 Lone Star Webstation Music News & Notes Spring 2008 Home | Greetings | Townes | Links | Contact  NPR Radio w/World Cafe"Any fool can deal with a crisis; it's this day-to-day stuff we gotta watch out for."  NEW TEXAS MUSIC TEXAS MUSIC AWARDS Congratulations to all recipients and nominees honored on Saturday, May 3, 2008, in Palestine, Texas, for recordings released last year (2007). Visit the site and enjoy more Texas music.  DAVID BYBOTH'S FIRST CD RELEASEDTitle: MY MIND'S EYE (From Spygoat Records, Spring 2008) 
Performing songwriter David Byboth's brand new Ray Wylie Hubbard produced CD is a fine collection of high-low-and-in-between songs and stories about real and imagined characters. As Vince Bell says, “With just an acoustic guitar and a story to tell, David can hold his own with the best of us.” LSW seconds the notion and thinks Texas music doesn't get much better than this.
Click here to check it out for yourself on Byboth's MySpace site.
Available from CDBaby.Excerpts from other reviews: "As both a review writer and house concert host...I had a pretty good idea that Byboth’s CD would be one of the better ones, but folks, it’s one of the great ones..." Complete review at MissLana.com "Playing this album is like having a coupla friends over with a few beers and guitars...singing songs about Texas, lost loves, good neighbors and old friends..." More at Eartaste Related note: One of David Byboth's songs "The Letters," has been added to Neil Young's Songs of the Times list. As of this writing it's #179 out of more than 2500 songs ranked by the number of plays they get. Sorry, but this one not on the new cd but is posted on Byboth's MySpace site. SHORT LIST OF SOME SONGS WE LIKE ABOUT TEXAS Includes "Don't You Think It Ought to Be Texas?" from the new cd by David Byboth. Some of these songs can be heard on the artists' Internet sites. "Wild Blue Flowers of Texas" - Shake Russell Band "When the Bluebonnets Bloom" - Robert Earl Keen Band "Austin When It Rains" - Jeff Talmadge "Texas Moon" - Ann Armstrong "London Homesick Blues" - Gary P. Nunn "Texas Cookin'" - Guy Clark "Texas Is One Song Away" - Richard Dobson "Tornado Time in Texas" - Guy Clark "East Texas Pines" - Sunny Sweeney "What I Like about Texas" - Gary P. Nunn "Uncertain Texas" - Richard Dobson "Texas Rivers Song" (Traditional) - Townes Van Zandt version "Amarillo by Morning" - George Strait (More later...) HUNKASAURUS RELEASES "FOUR-TH"This delightful collection of upbeat songs includes seven "TH" originals, three of them solo instrumentals featuring the artist's "Pet Dog Guitar," a 1964 Silvertone acoustic. Click here to listen to all twelve songs on Tom Hendricks' latest and cleverly titled fourth cd. HUNKASAURUS and His Pet Dog Guitar play BOX OFFICE CONCERTS each Tuesday and Wednesday evening at the Inwood Theatre in Dallas. 
About ten years ago multimedia artist Tom Hendricks landed a very long-term gig playing music in the box office of Landmark's beautifully restored Inwood Theatre
in Dallas where he performs as "Hunkasaurus and His Pet Dog Guitar," the latter a 1964 Silvertone acoustic.Of his "post-bands" performance persona Hendricks says, "It was the dumbest name I could think of, and I wanted to bring the fun back to music.” Click here to read more of the story inTexas Highways. Visit www.hunkasaurus.com to hear songs from the first four "post-bands" cds. Related note: Hendricks' AOL song has been listed on Neil Young's "Songs of the Times" list. As of this writing it's #120 out of more than 2500 songs ranked by the number of plays they get. Search for “AOL (Can Go and Tank Tomorrow)” if you can’t find it. Related links: (1) Box Office Concert Photos. (2) Musea, Hendricks' award-winning indie arts zine. THIS, THAT, 'N' EVERYTHING ELSE EARTASTE OF DR. DAVE & MR. HAZE, THE NEW CD BY DAVIDE RAVERA
Listen to live version of "Wind from Seattle" from Ravera's new cd.It's "dedicated to those who still believe in a better world." We've been waiting around for this one for a long time and appreciate the official listening copy. "Wind from Seattle" (track #4) would also be a good one for the LWW Songs of the Times list. Davide Ravera (aka "Hazydavey") is a performing songwriter based in Modena, Italy. Related Video: "Wired" (a live recording). He is an accomplished guitarist with English and Italian language repertoire. Listen to more songs by Davide Ravera now posted on his MySpace site. Anyone who wants to order a copy of DR. DAVE & MR. HAZE directly from the artist can email him through contact link posted at davideravera.com. Highly recommended. Related note: Webmaster for Ravera's new site is UK performing songwriter Shaun Belcher. 
