12th annual Americana jam rocks

KNBT-FM’s 12th annual Americana MusicJam, held May 18 at Gruene Hall, may bringin between $50,000 and $60,000 for twocharities when all’s said and done, accordingto station program director/jam overseerMattson Rainer. The jam drew a sellout crowdof Americana fans, any one of whom couldalso become the winning bidder for the gui-tar KNBT is auctioning (bidding is open toanyone). It’s signed by all the artists who per-formed at the laid-back, well-paced jam.Players who came to support the station’scauses — SANE and the Comal County Jr.Livestock Show Association — were RobertEarl Keen, Reckless Kelly, Hayes Carll, Walt

Wilkins & the Mystiqueros, Wade Bowen,Micky & the Motorcars, Stoney LaRue, TomGillam, Scott Miller, Cody Canada, the Bandof Heathens, Corb Lund, Bleu Edmondson,and Zack Walther & the Cronkites. When herecovered from a day and night of runningbetween two stages, Rainer reported, “It wassuch a beautiful day. So much great music …when Cody Canada ended the night duelingguitars with Rich Brotherton and DannyBarnes during Robert Earl Keen’s classic ‘TheRoad Goes On Forever,’ I knew we hadachieved the ultimate moment of the night.It exemplified what Americana is all about.”

Radio giant Clear Channel soldSan Antonio-based Clear Channel Commu-nications Inc., the nearly monolithic ruler ofradio with 1,200 owned and/or operated sta-tions, has been sold. And it was such a deal at$17.9 billion, or $36 a share, Reuters reports.The original price was supposed to be $37.60,but after shareholders protested, it went up to$39.20, or nearly $20 billion. But after theeconomy tanked and the banks tried to backout of the deal, the lawsuits flew. Meanwhile,the value kept dropping. The deal, withinvestors Thomas H. Lee Partners and BainCapital, finally was hammered out on May 13.

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D.C. celebrates Texas traditionsThe National Mall in Washington, D.C., willturn Texan for 10 days during the Smithson-ian Institution’s annual Smithsonian FolklifeFestival, which this year will feature a pro-gram called “Texas: A Celebration of Music,Food and Wine.” Dates are June 25-June 29and July 2-6. According to the festival’s Website, “Texas at the Smithsonian will illustratea dynamic and creative society built uponrich natural resources, thriving cosmopolitancities and engaging rural landscapes, where arich heritage of freedom, optimism, opportu-nity and achievement contribute to a vibrantcontemporary culture.” Although the enter-tainment lineup has yet to be announced,Pollstar and artist Web pages reveal thatAsleep at the Wheel, Terri Hendrix, Joe Elyand C.J. Chenier & the Red Hot LouisianaBand will all be participating in the Lone Starsalute. NASA is also in the spotlight during

this year’s festival. For more information, visitwww.folklife.si.edu/festival/2008/Texas.

S.A. twins score with jingleSan Antonio twins Ashley and Ashton Ruizmay be barely old enough to drive, but theduo hit just the right notes to win the highschool edition of the Texas Department ofTransportation’s “Put Texas in Your Corner”jingle contest. Their entry will become partof a campaign urging students to registertheir vehicles. As a reward, the twins’school, James Madison High, was presentedlast week with $10,000 worth of musicalinstruments and equipment from Epiphone,plus an on-campus performance byHouston-based rap star Chingo Bling cour-tesy of Asylum Records and the RecordingAcademy’s Texas Chapter. The opening act,appropriately enough, was the Ruiz twins(under their stage name of 2-Uneek).

Cleaves reteams with MorlixAfter recording his last album, 2006’sUnsung, with producers David Henry andRod Picott, Slaid Cleaves reports that he’sbeen working “on and off” with Gurf Morlixsince late March on a new album that’s “justabout done.” Morlix, of course, manned theboards for Cleaves’ No Angel Knows, BrokeDown and Wishbones. Cleaves says he wasoriginally aiming for a September releasefor his latest offering, but early ’09 nowlooks more likely. In the meantime, the NewEngland-reared, Austin-based singer-song-writer is tuning his trusty (and sometimesnot so trusty) van up for a 2,000-mile,seven-city tour of Texas. It kicks off May 28at Courville’s Restaurant in Beaumont andwraps up June 6 at the Cactus Cafe inAustin, with stops in San Antonio, Kerrville,Port Aransas, San Marcos and Sherman in-between.

