “I Got
What I Wanted” by Randy Weeks,
“Baby” by Tina-Marie Hawkins
Fowler with Elizabeth Hawkins, “I
Gave Up All I Had” by Gurf Morlix,
“Bad Dog” by Danny Barnes, “Bring It
on Home Daddy” by The Damnations, “My Last Goodbye” by Ramsay
Midwood, “Who Got My Natural
Comb” by Shinyribs, and more
Dave Insley is releasing his latest
CD, Just the Way I Am, on his own
DIR Records. The release is scheduled for April 23 at the White Horse
in Austin. Special guests on this new
CD are Kelly Willis, Elizabeth
McQueen, Dale Watson, Redd
Volkaert and Rick Shea.
Also, Lukas Nelson is delivering
his third album, Something Real on
March 11, on the Royal Potato Family label. It’s a full-band (Promise of
the Real) project, who describe their
style as “cowboy hippie surf rock.”
On March 11, Lukas Nelson &
Promise of the Real will deliver their
heavily-anticipated
third
album, Something Real, via Royal Po-
tato
Family.
(Something
Real documents the trail blazed by
this hard-driving ensemble in its recent past. Most of all, it captures them
in all their current glory as songwriters,
performers and progenitors of the
style they characterize as “cowboy
hippie surf rock.” The band consists
of Lukas Nelson, his brother Micah
Nelson (both sons of iconic Willie
Nelson), Corey McCormick, Tato
Melgar, and Anthony LoGerfo. There’s
a special guest vocal on the track titled
“San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in your Hair.)” Promoting this CD,
Lukas Nelson will be traveling extensively throughout Europe, the United
Kingdom, and the United States.
The Trishas — (Jamie Lin Wilson, Liz Foster, Kelley Mickwee, and
Savannah Welch) are touring again,
hitting five of the top venues across
Texas. Four of the five stops on The
Spring Fling Tour will be full-band
shows featuring their inimitable harmonies. The Trishas’ Metroplex stop
will be on March 10 at the Kessler in
Dallas/Oak Cliff.
Jamie Lin Wilson is one of many
who has recorded a CD honoring the
late Kent Finlay. This CD, along with
its companion biographical book,
“Kent Finlay, Dreamer,” written by
Brian T. Atkinson and Jenni Finlay,
was released March 2. Finlay, owner
since 1974 of the Cheatham Street
Warehouse and is credited with giving more-than-token support to musicians including George Strait,
Stevie Ray Vaughan, Randy Rogers.
Rogers is one of those who gives
testimonial to Finlay in the book,
with other accounts provided by Todd
Snider, James McMurtry, Strait, and
Eric Johnson. The CD has performances by McMurtry, Wilson, Jon
Dee Graham, Sunny Sweeney, and
others who called him friend
In Memoriam
Geoffrey Dunbar LOST HIS battle
with cancer on February 12 at his
home in Colorado Springs Colorado.
Geoffrey (Geoff) was not only my
brother-in-law, but a very good friend
for over 40 years. He was involved
with many things….Geoff started
KAFM 92.5 (Dallas, Texas first progressive country radio station). He
was Waylon Jennings Road Manager during the Outlaw Tour. In
addition, Marble Records; Farm Aide
- Tyson Foods Heartland Cafr ; GM
for Hoffbrau Steakhouse; owner of
San Angelo Grill (Dallas, Texas) and
numerous concert promotions. Most
of all Geoff will be remembered as
the pioneering force behind KTCK
AM (THE TICKET 24/7 sports radio). A little known fact about Geoff:
he created “Super Gator”, the mascot
for the University of Florida in the
early 1970’s. He would lead the football team onto the home field dressed
in his costume of Orange Helmet,
Cape and Mask.
—STEVE BROOKS