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Three Chords and the Truth By Ronnie Narmour ronnienarmour@gmail.com
Clay McClinton severely injured…
for harmonizing and maintains a super high energy (as well as goofy) stage presence. Their routines were tight and well rehearsed despite the fact that they call their show “Unrehearsed and Unashamed”. They brought people up from the audience who had obviously sang with them before and made very polished additions to the act… one of which was Shirlene Burroughs, the wife of our illustrious police chief, Scott Burroughs. It was like karaoke with real musicians. I thought the whole ordeal was delightful. I laughed and sang along and had a grand old time. I highly recommend this show to everyone… even music snobs like me and I owe Gale Swenson an apology. It was a blast!
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Clay and Delbert McClinton Say a little prayer for our friend Clay McClinton (son of Delbert McClinton) who was in a bad car wreck last Friday and suffered head injuries. He has severe swelling of the brain and is currently under heavy sedation in an induced coma in Brackenridge Hospital in Austin. Clay usually plays the Back Porch every season and is one of the nicest guys on the music circuit today. We’re pulling for you Clay. God bless!
Unrehearsed and Unashamed…
Ken Yarbrough and Mike Jones are Unrehearsed and Unashame every Friday at the Wild Horse Saloon in Port A
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give Bo my PICK OF THE WEEK… but MR. MERLE HAGGARD is in town and brother, that’s big news and I got tickets! He will play Selena Auditorium this Sunday, March 30th. Did I mention that he has had 38 NUMBER ONE HITS and is in the Country Music Hall of Fame. I thinks his cover of the Lefty Frizzell song, That’s the Way Love Goes, is one of the most beautiful songs I’ve ever heard. I know I’m gushing here but it’s MERLE HAGGARD we’re talking about. This guy hung the moon!
The always attitudinal Mandy Rowden (Austin, TX) and her voice of reason, Billy Able, will return to Shorty’s on Friday, April 4th. That’s a guaranteed good time. On Saturday the 5th, Jake Ward and the Coast Riders will play Giggity’s… that’s the band that won the “battle of the bands” deal Coming this weekend… at Brewster last fall and Also this weekend another great Lela Caldwell will play got to open up Ziegfest. Haven’t heard them but my country singer, Todd Dorn (San Giggity’s on April 2nd. pal, Owen Fitzsimmons of Antonio, TX), will play Giggity’s with the Independent Thieves his band, The Sea Drifters, this Friday plays some fiddle with them night. Dorn plays the island about once a month and has become one the local favorites. Get and says they’re hot. But if you’re in town on the
I caught some great shows this weekend at Shorty’s with my favorite string band, Independent Thieves (Corpus ready to do some serious boot Christi, TX), at the Back scootin’. Elsewhere on Friday, Porch with the vibrant Matt the 50’s rockers Riptide will Hole and the Hot Rod Gang tear up the Back Porch, the (Corpus Christi, TX) and at ten piece party band Cruise Giggity’s with the forever Control will play the South jumping Mike Milligan and Texas Ice House, Five Card the Altar Boys (Austin, TX). Draw will play Brewster Also, on Monday Giggity’s Street and Scarecrow People had another installment of will play the Executive Surf their weekly Open Jam which Club. On Saturday the 29th, the was guest-hosted by Simone 60’s psychedelic band with ties Michelle and Freddy G who to this area, Bubble Puppy, were subbing for Stevie Start will play a show at the Surf this week. I gotta say, this jam Club with Bushbullit. Bubble is turning out to be something Puppy had the big hit, Hot special and really seems to be Smoke and Sassafras, back catching on. There was a big Billy Abel and Mandy Rowden will play in 1969. The late Roy Cox turnout of musicians, one of Shorty’s on April 4th. was bassist for the band and which was Kelly Mickwee lived in Port A. The original of the great girl band, The th lead singer, Rod Prince, now 5 and want a show that’s guaranteed sizzling, Trishas (Austin, TX). She was the Dirty River Boys will be playing a show at definitely the highlight of the Kelly Mickwee of the Trishas keeps the Puppy’s fire burning. Brewster with Pear Ratz. Those boys put the go evening. Kelly was in town to played the Monday Open Also on Saturday, blues great in get gone. Elsewhere on the 5th, Uel Jackson J.T. Coldfire (Austin, TX) will see her old pal, Lighthouse Jam at Giggity’s will be at Shorty’s, Melissa Brooke make his first Rick Richenbach, before will be at Giggity’s and Bushbullit a p p e a r a n c e he departs for Nicaragua in will be at Stingrays. May. Kelly treated us to several songs, one of of the season at Giggity’s, Reverend’s Daughter will which she wrote at the lighthouse a while back. On the near horizon… She also did a stirring rendition of the Hank play the Porch, Ruben Limas And briefly, watch for these Williams song, I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry. will be at Shorty’s and another upcoming shows: SandFest 2014, great blues artist, Ruben V The place was packed with a whole sign up Shelley King, Gary P. Nunn, sheet full of jammers including world renown (San Antonio, TX) will play Shorty’s 68th Birthday, Patrice Dr. Rockits. On Wednesday, sand sculptor, the Amazing Walter (South nd Pike, Larry Joe Taylor, Passing Padre Island, TX) and the always adorable April 2 , Lela Caldwell will Strangers, Mike Milligan and play her “solo cover thang” Tiffany Duckworth who announced that she the Altar Boys, Vallejo, Corpus at Giggity’s. Lela tells us will be resurrecting her weekly show, Tiffany Christi Songwriters, The Rankin st that the “monkey is dead”… Tuesday, at Giggity’s starting on April 1 . The Twins and last but certainly not referring to her Purple Tiffany Tuesday show was a hugely successful least, the return of the Sandy Monkey Laser act that she weekly event at the now defunct Tarpon Ice Bottom Boys. Stay safe out there. pursued last summer. She House where many “guest” performers were now says the new monkey is invited into the lair each week. ♫ ♪ And that’s the truth. ♪ ♫ called Bad Crush. Sounds Patrice Pike will play the Gaff on April 12. DO NOT MISS LIST good to me.
A lady at my church, Gale Swenson, has been after me for months to go see the singalong show at the Wild Horse Saloon on Friday nights. I have to admit, I’ve dragged my heels on that one thinking, “yeah, right.” But my buddy, Preecher Williams, grabbed me up last Friday and said, “Come on. You’re coming with me.” We walked into the Wild Horse to a very lively and unexpected scene. There were three guys on stage, Ken Yarbrough on piano, Bo Porter and Merle Haggard Mike Jones and Lyle Mathews on guitars. The audience was glued to their We have a ton of great shows every gesture. I used to run a coming but first and foremost, the club on the Riverwalk in San great honky tonker, Bo Porter, Antonio that was downstairs will return to Port A for a one from a dueling piano bar night performance at Shorty’s (Howl at the Moon) and can this Friday. Porter is a well know attest, those sing-along joints singer-songwriter from the Texas can get mighty rowdy and Hill Country by way of all corners can be a ton of fun. What of the US including Alaska. He impressed me most was these hosts the weekly pickers circle guys are really talented. Ken in Luckenbach and is a regular Yarbrough absolutely knows performer at the storied Gruene his way around the stage and Hall and Broken Spoke (Austin, can hold his own on the piano TX). Bo has an easy going and mic with anyone. I had a baritone voice and a tow sack feeling he was good but had full of heartfelt original songs no idea he was that good. that win you over on the first And Mike Jones is no slouch Bo Porter will play Shorty’s take. If Merle Haggard wasn’t himself. He’s got a great voice in town this weekend, I’d easily this Friday.
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