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Ingram, Lambert win big at ACMs

A mere 13 years after self-releasing hisdebut album, Jack Ingram was named TopNew Male Vocalist at the Academy ofCountry Music Awards, held May 18 in LasVegas. Brooks & Dunn added another TopVocal Duo award to their trophy case, andMiranda Lambert’s Crazy Ex-Girlfriend wonAlbum of the Year. Atlanta, Texas nativeTracy Lawrence picked up a Vocal Event ofthe Year award for “Find Out Who YourFriends Are,” a collaboration with TimMcGraw and Entertainer of the Year winnerKenny Chesney.

The Truckers rollThe Mother Truckers must have a thing forwheels. That could be why they’ll be featuringmembers of the Texas Roller DerbyAssociation in two videos they’re filming nextweek at Austin’s Continental Club. Both songsalso happen to be in the film RollerDollz, com-ing to a theater — or somewhere — near youin September. The band’s new CD, Let’s All Goto Bed, drops with an in-store at Austin’sWaterloo Records on June 3.

And this week in Willie news ...Our hero, America’s favorite outlaw countrysinger, has written a novel. Well, co-written.Historical Western novelist and singer-song-writer Mike Blakely, of Marble Falls, handled atleast some of the heavy lifting. The book,called A Tale Out of Luck, will hit shelves inSeptember. Published by Center Street/Hachette Book Group, it’s described as a clas-sic wild-West tale, with characters and themesright out of, ahem, a novel: Texas Rangers,cattle rustlers, Indian warriors, ladies of theevening … you get the picture. Or maybeWillie will, after he sells the movie rights. Ofcourse, it’s got a character named Hank.

Jesse Dayton has Boss encounterApparently, you just never know. Which iswhy Bruce Springsteen fans continue toshow up at any club where there’s a hint of achance he might pop in. When Austin’s JesseDayton, who’s been on tour opening for MikeNess (Social Distortion), heard the Bossmight drop by the Stone Pony when theyplayed that legendary Jersey club on May 17,he dismissed the rumor. But in hisHardcharger’s Herald newsletter, he writes,“Sure as shit, the Boss shows and brangs itin a big way ... the show was legendary, espe-cially hanging with him at the club where hegot his start ... in all the years I’ve been play-ing, I’ve never seen an audience as ferociousas the one that night.” Springsteen con-tributed vocals to a song on Ness’ first soloalbum, Cheating at Solitaire. In June, anotherAustin band, the Horton Brothers, will grabthe opening slot on Ness’ tour.

... And Bruce hangs with TexansHarley-Davidson may be based in Milwaukee,but the company couldn’t possibly celebratethe 105th anniversary of the hog without

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some Texas talent. On Aug. 29-30 atMilwaukee’s Summerfest Grounds, ZZ Topand Los Lonely Boys join a roster thatincludes Bruce Springsteen & the E StreetBand, Foo Fighters, Dierks Bentley, BuddyGuy and, of course, the Black RebelMotorcycle Club. What, no Steppenwolf?

Pritchett to headline float festRFT, to diehard fans of the independent-minded Texas country scene, stands for twoentities: the Beaumont-based Internet sta-tion Radio Free Texas, and the station’sthird annual Rowdy Float Trip. The event,which will be held July 18 and 19 in NewBraunfels, will feature Phil Pritchett,Jackson Taylor, Rich O’Toole, Rodney Parker& 50 Peso Reward and up-and-comers suchas Drew Kennedy, Bo Cox, Britt Lloyd andMike Ethan Messick. For serious road-trip-pers, there will also be an RFT Pre-FloatFestival May 30 and 31 in Davis, Okla. KevinFowler and the Randy Rogers Band willheadline.

Tremolocos tour hits TexasRuben “El Gato Negro” Ramos, LosTexmaniac Max Baca, Houston singer-song-writer Lise Liddell and Roberto “El Primo”Pulido are among the Texas artists who willhook up with Tony Zamora & Tremoloco asthe L.A. band makes its way through vari-ous Texas towns, including Austin, Houstonand San Antonio. Zamora and Tremoloco —Cougar Estrada, Rick Shea, Bob Robles,Mike Tovar and Juan Chacon — are an all-star band of sidemen with credits from LosLobos to Dave Alvin to R.E.M. and Airto.And on their new album, Tremoloco, theyhad their own sidemen (and women),including David Hidalgo, Greg Leisz, JohnnyLee Schell, Stephen Bruton, Ian McLagan,

Cindy Cashdollar, Red Volkaert, JoelGuzman and War founding members HaroldBrown and Lee Oskar. Their swing throughthe Lone Star State starts June 11.www.tremolocos.com for info.

