I’ve been thinking alot about what to write as my big “year end blog post” that seems to be what you do when you’re a blogger. And being that I’m a writer on music I should naturally give my summary of things that musically influenced me over the year. But really… that seems to be [...]
This started out as a tweet but ended in a short blog post because I think a little more than 140 characters should be said about it, even if it’s not music related. With Advent being the season leading up to the birth of Christ, it’s traditionally a time that we think about giving and [...]
So the story goes that Daniel Mustard, who is homeless, came on a radio show and said he could play guitar. They handed him one and he proceeds to sing Creep by Radiohead with enough soul and grit to make you feel the song instead of just hearing it. Very moving and heartfelt. Thanks to [...]
Opening December 16th is the long awaiting movie “Crazy Heart” about a broken-down, hard-living country music singer and his road to redemption. It’s a limited release (but is already getting Oscar buzz) with Jeff Bridges, Colin Farrell, Robert Duvall, Maggie Gyllenhaal and our own Ryan Bingham & the Dead Horses as the backing band. You [...]
When Walt Wilkins and Jason Eady play together, they do this really cool thing where they take a sheet of paper, write some topics on it and play random songs based on what is on the paper. Apparently last week, they forgot to bring paper, but still pulled it off by building the “Human Jukebox” [...]
Excellent piece on what the Whitehouse is doing with music and young, growing musicians. …we have to show that every type of music has a character and bring that to people that we perform for…
The cooler weather we’ve had here in Texas has begun to make me remember that living in Texas isn’t just one, year-round, season. We do have another season, called Christmas, and it’s our family’s yearly tradition to go out and have our photos taken before my winter beard begins taking shape. Christy is a sweetheart [...]