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vokes blurred reasoning and leads to flippant decisions. Overconfidence always precedes sloppy work, and gives way to dissention & frustration within the team, which can ultimately lead to a total project breakdown. Why? Because overconfidence provokes arrogance & entitlement, which these days, is so transparent, it makes everyone squirm but the person who has it!
Back in the day I made plenty of mistakes because I was so “overconfident.” As a hot-shot, CEO publisher at 29, I huffed & puffed around the office like I knew what I was doing, wearing bravado like a gold record around my neck. It was only due to years of reading the words of many wise swamis and cool sages, like Suziki, that I learned to reside in a I know it’s obvious that as we grow in knowledge & experience, “beginners mind.” we also grow in confidence. However, I also think it’s equally true that the more we remain a vigilant perpetual student, the Overconfidence causes artists & entrepreneurs to overestimore we can access our deeper wisdom. mate their knowledge and underestimate the risks. It pro-
DON’T GIVE UP / J. Michael Dolan (0:37) Whether you’re a songwriter or a CEO, you don't have to quit, give up what you love, or crash your impossible dream, EVER! And screw any blogger, showbiz critic, self-proclaimed consultant or anyone who says otherwise! It’s not ALL about getting rich & famous. It’s about fulfilling your “dharma,” your purpose in life, and expressing it, sharing it and producing it for the benefit of others. That’s where the BIG payoff is. That’s where the juice and the nectar lives. That’s when sleep becomes a nuisance and the flow of ideas becomes unceasing. It’s about chucking the possible and going for the “impossible!” Why would anyone ever give up on that? The thing about quitting is that even though you try to convince yourself that you just can’t take it anymore, deep inside your soul it continues to gnaw at you. Frustration & despair eventually pass; however, quitting lingers a lifetime, because the truth cannot be ignored. One of my readers wrote: "Hell is having passed through this incarnation without having done what you were meant to do.” I agree. Never quit expressing, sharing and living your dharma, no matter what.
Consider the words of Suzuki as he whispers to us from his grave: “It is better to remain in the beginners mind. In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.” ―Shunryu Suzuki
THE WORK HORSE & THE FILLY / J. Michael Dolan (0:37) The “Old Work Horse” is right when he says, “You must reinforce your art, your business and your life with the reliable knowledge, experience and proven strategies of the past.” The “Young Filly” is also right when she says, “You must approach your art, your business and your life with a free-spirit and an openness to the inexhaustible array of unlimited possibilities that are forever available.” It’s valuable to learn from the Old Work Horses who trudged the trail all the way up to the top of the mountain. However, it’s invaluable to follow the Young Fillies who are forging a new, more efficient path to get us all to the other side.
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Did you miss that little glitch that didn’t get discovered till mastering was nearly completed? Did the client blame you for your lack of skill or caring? When you proposed taking a couple of days to edit all the songs before mix, did you get the cold stare of rejection? Often, this step is considered a waist by clients and can raise the eyebrow of skepticism for fear that you’re taking them to the cleaners for no good reason. In reality, this time is best spent not only to ďŹ nd bad edits or punches, but to make sure you comped the best takes and have the arrangement your most happy with. It seems like a new thing to some, cleaning up regions with fades and cross fades. Many argue that, “we didn’t have to do this in the analog days! Or at my house for that matter!â€? Well it did happen in the good ole days and you should have done it at your house! Analog editing was done with gates, faders and splicing. But we’ll save that lesson for another day. There are several reasons to improve the music with this step and articulating this is key to ultimately giving the client what they want and avoiding headaches they will never encounter. Show them examples of the dierence between a track before and after editing, then ask if they’d like this improvement applied to their recordings. If you need a word to describe the change, point out that the dierence is realized in the “tightnessâ€? of the ďŹ nal product. How many times have you heard a great song that seems too loose? Depending on the genre this can give the song an amateurish feel. Think of it as the dierence between a car that’s been washed and one that’s been detailed. And if getting your project noticed is the key, I’ll go with the one that’s been better cared for! And this added care matters because the problems of digital pops, bad region transitions, noise between performances and poor timing, can all be heard by the most inexperienced of ears. So don’t loose the race on the last lap and remember to wax on, wax o, till it shines and attracts the audience you’re looking for!
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STEAM: The song ‘Running Away’ was a tremendous hit for the band, but it leaned more towards pop than your other single ‘Crawling in the Dark’. Having hits on such opposite ends of the spectrum did you ever feel fans wouldn’t truly identify with the band? HOOBASTANK: Well we were a relatively new band so I don’t think so. I’m also pretty sure that, unlike other bands, ‘Sell Out’ could’ve have entered fans minds either. I would say that if fans only knew our songs off the radio…then they aren’t fans…the impression they get is the impression they get. We never sit around writing songs leaning towards one way or the other, writing comes naturally to us. Every single band has their pop songs to complement their harder stuff…Led Zeppelin…Black Sabbath. We just happened to have a hit that was bigger than the band. STEAM: The Reason was such a massive hit that one has to wonder if the song ever reached the point of annoyance, hearing it all the time on the radio…fan requests etc.? HOOBASTANK: Yes and No…thought for me it happens with other bands songs that have gotten as big and obnoxious as The Reason (laughing). The song is still paying my bills and will be for a long time…so no, not annoying at all. Questions like these make me feel for a band like Nickelback. It seems like every one of their hits gets turned against them because they are constantly played over and over. It’s not the bands fault for the repeats, for the band it’s the same song from the first time you hit play to the thousandth time you hit play. STEAM: Touring on a specific album has been the fad for the last few years. Any thoughts on running with it for a tour? HOOBASTANK: As a band we haven’t really had many conversations on the subject, I mean we’ve all thought about it privately, but nothing came of it. On tour we’ve performed alongside bands that have decided to go that route without alienating their audi-