Western swing on the GreenOfficially, the event’s called “Blues on theGreen,” but Austin being Austin, who’sgonna do a double-take when Asleep at theWheel opens this year’s edition of KGSR-FM’s free summer concert series? Or moreto the point, who’s gonna dare tell RayBenson that he and his posse don’t reallyplay the blues? Yeah, we didn’t think so. TheWheel kicks off the series, held at ZilkerPark, on June 11. The rest of the seasonsticks closer to the blues theme: Marcia Ballon June 25, Los Lonely Boys (with ShawnSahm & the Tex Mex Experience) on July 9,Carolyn Wonderland on July 23, SonnyLandreth on Aug. 6 and Doyle Bramhall andGary Clark Jr. on Aug. 20.

Songwriters hit the WebThe Hank Sinatra Presents the SongwritersSeries Internet TV Show (catchy title, that)just kicked off its fifth season of pairingTexas musicians with their out-of-state (andoften international) contemporaries forWebcasts from the Hank’s Place soundstagein Austin. It is available to music fans acrossthe globe at www.songwritersseries.com.The online show’s eclectic mix of backyardcharm and broadband technology hasreached over 50,000 viewers worldwidewith its weekly broadcasts of concertfootage and artist interviews. Artistsalready featured this season include BobCheevers, Cleve Hattersly and Sweet Maryof Greezy Wheels fame, Graham Weber andMeagan Tubb.

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23-25Dallas ArtfestFair ParkDallaswww.artfest500.com

National Polka FestivalVarious LocationsEnniswww.nationalpolkafestival.com

30-31RFT Pre-Float FestivalWashita HideawayDavis, Okla.www.overdriveent.com

30-6/1Thomas Michael Riley’s Back to theBasics Music FestivalLuckenbach Dance HallLuckenbachwww.luckenbachtexas.com

Country Thunder USAFestival CampgroundsWaxahachiewww.countrythunder.com

31Denison Singer-Songwriter Series withWalt Wilkins and the MystiquerosRialto TheaterDenisonwww.smalltownbigart.com

1-7/13International Festival Institute at Round TopFestival HillRound Topwww.festivalhill.org

6American Bank of Texas Frisco Grooveswith Terri HendrixWarren Sports Complex Friscowww.friscogrooves.org

7Accordion Kings & QueensMiller Outdoor Theatre, Hermann ParkHoustonwww.texasfolklife.org

11Comal Country Music ShowCivic CenterNew Braunfelswww.nbsenior.org

KGSR Blues on the Green with Asleep at the WheelZilker ParkAustinwww.kgsr.com

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Ray Wylie Hubbardheadlines the KerrvilleFolk Festival May 22.

Walt Wilkins and the Mystiqueros perform atthe Denison Singer-Songwriter Series May 31.

Billy Joe Shaver performs at the Back to theBasics Music Festival in Luckenbach May 30.

J U N EKerrville Folk FestivalMay 22-June 8

Diehard “Kerrverts” have like-ly had this marked on theircalendar since last year, buthere’s a heads up just in caseyou lost track of time outthere in the real world: the2008 Kerrville Folk Festivalkicks off this week and runsthrough June 8. That’s 18days of world-class rootsmusic, with a lineup heavy onTexas talent including TomRussell, the Lost Gonzo Band,Terri Hendrix, Eliza Gilkyson,Slaid Cleaves, Sara Hickmanand Ray Wylie Hubbard, whoheadlines the opening night.Stay the night (or all 18 of ’em)and you’ll be sure to hearmore campfire song swapsthan you can shake a tentpole at. May 22-June 8; QuietValley Ranch, Kerrville; forschedule and ticket info, visitwww.kerrvillefolkfestival.com.

ADAM CARROLLOld Town Rock ’N Roll(www.adamcarroll.com)The title of Adam Carroll’sfifth album comes loaded

with promise of a Dylan goes electric-typerevelation that never quite comes tofruition. But if this isn’t necessarily Carrollas you’ve never heard him before, it’s stillas solid a batch of songs as Texas’ younganswer to John Prine has ever come upwith (with “Hi Fi Love” and the title trackin particular standing out as real gems).And the production and multi-instrumen-tal assists by Scott Nolan distinguish Rock’N Roll enough from Carroll’s previousLloyd Maines-produced albums to suggestCarroll may well be ready to fully spreadhis wings the next time out. RICHARD SKANSE

THE BAND OFHEATHENSThe Band of Heathens(www.bandofheathens.com)Austin’s Band of Heathensalready has two live

albums under its belt, so fans know thisrising roots-rock quintet thrives as a free-range outfit. But as shown on their veryfirst studio album, the quintet’s magicholds up under more controlled circum-stances, too. While take-flight anthemslike “Don’t Call on Me” and “UnsleepingEye” still might work best rumbling road-house rafters, producer Ray WylieHubbard allows gnarly grooves like“Jackson Station” and “Second Line” toachieve the artistic nobility this songwrit-ers’ summit deserves. BRIAN T. ATKINSON

