Fighting chance
Is the new, radio-friendly album by Old
97's a lightweight or a heavy hitter?
04/29/99
By Thor Christensen / The Dallas Morning
News
Here's the review that ran with the article from the Dallas Morning News
Fight Songs' takes a different
track
04/29/99
Fight Songs is the sound of the Old 97's
learning
I read in the Dallas paper yesterday that Dwight's version of "Crazy Little
Thing Called Love" (from that Gap commercial) will appear on his new best of
collection.
Jerald
At 04:14 PM 4/15/99 -0500, Joe wrote:
"HEB" is a chain of stores here in South Texas. Means "H.E.Butts" and
they have soulful stuff because a lot of their customers are cedar
choppers and Hispanics. They also have the greatest food store in the
world, Austin's Central Market.
BTW the new
from yesterday's Dallas Morning News, full story can be found at
http://www.dallasnews.com/arts-nf/music1.htm
By Thor Christensen / The Dallas Morning
News
AUSTIN - He's the flame-keeper of American
Subject: Waterloo Top 50/Texas Top 10 - 4.3.99
1. Stevie Ray Vaughan: Real Deal... TX 176
2. Toni Price TX 147
3. Kelly Willis TX 131
4. Steve Earle Del McCoury Band TX 101
5. Beth Orton 91
6. Van Morrison 91
7. Damnations TX TX 78
8. Stevie Ray Vaughan: Couldn't Stand...TX 70
I want one of those damn 7" Meat Purv records with all the Madonna songs.
Where can I get one other than at one of your sinful shows at the Hole?
Jerald
Subject: Waterloo Top 50/ Texas Top 10 - 3.27.99
1. Stevie Ray Vaughan: Real Deal TX 220
2. Kelly Willis TX 166
3. Toni Price TX 116
4. Damnations TX TX 100
5. Lucinda Williams: Car Wheels... TX 97
6. Van Morrison 78
7. Beth Orton CIMS 75
8. Stevie Ray : Texas Flood TX 75
Subject: waterloo Top 50/Texas Top 10 - 3.20.99
1. Kelly Willis TX 230
2. Toni Price TX 150
3. Guy Forsyth TX 146
4. Beth Orton CIMS/KGSR 133
5. Damnations TX TX 118
6. Van Morrison 105
7. Lucinda Williams: Car wheels...TX 102
8. Wilco101
9. Gourds TX101
10. Joe Henry
I meant to post this article when it ran back in January in the Dallas
Morning News. I found it again when looking for an article in today's paper
that says Maria Holly is not only suing MCA but also two of the Crickets as
well. I couldn't find it but thought I would post this anyway. Can any
At 02:38 PM 3/25/99 -0500, you wrote:
Jerald Corder forwarded:
By Thor Christensen / Pop Music Critic of The Dallas Morning News
Wow, funny to see his name pop up. He was the music critic for
the Cincinnati Enquirer for, literally, about two weeks. Just sort of
vanished. I never did hear
I just received a message from Cherilyn that the BBQ is on for today. Starts
at 1pm or so. I just checked the Doppler radar and it looks like the heavy
storm is moving Northeast and might just miss Austin. I have seen quite a
few P2ers already: Bob Ostwald and Kerry, Bill Silvers and Jamie
At 06:07 PM 3/15/99 -0800, you wrote:
A couple of places (not sure if they are still around, though)
Tiny's Boot Shop--East First just east of I35
Cadillac Jack's--North Lamar
It's been gone awhile and Jimmy died a couple of years ago. Not sure what
happened to all those boots.
Allen's
At 04:25 PM 3/10/99 -0600, you wrote:
Stuart asks: Who is Damon Bramblett?
He's an Austin based singer/songwriter. Good friends with Kelly and Bruce.
He's supposedly got a record in the can that was supposed to come out on
Watermelon (ha!). I've seen him play a couple of times and he's pretty
Here are some more free daytime events for you to work in to your busy
schedules. Could one of the Weiss bros email the times for the bands for
the MoM party, specifically when is Cisco going to play. Don't want to miss
that.