ence. I don’t know if many of our fans would really get it. We’re actually going to Japan soon to tour and dates are being added left and right. We’re trying to have a different set list for every show so maybe that would be a great place to do it. Fans there are passionate about everything. They’re so curios there, they want to hear every little thing you have to say. STEAM: A decade since your original release, what is it like to perform songs off that album 10 years later? HOOBASTANK: Some of the songs off that album have evolved and some haven’t. I think we, as musicians, are the ones that have evolved actually. Not that we’re shredders, but we’ve improved. I was reading an old John Lennon interview recently and he talked about taking some time away from the guitar and then coming back and playing again and seeing things from a new perspective. Some stuff you get better at. It’s human nature…you naturally grow. STEAM: We hear that your Greatest Hits album wasn’t all the hits you had envisioned. HOOBASTANK: Yeah well the record company kind of put that all together without consulting us. There were a few songs that we wish were on there and a few songs we were pissed were on there. It’s all because we were leaving the label at the time and they were milking it. Let’s just say I never picked up the album. I mean I have every single song already, but it wasn’t a creative effort so I decided to pass. Words by— Derek Signore, Sound Mag
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AUG CONCERT CALENDAR THUR AUG 1ST Clint Black Majestic Theatre San Antonio Kyle Bennett Band Brewster Street Ice House Corpus Christi
FRI AUG 2ND Brave New World, Love Drive Ayers Event Center Corpus Christi Rockstar Energy Mayhem Fest Rob Zombie Austin 360 Amphitheater Austin Ron White Selena Auditorium ABC Corpus Christi Alyson Chains Zero’s Hard Rock Club Corpus Christi Jerry Fest w/Deadeye Sam’s Burger Joint San Antonio Junior Brown Gruene Hall New Braunfels Plain White T’s The Belmont Austin Speedy Ortiz, Ringo Deathstarr Mohawk Austin The O’Jays with Gladys Knight Austin City Limits Austin Now & Zen Theo’s Billiards Corpus Christi
SAT AUG 3RD Fabulous Thunderbirds Port Aransas SummerFest Concerts Sharkeys Port Aransas Courtney Love Emo’s Austin Manamana Theo’s Billiards Corpus Christi
Mohawk Austin Black Tora Zero’s Hard Rock Club Corpus Christi Pat Green, Jason Boland Whitewater Amphitheater New Braunfels Ron White Majestic Theatre San Antonio Passafire & Stick Figure House of Rock Corpus Christi Van’s Warped Tour ‘13 AT&T Center San Antonio
SUN AUG 4TH Train, The Script, Gavin DeGraw Austin 360 Amphitheater Austin
TUE AUG 6TH The ‘80s Invasion Tour Backstage Live San Antonio
THUR AUG 8th Kyle Park Brewster Street Ice House Corpus Christi
STEAMMAGAZINE.NET Bob Schneider Gruene Hall New Braunfels Enanitos Verdes Pharr Events Center Pharr
Rick Trevino Port Aransas SummerFest Concerts Sharkeys Port Aransas
Josh Abbott Band, Aaron Watson Whitewater Amphitheater New Braunfels
Lil Wayne, T.I. & Future Austin 360 Amphitheater Austin
Chant, Nutrol Theo’s Billiards Corpus Christi
Kevin Fowler Pharr Events Center Pharr
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The Lucky Odds Theo’s Boneshakers Corpus Christi
Reverend Horton Heat Floore Country Store San Antonio Lupita D’Alessio Pharr Events Center Pharr
Joe Ely Port Aransas SummerFest Concerts Sharkeys Port Aransas Joe King Carrasco Y El Molino Sam’s Burger Joint San Antonio
Lil B w/ OG Ron C & the Chopstars
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SUN AUG 25TH Dawes TV Taping Austin City Limits Austin
Saxophonist Matt Corey Richardson Performance Hall Del Mar College-East Oddball Comedy & Curiosity Fest: Dave Chappelle Austin 360 Amphitheater Austin Loretta Lynn Majestic Theatre San Antonio
TUE AUG 27TH Seether Old Concrete Street Amphitheater Corpus Christi
THUR AUG 29TH Brandon Rhyder, The Washers Brewster Street Ice House Corpus Christi
Bruno Mars & Ellie Goulding Frank Erwin Center Austin
Planantino McCallen Civic Center McCallen
Pimpinela McCallen Civic Center McCallen
THUR AUG 15TH
FRI AUG 30TH
SUN AUG 18TH
Keith Urban, Little Big Town & Dustin Lynch Austin 360 Amphitheater Austin
Rob Schneider Pharr Events Center Pharr
Gary Allen, Cory Morrow Whitewater Amphitheater New Braunfels
Mingo Fishtrap Sam’s Burger Joint San Antonio
Ringling Bros & Barnum & Bailey Circus Frank Erwin Center Austin
My 361 Live Music & BBQ Zero’s Hard Rock Club Corpus Christi
Premios Texas Austin City Limits Austin
SAT AUG 10TH
Rich’s Birthday Bash Theo’s Billiards Corpus Christi
WED AUG 14TH
Carolyn Wonderland Sam’s Burger Joint San Antonio
Kyle Park Brewster Street Ice House Corpus Christi
FRI AUG 23RD
The Latin Comedy Jam Selena Auditorium ABC Corpus Christi
Delbert McClinton Gruene Hall New Braunfels
FRI AUG 9TH
The Melvins Mohawk Austin
Random Nation Music Fest Zero’s Hard Rock Club Corpus Christi
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Jon Wolfe Brewster Street Ice House Corpus Christi
The Texas Jam Band (Feat. Ace In the Hole Band) Gruene Hall New Braunfels
Jason Cassidy, Scooter Brown Brewster Street Ice House Corpus Christi
Crash Zero’s Hard Rock Club Corpus Christi
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FRI AUG 16TH Reggae Night @ Theo’s Theo’s Billiards Corpus Christi Paul Thorn Sam’s Burger Joint San Antonio Jack Ingram Gruene Hall New Braunfels Hoobastank, Fuel Concrete Street Amphitheater Corpus Christi Smash Mouth, Sugar Ray & Gin Blossoms Austin City Limits Austin
MON AUG 19TH Jason Isabell TV Taping Austin City Limits Austin
Icona Pop w/K.Flay & Sirah Emo’s Austin
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Kurt Vile & The Violators Mohawk Austin
Rich’s Punk Rock Boneshakers Bash Theo’s Boneshakers Corpus Christi
Coles Whalen Sam’s Burger Joint San Antonio Ringling Bros & Barnum & Bailey Circus Frank Erwin Center Austin
SAT AUG 31ST Labor Day at the Bay Concrete Street Amphitheater Corpus Christi
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John Hiatt & The Combo Gruene Hall New Braunfels
Cory Morrow Port Aransas SummerFest Concerts Sharkeys Port Aransas Max Stalling Sam’s Burger Joint San Antonio
Jack Ingram Port Aransas SummerFest Concerts Sharkeys Port Aransas Charlie Robinson Gruene Hall New Braunfels My 361 Live Music & BBQ Zero’s Hard Rock Club Corpus Christi Buddy Guy Austin City Limits Austin
THUR AUG 22ND
Martin Valverde McCallen Civic Center McCallen
Ruben V & Friends Sam’s Burger Joint San Antonio
Monkey Soop & Social Sluts Zero’s Hard Rock Club Corpus Christi
Cold War Kids Stubbs Autsin
The Temptations & The Four Tops Majestic Theatre
SEPT 1ST SUN Los Lonely Boys Port Aransas SummerFest Concerts Sharkeys Port Aransas
CC Museum of Science & History; Corpus Christi
Mustang Island State Park; Port Aransas
Texas State Aquarium Corpus Christi
Art Museum of South Texas Downtown Corpus Christi
National Seashore North Padre Island
Alamo Mission San Antonio
USS Lexington; North Beach, Corpus Christi
South Texas Botanical Gardens & Nature Center Corpus Christi
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CLUB LISTINGS The Back Porch Bar 132 W Cotter St, Port Aransas Live Music Friday & Saturday Nights! Brewster Street Icehouse 1724 N. Tancahua, Corpus Christi Executive Surf Club 309 N. Water Street, Corpus Christi Live music and great food, what more could you ask for?! The Flats Bar 801 Tarpon St Port Aransas Not the oldest, But We’re the Coldest! Frontier Saloon 9709 Leopard St, Corpus Christi Live Texas Country Every Saturday Night! Come watch your favorite MLB teams and NASCAR on our big screens! And get ready for some football!! Gully’s Saloon 3029 Laguna Shores, Corpus Christi Karaoke on Wed & Thu! Live Music Sat & Sun! Best little bar on the Madre! House of Rock 511 Starr Street, Corpus Christi Great shows all month long! Outta Bounds Sports Lounge 1402 Rodd Field Rd, Corpus Christi Texas Music Mondays and Fridays Rockin’ Locals! Pelican Lounge 14330 SPID, Corpus Christi Karaoke & Live Music!
Sam’s Burger joint 330 E Grayson San Antonio Voted the Best Live Music Venue! 7 Brothers Saloon Highway 181, Normanna TX Live music! Don’t want to drive home? Stay in our RV Park! Sharkey’s 2600 Hwy 361 Port Aransas Karaoke & Live Music! South Texas Ice House 6601 Everhart Rd, Corpus Christi We now have live music on Fridays and Saturdays! Best burgers in town – Try one and you’ll see! Sparrow’s Landing 4528 SPID Corpus Christi Karaoke Thursdays and Live Music Friday & Saturday Nights! Tarpon Ice House 321 N. Alister, Port Aransas Live Music, 2 bars, pool, darts, big screen TVs, WIFI, and a beer garden!