GUY FORSYTHCalico Girl(Small and Nimble)If Guy Forsyth had toremake any one of his old

records from scratch, 1999’s Can You LiveWithout was a prime candidate in terms ofquality material. Song for song, it still holdsup as arguably his best album — thoughmaybe now that honor is shared with CalicoGirl, for which Forsyth re-recorded all butone of Can You Live Without’s songs andtacked on a couple of new ones. He explainswhy in the liner notes and in the new track,“Where’d You Get the Music”: He signed abad record deal without a lawyer, lost own-ership of his masters and now he can’t evenobtain copies to sell at his shows. The origi-nal recordings, he says, are still “available iniTunes, but none of that money gets to me.”So, voila, here’s those songs again, recutand freshly released on Forsyth’s own labelnine years later. Of course, it comes as nosurprise that the songs hold up and theperformances on Calico Girl positivelysmoke. But honestly, they smoked the firsttime around, too, making the whole endeav-or feel like a vanity exercise — a stiff middlefinger to the “smiling men in suits” whotook advantage of him as a naive youngerman. As thrilling as it is to hear him stillmaking such great music now that he’s a lit-tle older and a lot wiser, the fact is that hisfans and Forsyth himself might have beenbetter served had he left his past in thepast and channeled all that frustration, pas-sion and fire into something truly fresh andinspired. Calico Girl is highly recommendedif you’re a completist or brand new toForsyth’s music. But frankly, if you’vealready got the originals, it’s a great albumyou can live without. RICHARD SKANSE

May 20 Guy Forsyth Calico Girl Small & NimbleMay 20 Cory Morrow Vagrants & Kings SustainMay 20 The Band of Heathens The Band of Heathens BandofHeathens.comMay 20 Tomcat Courtney Downsville Blues Blue WitchMay 20 Bun B II Trill Rap-A-LotMay 27 Adam Carroll Old Town Rock ’N Roll AdamCarroll.comMay 27 Eliza Gilkyson Beautiful World Red HouseJune 3 Lisa Loeb Camp Lisa (children’s album) Furious RoseJune 3 Mother Truckers Let’s All Go to Bed FunzaloJune 3 Pinetop Perkins Pinetop Perkins and Friends TelarcJune 3 Lockboxx Drop Shop CharacterJune 3 Centro-Matic/ Dual Hawks Misra

South San GabrielJune 10 Alejandro Escovedo Real Animal (vinyl only) Back PorchJune 10 Kimmie Rhodes Walls Fall Down SunbirdJune 10 Sisters Morales Talking to the River LunaJune 10 Carla Olson & the Textones Detroit ’85 — Live & Unreleased Collector’s ChoiceJune 10 Carla Olson & Mick Taylor Too Hot for Snakes Collector’s ChoiceJune 17 Mark Chesnutt Rollin’ with the Flo Lofton Creek/Big 7June 17 Susan Gibson New Dog, Old Tricks For The RecordsJune 17 Honeybrowne Mile By Mile Smith MusicJune 17 Rob Roy Parnell Let’s Start Something Blue RocketJune 17 Heybale The Last Country Album Shuffle 5June 24Reckless Kelly Bulletproof Yep RocJune 24Alejandro Escovedo Real Animal Back PorchJune 24Ian McLagan Never Say Never ManiacJuly 1 Los Lonely Boys Forgiven EpicJuly 1 Willie Nelson Stardust (Legacy Ed.) Columbia/LegacyJuly 8 Willie Nelson Two Men with the Blues Blue Note

& Wynton MarsalisAug. 5 Carrie Rodriguez She Ain’t Me Back Porch

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Rob Roy Parnell ready to Start SomethingDripping Springs singer/harp blower Rob Roy Parnell will release his first album in eightyears, Let’s Start Something, on June 17. Described as a mix of rockin’ blues, boogie-woogie,R&B and soul, the disc was co-produced by John Kunz, owner of the renowned indie recordstore Waterloo Records. Players include brother Lee Roy Parnell, Stephen Bruton andHector Watt on guitar; Sarah Brown on bass; backing vocalists Jay Boy Adams and JonellMosser; Delbert McClinton band members Kevin McKendree on keyboards, Lynn Williams ondrums and Don Wise on sax, plus alums Lewis Stephens (keyboards), James Pennebaker(guitar) and Dave Millsap (guitar). Bruton, Brown and Milsap also share writing credits, alongwith Mike Cross and Will Indian.

