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Friday, July 1st True Blue ASU: ASU Student Government Association is launching a campaign to have San Angelo community members wear ASU blue on Fridays and during ASU events. Red, White, and Tuna! 8pm at the Angelo Civic Theatre Tickets are $16 Linedrives and Lipstick - The untold Story of Women's Baseball at Fort Concho Quartermaster Galleries featuring exhibit which includes period photos and artifacts. The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League brought national attention to the women's game. Linedrives and Lipstick will be open from 10:00am to 4:00 pm, Tuesday through Saturday and 1:30 pm to 4:30 pm on Sundays from June 16th through August 11. FMI: 325-481-2646 or www.fortconcho.com Search for the Edge of the Solar System @ the ASU Planetarium, 7pm - $3 per person. Visitors will learn about scientific research, as they follow the creation of NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft. Audiences will get an in-depth look at the mission, and how IBEX is mapping our Solar System's boundary. Narrated by two inquisitive teenagers, audiences will hear from the developers of the IBEX mission, and get the latest updates on the mission's discoveries.
the sun plays in the life of our solar system. From the nuclear forces churning at the heart of the sun to the mass ejections of solar material in to surrounding space, we will experience the power of the sun and its impact on the planets and ultimately life on Earth. We will trace the life cycle of the sun itself, going back to its beginnings and moving forward in time to its eventual death. Barefoot in the Park, 8pm at the ASU Modular Theatre – A straight as an arrow lawyer and a free spirit move into an apartment together. (comedy)
Saturday, July 2nd
Patriots Parade, 10am downtown, Pops Concert, 12pm – 10pm – bring your flag! FMI 325-655-2345 Patriotic Celebration complete with Fireworks. FMI 325-658-5877 1st Saturday at the Old Chicken Farm Art Center The first Saturday of each month is a special treat at the Art Center. We feature work of special invited artists plus all of the art center artist‟s studios are open for visitors. Located at 2505 Martin Luther King Blvd. FMI call 325-653-4936
Secrets of the Sun @ the ASU Planetarium, 8pm - $3.00 per person. An intimate look at the role Page 4
Red, White, and Tuna! 8pm at the Angelo Civic Theatre Tickets are $16 Concho Valley Farmers Market @ 609 S. Oakes St, 7am – 12pm – Locally grown fresh produce offered for sale. Petroglyph Tour – 10am - Visit the site of a Native American village and see Native American rock art. The tour is less than a 100yard walk. Meet at the South Shore Gate House. Also available to groups of 10 or more with advance reservation. Barefoot in the Park, 8pm at the ASU Modular Theatre – A straight as an arrow lawyer and a free spirit move into an apartment together. (comedy)
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Monday, July 4th 4th of July Freedom Fest, 6:30pm at Foster Field, Carnival games, inflatables, live music, great entertainment and a spectacular fireworks display. The event is FREE.
Lake Nasworthy
Water Color Paintings by John Norman
Locked Out Comedy at Woofers and Tweeters
Tuesday, July 5th Kids World – 2pm-3pm Join Sunset Mall for Kids World every Tuesday at 2 pm during the summer. (June 7th-August 16th). Kids World is a free program geared toward children ages 12 and under. Each hour long event includes a free interactive presentation and crafts.(as long as supplies last) All events take place near the Children's Play Area at Sunset Mall. Kids World is sponsored by the Standard Times and www.sanangelomoms.com Concho Valley Farmers Market @ 609 S. Oakes St, 7am – 12pm – Locally grown fresh produce offered for sale.
