Texas Governor, Rick Perry, may be a knuck-lehead in my book, but he did do one respectable thing lately by proclaiming October as Texas Mu-sic Month. Actually, every governor since the Tex-as Music Office of the Governor was established in the early 90’s has done this, but I appreciate Perry for keeping the tradition alive. Perry re-leased a statement last month in which he “en-couraged all Texans to recognize the many contri-butions of the music industry and those who cre-ate great music in our state” in the month of Oc-tober. Let’s all do our part to support live music and show support to an industry that “is a vibrant and important sector of our economy, providing jobs as well as entertainment for this great state.” Hear, hear!I’ve got a ton of shows to tell you about! One in-

teresting performance will be a reunion show for the band, Tropix, who used to play the Sail Club in Port A and Coopers Alley in CC some 30 years ago. They will be at Shorty’s on October 15th. Also on the 15th, The Gaff in Port A will host their 3rd annual Pirate Reggae Fest. The event will fea-ture Dub Gideon (San Antonio), Johnny Love and the Dankadelics (Corpus Christi), Cassette Tape (Houston) and Blind Fold (Corpus Chris-ti). On the weekend of October 21- 23, the 51st Annual Texas Jazz Fest will be held in Heritage Park with 56 jazz groups on three stages includ-ing The Westside Horns, Joel Dilley, Europa, Cat Don’t Sleep and the Regency Jazz Band...all from San Antonio. And finally, on October 22nd Ziegfest 2011 will be held at Whataburger Field with Robert Earl Keen (Bandera, TX), Jack In-gram (Austin, TX), Casey Donahew (Dallas, TX) and Reckless Kelly (Austin, TX)..more on that next time. But right now, time’s a wasting...let’s roll!

Larry Joe TaylorLarry Joe Taylor (Stephenville, TX) played the

Back Porch on October 1st. It’s been well over a year since I reviewed a Larry Joe Taylor show and I had to find out once and for all how he can play the exact same songs and tell the exact same jokes at every single show and always draw a sell-out crowd? Both tourists and locals seem to adore him. I’ve always found his shows to be straight out of the department of redundancy department. This time I went to his show with an open mind

and the mission of finding out what it is I seem to be missing. I brought my girlfriend as an im-partial judge, since she is a professional musician herself and had never seen LJT. She loved him. I saw quite a few of my friends who were all toe tapping and ap-parently digging the show. Then, a really good friend, who is in the club business herself, made a point of telling me all of the positive things LJT has done for pro-moting live music--both here on the is-land and with his annual music festival in Stephenville. I was getting it from all sides. So, I listened to him closely...OK, OK...I admit LJT is a good enter-

tainer and his songs (and the numerous Gary P. Nunn songs he covers) are clev-er and full of catchy hooks. His voice is smooth, his band is tight and his onstage demeanor is professional and VERY well rehearsed. His jokes are funny (or were funny the first time I heard them). I suppose people love familiarity and enjoy the comfort of songs they know and can sing along to...and he did play one new song I enjoyed. I’ll lighten up. Jeeze, I’m get-ting soft.

B 8 Island Moon October 7, 2011

By Ronnie Narmour

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Live Music TonightFriday, Oct. 7thCarol Elliott (6-8) @ Tarpon Ice House Carlton Pride & Mighty Zion @ Tarpon Ice House Uncle Lucius @ Back Porch Ray T & the City Crew @ Flats Lounge Richard Lockhart Band @ Hooks B-B-Q Mama Tried @ Wildhorse Nancy Silva Project/Bar Nutz/Reely Rotnz @ House of Rock Spazmatics @ Brewster Street Paul Renna @ Executive Surf Club Nancy Silva Project/Bar Nutz @ House of Rock Gary Moeller @ Coffee Waves Port A David Brown @ C-Bar Café Brian Winfrey @ Island ItalianSaturday, Oct. 8thThe Drakes @ Back Porch Beltsander Races w/ Mama Tried @ The Gaff Bottlehead Miller & Cody Angel @ Hooks B-B-Q Texas A&M CC Bug Party @ House of Rock Sing-Along Piano Bar @ Brewster Street Carlton Pride and Mighty Zion @ Executive Surf Club C-Roots @ Coffee Waves Port A Get Off the Lawn @ C-Bar Café 5th Anniversary Party @ Flats Lounge CC Symphony Orchestra @ TAMUCC Performing Arts Center Fred Jarmon @ Blackbeards Too Ruben Limas @ Island Italian Bushbullit @ Cassidy’s Irish PubSunday, Oct. 9thOpen Electric Jam w/ Rockin’ Ricke Burnett @ Tarpon Ice House Veil of Maya/After the Burial/Misery Signals/Within the Ruins/I The Breather @ House of RockMonday, Oct. 10thOpen Jam w/ Antone Perez @ Dr. Rockits Acoustic Night w/ Art BarreraTueday, Oct. 11thOpen Mic w/ Rev. Fred @ House of Rock Clarissa Serna @ Revolution Bar and GrillWednesday, Oct. 12thFlatbroke @ House of Rock Ruben Limas @ Blackbeards John Eric @ Pelicans LoungeThursday, Oct. 13thBattle of the Bands @ House of Rock Soul Struck @ Executive Surf Club Friday, Oct. 14thJerry Diaz & Hanna’s Reef @ Back Porch Sunset Sounds @ Roberts Point Park Ray T & the City Crew @ Flats Lounge The Tropix Reunion @ Shortys Transistordale @ The Gaff Judas Priest/ Thin Lizzy/Black Label Society @ Concrete Street