XS Ultra Lounge 4244 SPID, Corpus Christi Come have the ultimate Summer Break Experience! Zeros Hard Rock Club 6327 McArdle Rd Corpus Christi Like us on facebook and never miss a show! Facebook.com/ zerosrockclub
THINGS TO DO MONDAYS AUG Boot Camp for Veterans 8/5-9 @ 9am TAMUCC Corpus Christi
TUESDAYS AUG Boot Camp for Veterans 8/5-9 @ 9am TAMUCC Corpus Christi
Hoffmeier, The Bible & The Exodus CBC Lecture Series 8/29 @ 6pm CBC Campus Beeville
FRIDAYS AUG STEAM Magazine 1st Annual Art Show Opening Reception 8/9 @ 6pm Atelier Art Gallery Corpus Christi ArtWalk Corpus Christi 8/2, 5-10pm Downtown Corpus Christi Ron White
WEDNESDAYS AUG 8/2 @ 8pm Boot Camp for Veterans 8/5-9 @ 9am TAMUCC Corpus Christi
The Phoenix Saloon 193 W San Antonio St, New Braunfels Karaoke, Acoustic Happy Hour, & Live Music!
Farmers Market Every Wednesday @ 5pm Yin Yang Fandango & Tango Tea Room Corpus Christi
Theo’s Billiards 5815 Weber Rd, Corpus Christi Free pool every day until 7 pm!! Don’t miss all the fun on Wild Wednesdays
Farmers Market Every Wednesday @ 4pm Rackspace San Antonio
Vick’s Place 7136 FM 666, Mathis Ice cold beer, live music on Friday and Saturday nights, and Jam sessions on Sundays!
Amazing Scavenger Hunt 8/1 Texas State Library Austin
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Boot Camp for Veterans 8/5-9 @ 9am TAMUCC Corpus Christi
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American Bank Center Corpus Christi Summer Fest 8/9, All Day Bee County Expo Beeville The Last 5 Years Fridays @ 7:30pm Aurora Arts Theater Corpus Christi Boot Camp for Veterans 8/5-9 @ 9am TAMUCC Corpus Christi
SATURDAYS AUG Rum Run 5K 8/3 @ 7:30am North Beach
Aurora Arts Theater Corpus Christi
Corpus Christi The Last 5 Years Saturdays @ 7:30pm Aurora Arts Theater Corpus Christi San Antonio Marina Market Day 8/3 @ 12pm Lawrence St T-Head Corpus Christi MusicWalk Corpus Christi 8/3, 4-10pm Downtown Corpus Christi Twilight Run on the Beach 8/3 @ 8:30pm North Beach Corpus Christi
MISC THINGS Artist Cove Gallery Show Reception Aransas Pass Cost FREE Atelier Int’l Art Gallery STEAM Magazine Art Show 8/9-9/6 Corpus Christi Islander Art Gallery Hamlin Shopping Center Corpus Christi Cost FREE
Summer Fest 8/10, All Day Bee County Expo Beeville
Port Aransas Community Theatre Fri-Sun showings State Hwy 361 Port Aransas Cost 10-30
Rock & Ride Motorcycle Ride 8/24 All Day Brewster Street Ice House Corpus Christi
Harbor Playhouse Theater Fri-Sun showings Bayfront Park Corpus Christi Cost 8-21
CC7D Screening and Anniversary Party 8/31 All Day Screening @ Harbor Playhouse Party @ House of Rock Corpus Christi
Hooks Baseball Check their website for game schedules, promotions, and Friday Night Fireworks! Whataburger Field Corpus Christi
SUNDAYS AUG Dinner and a Movie 8/4, 11, & 18 @ 5pm LaPalmera Mall Corpus Christi The Last 5 Years Sundays @ 2:30pm
1904 Train Depot Museum Downtown Kingsville Open year around King Ranch Tours & Museum Tours are scheduled daily at King Ranch Museum is open daily Kingsville
Historic Gruene New Braunfels
Hurricane Alley Water Park Corpus Christi
Natural Bridge Caverns San Antonio
The Riverwalk San Antonio
San Antonio Zoo & Aquarium San Antonio
Schlitterbaughn Water Park New Braunfels
Morgan’s Wonderland San Antonio
Barton Springs Austin
Six Flags San Antonio
From Fi n l a nd To Texas
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with, as she put it, the local American kids but found it hard at first to make a connection. Then one day, after being here for two months, she came home and said she had made her first American friend outside of our family. When I asked about this new friend, Riikka told us she was somewhat new to the United States herself, only here five years. They are still close friends today. Through the school year she made many more American friends as well becoming friends with a few of the other exchange students at her school. Now, pretty much anywhere she travels in the world she has a friend she can On the day of our meeting, my family call on. and I went to the hotel where Riikka was staying with other students that were Over the next few months, Riikka got into the going to have this great experience living flow of things both at home and at school here in Texas. When we walked into the and became very comfortable with her room, she jumped up and with a big, surroundings. She repeatedly expressed to beautiful smile and gave us each a big us how grateful she was to live here like any hug. Then she started to cry because she other American teenager—going to school, was so happy—and probably a bit hanging out with friends, swimming, playing exhausted from her long trip. Soon we soccer and traveling to different parts of were in the car taking her home to begin Texas. our own journey for the next 10 months. When school ended, she had about three We all felt both excited and apprehensive weeks before returning to Finland. She was about what our hosting experience excited about going home but fretful that she would be like. Little did we know then was going to miss what she had experienced how great the journey would be. here. We knew it was going to be tough on Riikka is from a small town in Finland and us to see her go and wondered if we would had never been to the United States ever see her again. before. So of course the first place we On the day she was to return home to took her was to Schlitterbahn Waterpark Finland we took Riikka to the Houston airport to have fun and cool down in the August and saw that she was checked in. From the heat. She loves the water and is quite an moment she stepped onto that long escalaaccomplished swimmer. In Finland, living tor until she reached the very top, she waved just a few minutes from what she called frantically. Then she abruptly switched “the swim hall,“ she was there most of escalators and came back down to give us her free time teaching and practicing. one last hug, crying her eyes out. Since she When high school started, as an accomhad already been checked in, she couldn’t plished swimmer she joined the Varsity get any closer to us as we stood behind the Swim Team. Her coach thanked me security barrier. So there we all stood, many times for bringing Riikka into the sobbing our last goodbyes. community and onto the team. As a typical teenage Riikka did not always We have kept in touch with Riikka and her want to go to practice but, she enjoyed family over the years and all wanted to see herself once there. Our own daughter each other again—never sure whether we was also on the team so we felt that would be able to. Then at the beginning of would make it easier for Riikka to get to 2012, Riikka contacted us and asked if she could come over for two weeks that summer. know the other students. We had a wonderful time. And just this Riikka really wanted to make friends One of the greatest experiences I have had in any of the organizations I have volunteered for was when we decided 6 years ago it would be great to host an exchange student. We were introduced to AFS-USA by a friend and we went through the process required and found Riikka from Finland we felt would blend well with our family. In the months before her arrival we would get to know Riikka and her family well through many phone calls and emails and were anxious for this great adventure to begin.