Wednesday, July 6th Linedrives and Lipstick - The untold Story of Women's Baseball at Fort Concho Quartermaster Galleries. Exhibit open from 10:00am to 4:00 pm FMI: 325-481-2646 or www.fortconcho.com
munity members wear ASU blue on Gun and Blade Show, 9am – 5pm @ the San Angelo Coliseum Buy Fridays and during ASU events. Sell - Trade - Lots of new and used Concho Valley Farmers Market @ guns, gun acces., holsters, gun 609 S. Oakes St, 7am – 12pm – parts, clips, grips, ammo, reloading Locally grown fresh produce offered equipment, coins, military, knives of all kinds, jewelry, collectibles and for sale. MORE!!! Search for the Edge of the Solar System @ the ASU Planetarium, Linedrives and Lipstick - The untold Story of Women's Baseball at 7pm - $3 per person. Fort Concho Quartermaster GallerSecrets of the Sun @ the ASU ies. Exhibit open from 10:00am to Planetarium, 8pm - $3.00 per per- 4:00 pm FMI: 325-481-2646 or www.fortconcho.com son. Linedrives and Lipstick - The untold Story of Women's Baseball at Fort Concho Quartermaster Galleries. Exhibit open from 10:00am to 4:00 pm FMI: 325-481-2646 or www.fortconcho.com
Linedrives and Lipstick - The untold Story of Women's Baseball at Fort Concho Quartermaster Galleries. Exhibit open from 1:30pm to 4:30 pm FMI: 325-481-2646 or www.fortconcho.com Gun and Blade Show, 9am – 5pm @ the San Angelo Coliseum Buy Sell - Trade - Lots of new and used guns, gun acces., holsters, gun parts, clips, grips, ammo, reloading equipment, coins, military, knives of all kinds, jewelry, collectibles and MORE!!!
Sunday, July 10th
Tuesday, July 12th
Lake Nasworthy Triathlon, Registration begins at 6:15am, First wave will start at 7:30am FMI 325-9427646
Concho Valley Farmers Market @ 609 S. Oakes St, 7am – 12pm – Locally grown fresh produce offered for sale.
Saturday, July 9th
Volunteer Firefighter Appreciation and Benefit Ranch Rodeo 10am – 8pm at the Spur Arena, BBQ Lunch and Auction: All Proceed goes towards Area Volunteer Stories and Songs for Preschool- Firefighters. ers: Every Wednesday and Thursday at 10 and 10:30 A.M. at the Concho Valley Farmers Market @ Tom Green Main Library. 113 W. 609 S. Oakes St, 7am – 12pm – Locally grown fresh produce offered Beauregard for sale.
Thursday, July 7th
Adult Birding Adventure, 9am @ Concho Valley Farmers Market @ the San Angelo State Park/South 609 S. Oakes St, 7am – 12pm – Gate – Bring your binoculars and Locally grown fresh produce offered camera. FMI Bob 325-944-1839 for sale. Old Town Second Saturdays, Linedrives and Lipstick - The un- Every Second Saturday in historic told Story of Women's Baseball at district on the 500 block of Orient Fort Concho Quartermaster Galler- Street (Old Town) artist designers, ies. Exhibit open from 10:00am to craft vendors and more will be 4:00 pm FMI: 325-481-2646 or showcasing and selling their goods. This outdoor boutique style www.fortconcho.com marketplace offers shoppers a variArt Thursday, 2pm-6pm @ the ety of original and unique handMuseum of Fine Arts – In the Edu- made items, home-baked goods, cation Studio Art activities for chil- fresh flowers, etc. Participating will be non-profit agencies, clubs, dren and their families. FREE groups and organizations. Musith cians and food vendors will also be Friday, July 8 on site. Visit Old Town on Orient True Blue ASU: ASU Student Gov- Street behind the San Angelo Muernment Association is launching a seum of Fine Arts. FMI: Season campaign to have San Angelo com- Neucere 325-658-1714 www.sanangelospotlight.com
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ernment Association is launching a campaign to have San Angelo community members wear ASU blue on Fridays and during ASU events.