All subject to change, check ads in the Chronicle for latest info.
There are two benefits as I understand it. I am still catching up with email
so someone may have already answered this. Jerald
At 03:50 AM 3/10/99 -0500, you wrote:
..., who else will be playing at
that Saturday night Donald Lindley benefit at the Texas Union Ballroom.
You mentioned Jimmy Dale
At 11:35 AM 3/1/99 PST, you wrote:
I'd be interested in knowing what she's up to now, and if anyone has
a source for her hard-to-find previous album.
She moved to LA at some point although she may be back in Austin. I think
she will be here for SXSW so maybe we will find out more about what is
I started to post this article from the Dallas Observer but it is really
long. If someone really wants to see it I will post it to the list. I
haven't read it all but I have heard several folks are pretty steamed.
http://www.dallasobserver.com/1999/current/music1.html
Jerald
NP: Mike Ness 4
from Tower's epulse, P2 once again ahead of the curve.
6. EMOTICON OF THE WEEK:
Emoticons are the often annoying vernacular of typographic symbols used to
lend flavor to email. For the most part we all stopped speaking of them,
let alone using them, at least a year ago -- things like :-)
In a message dated 2/14/99 10:51:20 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It's obvious that you haven't paid attention to what I have been saying on
why
I won't attend these festivals any longer, and why the people whom originally
started the SXSW are no longer involved in it.
I won't defend SXSW
On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, JP Riedie wrote:
So does Matt Cook exist? Or is he a publicist's creation? Every time I
see the Gourds at the Electric Lounge I ask soundguy Rche if he's seen
Matt Cook. he always says yes, but he thinks Matt left for a bit or he
went into the crowd.
I want to
1. Lucinda Williams: Car wheels...TX 79
2. Ani Difranco 66
3. Dave Matthews 59
4. Baz Luhrman 57
5. Willie Nelson TX 54
6. Susan Tedeschi 54
7. Billy Bragg Wilco 53
8. Lyle Lovett TX 47
9. Lauryn Hill 47
10. Beck43
11. Robert Earl Keen TX 40
12. Everlast36
13.
At 10:49 AM 1/29/99 -0600, you wrote:
Waterloo is stocking a Kevin Russell solo record. Has anyone heard it
yet (Matt Cook?). Any reviews?
I saw that the other day and I don't think it is the Kevin Russell of the
Gourds. Looked kind of like a Jack Ingram clone. But I haven't heard it yet.
from this week's Austin Chronicle
JIMMY DAY, 1934-1999
If the death of Austin blues guitarist T.D. Bell
on January 9 was a hard blow for the Central
Texas music scene, the loss of steel guitar
player Jimmy Day must be measured in even
larger terms -- its impact
from this week's EPulse, for whoever was listening to records at 17 to pick
up the solos. Reminded of Bill Hick's bit on playing records backwards to
pick up Satanic messages: "If you're playing records backwards, you are Satan!"
8. SOFTWARE OF THE WEEK:
Ostensibly, a new piece of software
At 03:54 PM 1/22/99 +, you wrote:
Lianne:
Yes -- drinking and dancing don't mix very well.
Ummm, except in Texas, where drinking and dancing are both
obligatory, preferably at the same timeg. Thank god for Texas.
Speaking from experience, we pretty much had to drink and dance at the
I saw Crowded House live on MTV some years ago and they did a song that I
didn't recognize. The only lyric I can remember is somthing about "shedding
skin". Since it looks like we have some Finn experts here I thought I would
float it out.
Also anyone know a Louvin Brothers song with the line
also from this week's Chronicle:
As you learned here last week, long-beleaguered local label Watermelon Records
filed for Chapter 11 on December 31, 1998, enabling the company to have
legal
protection from creditors during a period of financial restructuring.
So what's up next
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