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Classic Rock Titans and Friends: Harrison and Clapton

Bob Ruggiero — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 09:00:00 +0000

One of rock and roll’s most enduring friendships was between George Harrison and Eric Clapton. From December 1964 when they first crossed paths during a Beatles Christmas show at London’s Hammersmith Odeon (Clapton was playing with the Yardbirds) up to...

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Foghat Celebrates 50 Years of Fast Licks and Slow Rides

Bob Ruggiero — Mon, 26 Jul 2021 09:00:00 +0000

Roger Earl was all of 12 years old when he went through an experience that his tsk-tsking mother said affected his mental condition. That may have been true, but it also set him on a life and career path that, at age 75, he wouldn’t have traded for any...

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Los Lobos Pay Tribute to Hometown Music on Native Sons

Bob Ruggiero — Fri, 23 Jul 2021 09:00:00 +0000

Though they’ve long billed themselves since their 1978 record debut as “just another band from East L.A.,” Los Lobos is anything but that common. Their inventive and groundbreaking mix of rock, soul, blues, R&B and surf—all wrapped in traditional M...

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Specialty Records Celebrates 75 Years of Rock History

Bob Ruggiero — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 09:00:00 +0000

While in his late twenties, Pittsburgh-area native Art Rupe decided he very much wanted to start a career in the entertainment industry—and ideally in the world of film. But he also had a lifelong love and deep passion for music, in particular gospel a...

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Blues Rocker Mike Zito Testifies to the Resurrection

Bob Ruggiero — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 09:00:00 +0000

Though he lives roughly 93.2 miles east of our city in Nederland—itself roughly between Beaumont and Port Arthur—blues rock singer/guitarist Mike Zito has a soft spot for H-Town. Even if it might piss off some residents of yet another municipality a bi...

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Texas Author Invites Children to Sing with Selena

Bob Ruggiero — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 09:30:00 +0000

While she was not a native daughter of the Texas city, Corpus Christi has certainly claimed Selena Quintanilla—the late singer who has since become an icon—as a favorite daughter. Diana López was born and raised in Corpus Christi, and has now returned ...

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Yacht Rock Revue Sees Smooth Seas Ahead in Post-Pandemic Tour

Bob Ruggiero — Tue, 13 Jul 2021 09:30:00 +0000

When the unwelcome house guest named COVID came knocking on the world’s front doors in March 2020, there were hundreds of bands literally in the middle of tours who had to abruptly cancel everything, pack up and head home. The Atlanta-based Yacht Rock ...

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Everclear Revisits a ’90s “Summerland” on Festival Tour

Bob Ruggiero — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 09:00:00 +0000

He's most associated with cities on the far west coast like Portland, L.A., and "Santa Monica." But if Art Alexakis says from the stage that “It’s great to be back in Houston,” he wants you to know it’s not just rote stage banter; he means it. Beginnin...

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French Impressionism Stars in the MFAH Exhibit From Monet to Matisse

Bob Ruggiero — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 09:00:00 +0000

Though he was of German-Argentinian descent and educated in the United States at Harvard, author philanthropist Georges Bemberg (1915-2011) had a passion for France, French culture, and in particular Impressionist art cultivated during his many years o...

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There’s Harmony and Humor with the BROS Currie on Side Project

Bob Ruggiero — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 09:00:00 +0000

It’s a well-worn trope—albeit one that seems to be true—that rock and roll brothers in the same band will battle and break up. Ask the Everlys, Gibbs, Wilsons, Fogertys, Davies, Robinsons, or Gallaghers. Hell, even the Dorsey brothers had a bitter feud...

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The Jenny Thing: Uniting an ’80s Sound and ’90s History with Today’s Worldview

Bob Ruggiero — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 09:00:00 +0000

The plot line of middle aged men “trying to get the band back together” from their youth has been mined—usually for comedic purposes—by plenty of novels and movies. But the reunited four members of The Jenny Thing are plenty serious about reestablishin...

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The Volumaniacs’ Breakfast of Choice: Feedback with a Side of Nik and Lori

Bob Ruggiero — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 09:00:00 +0000

One thing the music programming of SiriusXM satellite radio has in abundance is variety. It seems like there’s practically a channel for every genre and style, including Albanian Jazz-Inflected Death Metal Featuring Klezmers. But when Senior Director o...

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KISS Rocks and Rolls All Nite for Two Nights on A&E Doc

Bob Ruggiero — Fri, 25 Jun 2021 09:00:00 +0000

Though he was born in 1973 – a bit too late to experience the impact of the band at its commercial and cultural peak – young D.J. Viola nevertheless became a hardcore KISS fan. Though he knows it wasn’t always easy for other kids to sneak that fandom p...

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Warrant Brings Houston a Special Slice of Cherry Pie—Plus Eddie Trunk!

Bob Ruggiero — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 09:30:00 +0000

To his listeners across the country on various radio shows and a podcast—but most prominently his daily Trunk Nation program on SiriusXM—Eddie Trunk is an Oracle of All Things Hard Rock and Heavy Metal. Add Prophet to the list, since something he’s bee...

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Chris Thomas King Writes Fiery Reassessment of Blues History and Meaning

Bob Ruggiero — Mon, 21 Jun 2021 09:00:00 +0000

Every so often, a music book comes along that challenges the work which precedes it, creates much discussion (and sometimes consternation), and causes both proponents and detractors to either reexamine or double down on long held beliefs. This book, by...

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Allen Hill Says “Yeah, Yeah, Yeah!” to Love

Bob Ruggiero — Fri, 18 Jun 2021 09:00:00 +0000

Allen Hill has long been a staple and stalwart of the Houston live music scene, and a charter member of the Continental Club Mafia. That group of players known for switching among multiple (often cover) bands, and whose performance base is at the Midto...

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Lowrider Love Celebrates the Sweet Sounds of Oldies But Goodies

Bob Ruggiero — Tue, 15 Jun 2021 09:00:00 +0000

The music biz is certainly no stranger to spotlighting intense love affairs (we’re looking at you, Taylor and her Swifties). But there’s an especially hot one going on now between record collectors and reissue labels. Whether repping major artists and ...

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Miles Copeland Remembers the Police, Go-Go’s, Bangles, and Timbuk 3 in New Memoir

Bob Ruggiero — Fri, 11 Jun 2021 09:00:00 +0000

Miles Copeland II was a longtime CIA operative in the Middle East and involved in all sorts of secretive spy missions from the 1940s through the ‘60s. And his son—Miles A. Copeland III—often had to use similarly delicate skills and negotiating tactics,...

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Dennis DeYoung Wraps Up Recording Career with Nostalgic – Yet Timely – 26 East Vol. 2

Bob Ruggiero — Thu, 10 Jun 2021 09:00:00 +0000

He thought he was done making new music. Finito. End of the Road. When Dennis DeYoung released what he was calling 26 East last year, he fully expected it to be his final studio album in a long and storied career that stretched back to 1972 with the fi...

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A Trio of Texas Authors Take on the Many Myths of the Alamo

Bob Ruggiero — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 09:30:00 +0000

It is, likely, the most cherished and entrenched story in Texas history. How in late February/early March of 1836, heroic Texas defenders including marquee names like Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie, and William Barret Travis fought a pitched but losing battl...

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