is a free program geared toward children ages 12 and under. Each hour long event includes a free interactive presentation and crafts. (As long as supplies last) All events take place near the Children's Play Area at Sunset Mall. Kids World is sponsored by the San Angelo Standard Times and www.sanangelomoms.com
Linedrives and Lipstick - The untold Story of Women's Baseball at Fort Concho Quartermaster Galleries. Exhibit open from 10:00am to 4:00 pm FMI: 325-481-2646 or Linedrives and Lipstick - The unwww.fortconcho.com told Story of Women's Baseball at Search for the Edge of the Solar Fort Concho Quartermaster GallerSystem @ the ASU Planetarium, ies. Exhibit open from 10:00am to 4:00 pm FMI: 325-481-2646 or 7pm - $3 per person. www.fortconcho.com Secrets of the Sun @ the ASU Planetarium, 8pm - $3.00 per per- Wednesday, July 20th son. Stories and Songs for Preschoolers: Every Wednesday and Thursday at 10 and 10:30 A.M. at the Concho Valley Farmers Market Tom Green Main Library. 113 W. @ 609 S. Oakes St, 7am – 12pm – Beauregard Locally grown fresh produce offered for sale. Linedrives and Lipstick - The untold Story of Women's Baseball at Linedrives and Lipstick - The un- Fort Concho Quartermaster Gallertold Story of Women's Baseball at ies. Exhibit open from 10:00am to Fort Concho Quartermaster Galler- 4:00 pm FMI: 325-481-2646 or ies. Exhibit open from 10:00am to www.fortconcho.com 4:00 pm FMI: 325-481-2646 or www.fortconcho.com Thursday, July 21st
Saturday, July 16th
Sunday, July 17th Kids World – 2pm-3pm Join Sunset Mall for Kids World every Tuesday at 2 pm during the summer. (June 7th-August 16th). Kids World is a free program geared toward children ages 12 and under. Each hour long event includes a free interactive presentation and crafts. (As long as supplies last) All events take place near the Children's Play Area at Sunset Mall. Kids World is sponsored by the San Angelo Standard Times and www.sanangelomoms.com
4:00 pm FMI: 325-481-2646 or www.fortconcho.com
Thursday, July 14th Concho Valley Farmers Market @ 609 S. Oakes St, 7am – 12pm – Locally grown fresh produce offered for sale.
Linedrives and Lipstick - The untold Story of Women's Baseball at Fort Concho Quartermaster Galleries. Exhibit open from 10:00am to 4:00 pm FMI: 325-481-2646 or Linedrives and Lipstick - The un- www.fortconcho.com told Story of Women's Baseball at Fort Concho Quartermaster Galler- Art Thursday, 2pm-6pm @ the ies. Exhibit open from 10:00am to Museum of Fine Arts – In the Edu4:00 pm FMI: 325-481-2646 or cation Studio Art activities for chilwww.fortconcho.com dren and their families. FREE
Concho Valley Farmers Market @ 609 S. Oakes St, 7am – 12pm – Linedrives and Lipstick - The un- Locally grown fresh produce oftold Story of Women's Baseball at fered for sale. Fort Concho Quartermaster Galleries. Exhibit open from 1:30pm to Linedrives and Lipstick - The un4:30 pm FMI: 325-481-2646 or told Story of Women's Baseball at www.fortconcho.com Fort Concho Quartermaster Galleries. Exhibit open from 10:00am to 4:00 pm FMI: 325-481-2646 or Tuesday, July 19th www.fortconcho.com Concho Valley Farmers Market @ 609 S. Oakes St, 7am – 12pm – Downtown Artwalk, 5pm-9pm @ Locally grown fresh produce of- the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts and downtown participating fered for sale. galleries and merchants. Free adKids World – 2pm-3pm Join Sun- mission to the Museum including set Mall for Kids World every Tues- refreshments, entertainment, and a day at 2 pm during the summer. make and take art activity for chil(June 7th-August 16th). Kids World dren. FMI 325-653-3333
