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Island Moon
Three Chords and the Truth By Ronnie Narmour ronnienarmour@gmail.com
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!
HAPPY THANKSGIVING everybody!!! I’ve much to be thankful for… I’m still sucking air after 60 years of a life style that could only be described as challenging. Honestly, every day I wake up with out a yellow chalk line around my body is a good day. I am seriously thankful for my modest life on a lovely little island in the Gulf of Mexico where I have many, many dear friends and the best job a man could ever dream of. I want for nothing and am at peace with the world. I am truly blessed.
Time to chow down…
Tracey Shores and her big limo. mention that I’m the reining Turkey Bowling Champion of the world? You may have seen my picture on a Wheaties Box. Every year the Back Porch ends their season by selling the remainder of their beer inventory for dirt cheap prices and flinging frozen turkeys at bowling pins. It somehow makes sense. They will re-open in late February and start the whole process over. And speaking of the Back Porch, the manager over there, Tracey Shores, bought a very cool limousine and has some great holiday rates going. Her phone number is on the Island Limo ad in the Live Music Tonight box, so keep her in mind through the holidays when it’s time to party and no one wants to be the designated driver. It’s a very classy way to roll.
(Stephenville, TX) in his solo acoustic mode. On Friday he will share the bill with Deryl Dodd and on Saturday with Austin songbird Ashley Monical (Austin, TX). Larry Joe is an island Ashley Monical fave and plays here at least once a month… he will open for Larry needs no introduction Joe Taylor on in these parts. Dodd, Saturday. a native Texan who moved to Nashville, has toured with Faith Hill and Tim McGraw and released five studio albums and charted nine singles on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart. Monical has really got some pipes, which took her to Hollywood in the 10th season of American Idol. Some compare her to the likes of Bonnie Raitt, Norah Jones, Jewel & Sheryl Crow with a hint of Janis’ raspy quality. She hooked up with Larry Joe through his annual music festival in Stephenville where she won the new talent competition.
For Thanksgiving dinner I plan to swing by the Tarpon Ice House for a great pot luck dinner with the people I love enough to call family. The Free Beer Band will crank it up around 7:00 and it just doesn’t get any better. Speaking of the Free Beer Band, I was on hand last week to actually see Steve Goldstein’s wife, Andrea, show off her newly acquired fiddle skills. It’s never too late! She did a great job.
Shorty’s is the coolest…
Because the weather has been cold and rainy lately, the folks over at Shorty’s have had to put the music inside the bar and I really dig it. Billy Snipes played there on Friday and Stevie Start on Saturday and it was the coolest. They kept the volume down and it couldn’t have been more Billy Snipes played comfortable. Jul and Shorty’s last Friday the Chrome Wheels night. (Austin, TX) will be there this weekend but the weather is supposed to be nice and they’ll more than likely play out on the porch. Shorty’s is my new favorite bar. The scene over there is just great. They are doing their shows from 7-11 now and I’m told they plan to go even earlier as the Winter Texans arrive. Seriously, you need to check out Shorty’s if you haven’t already. It’s the perfect island bar steeped in local history.
DO NOT MISS LIST Larry Joe Taylor, Deryl Dodd, Ashely Monical… Also this weekend, the Third Coast Theater will host two nights of Larry Joe Taylor
The Back Porch was closed last weekend because of the lousy weather and had to cancel their bands but will be back in action this weekend. They will have Melissa Brooke on Friday and Cruise Control on Saturday and on Sunday, the Porch will finally come around to their season ending finale, the world famous TURKEY BOWLING competition. Did I
The Sunday Night Pickers Circle at the Tarpon Ice House.
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Wylie Hubbard (Wimberley, TX) will play the Third Coast Theater on December 7th. Brian Keane will open the show. Originally from Oak Cliff, Texas, Hubbard is probably best known for writing the Jerry Jeff Walker hit, Up Against the Wall Redneck Mothers, but don’t hold that against him. He has released 16 recordings since 1971 and is considered an elder statesman of the Texas Music scene. I consider Hubbard to be a poetic genius and songwriter with few peers. I once drove non-stop from San Antonio to Gainesville, Florida with only one CD in the truck (Delirium Tremelos) and listened to it over and over for 16 hours straight. I still pull it out and listen to it frequently. His latest effort, Grifter’s Hymnal is truly a work of art. Hubbard plays a folky, bluesy, sliding finger picking style with lyrics so colorful, they could put your eye out. He’s both hilarious and bone chilling. If you could imagine Lightning Hopkins meets Lenny Bruce at Steve Earle’s house… that would be Ray Wylie Hubbard. He’s as real as it gets. I think he hung the moon and wouldn’t miss this show for love or money.
And that’s the truth!
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THANKSGIVING, November 28 Russell Edge @ Back Porch Hope & Hospitality, Buddy Trevino, Steven Rushlow, Independent Thieves @ House of Rock Free Beer Band @ Tarpon Ice House
Back Porch draws to a close…
at the 2009 Classic Rock Roll of Honor Awards in England, No. 48 in Guitar World’s 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time, and Billboard’s No. 1 Blues Artist of 2010.
Joe Bonamassa…
Todd, Melissa, Eddie and Uel… The Free Beer Band has a new fiddle player. Giggity’s also has a big lineup planned Andrea Goldstein, Steve Goldstein, Crawford Brow, this weekend. Todd Dorn and the Daddy Dale West and Arnold Govella.
Sea Drifters (San Antonio, TX) will be there on Friday and the Melissa Brooke Band will be there on Saturday. I’ve been seeing Melissa around town lately, touting a new fiddle player who is actually pretty bad ass. His name is Eddie Dickenson and he’s just moved to Texas from Virginia. I don’t know much about him, but from what I’ve seen, he can pretty much shred that fiddle. We did a Pickers Circle at the Ice House last Sunday and Melissa and Eddie showed up and stole the show… no easy task with the line- Melissa Brooke and up Uel Jackson put Eddie Dickinson at the together that day. If Tarpon Ice House last you know where to Sunday. look even in this off season, there’s still great music around.
November 27, 2013
Friday, November 29 Todd Dorn & the Sea Drifters @ Giggity’s Jul & The Chrome Wheels @ Shorty’s Melissa Brooke @ Basck Porch Joe Bonamassa @ American Bank Center Larry Joe Taylor & Deryl Dodd @ Third Coast Theater Leopold & His Fiction, The Most, Golden Meanies @ House of Rock Scarecrow People @ Executive Surf Club Fabian Rivera @ Mikel May’s Ray T & the City Crew @ Flats Fabian Rivera @ Scuttlebutt’s Green Party @ Dr. Rockits Second Saturday SingAlong Piano Show @ Brewster Street Saturday, November 30 Melissa Brooke Band @ Giggity’s Jul & The Chrome Wheels @ Shorty’s Cruise Control @ Back Porch Larry Joe Taylor, Ashley Monical @ Third Coast Theater Ruben Limas (2-6), Now & Zen @ Mikel May’s Ruben V @ Dr. Rockits JR Castillo, Rankin Twins @ Brewster Street Sun Salutation @ Executive Surf Club Sunday, December 1 Turkey Bowling (3:00 PM) @ Back Porch Antone & the All Stars @ Giggity’s Tuesday, December 3 Open Mic @ House of Rock Wednesday, December 4 Juicy J @ Brewster Street Wolfjaw @ Flats Lounge Run Down Legend @ House of Rock
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