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summer, she and three friends spent a few days with us, making sure to fit in another visit to Schlitterbahn. As Riikka and her friends were leaving, I promised to get over to Finland to visit with her and her family someday. It’s a promise that I mean to keep. So, as I’m thinking of Riikka as the fabulous daughter I gained through my hosting experience with AFS-USA. I encourage others to experience the same great feeling. You, too, can bring an international son or daughter into your lives this Fall. Learn more about volunteering and hosting at www.afsusa.org/host-family/ or call 1 800 AFS INFO. - Words by Steven Leonard
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“There is a special bond that exists between these men. They’ve worked together most of their lives. Today there are only a few of them left. They are vaqueros.” So begins the narration to Vaquero: The Forgotten Cowboy, the 1987 documentary celebrating its 25th anniversary. Produced and directed by Hector Galán, the 28-minute video introduced a new generation to the history and legacy of the vaqueros who worked the cattle in South Texas for more than 400 years, and helped make Hebbronville the largest cattle shipping center in the country at one time. While most of us grew up watching Saturday matinee westerns at the movies and idolizing the western cowboy heroes with their 10-gallon hats, little did we realize that their predecessors were all around us, quietly going about their business, but remaining unnoticed and forgotten by our society, “lost in the pages of history”. Shot mostly in Hebbronville, this nostalgic film pays homage to a dying breed by capturing the quiet dignity of perhaps the last generation of vaqueros, including Samuel Torres, Donaciano “Chanate” Gutierrez, and Wenceslado “Wanche” Alarcon and his family. Torres talks about his life on the El Sordo ranch, working since he was 14 years old, and never imagining doing anything else, but lamenting that this life “se esta acabando”. The Alarcon family demonstrates how the vaquero heritage and skills are passed down from generation to generation, but also showing that education plays an important part in this transition. Gutierrez, whose nickname was memorialized in a song by
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singer/songwriter Tish Hinojosa, reminisces about working at the ranch all month long, sleeping under the stars, and only coming into town for a couple of days at the end of the month. “Everything is different”, he says, as we see him riding his horse down the street instead of through the brush, his skills no longer in demand. Change, the phasing out of the vaquero way of life, is a recurring theme of this documentary. Several local ranchers are interviewed throughout the film, including Dick Jones, Rafael de la Garza, Dennis McBride and former County Judge Horacio Ramirez. They talk about the end of a way of life and how the vaqueros are “outliving their time”, quietly fading away. But 25 years ago, these men were not forgotten, not by a young Harold Lee Henry, who spoke about learning from the older men, and not by several high school students, who spoke with pride about their vaquero ancestors and the heritage they left behind. Chris Hellen makes a poignant statement in the film: “the vaqueros' foot prints are all over South Texas, but the only ones that appreciate them are the ones that knew them”. But perhaps because of Galán’s documentary, and the renewed interest it created in Jim Hogg County, the Vaquero Capital of Texas, the vaquero will not be forgotten and this appreciation and admiration of the vaquero way of life will be remembered long after the last vaquero is gone. Words by Cynthia Gutierrez, South Texas History
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STEAM You are about to release a new album, so first… Congratulations! And second, tell me about it. CS It’s called Hold On and it will be released on the last Tuesday of August, which is the 27th . We recorded at Loop Studio with Dylan Ely. It was really great having someone with such an immense knowledge of music, to guide us through the process. In the 11 songs there’s a wide variety of genres and styles ranging from blues to pop to rock and everything in between. It’s SOUTH TEXAS ICE HOUSE really a great album and we’re very proud of it. SA Hold On, is one of the songs on the album. It’s not being released as a single, but it tied together not just the songs, but how we were feeling… “Hold On world, get ready for The STEVEN ALFORD Shake Down!” This is also my third or fourth band and we’re doing very well; we’re holding on THESHAKEDOWNROCKS GUITAR, VOCALS to what we’ve got. Corpus Christi I was playing acoustically but wanted to get STEAM Where can fans get their copies? a band together, so I put an ad on craigslist looking for CS Online through Bandcamp.com, iTunes.com, Amazon.com. Hardcopies will be available at experienced people that were really ready to commit. So all of our shows and can be ordered through our website (which is almost done) and Facebook. after Clint replied and we found a groove he suggested You can also get t-shirts and other merchandise too. talking to David. STEAM How did you hook up with Loop Studio? CS When I first moved to Corpus Christi in 2007. I pretty DD We were planning on recording our first album and I was checking with all the studios in much quit playing altogether at that time and two years the area. I actually cold-called Dylan just after he opened up the studio a year and a half ago. later I could feel myself craving it, so I answered Steven’s Loop Studio was so new they only had 15 likes on their Facebook page. Anyway, I took a tour ad on Craigslist. I knew David through our fraternity at and was really impressed and excited, but it wasn’t meant to be at that time. TAMUCC, he was our president, as a guitar player but he CLINT SANDERS CS We kept talking back and forth about recording something and at the beginning of this year, was interested in playing bass. DRUMS, VOCALS he said it’s time let’s make a record. STEAM I can tell you from personal experience: Once a drummer, STEAM I heard you met through Craigslist. always a drummer! SA I’m from Houston originally, went to college in Austin and three years ago I moved here. I CS Yeah, when I moved down here I thought I wanted to do my have played guitar since I was about 10 and had moved a lot as a kid. When I first came to own thing and play guitar, but after two years I had to get back to the drums. It’s kind of like an addiction. And fortunately Steven was looking for a drummer so here I am. STEAM Are you guys always a three-piece or do you bring in piece players? CS We’ve always been a three-piece. David has this great ability on bass so it feels like he is playing rhythm too. Which is great DAVID DAVILA because Steven has full ability to focus on lead and vocals. BASS GUITAR DD You know, quite honestly I am ADD, so I’ve never really changed my playing style from guitar to bass and think I have a tendency to play with a lead style. I play by feel because I don’t read music. nd I go with what feels right with music; I might be on the high end or on the low end, but I’m in and I’ve rd The Shake Down got the groove. STEAM The three of you wrote all the songs on th Hold On, so what is your song writing process like? SA Collaboration has brought out the best parts th ordon because each of us brings something new to the Junior G table that we would never have th thought of on our own. It has blended our talents together. th CS Our writing process is very organic. Steven typically writes rd the lyrics and usually the lyrics th are the last thing that we put in. DD For the last year it’s been th kind of rough as I’ve been living in San Antonio (but this will st change once I move back), so writing songs has been more on-the-fly when we get togethfor gigs. What makes this Corpus Christi TX er work for us is that each of us has our own style and influences, but together we’re very 12 STEAM MAGAZINE AUG 2013 WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/STEAMTX CONTINUED ON PAGE 27
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STEAM I read your bio and basically it says you are from Kingsville moved to Tyler, Texas and then moved back to Kingsville and of course, played in a few bands. BWB Yep, I was born in Kingsville, lived there through high school, and went down to Harlingen to vocational school for a couple of years. When I graduated the school placement program helped me find a job which turned out to be in Tyler. STEAM The way we got connected was through Aly at Frontier Saloon in Calallen. She thinks highly of you and she has been so excited watching your song move up on the radio charts. BWB Well, she’s great and we really appreciate her support. The single off of our new album is called “Lost, Lovesick, and Lonely” and we released it four months ago. It’s been on the Texas Radio Report chart for six weeks at this point, and it’s been climbing slowly but it’s climbing and I just found out this afternoon that it’s now on the Texas-net 50 chart. STEAM Congratulations! So, tell me about your new album. BWB Cast Iron Constitution was self-released on July 4th. We chose Cast Iron Constitution as the title track because it seemed like a really tough name for an album title. I guess that I’d rather be independent than signed and get nothing out of it but growing older. Although! A record deal is very appealing and I certainly would go into one if I felt that it was more lucrative and provided the assistance and abilities
that I’m lacking. I think I’m a typical singer-songwriter in that I want to do it all myself and I want everything to have happened yesterday. I wrote almost all the songs but had a little help on Cast Iron Constitution and The Bricklayer is a song my dad wrote, but I’ll get back to that in just a minute. Anyway, my dad gave me the idea to write Cast Iron Constitution without realizing it. The story is that I’d been listening to him talk about a guy he had once worked with during his bricklaying career. This guy just had a cast-iron constitution: He was tough, never got sick, and then of course the way he drank. He was known for drinking a huge amount of alcohol while keeping his composure. In my song the guy has a cast-iron constitution and as he starts to age he finds that it’s not quite as cast-iron as it used to be. My dad was a bricklayer and did that all my life and this is a job that most people would never want to do; directly in the South Texas sun and physically hard