Wednesday, July 13th
Secret of the Cardboard Rocket, a children‟s show, @ the ASU Stories and Songs for Preschool- Planetarium, 7pm - $3 a person. ers: Every Wednesday and Thursday at 10 and 10:30 A.M. at the Search for the Edge of the Solar Tom Green Main Library. 113 W. System @ the ASU Planetarium, Beauregard 8pm - $3 per person. Linedrives and Lipstick - The un- Friday, July 15th told Story of Women's Baseball at Fort Concho Quartermaster Galler- True Blue ASU: ASU Student Govies. Exhibit open from 10:00am to Page 7
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Thursday, July 21st
Fort Concho will host special pro- ies. Exhibit open from 10:00am to grams, entertainment, living history 4:00 pm FMI: 325-481-2646 or Art Thursday, 2pm-6pm @ the demonstrations and 1800's Base www.fortconcho.com Museum of Fine Arts – In the Edu- Ball. FMI: 325-481-2646 cation Studio Art activities for chilWednesday, July 27th Under The Texas Sky, At the Adult dren and their families. FREE Enrichment Center located at 6146 Stories and Songs for PreschoolSecret of the Cardboard Rocket, Apaloosa Trail with songs by Gram- ers: Every Wednesday and Thursa children‟s show, @ the ASU Plan- my nominated cowboy ballad- day at 10 and 10:30 A.M. at the eer, Don Edwards and art show by Tom Green Main Library. 113 W. etarium, 7pm - $3 a person. Wayne Baize, cowboy artist of Beauregard Search for the Edge of the Solar America member. Event includes System @ the ASU Planetarium, dinner, silent auction and live auc- Linedrives and Lipstick - The untion. Purchase tickets at Southland told Story of Women's Baseball at 8pm - $3 per person. Frame or Adult Enrichment Cen- Fort Concho Quartermaster Gallernd ter. Sponsored by: The Standard ies. Exhibit open from 10:00am to Friday, July 22 Times, Kickin Country KKCN 4:00 pm FMI: 325-481-2646 or True Blue ASU: ASU Student Gov- 103.1, KGKL FM Country 97.5 and www.fortconcho.com ernment Association is launching a the Adult Enrichment Center. Tick$40 Table for 8 Thursday, July 28th campaign to have San Angelo com- ets: $300 FMI: 325-942-9253 All promunity members wear ASU blue on ceeds benefit clients of the Adult Concho Valley Farmers Market @ Fridays and during ASU events. Enrichment Center 609 S. Oakes St, 7am – 12pm – Linedrives and Lipstick - The un- Sunday, July 24th Locally grown fresh produce offered told Story of Women's Baseball at for sale. Fort Concho Quartermaster Galler- Linedrives and Lipstick - The unies. Exhibit open from 10:00am to told Story of Women's Baseball at Linedrives and Lipstick - The un4:00 pm FMI: 325-481-2646 or Fort Concho Quartermaster Galler- told Story of Women's Baseball at ies. Exhibit open from 1:30pm to Fort Concho Quartermaster Gallerwww.fortconcho.com 4:30 pm FMI: 325-481-2646 or ies. Exhibit open from 10:00am to 4:00 pm FMI: 325-481-2646 or Search for the Edge of the Solar www.fortconcho.com System @ the ASU Planetarium, www.fortconcho.com th 7pm - $3 per person. Tuesday, July 26 Art Thursday, 2pm-6pm @ the Secrets of the Sun @ the ASU Concho Valley Farmers Market @ Museum of Fine Arts – In the EduPlanetarium, 8pm - $3.00 per per- 609 S. Oakes St, 7am – 12pm – cation Studio Art activities for chilson. Locally grown fresh produce offered dren and their families. FREE for sale.
