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Bach to Basie
Dallas’ KERA discovered that music that’s good for you doesn’t have to be boring.
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Jody Denberg
Beyond the Blues
The unlikely twosome of eccentric rocker Doug Sahm and blues champion Clifford Antone has rescued from obscurity a distinctively rhythmic, indisputably raunchy regional sound.
By Jody Denberg
Chantilly Lace and A Jolly Face
When Texas songwriter the Big Bopper died with Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens in a 1959 plan crash, his hit “Chantilly Lace” became the end rather than the beginning of a national career.
By Jody Denberg
Lifestyle
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September 30, 1987
Around the Clock Rock
An all-night deejay takes his listeners on a long night’s journey into day.
By Jody Denberg
Revenge of the Retrorockers
The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Mason Ruffner, and Omar and the Howlers all got the same message from album-oriented-rock radio: Wrap it up, we’ll take it.
By Jody Denberg
Fruit of the Vinyl
A good record store is more than just a supermarket of sound.
By Jody Denberg
You Can’t Get There From Here
From Houston’s Miss Molly to San Antonio’s Claude Morgan, Texas is full of local music heroes. Does their road to success have to pass through Austin?
By Jody Denberg
Who Made the Cut?
On LPs spurred by the MTV limelight, Timbuk3 blends street beast with witty wordplay, the True Believers combine six-string moxie with striving vocals, and the Tail Gators pack a sonic wallop.
By Jody Denberg
Better Than Ever and More of It
New records from Texas bands have only one thing in common—stubborn individuality.
By Jody Denberg
Dancing in the Streets
Tuff Enuff, the Fabulous Thunderbirds’ fifth and finest album, has a snap, crackle, and pop that could finally make the T-Birds explode.
By Jody Denberg
Resident Rockers
Five new albums show that Texans can get any kind of music they want from local labels.
By Jody Denberg
New Music Man
A producing career, a hit video, a record company, successful sound tracks: Austin’s Patrick Keel is having it all.
By Jody Denberg
Lawrence Welk Meets The Doors
Brave Combo’s World Dance Music brings wit and verve to an unlikely mix of sounds; the Sir Douglas Quartet is still recording after all these years.
By Jody Denberg
Cut From the Herd
“Herd It Through the Grapevine,” a new disc anthology, has the top of the pop crop.
By Jody Denberg