work. Anyway, he wrote The Bricklayer when I was in junior high or so and I remember it took him weeks to write it while sitting on the edge of his bed with a notepad and guitar after work. We have a pretty musical family. Dad plays guitar and harmonica, my sister has a degree in voice and teaches music as well as sings opera and plays piano. My brother has a voice similar to Johnny Cash. STEAM So your dad, brother and sister are all musical; what about mom? BWB No, she never played but I’ll tell you her brother was the most influential person in my musical career. He is one who taught me about electric guitars at an early age. I remember hearing him playing lead to a Willie Nelson song that just caught me, so that’s how I developed this fascination with guitar and what I do. It’s my love. When I was very young I played piano but I don’t remember that much, but I remember discovering that I could pick
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up an instrument and if I stayed at it I could figure out how to play a basic melody. STEAM So, do you read music? BWB No, my music theory is very limited, although my parents had put me in piano lessons at a young age, but all I recall from that experience is a grumpy old piano teacher who turned music from being fun into a hard task. STEAM Well, I think songwriting takes quite a talent. And I’m pretty sure I don’t I have that. BWB I don’t believe that, I think if everyone dug deep they could write a song. I feel bad for my wife because when I’m developing a new song I’m off in my own little world and don’t really see or react to anything else. She knows that when I get that glazed-over look that I’m not really there. STEAM Ah, yes. I know that look. You may be there physically but you are not “there”. BWB Yeah, that’s the right brain/left brain ability where it just takes over and you’re gone. It’s tough to learn to do, but those that master this ability are amazing musicians. I have seen
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people that have mastered this ability carry on an intellectual conversation and are oblivious to the guitar in their hands playing an intricate melody. When I first started playing guitar it was difficult to play basic rhythm and sing at the same time and my goal was to play lead while I was singing. I remember hearing Stevie Ray Vaughn play Jimmy Hendrix’s song Voodoo Child and thinking I’m going to learn to do that. STEAM Okay, so besides Stevie Ray Vaughn and Jimmy Hendrix, who else are your biggest influences? BWB Well I grew up in the 80s, so I listened to a lot of 80’s rock and new wave then, but I have always been a diehard U2 fan. I love the way they did their own thing; staying true and unique throughout their continuing career. STEAM Funny, I just had a conversation about U2 and how they had sustainability between the 80s and now, because they had the ability to adapt with music as
it grew around them. BWB That is so true. It isn’t that David Evans’ (The Edge) playing is basic; it’s that it’s so innovative and real in his direction. I admire so much about them; they’re very real people. Every time I’ve written a song I’ve always written from my heart, from my soul, not often is one just pulled out of the air. However, if I do the song still needs to fit my qualities which are to tell a story and relate to real happenings. There’s a song on the album called Yesterday that I wrote about my relationship with my brother and how we didn’t always get along, but now that we’ve grown up, we see more eye-to-eye. STEAM What genre do you fall in? Are you mostly country or rock? BWB Well, you know, as a songwriter I’ve never try to make my music fall into any specific category, which comes back to how I write my music. The best way I can explain it is blues and rock
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JOE ELY A Guitar Case Full of Drawings STEAM Well I didn’t know much about you, I knew about your music, but not you. So I’ve been reading like mad to be ready for our interview. JOE Well I hope it didn’t confuse you too much. STEAM No, not any more than normal. You are a phenomenal guitar player but I read that you played violin. Do you still play? JOE There was a family in Amarillo TX that made violins and we used to go to their house for dinner on Sundays and I would go out to the studio and watch him make violins. It was really fascinating to me, so my parents got me one when I was just eight. Amarillo school district had an orchestra and I played in it for about four or five years. That’s when we moved to Lubbock TX and they didn’t have the orchestra. So I sold my violin and bought an electric guitar because Buddy Holly, who is from Lubbock, was making big hits and it was an exciting time for me. So that’s how I started on guitar; later in high school I put a band together, The Twilights, and started writing songs. No, I don’t play violin anymore but I did get that violin back about five years ago. I had sold it to a friend when I was about 14 and it went about halfway across the US before coming back to me. I’m fortunate that the violin stayed within the same family and friends - it went from Texas to Florida up to Virginia - and then I received a phone call saying to come get it from the very guy I had sold it to. STEAM Incredible! Tell me about the Flatlanders’ Odessa tapes. JOE The first recording was done in 1972 in Odessa TX and there were 14 songs and it was just me, Jimmy Dale Gilmore, and Butch Hancock. The tape got put away and nobody even knew it existed until just recently, so we released it in 2012; 40 years after we recorded it, it is our newest release. STEAM It’s amazing how things come around like that. JOE Yeah, everything’s going in one big circle. STEAM Your violin just proved that! JOE Yes, I’ve been fortunate that things have been coming back to me in the last few years, including The Flatlanders Odessa tape and a few other tapes from that era and getting back together with old friends. I guess music keeps you stirred into the soup of things. Every so often we get together to write songs and then go out on the road and play. STEAM Your last album, Satisfied At Last, was released in 2012. JOE It was and I’m working on a few new albums right now; hopefully, to be released the end of summer, first of fall. Clockwise: Tour poster for Flatlanders featuring circus drawing, Dude in Red Coat, Dry Lake Bed (our cover), Joe Ely performing at Rolling Stones Concert in 1982, How to Make Jail Hot Chocolate.
STEAM I am really excited to see you at the Sharkeys Port Aransas SummerFest Concert on August 10. When I looked at your schedule I didn’t see that you come down to South Texas very often. JOE Well, I’m really looking forward to it; we haven’t been down to Port Aransas in quite a while. In the last few years we’ve been down to Rockport and Corpus Christi, but it hasn’t been real often. STEAM Looking through all of your information I didn’t find an answer to this question so… do you write for other people JOE No, I don’t write for other people; I write for myself but other people have recorded my songs. Pat Green has recorded a few as well as Jerry Devine, Marty Stuart, Bruce Springsteen, just a bunch of other people. I’d never really had the opportunity or the desire to write for other people. My songs are all very personal and connected to me and what’s happening in my life and it’s hard enough to write for you, much less for someone else. I know people that write strictly for others and I just don’t see that as something I can do, but I do think it’s interesting when people find my songs. Years ago Guy Clark and Townes Van Zandt recorded one of my songs and it was exciting for me because it was a song that I had written and completely forgotten about. I’d been traveling with the Ringling Brothers one summer and I’d written a song about being in the circus one late night, more like sunrise. A year or so later I sang the song to Guy Clark and he recorded it on a little tape recorder and I never played the song again; I hadn’t even written it down, so I completely forgot about it. Years later I was caught by total surprise when Guy put it on one of his albums and then Townes Van Zandt did the same. There it was a song I had totally spaced out. STEAM OK, going back to the circus. You traveled with the Ringling Brothers Circus? Where was this and how did that come about? JOE Well, I’d been in New York City for a winter, I think it was ‘73, and I’d come back to Lubbock. I had no plans, no ambitions, nothing to go on whatsoever. One day I was sitting near Texas Tech just watching the Ringling Brothers setting up their big tents and caring for the animals at the Coliseum. And somebody came up to me, handed me a sledgehammer, and told me to go help them. So, I was literally hired on the spot. I thought this was an interesting job – I took care of the animals, the Arabian horses that did the tricks in the center ring, and the world’s smallest horse. I traveled around with the Ringling Brothers Circus for almost a year going anywhere and everywhere in New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas. Then when we were in Houston I got kicked in the ribs and it broke a few, so I WWW.STEAMMAGZINE.NET AUG 2013 STEAM MAGAZINE 17
decided to go back to Lubbock and put a band together. When I was growing up I never had goals or ambitions or any forward thinking about growing up and working. I had this fascination with seeing everything I could see. It was in those early years that I traveled around and learned to make do with what I could and I was fortunate enough to go over to Europe and travel around. It just kind of came to be that I had this suitcase full of songs. That’s when I came back to Texas and put a band together to play those songs which got me a recording contract. So, that’s how I spent my life traveling around writing songs. STEAM Well, I think you have led a very cool life. JOE You know there’s been some ups and some downs; some rough times, when there wasn’t enough, then other times where there was just too much. It’s never been an easy road but it sure has been rewarding. STEAM Tell me about your new album. JOE Well, shoot which one? I’ve got three records that I’m working on right now. I’m experimenting with the new way people are putting out albums; it used to be you put out a record with 10 to 12 tracks. Now I’m looking at collections that have a varied numbers of tracks. The first it’s a collection of 3 songs, Songs From the Road, that fit well together, so it’s more like an EP. The others are also sets of collections that are acoustic recordings and there are probably 30 tracks. STEAM You have much more energy than I! Let’s switch to your art. We really feel honored to have you featured on our cover with Dry Lake Bed. Please tell me about your art.