Saturday, July 23rd Concho Valley Farmers Market @ 609 S. Oakes St, 7am – 12pm – Locally grown fresh produce offered for sale. Linedrives and Lipstick - The untold Story of Women's Baseball at Fort Concho Quartermaster Galleries. Exhibit open from 10:00am to 4:00 pm FMI: 325-481-2646 or www.fortconcho.com
Friday, July 29th True Blue ASU: ASU Student Government Association is launching a campaign to have San Angelo community members wear ASU blue on Fridays and during ASU events. Linedrives and Lipstick - The untold Story of Women's Baseball at Fort Concho Quartermaster Galleries. Exhibit open from 10:00am to 4:00 pm FMI: 325-481-2646 or www.fortconcho.com
Saturday, July 30th Concho Valley Farmers Market @ 609 S. Oakes St, 7am – 12pm – Locally grown fresh produce offered for sale. Linedrives and Lipstick - The untold Story of Women's Baseball at Fort Concho Quartermaster Galleries. Exhibit open from 10:00am to 4:00 pm FMI: 325-481-2646 or www.fortconcho.com
Sunday, July 31st Linedrives and Lipstick - The untold Story of Women's Baseball at Fort Concho Quartermaster Galleries. Exhibit open from 1:30pm to 4:30 pm FMI: 325-481-2646 or www.fortconcho.com
Kids World – 2pm-3pm Join Sunset Mall for Kids World every Tuesday at 2 pm during the summer. (June 7th-August 16th). Kids World is a free program geared toward children ages 12 and under. Each hour long event includes a free interactive presentation and crafts.(as long as supplies last) All events take place near the Children's Play Area at Sunset Mall. Kids World is sponsored by the Standard Times and www.sanangelomoms.com
National Cowboy Day at Fort Concho, San Angelo and Fort Con- Linedrives and Lipstick - The uncho are celebrating the national Day told Story of Women's Baseball at of the Cowboy. To mark the event Fort Concho Quartermaster Gallerwww.sanangelospotlight.com
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Meagan Tubb is Austin, Texas‟ answer to Grace Potter & the Nocturnals… but a whole hell of a lot better! She plays guitar…better. She sings….better. Hell, she even looks better (she‟s married boys)! There‟s not many female guitar players who are held on high, but Tubb certainly should be if not already. Following right behind Susan Tedeschi and Bonnie Raitt, post-modern blues never sounded as good as it does thanks to her backing group Shady People; a very tasteful and extremely talented group of musicians. As Tubb slightly sways her hips to the songs she sings with passion and vigilance, her strong voice with much conviction is enough to make even the hardest of hearts cave in. Her latest record, „Cast Your Shadow‟, is a perfect example of what Austin holds in its music scene. I caught up with the regular performer at Sealy Flatts here in San Angelo for an interview: Spotlight: You‟re not originally from Austin. Where do you hail from? Tubb: I was born in Arizona and lived there till I was about four and then I moved to Wildwood, Missouri till I graduated high school in 1999 and went to college in Columbia, Missouri.
about. So, I tried out a few guitar players and found this one guy that was pretty cool who ended up moving to Austin. He had lived there before and he was a really good blues player. So he called me up after he moved back and said” Hey, I don‟t know if you‟ve thought about this but you should come out here just for a week to check it out and I really think this is where you should be and there‟s a lot of really good players out here that are in your genre and it would be really easy to put a band together and a ton of places to play; I think you would go over really good out here”. So, I came for a week and was blown away and had lunch with Tommy Shannon. So I moved to Austin and shortly thereafter, I put a band together. Spotlight: You‟re a really good guitar player. How did you start on guitar? Are you self taught? Tubb: Yeah, I taught myself when I was 14 and I played the piano when I was five and I knew the music theory but when I taught myself the guitar, I taught myself the basic chords and then it was shortly after that I learned bar chords, but it was at about that time that “grunge” was coming out and with those chords you could learn all these songs so it was amazing. Then I discovered (Jimi) Hendrix and the blues and that‟s when I knew that‟s what I wanted to know. So then I noticed that there weren‟t a lot of female (blues) guitar players, but I think that there‟s a lot more now than there was when I first started learning how to play. And there was even a smaller number of them that played lead guitar so I kind of made it my goal to play lead guitar and know as much as I could about it and eventually to get good enough and somewhat brave enough to try and take some solos which is really kind of interesting, cause when I started out it was just me and a guitar and I remember this one time when someone kind of just kicked my butt and told me, “You can‟t play a guitar solo when you‟re already solo”, so I thought I should start a band. So then I started a band when I was in college; a three piece band.