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Cory MorrowLast year, Cory Morrowrevisited the firstdecade of his recordingcareer by updatingsome of his most popu-lar songs for a retro-spective called TenYears. Fan reaction tothe new versions, headmits, was “crappy.”

But that’s OK, because, beginning with 2005’sNothing Left to Hide, the Houston-born,Austin-based songwriter made it clear he hadthe mettle to color outside the lines of theTexas country scene he helped kickstart withhis Texas Tech buddy, Pat Green, in the mid-’90s. Morrow’s new Vagrants & Kings picks upright where Nothing Left to Hide left off —playful and full of hooks but unapologeticallyadventurous and mature compared to thesimpler songs about Texas that put him onthe map. “I’m not in college anymore,” heexplains matter-of-factly. “I’m not tubingdown the Guadalupe every day and thinkingthat that’s the greatest thing there is. I don’twant to look back and say, ‘The best years ofmy life were then.’ The best years of my lifeare now, and are ahead of me.”

At the time you were making Nothing Leftto Hide, did it feel like a reboot to you? It definitely felt like it was a step in a newdirection. I’ve been writing and doing this forquite a while, and I was always trying to havethe music evolve and grow. The sound that Ihad when I first started writing and firststarted playing was simple and clichéd andsilly and fun, and I didn’t really take myself allthat seriously. But as I get older, I see thingsin a different light, and I feel like that record

Q&A was exemplary of a growth in my spiritualityand my life and my adulthood.

What brought about that I-don’t-have-to-write-songs-that-sound-like-what-peopleexpect-me-to-write realization?That’s it. It gets to a point where … I’m writingfor me, and I’m trying to find a sound that Ilike. I like to listen to Bob Schneider quite a bitthese days, and Darryl Scott, and the WaylonPayne record, The Drifter, was a real inspira-tion to me, too. It’s just a whole ’nother realmof music for me, all this stuff out there that Inever knew about before, and it really got meexcited and fired up to realize that it’s not alljust a two-stepping world. It’s like having awhole other tool to work with.

And yet there will always be those self-proclaimed “diehard fans” who will rantthat you’ve sold out and need to go backto making “real Texas music.” Yeah. But I’ve also had people come up to meand say, “I’ve listened to you since you start-ed, and I love the stuff you used to write and Ilove the stuff you’re doing now … I can’t waitto see what you do next.” But there are defi-nitely people out there that don’t understandany music different from “Margaritaville” or“Lone Star beer in my cereal.” And it’s unfor-tunate that you can’t get them to understandthat this is still me, but this is a different partof my life.

That said, I can’t imagine your old-schoolfans not digging the new album’s “All Saidand Done.” With all the song names youdrop in it — everything from “L.A.Freeway” to “Mustang Burn” — it’s like alove letter to the Texas country scene. Yeah … that’s exactly what we did on that. Ibrought that tune to Walt Wilkins, Lee Brice

and Doug Johnson one day when we werewriting together, and they all went, “Uh,we’re not sure about that one.” I said, “Iknow it sounds kind of silly, but we can makeit fun if we make it smart. We can dumb itdown a little bit, but we can make it intelli-gent, too, if we put these songs together andsay these things in a really unique way.” So Ikind of talked them into it, and we all startedwriting down all the different songs that weall thought were kind of cool and neat.

After more than a decade of doing this —and especially after seeing the rise ofpretty much a whole new generation ofTexas country artists like Randy Rogersand such — do you ever feel like you’vegraduated to “old guy” status? You know, it’s starting to get there. Myfiancé’s 10 years younger than me, so it hits

me quite often! I’m having these memoriesand conversations with people about theway things were just 20 years ago. Therereally wasn’t much of a Texas music scene.We’d go see Robert Earl Keen or Jerry JeffWalker when I was in college, and that waslike the start of it. But before I was in college,man, I was into, like, Led Zeppelin. I listenedto classic rock. I wasn’t really aware of whatelse was going on until I got to college, andmy buddies would bring out Steve Earle. Iwas like, ‘Who the fuck is Steve Earle?’ Andthen Robert Earl Keen, and I was like, ‘SteveEarle, Robert Earl — who are these guys?And why are they all Earle?’ I was a dork.And I’d think, ‘Man, they sure can’t sing verywell.’ And my friends would go, ‘Listen to thewords!’ And then I’d really listen, and I’d go,‘Oh my God, yeah — now I get it!’ That waswhen it all started for me. RICHARD SKANSE

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