LIVING WITH WAR TODAY & SONGS OF THE TIMES"No one song can change the world. But that doesn't mean it's time to stop singing." Neil Young's LWW site now has more than 2,500 titles/links posted on its "Songs of the Times" list. Songwriters who have protest or topical songs available on the web are invited to send links for possible listings to songs@lwwtoday.com. LWW Protest Videos: More than 400 now listed. Protest video links can be sent to videos@lwwtoday.com.
THINKING ABOUT WORDS & MUSIC & WAR & PEACE It has been said that music, cinema, and English are the universal languages of our time. The following links seem to illustrate the point: (1) See/hear YouTube video of "Political World" by El Bob. (2) Listen to new-to-us Italian language translations of Neil Young songs by Renzo Cozzani. Also, click here for more Cozzani translations/covers of songs written by Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, and Townes Van Zandt. (3) Read about Dutch language translations and recordings of Townes Van Zandt songs. AUSTRALIAN VIDEO REMIX OF PK'S "FROM LITTLE THINGS BIG THINGS GROW"A new version of this Paul Kelly classic by The Get Up Mob hopes to inspire and encourage Australians to get up and get behind creating equal opportunities for Indigenous Australians. Related link: PK on NPR's Word Cafe - interview w/songs. 
TRAILER STAR LOUNGEThe UK's Americana, power-pop, nu-folk and blues network. LUCINDA WILLIAMS Click here for Lucinda's new tour schedule. No Texas venues listed yet. BOB DYLAN GETS PULITZER PRIZE CITATION FOR PROFOUND IMPACT "A Special Citation to Bob Dylan for his profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power." Bob Dylan Birthday Tribute: Sat/May 24 @OQAC/Galveston, Texas. "NO DEPRESSION" UPDATE No Depression, the bimonthly magazine covering a broad range of American roots music since 1995, moves forward with plans to expand its Internet site and transition from a bimonthly print publication to an annual bookazine. Visit www.nodepression.net for more. BLUE SHOE PROJECT Grammy-winning Texas-based organization dedicated to the preservation and perpetuation of America's music. CENTER FOR TEXAS MUSIC HISTORY CTMH at Texas State University-San Marcos focuses on the preservation and study of Texas and Southwestern music history. TEXAS MUSIC MAGAZINE A quarterly print publication with free e-zine.  THE TEXAS OBSERVER"The Texas Observer writes about issues ignored or underreported in the mainstream press...goal is to cover stories crucial to the public interest and to provoke dialogue that promotes democratic participation and open government, in pursuit of a vision of Texas..." (From their Internet site.) Covers music, poetry, and culture as well as Texas politics. RELATED NOTE: Performing Songwriter Naomi Shihab Nye is the current poetry editor for The Texas Observer as well as the author of several volumes of poetry including Hugging the Jukebox. Click here to listen to related Library of Congress Webcast. THE TEXAS MUSIC OFFICE TMO serves as the information clearinghouse for the Texas music industry. The TMO calendar lists more than 500 annual indoor and outdoor events showcasing Texas music and reflecting our state's musical history and cultural diversity. In order for you to hear the soundfiles on this page or on linked sites you might need to download one of these free players: Real Player | Windows Media Player | Winamp Player © 1995-2008 Lone Star Webstation created and maintained by me. All names, images, music, text, and other items contained within are copyrighted material of the respective artists and/or their representative agents, unless otherwise specified (where known). If anyone objects to the use of any of these, please let me know.
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