Spotlight: So what prompted your move to Austin? Tubb: Well, I actually spent a couple of years in San Diego where I recorded my first EP „Color Outside the Lines‟ and I met a really good producer out there that gave me some good tools to practice with on guitar with. Then I realized that there‟s not a ton of music venues out there. The scene was more kind of rap and metal and punk. So there wasn‟t a lot of blues. There were some pretty descent hard rock bands there and I can rock with the best of them but there‟s a time when you got to pull it back. You want people to say, “Hey, you‟re a pretty good songwriter and that‟s a good song; I like the lyrics to it”. But these guys were playing with a band that were all super loud, so instead, you kind of walked away thinking that the band you just saw had a lot of energy and that‟s all. And then you question what was Spotlight: Do you ever get any their message and what was it all flack for being a female guitar player? Page 9
Tubb: Oh yeah. But the thing is that you never know how people are going to respond. We may play a show and people will go, “Oh my God! That was terrible” or “That was freakin‟ awesome!!” So you never really know. But it is pretty cool though when you are above and beyond peoples‟ expectations being a girl guitar player. Spotlight: So how did you come up with the name for your band Shady People? Tubb: I have a song called “Sunny Place for Shady People” and at first, we were called the Meagan Tubb Band, but everyone kind of does that sort of thing so I thought we should go with something kind of different and we just went with Meagan Tubb and Shady People.
know how to share. Jason (guitarist) is unbelievable because he can play really good tasty, rhythm parts and switch off on the leads. He really knows how to accompany and to fill in the space. Johnny (drummer) went to Berkley and is fantastic. And everyone in this band is really good at knowing when to shine and they also know when to pull back.
Spotlight: Do you have any plans to get back into the studio and do more work? Tubb: We will see. Since I‟ve released this last record, I‟ve written ten songs maybe and so it‟s more a matter of which songs are the best songs versus how much material I will have. And we might have songs that never see the light of day because they didn‟t go well with the theme of the record or it wasn‟t that Spotlight: Being a solo artist, how strong of a song. important was it to you to have a band behind you? You can find out more on Meagan Tubb: What I wanted in a band that Tubb & Shady People at: was really important to me was to www.reverbnation.com/meagantubb find another guitar player to play By Bob Simpson that would trade off with me and
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Friday, July 1st Sunset Riot/The Coley Ramage Band/ Marshall Dylan – The Deadhorse Bri Bagwell – Blaine‟s Pub Tablespoon – House of FiFi Dubois Tony Barker – Paula Sue‟s Café JT Goldfire – Sealy Flats Texas Tango – The Stagecoach Saloon Saturday, July 2nd Thom Shepherd – Blaine‟s Pub Mike Milligan and the Altar Boyz – Sealy Flats Manny Campos – House of FiFi Dubois AW Rose and The Coalition – The Stagecoach Saloon Faster Pussycat/ Shotgun Rebels – The Deadhorse Tuesday, July 5th Oscar and the World’s greatest Blues Band – Sealy Flats Wednesday, July 6th Downfall 2012 – The Deadhorse West Texas Jazz Orchestra – Sealy Flats Coy Moses – The Stagecoach Saloon Thursday, July 7th Van Darien, Cliff Crawford – House of FiFi Dubois T. Gozney Thornton & Chivo Jones – Sealy Flats Friday, July 8th BugGirl – The Deadhorse Bryce & The Bad Decisions – Party Ranch W.C. Clark Blues – Sealy Flats Casey Donahew Band – Midnight Rodeo Van Darien/ Stonehoney – House of FiFi Dubois Matt Kimbrow/ Casey Donahew Band – Midnight Rodeo Tablespoon – Spam‟s Mike Ryan – Blaine‟s Pub Saturday, July 9th Blooddrunk Shenanigans – The Deadhorse Karl Morgan – Sealy Flats Susan Gibson/ Van Darien – House of FiFi Dubois Thunderosa – The Deadhorse T. Gozney Thornton – Angelo Civic Theatre Van Darien – D‟Vine Wine Sunday, July 10th Van Darien – Cork & Pig
