Road Trip - Tex-Mex Style
Getting into the full swing of the road trip season finds many of us meeting up at our old standby restaurants, which, 90% of the time are usually some variation of Mexican food. I ran across this map of “Temples of Tex-Mex” around the state of Texas. I recognize a few and can vouch for their tastiness.
So when you’re off to take that weekend roadtrip be sure to check the map out and try some of these places out. I’m thinking about making a map of other great places to eat to include all types of food. Got any good suggestions?
(as an aside… the map is in Google Map format which allows you to add this map to your My Maps. I Love Google.)
The Dedringers - Free Music
The Dedringers are blazing some new ground in this scene by releasing their album for free download a full month before it gets released to the public. Pretty gutsy.. and I love it!
The Dedringers were a sound that grew on me till I absolutely love it. At first listen, you’ll notice a stark difference between them and your run of the mill Texas/Red Dirt artist. But once you get past that it’s different… you start to hear the amazing songwriting and style that is all their own.
“Heart of Gold” by The Dedringers
Don’t wipe that grin off your face
Got this video from my good buddy Phil. It just makes me happy.
14 months in the making, 42 countries, and a cast of thousands. Thanks to everyone who danced with me.
The Revolution
I ran across this photo a while back and I absolutely love it. From the color to the style to the mood… it’s fantastic.
The band in the photo is The Gougers and was taken by Traci Goudie.
Johnny Cash & Rodney Crowell - I Walk The Line Revisited
I got this song stuck in my head and wanted to share it with everyone. It’s the story of someone hearing “I Walk The Line” for the first time.. with some Cash interspersed. Makes me think about the first time I truly “got” Johnny Cash… what a beautiful day that was.
“All these long years later it’s still music to my ears
I swear it sounds as good right now as anything I hear”
Best In Texas Festival - The Review
This past weekend the fam and I packed up and headed out to Columbus for a little getaway and to hang out with some friends at the Best In Texas Festival. Through Galleywinter, I had been part of some talks to help sponsor the event and from everything I had heard I was really excited to go and be a part of it.
Unfortunately I was completely under-whelmed. It seemed more like a fair than a full blown festival set up to celebrate some of the best bands in Texas. Gate tickets were a bit steep at $50 for a two day pass and to add insult to injury we were prompted for an extra $5 to park. I realize that sometimes different companies are involved and all that.. but good grief.. just roll it into the price of the ticket.
We arrived at around 5ish on Saturday afternoon to be greeted by some guy at a booth trying to sell us a vacation package. No idea who impulse buys a vacation in 100 degree Texas heat but i guess there is a market for it. After being hounded by that guy we diverted around to look through the other gammit of assorted booths such as the US Border Patrol. Again.. No idea what this has to do with a festival promoting music… but I guess you need sponsors to make it all happen. There were some cool food vendors and, of course, the regular hippie shop selling Tie-dye shirts. Couldn’t talk the wife into one of those to save my life, though. Bummer.
The location was really nice out at the Colorado County Fairgrounds and Columbus is one of the best little towns on I-10. It has a nice large pavilion and the sound team they hired did a great job of setting things up and also projecting the sound out past the pavilion into the rest of the festival area. They ran two stages to help speed music up and it worked great. The Musicians really brought it and every single one of them that we watched put on a great show. It’s not often you get guys like Stoney, RRB and REK all on one stage.
The bottom line is that for this lineup I expected a lot bigger turnout and the setup to be a little more conducive to getting people in front of the music. Not sure if that was becuase of a Father’s Day weekend, marketing or if the planets weren’t aligned. I hope it was a successful event because despite my dis-satisfaction I saw plenty of people having fun and loving the $3.00 beer. Not sure if I’d go again next year.. but as everyone knows.. I’m a sucker for good music no matter where it is :)
Kevin Fowler’s 2nd home?
On a trip home from Columbus we took the scenic route down Hwy 102 through Eagle Lake and ran across this gem. Eat your heart out Kevin Fowler.