Kris Kristofferson, Joe Ely 1982 (above) Joe Ely at Granada Theater (below) Joe Ely, walking a Llama and the world’s smallest horse for the circus (above) Joe Ely with the Clash (middle) Stevie Ray Vaughn, Joe Ely (below)
JOE When I first went out on the road as a teenager I always carried a sketchbook in my pocket so when I was traveling around the US and with the circus, and in Europe I would draw what I saw. It has always been just something I had done. I feel that my drawings are part of my writings because I can look at them and I can remember where I was, what I was thinking, and what my state of mind was. So later on I started doing watercolors and really just anything I can carry on the road with me. In 1982 I got an Apple computer and started working with that in figuring out how it could help me with my writing and art. I started using the computer to map out my art and I was doing a lot of tour posters. There are about four different areas in my visual arts that I’ve gone through. STEAM Looking through your art on your gallery page there’s a series called the Jail series. So I have to ask, did you spend some time in jail? Is that how you came up with these ideas? JOE Yes I did; I was in the Lubbock jail for a while. I had been experimenting with psychedelic drugs (mushrooms and cactus) and the same day Richard Nixon proclaimed that those were illegal I was arrested for it. Anyway, that whole series is a tongue-in-cheek. A close friend of mine was good friends with a Texas congressman named Chad Lewis who had done something wrong, I can’t remember exactly what, and he was going to jail, so I jokingly said that I’d been there I can show you how to get by. So I use the computer and video cameras and started with How To Make Jail Hot Chocolate and ended up with this tongue-in-cheek instruction manual. The series tickled the guy that had set this up so he put on an art show for it. STEAM That’s very funny! My favorite in your Western Real becoming real estate, so the series is my vision of how the Estate series is the dried up land with the bolt in the middle of land is being used, scraped, pounded, drilled, and nailed it. and it’s just slowly drying up until the end. JOE That series is based on my thoughts of how the wild west is STEAM Now the Chippy series is very different.
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JOE Chippy was a project I did with a friend of mine, Terry Allen. We did that series, which a lot of those became an album cover, for a play and album we wrote together in 1993, “Chippy”. It is all based on the diaries of a Texas prostitute named Chippy during the oil boom days and how she worked all the boom towns along the Panhandle. The play was picked up by the American
Music Theater Festival for 11 shows in Philadelphia and five shows at the Lincoln Center in New York. It was an interesting show and we’ve recently been talking about possibly presenting it somewhere it was never done in Texas. All that’s really left of it is the album and the pictures that we created. STEAM I knew you were an author, but I didn’t realize you were a playwright too. JOE Now I wouldn’t call myself that, but sometimes projects turn into theater productions. I have always been fascinated with the different ways to tell a story and sometimes those ways find me before I find them. I think stories can be told through drawings, photographs, songs, and just in so many ways. You know when I was a kid I couldn’t afford camera as I couldn’t afford the film, so I drew everything. I remember coming back from Europe with a guitar case full of drawings. Now I carry a camera everywhere I go and if I’m not playing I’m out taking pictures.
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STEAM Well hopefully you’ll give yourself some time in Port Aransas to take some pictures, there is some beautiful scenery! Can you tell me about your book? JOE My book is Bonfire of Maps. I’ve always travel with a journal and when I was younger it was right next to my sketchpad and I’d write about the stories and things I saw on the road. Actually, I didn’t think my writings were things I’d share as they were personal but a few years ago someone at the University of Texas in the book department had heard about the journals through Terry Outland and asked me about them. The college just kept pushing me and finally I just agreed to let them put the stories together. Turned out that as I’d been writing the stories over the years I’d developed my own rhythm and style. Again, I never actually expected anyone to read those. Now I’ve got a novel that I’ve written and we’re about to put it out soon. It’s called Super Reverb is a coming-of-age story in the 60s and 70s and although it isn’t a biography but it does have some truth. STEAM Thank you so much for taking time out of your very busy schedule and I can’t wait to see you perform on August - Words by Tamma Hicks 10th.
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Crunch-time is the worst for us. We usually get very little sleep, eat whatever food we can get delivered fast or is within a 10 mile round-trip, and eat candy and chase it all down with gallons of coffee and Monsters. Needless to say, healthy is about the last thing on our minds! In our quest for a quick and easy crunch-time meal one night we came across an interesting concept that we hope takes Corpus Christi by storm, Takeaway Gourmet! This locally owned company provides 3 meals a day all under 500 calories or less. We heard about them from a Facebook friend, Coco @ K99Country, who had nothing but good things to say about Takeaway Gourmet. To say the least we were a little reluctant to try “healthy” food… I mean we’re from Corpus for heaven’s sake. We were very surprised to have a tasty and balanced meal that didn’t disappoint in the proportions. Their meal options fit a wide range of palettes and they even have a kid’s menu. The meals were easily microwavable and check it out… THEY DELIVER! For busy people who are always on the go and for those looking for easier ways to eat healthy Takeaway Gourmet is the perfect place for you. Honestly, enough with the frozen meals and fast food already! TAG is a healthy alternative that is very easy on the check book and waistline. Here is some
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more information from their website. (www.mytakeawaygourmet.com/about) In October 2010 Men's Health Magazine labeled Corpus Christi the FATTEST City in America. Even more depressing was the fact that 5 Texas cities were in the Top 10 of that list. This was a huge blow to Corpus Christi. Thus was the beginning of Takeaway Gourmet! TAG provides breakfast, lunch, and dinner menus. All meals are 500 calories or less (for regular size servings) and come labeled with calories, fat, and sodium content; as well as the number of weight watcher points each meal contains. Customers have the option of picking up their meals via carry-out or drive-thru, having them delivered to their home/office, or if you’d like you can eat in using TAG’s microwaves. Takeaway Gourmet also offers a healthy catering menu to suite all your dining needs from a simple office luncheon to an extravagant dinner party.
Breakfast! Steak & Egg White Tacos and Apple Cinnamon Waffles, both with fresh fruit
Out of the bag and ready for the microwave!
Don’t just take our words for it… Go have breakfast, lunch, or dinner. Heck have ‘em all tell them you read about it in STEAM Magazine! Quick and healthy dinner for 4! (clockwise) Cheesy Swiss Chicken, Chef Salad, Spinach Burger, and Turkey Burger
Fresh and ready to microwave - right out of the bag!
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Remembering Hebbronville when it was home. If everyone who had ever called Hebbronville home had stayed here, our town would be huge. Think of it: doctors, lawyers, nurses, engineers, professors, and teachers all here in Annaville VFW our town. Many of these people have left here, but there are a number of Annaville VFW them who still call Hebbronville home. And there are many people who Excludes Tobacco. Expires 8/31/13. were never from Hebbronville who would like to call it home. This past Landry’s Not valid on already discounted items. month has seen many former residents return to our community. Many The Garage People’s St. T-Head 624 Calallen came to enjoy the County’s 100th Anniversary Gala. We hosted people from 10338 SPID CCTX (361) 937-3013 as far away as Michigan and California. During the evening, I heard many M-F 10am-8pm. Sat 11am-8pm. Sun 11am-6pm. Office CLub people reminiscing about their school days and childhood here in HebbronAnnaville ville. I actually saw a look of envy from those guests who were not from here. What is it about Hebbronville that elicits these sentiments? I’m not sure, but I know that there is something about growing up in a small town; the fact that you know everyone and everyone knows you, you could leave your house and car unlocked, and any parent could yell at you if you were messing up. Even this, however, doesn’t account for the deep attachment many people have to their hometown. I think it has something to do with the fact that our deepest memories are rooted in this community. It happens when we remember where we were when we made our best friends, where we spent summer days and autumn evenings and where some of us met the people we would share the rest of our lives with. I will always remember the evening when I met my husband outside a little teen club with the unlikely name of Loveland. The building is still there, but the hand painted sign on the north wall is gone and the black walls have been painted over. Yet somehow, whenever I drive past that ghost of a building, I feel like I did when my www.BorderlineBand.org dad introduced me to the person who I would spend the rest of my life with. That is what continues to draw people back, the attachment to people and places that we will always love. American poet, physician and professor Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote, where we love is home; home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts’ Hebbronville is home. - Words by Cynthia Gutierrez, South Texas History 24 STEAM MAGAZINE AUG 213 WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/STEAMTX
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different show every time. STEAM Do you have any favorite songs that you like to play or any that you don’t really care for? KW I don’t have any favorites; I enjoy all the songs we do. That being said, there are a few that I’m not too fond of. Actually there are some songs that just don’t come across as well live as they did on the recording and vice versa. Sometimes you have to push a song on the radio to get fans to connect with it so you can play it in a show. What I really enjoy about On The Verge is that all 10 songs are very playable both live and recorded. STEAM Do you have any songwriting tips or suggestions for the people that are trying to get their feet in the water? KW First, you need to listen to a lot of different types of music and figure out what it is you really enjoy. Next you really need to know music, so stay in school. Music theory and language are very important to be able to communicate what you’re trying to get across. STEAM I really enjoyed listening to you play harmonica and feel that you are absolutely one of the best players. Do you play any other instruments?