Thursday, July 14th Hyde Park Showdown – The Deadhorse Live Music in the Courtyard – Chicken Farm Art Center Talley Services – Sealy Flats Friday, July 15th She Craves – The Deadhorse The Dirty River Boys – Blaine‟s Pub Blues Boy Willie – Sealy Flats Dan Calhoun & Gasoline Alley – House of FiFi Dubois Saturday, July 16th Happy Fat – Sealy Flats Sunday, July 17th T. Gozney Thornton – The Stagecoach Saloon Wednesday, July 20th Rich O’Toole CD Release Party – Blaine‟s Pub Acoustix, local artists – Sealy Flats Thursday, July 21st Mike Kelly – Blaine‟s Pub The Riskybusinessmen – Sealy Flats Friday, July 22nd Clearwater – Blaine‟s Pub Jake Kellen – Midnight Rodeo San Angelo Concert Series/ Ellen Tipper – Emmanuel Church Recital Hall Dan Calhoun & Gasoline Alley – Lone Wolf Pub Jennifer B & The Groovekings – Sealy Flats Saturday, July 23rd The AliCat Project – The Deadhorse Mark Searcy Band – Sealy Flats Thursday, July 28th DC Fallout – The Deadhorse Jon Wolfe – Midnight Rodeo Diddley Squat – Sealy Flats Friday, July 29th I, of Providence – The Deadhorse Kevin Seale Band – Party Ranch Eddie Turner – Sealy Flats William Clark Green – Blaine‟s Pub Little Brave – House of FiFi Dubois Saturday, July 30th John Lisi – Sealy Flats
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With a Fender Stratocaster guitar in his hands, Mark sings into a microphone set to where he (almost) looks up at the sky as if he sings into the heavens with his blues fused soul and smooth voice. His guitar pick gracefully glides across six-strings making up beautiful open chords, but then rips through roughly on riffs and solos in his trademark bare feet and denim overalls. His sidekick and bassist, Kelly Kingston adds her signature low ended grooves. It‟s easy to say that Barefoot Mark is a true San Angelo original.
me and a friend got together at Acuff Steakhouse in Acuff, Texas. One of us loved the chicken fry and the other loved the rib eye. Then I left to go to college and played without a band for years until about 1984. Then I formed a band called Highway 67 and that lasted for about five years. And then in 1990, I went right into writing some stage musicals. Then I had a band called the Tailfins then got married and moved away and went back to Brownfield (Texas) and had a band there, but we never really performed. It was all just rehearsal stuff. I moved back to San Angelo in 2000 I guess it was. So, then I put together the Mark Cullimore Band and that lasted about four I got to sit down with Mark for a years. Then I got with Danny, John Boon and Dean Garcia, but it‟s candid interview on his work: something that‟s always been reSpotlight: Before you were Bare- volving. There‟s a growth; a profoot Mark, you were Barefoot Mark gression and direction to it. and the Lizards. Why the change? Mark: Well, Danny, our drummer Spotlight: You haven‟t always left the band and he kind of came played rock or blues based music, up with the name and so after he have you? left, Kelly (Hinson, bassist) said she Mark: No. When I first started out, I didn‟t want to be called the Lizards. played more country stuff.
