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Unwelcome roar: May 17th's Edgefest was a hit at The Ballpark in Arlington, but the ball may have been hit right out of the park. Concert promoters didn't think Arlington residents lived close enough to the amphitheater next to the Rangers' stadium to be bothered by noise from the festival, but some locals have asked the city council to disallow such events in the future. Aside from the complaints of loud music and cursing, the 11-hour-long festival went down without a hitch. The event attracted around 30,000 music fans to hear such groups as Everclear, the Mighty Mighty Bosstones, and Denton's freaky Bobgoblin. Less than a dozen arrests were made, only two people were treated for heat exhaustion, and evidently traffic was less severe than during a Rangers' sellout. Even so, the first big music event at The Ballpark may be its last because a couple of residents couldn't deal with an afternoon of din. What of the 30,000 people who had a blast?
 Homage to Hendrix: We all know that Junior Brown likes to throw Jimi Hendrix riffs into the mix at his idiosyncratic jazz/rock/country shows. But now the Austin Chronicle reports that guitar wizard Brown has thrown a much bigger tribute to the Hendrix experience into his shows lately: none other than the portly drummer Buddy Miles, formerly of Hendrix's Band of Gypsies. Miles also appeared on the Hendrix albums Electric Ladyland and The Cry of Love and has played with Carlos Santana. Miles, who is based in Fort Worth, will continue to play with Brown when he's available says the Chronicle, but is not considered a permanent member of the band. A light read: A new book about Texas music has come out by native Dallasite Rick Koster, who currently lives and writes in Connecticut. With the original and titillating title Texas Music, the book weighs in at only 340 pages, which Koster says was due to a contractual page limit with St. Martin's Press. Koster says it easily could have been 1,000 pages long. Texas Music is divided into eight sections -- country, rock, blues, folksingers and songwriters, "the flavors of ethnicity," soul/R&B, easy listening, and jazz -- and even though its current length keeps it from covering the state's musical history and current scene with the depth it sings out for, it still makes a handy reference tool.
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