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STEAM Thank you for letting me interrupt your day. As I a long time, so how often do you get back to Texas? understand you are on the bus in downtown Manhattan NY Will you be here long enough to catch some waves headed to Newton NJ for a show and the traffic isn’t moving and relax? that fast. Your current tour is in support of your newest re- KW We don’t get to Texas very often at all and this lease, On the Verge. Can you tell me about it? will also be a short stay. We have a show the next KW It’s a little different from our previous releases where night in San Diego CA, so we’ll be leaving as soon as the show ends. we’ve dabbled with a variety of styles, but with On the Verge t However, we should be we really went for it. We did a lot of cole s a se u r e v e getting in early enough n laborating on this album. Although I I nally e e s I Friday night that we can wrote most of the lyrics there are a few “Perso s a f all it of c t enjoy ourselves on Sats songs that I wrote with others and a couju I . t s li n o s il urday before the show. ple written by other people, but as a W it.” - Kim whole we worked out the melodies and STEAM San Diego, huh? arrangements together. That makes for a long trip! I’ve never gotten to see STEAM I just read an article about collaborating and it you live, I’ve watched lots of videos though and I think pointed out the down sides. Do you find it takes longer to you’re an outstanding front man. Do you have any tips you could share with up-and-coming artists to write a song with others then by yourself? KW No, not at all. When you’re collaborating with someone give them some ideas to be a better front man? else you build on ideas, push thoughts back and forth, and KW To me it’s just whatever makes you comfortable. you can end up with a song that is a mix of talents. With col- I don’t think there is a real formula to it. Just enjoy laboration I found that we could easily complete a song, two yourself and the music; if you don’t really enjoy it songs, maybe even three in the day; whereas, I’ve got songs make it look like you do, smile. Honestly, get in to it and enjoy yourself because it makes it better for both that I’ve been trying to complete for years on my own. STEAM Do you have a technique to writing songs or how you and the audience and engage the audience when you talk about the songs or tell a quick story that redo you get inspiration to write? lates to the song. However if you talking about how to KW There’s no real formula for it with me. I find something call off songs, that is completely different and it takes that really interest me or possibly get a hook and go from a different type of skill. there. STEAM I think that must be what sets you apart, STEAM Off the On the Verge album Diamonds Won’t Kiss your ability to read the crowd and go with the flow. I You Back is my favorite while Rusty really likes that’s The know there are some performers that have a set list Way We Roll. and that’s all they want to do. KW I’m glad to hear you enjoy the album. Although you KW Exactly, it’s very mechanical. What you see and know I didn’t write Diamonds? hear is what every fan at every show will see and STEAM I do know that but I really like your tones and the here. When they see me they know they’re getting a funky rhythm to it. I realize Texas is by no means your home, but the Fabulous Thunderbirds were based out of Austin for
KW I play a little guitar. STEAM Do you use the guitar to write songs? KW No, not at all, I sing everything into a microphone. I use a voice recorder on my iPhone and I sing all the parts. Then I make notes about what I’m looking to do with it. STEAM The Fabulous Thunderbirds have been together for over 30 years and the musicians you have now have been together for the about five years. How do you deal with changing players? KW You know people change and that’s all there is to it. You don’t know a person until you live with them and in this case play music together. I learned a long time ago that people’s taste in music change and it’s really not unusual for musicians to move around. Johnny (Moeller, Guitar) has been in the band for six years, Mike (Keller, Guitar) has been in the shortest amount at five years, Randy (Bermudes, Bass Guitar) has been with me for 7 years and Jason (Moeller, Drums) has been in the longest at eight years. Basically we all know people change and a band is very much like a marriage; it just depends on how you grow within the relationship. STEAM I really wanted to thank you for taking time out to chat with me and we really look forward to seeing you in Port Aransas on the 3rd of August.. - Words by Tamma Hicks
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Buddy Guy: Rhythm & Blues –RCA and takes us on a musical travelogue thru Guy for a ripping slow blues “Evil Twin.” his more than fifty years of playing the The highlight of the disc has to be when Gary Clark, Jr. joins Guy on “Blues Don’t blues. The Rhythm disc features more modern Care.” Marking the moment when the rhythm and blues-styled tracks with deep blues torch is passed on to a worthy repregrooves. Kid Rock trades barbs with Guy sentative of the next generation.
In the tone, depth and greasy howl of Buddy Guy’s guitar you can hear all those who he influenced: Clapton, Vaughn, Moore, Bonamasa, Beck, and Hendrix.and more. At seventy six his voice is unwavering and his energy is palpable so it is no surprise he chose to release a new double album titled Rhythm & Blues. The eighteen new songs and three inspired covers could easily serve as the soundtrack to his autobiography When I Left Home: My Story, as he reminisces on his life’s adventures
on the Junior Wells’ 1960 classic “Messin With The Kid.” Critics will may scoff at this, but Buddy Guy has certainly earned the right to play this song anyway he chooses. The country tinged “One Day Away” with Keith Urban, has a sweet sentimentality to it. The Muscle Shoals horns add fuel to hat You’re Gonna Do About Me,” a rousing duet with Beth Hart. Guy rounds out the disc with a playful reading of Guitar Slim’s “Well I Done Got Over It” the gritty blues “The Devil’s Daughter,” and the seriously spooky “Whiskey Ghost.”
Disc two” The Blues,” kicks off with a geography lesson from Guy on “Meet Me In Chicago,” acting as a tour guide pointing out the highlights of his beloved city of the blues. Reese Wynans plays some fabulous barrel house piano on the classic shuffle “Too Damn Bad.” Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler, Steve Perry and Brad Whitford join Mr.