Spotlight: How do you feel about the outcome of your album „Let the Beast Run‟? Mark: I‟m impressed with it. Even after constant listening over 6 Taken from 70‟s and 80‟s blues months; I‟m still impressed. gems with post modern poet styl- Spotlight: Danny your drummer left ing‟s, “Barefoot” Mark (Cullimore) is the band. Any reason why? right up there with his contemporar- Mark: I was having trouble getting ies and yet still harnesses the grit of everybody together to record the the American style blues-rock last track on the CD. So finally, I got movement. It‟s been a long time for frustrated and told him, “I‟m recordMark to get where he now stands ing at this time on this day and if as an artist. Steeped in blues, coun- you can‟t make it, I‟ll have to find try, and rock, „Let the Beast Run‟, somebody else who can”. So he his first release (on Palmwood Rec- text me back and said, “Then you ords) is a true testament to not only need to find somebody else”. And what Mark can do (or what‟s to we kept the shows we had with him come) but living proof that hard and parted company. work pays off in the end. Spotlight: So who do you have drumming for you now? Mark: We‟ve really been picking up whoever we can but we‟ve really decided on Eddie Artiega now. He‟s played a couple of gigs with us and I really like the feel he gives us. He‟s got a really intuitive way about him and he doesn‟t play loud and right now that‟s what I‟m going for is not being as loud. Spotlight: When did you start playing music? Mark: Back in 1981, Page 13
Spotlight: Who has influenced you the most musically? Mark: It‟s a weird mix. B.B. King and Eric Clapton of course; Muddy Waters and oddly, Joe Ely. His performance style really is what does it for me. I‟ve seen him play a few times. He has a band and it‟s a real high energy show and then when it‟s just him solo, it‟s just amazing as well. And as a writer, John Hiatt; he‟s a poet. I‟d like to think I‟ve been influenced by every sound there is I‟ve ever heard including gas pumps.
that in about 1989. But the songs before that, I don‟t even remember. Spotlight: How did you come to write music for the production of “Once upon a Hardwood Floor”? Mark: It actually ended up being pretty successful and got started with some people from the theater who were just drinking after a show one night. So this friend of mine, Fred Jenkins and I got together the next day and started the process of writing it. He wrote the story and the script and I wrote the music and the lyrics to it. And having a story to write music for helps me because I‟m thinking of what‟s going on in the story. Spotlight: Do you have a target audience? Mark: We‟re drawing the 35 and up crowd and it‟s good because they‟ve got money. I like having a younger audience too, but I definitely don‟t want to get rid of that 35 and up crowd. For one, they‟ve got money to spend to buy a CD but they also know how to behave themselves at a show. Spotlight: Are you anticipating any radio airplay? Mark: We‟re kicking around what would be good for radio airplay right now. We‟re thinking either “Let the Beast Run” or “Her Shoes”.
Spotlight: You‟re already signed with Palmwood Records. Are you looking to sign with a major label? Mark: If a major label wanted to pick up for distribution, sure. But as far as the recording process, I‟m sticking with Gary Laney. The process of recording this one just went so smoothly and I enjoyed it so much. I think we did a better job just Spotlight: What are your genuine as anyone could elsewhere. feelings about music in general? The album, „Let the Beast Run‟, is a Mark: It‟s hard to put that into very strong piece of work for Barewords because it‟s a part of me. As foot Mark‟s debut and displays his far as what I hate about music, I guitar skills and songwriting abiliturn on top 40 radio and it‟s just ties. The only downside to the reccrap. But as far as good songwrit- ord is its lack of in-tune-harmonies ers like Terry Mills (a local artist as (“You‟re Not At Home”) but the idea featured in the March issue), it‟s is still a great one. „Beast‟ is an frustrating. Yet locally, San Angelo overall great example of how artisthas this self concept problem that if ry in music can often cross genres it‟s from here then it can‟t be any by the depth of one‟s influences. good. So they bring in crap from For instance, the track “Crack, Austin but we have good local peo- Bang, Boom” can be easily identiple who have trouble getting an fied as Mark‟s most John Hiatt-esq audience. song while others such as Spotlight: When did you start writ- “Florsheim Shackles” display his blues influences. The record holds ing music? Mark: I started when I was about 16 up very well and carries a raw and or 17 and then there was this gap in gritty first-album feel to it as many time there where I just didn‟t do debut recordings do (i.e. Motley anything. So about the age of 29 Crue‟s „Too Fast For Love‟). The was when I really started prepping production value is the best it can for songs and wrote and kind of be for it‟s worth (and it‟s worth a moved up. On the album, “When lot). Needless to say, it‟s a good you‟re Not At Home” is one of the listen and a fine piece of work. oldest songs on there and I wrote By Bob Simpson
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