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Three Chords and the Truth
October 22, 2015
Island Moon
By Ronnie Narmour ronnienarmour@gmail.com What a busy, crazy, fun weekend. It started on Friday with Buddy Trevino at Shorty’s. Buddy is an up and comer in the Corpus songwriter’s circle. He brought a couple
just as Matt Hole and the Hot Rod Gang had worked the massive crowd into a bonified frenzy. Everyone on that little porch had their hair on fire and that’s no exaggeration. Matt Hole is one fired up entertainer. He was born to rock. And that drummer of his, James Griffis, is hell bent for leather. That is one fired up dude. He’s great. And their upright bass player, Micky Allen, ain’t no slouch. By the end of the night, he was riding his bass like a surf board. Fair warning, they will be at Giggity’s again this Saturday. Trust me, you don’t want to miss that. By Sunday I was pooped, but my buddy Preecher Williams wanted to go see his pal Dave Ward play mandolin with the South Texas Grass Roots Band at Island Italian down on Padre. I’d never been there so I sucked it up for one more show. It was a really pleasant setting full of families dining and the band playing at a nice quiet volume. Preecher’s buddy Dave wasn’t with them that night but the other four fellows did a fine job. By the way, the food was great. I’ll definitely go back there.
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Buddy Trevino, Cody Strong and J.M.Muniz played Shorty’s last Friday
Harvest Moon Regatta…
Radney Foster played at Cinnamon Shore last Saturday. Photo by Tim Burdick stick around. On Saturday the day started early with Stevie Start getting Shorty’s 32nd Annual Pig Party started at noon. The Rankins Dale and Jan and I ran over to the park to see the wooden boat display. Jan found her coffin boat and had to try it out. Then it was back to Shorty’s where Ruben Limas and the Rolling J’s contributed a rousing set which took us to sundown. There was plenty of smoked pig to eat
This coming weekend is another biggern. The Harvest Moon Regatta will take out from Pleasure Pier in Galveston at 2:00 PM today, Thursday the 22nd. The faster boats should start showing up in Port A as early as Friday morning. The race is officially over at 1:00 PM Saturday and the rum party, bar-b-que banquet and awards ceremony will start around 5:00 PM. at the City Marina Pavilion in Roberts Point Park. And then on Sunday morning (7:30-9:30 AM) they throw a Bloody Rum send off back to Galveston. You will probably see a lot of sailors walking around Port A this weekend. There are as many as 250 competing yachts descending on City Marina so stop and give them a ride in your golf cart. I must mention that as of this mid-week writing, there’s a chance that this event could be cancelled due to high seas.
9th Annual Port A Art About… Also on Saturday will be the 9th Annual PA Art About. From 2:00- 7:00 PM 20 Port A galleries, studios and designs shops will be
Stevie Start got the show rolling at this year’s Pig Party of his pals along in the way of J.M. Muniz on upright bass and Cody Strong on drums. The beat was lively and the songs refreshing. These young men showed some chops well beyond their years. Clifford Antone once told me years ago to always reach out to the young players coming up and I take that as good advice. J.M. is a natural. He plays bass, drums and guitar and writes a darn good song, too. My hat’s off to these talented young men. I hope they
Jan Rankin tries out her new boat coffin
Ruben and the Rolling J’s performed at the Pig Party last Saturday and the libations were flowing. I ducked out for a while and headed out to Cinnamon Shore to catch most of Radney Foster’s first set. Foster has the smooth as silk country ballad down to a science. It’s easy to see why he’s a star. I gotta say, those folks at Cinnamon Shore had it going on too. Their grand lawn had activity going on everywhere you looked. They had stuff for the kids to play on and a big screen TV the size of a drive-in movie with football on. It was totally professional. I made it back over to Shorty’s
Matt Hole and the Hot Rod Gang ripped it up at the Pig Party last Saturday. Photo by Jeff Craft
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Upcoming music… And as for music this weekend, today, Thursday the 22nd, Aaron Watson and Jason Cassidy will play another installment of Brewster Street’s “Texas Music Series” and Clarissa Serna will play Rockit’s. On Friday Americana star, Pat Green, will play Brewster Street, trop rocker Jerry Diaz and Hanna’s Reef (Port Arthur, TX) will play the Back Porch and blues jumper Mike Milligan and Texiana Blues (Austin, TX) will undoubtedly blow the roof off of Giggity’s. On Saturday psychobilly rocker Matt Hole and the Hot Rod Gang pick up pieces from Milligan’s show at Giggity’s the night before and destroy it again. And over at the Back Porch on Saturday, Grammy nominee Randy McAllister will play the blues, the blues and nothing but the blues. The following weekend is HALLOWEEN so get ready to blow it out with the likes of Joe King Carrasco, The Cosmic Dust Devils, Stoney LaRue, Micky and the Motorcars, Myndfield, Tessy Lou Williams, Lyrical Binge, Joe Mack, Billy Snipes, Ty Dietz and the Dia de Muerto Street Fair at the House of Rock. That ought to keep you busy for a while. Be safe out there.
♫ ♪ And, that’s the truth ♪ ♫
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