The album was produced by the Grammy winning producer Tom Hambridge who plays the drums and wrote or co-wrote all of the songs on the album. He assembled two basic all-star sets of musicians as the backing Band. The first consists of David Grissom (guitar), Reese Wynans, (B3), and Michael Rhodes (bass). The second set consists of Rob McNeely (guitar), Kevin McKendree, (B3), and Tommy MacDonald (bass). Hambridge and Guy will no doubt be looking at multiple award nominations for their efforts. http://www.buddyguy.net/
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Tedeschi Trucks Band – Made Up Mind –Sony Masterworks
After two years of touring and picking up multiple Grammy and BMA awards, Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi are clearly in the driver’s seat with the eleven piece roots-and-blues collective they formed in 2010; the second studio album, Made Up Mind, from the Tedeschi Trucks Band shows the group hitting on all cylinders. Like Revelator, their 2011 debut album, Made Up Mind was recorded at their Swamp Raga studios, a two-story, $400,000 recording and practice space behind Trucks and Tedeschi’s Jacksonville, Florida home. TTB asked several seasoned songwriters such as Doyle Bramhall, Sonja Kitchell, Oliver Wood, and John Leventhal to join in the creation of the eleven new songs. The result is an album of deep soul
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stirring music with an updated 70’s sound evocative of Sly and Family Stone, Allman Brothers, and Delaney and Bonnie. Each track is filled with interweaving melodic textures and rhythmic counterpoints that have been artfully arranged, creating a massive wall of sound that is a blend of blues, roots and soul. All of the virtuoso instrumentation is designed to highlight the amazing vocals of Susan Tedeschi who seems to have hit a real stride fronting this ensemble. Tedeschi takes charge right from the get-go on the opening title track declaring she is in a higher place and moving on as Trucks’ guitar propels the band with an infectious riff. Susan continues to testify in the scalding rebuke “Do I Look Worried,” before getting sentimental for the acoustic driven “Idle Wind.” Some super slinky Clavinet from Kofi Burbridge fuels the funk of “Misunderstood,” which also features South African bassist Bakithi Kumalo. You will swear the two tracks in the middle of the album are covers of classics: the Motown infused “Part Of Me,” which finds Tedeschi sharing vocal duties with trombonist Saunders Sermons, and the deep
swamp blues “Whiskey Legs,” that ends with a feisty guitar duel from Derek and Susan. Another of Trucks immaculate slide solos compliments the sweet gospel hymn “It’s So Heavy,” a song that Sonja Kitchell must have written with Mavis Staples in mind as Tedeschi channels her with ease. The six and half minute jazz rock fusion epic simply titled “The Storm,” whips the double drummer rhythm section into a fury (note the use of hard right and left panning with a full drum kit on each side) as Trucks blazes away. The album closes with the loving duet “Calling Out To You,” taking us to the back porch of Swamp Raga to catch a few fireflies and listen to the crickets as the sun fades away. http://www.tedeschitrucksband.com/
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T H E SH AK E D O W N similar. STEAM Who are your influences? DD I love old timey music that moves and grooves, like the 60s, 70s, and Motown. I relate better with the bass players in those genres; when they had a lot of soul and really grooved with it. I listen to that genre so much that if you put a current artist on I’d have no clue who it is, but if it’s on the oldies station, I can tell you everything about the song, including who the rhythm section is. CS We all listen to the same type of music when we’re together, but there’s always that genre we go towards individually. I am more into alternative country, like Drive-By Truckers, Ryan Bingham. Drumming wise I’m a huge Travis Parker fan, but everyone is. SA I was a teenager in the 90s so my heart belongs to Nirvana, the Smashing Pumpkins, Pearl Jam; all those that you expect, but I’ve noticed that as I’ve gotten older, my music tastes have started to go backwards a little. I listen to a lot of Rolling Stones and Beatles, but even further back to all the old blues masters, like Junior Kimbrough. Current bands I like are the Strokes, Kings of Leon, and the new Queens, the Stone Age album is awesome. My mom was very into playing 80s music, Elton John, Huey Lewis, Billy Joel and so on. I got it stuck in my head that we needed harmonies. STEAM With such varied influences what genre do you describe The Shake Down? I thought it was reminiscent of the 80s. CS I don’t think I’ve ever heard that we were an 80s genre. I have heard that we were similar to the Black Keys and the old-school 70s rock. DD Our style has been compared to the Red Hot Chili Peppers because we play such a variety of genres. I can see where you get the 80s feel – the punkish groove. How do we classify ourselves was the big question but we’re fortunate enough we’ve created an album that actually represents all the styles that we play and being a three-piece we can actually play all of those live. SA I think when we first started out we were more bluesy, but we’re becoming a little more rock oriented. We keep Blues flavor in there but we get that distorted hard rock kind of style mixing in now and at the same time we want to keep that dance groove. We’re very cognizant of keeping music that entertains people. Our passion is playing live and in the three years we’ve been together we have honed our craft pretty tightly. We also know playing live is our bread and butter so getting the audience on their feet with our music will
keep us coming back to venues. STEAM Do you have plans to tour with Hold On? SA We’ve played Corpus Christi, Austin, Houston, and San Antonio; now we want to get down to the valley as we haven’t played a lot down there. Right now our goal is in taking short tours, Thursday through Saturday, to expand throughout Texas and then into New Mexico, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and so on. We’re talking with Dylan about his ties in California so maybe we’ll head out there for a week or two. STEAM I know you guys have to get going, but really quickly… Was playing in the food court at LaPalmera Mall the strangest gig you’ve had? DD I think so. I just had this discussion with Clint and I told him how awkward it felt knowing you’ve got people eating and shopping around you, even though we had people dancing and paying a lot of attention to us. But it really felt very awkward. - Words by Tamma Hicks
BEAU WALKER BAND absolutely amazing. Ariel Hinojosa plays the bass guitar for us. They both have the ability to pick up just about any instrument and play it. Anyway, the three of them are awesome. They believe in the project we have going and we all get along so well. Honestly, since the Hinojosa’s came into the band we have had nothing but good things happen. We had recorded this awesome album at Sound Machine Studios and picked up two sponsorships: Southern Thread Western wear and Lone Star Bock. STEAM You’ll be at the Frontier Saloon on August 17th, where else can we catch your show? BWB We don’t really play a lot in Corpus Christi but over the past few years we played Theo’s Billiards, Frontier Saloon and the Executive Surf Club. You know it’s not always easy playing original music throughout a whole night so we try to throw in a couple of cover songs here and there. We really like going back to
places where we’ve gotten a good response and feel we can grow a fan base. On this third of August were opening for Matt Hole & the Hot Rod Gang at Executive Surf Club and on the 17th we’re at Frontier Saloon. We have a CD release party on August 22 at the Speakeasy in Austin. We’re at the Freeport Blues Festival on August 30. STEAM And last question I promise… where can we be able to buy your CDs. BWB You can find Cast Iron Constitution at the online store’s (iTunes, CD Baby, bandcamp.com, Amazon.com) and our live shows and on our Facebook and website. - Words by Tamma Hicks
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Sunday Dance @ Ayers Event Center
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Sunday @ Ayers Events Center
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Keepin’ Austin Weird Theresa @ Bella Luna
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A beer-lover’s dream, KEDT’s casual event of the year features more than 150 varieties of beer from around the world, accompanied by local restaurants showcasing their specialties. KEDT teams up with local beer distributors to highlight their unique selections. BASH, Bay Area Society of Homebrewers, will be there featuring homebrews with the theme “Day is Light.” Mary Ann Buchanan announced Jack and Kathy Baker, owners of B&J’s Pizza, as Honorary Chairpersons for the event. They will host the VIP Reception from 6-7 p.m. “The VIP reception allows guests early admission to the event and access to limited edition and specialty brews we might not otherwise get to try,” said Buchanan. Food/beer pairings are also offered at the reception. VIP tickets are $125/each. As usual, Classic Brew’s setting is the Corpus Christi Museum of Science and History. If you haven’t seen the museum’s fresh look, this is the night to linger in the galleries while catching up with your friends and neighbors. Classic Brew also makes for a relaxed networking event and a great night to reward your staff for their hard work. Ticket price includes free valet parking. Non-alcoholic selections are always available. Live music will be provided by STILL CRAZY. “Classic Brew’s laid-back environment is a great way to liven up Thursday night without too much fuss,” said Stephanie Christina, of KEDT’s special events department. “While we need South Texas to support public broadcasting, we appreciate a good time just as much as our viewers do!” KEDT Classic Brew on Facebook has updates on participating restaurants, silent auction items and specialty beer selections. Purchase tickets in advance at KEDT studios, B&J’s Pizza, or online. At the event, walk-in tickets can be purchased starting at 7 p.m. at the door. All proceeds benefit KEDT, your community-owned station and only source for great public broadcasting, Masterpiece Theatre’s “Downton Abbey”, Austin City Limits, and NOVA.
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