Jimi Hendrix Tribute Show: John Cortez/Cathouse/Rockaholics @ House of Rock

Bushbullit @ Executive Surf Club Another Level @ Brewster Street

Get Off the Lawn @ Coffee Waves Port A

Stuart Burns @ C-Bar Café Ruben Limas @ Blackbeards

Brian Winfrey @ Island Italian Justin Estes @ Scuttlebutts

Saturday, Oct. 15th Jessie Dayton @ Back Porch

Chuck Pyle @ Third Coast Theater Reggae Festival @ The Gaff

DilloFest w/ 16 Bands @ House of Rock

Metal Shop @ Brewster Street Jon Cortez Band @ Executive Surf

Club Stuart Burns

@ Coffee Waves Port A Chad Martin @ C-Bar Café

Fred Jarmon @ Blackbeards Too Ruben Limas @ Island Italian

Sunday, Oct. 16th Open Electric Jam w/ Rockin’

Ricke Burnett @ Tarpon Ice House Hudson Falcons/The Booked/

Jason & the Punk Necks @ House of Rock

Monday, Oct. 17thOpen Jam w/ Antone Perez

@ Dr. Rockits Black Dahlia Murder/All Shall

Perish/Cannabis Corpse @ House of Rock

Tuesday, Oct. 18thOpen Mic w/ Rev. Fred

@ House of Rock Lionize/ Larry & His Flask

@ House of Rock Clarissa Serna

@ Revolution Bar and GrillWednesday, Oct. 19th

Ruben Limas @ Blackbeards John Eric @ Pelicans Lounge Jared Pena @ House of Rock

Thursday, Oct. 20thTBA @ Back Porch

Battle of the Bands @ House of Rock

Wade Bowen @ Brewster Street Forty Pound Dog @ Executive Surf Club

Friday, Oct. 21st9th Annual Coastal Bender: Shelley

King @ Back Porch 51st Annual Texas Jazz Fest

@ Heritage Park ZZ Top/ Lynard Skynard

@ American Bank Center Ray T & the City Crew

@ Flats Lounge Battle of the Bands Finals

@ House of Rock Bush/Chevelle & the Filter/10 Years

@ Concrete Street Lighter Ray @ Executive Surf Club

Pictures @ Brewster Street Spark in the Dark

@ Coffee Waves Port A Gary Moeller @ C-Bar Café

Ruben Limas @ Blackbeards Brian Winfrey @ Island Italian

Justin Estes @ Scuttlebutts Hilda Lamas @ Mug Room

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The Drakes The Drakes (Austin, TX) will play the Back

Porch on October 8th. This band is what hap-pens when sidemen take over. We’ve seen the rhythm section here before, when bassist Michael “Cornbread” Traylor and drummer Vicente Rodriquez showed up as the Sisters Morales’ rhythm section. This band started out in 2006 as an excuse to drink beer and play the songs they wanted to play. Five years later, the result is one world class bar band (in the vein of NRBQ) that covers everything from Alice Cooper to Toni Price. The Austin Chronicle, calls the Drakes, “Austin’s greatest bar band.”

Sunset Sounds Shirley Fischer and Russell Edge aka the Open

Sign Band (Port Aransas, TX) will play the final show of the Sunset Sounds series on October 14th at the Patsy Jones Amphitheater in Roberts Point Park in Port A. This event is a casual affair--bring your lawn chairs, ice chests, kids and dogs. The series is sponsored by Port A’s Parks and Rec de-partment and is free to one and all. It is truly one of the treasures of our little island, set in a beauti-ful location overlooking the city marina and fer-ry landing. Shirley Fischer and Russell Edge are long time island residents who have been enter-taining locals independently for many years. They have recently joined forces as a duo, connecting at Lovett’s weekly jam which is hosted by Edge. This union has made for a delightful repertoire of country/folk tinged crowd-pleasers.

Jesse Dayton Jessie Dayton (Austin, TX) will play the Back

Porch on October 15th. Dayton is one hard charg-ing, busy fellow. He’s got his fingers in perform-ing and producing music as well as acting and di-recting films. Originally from Beau-mont, Dayton is first and foremost a

Denver, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Suzy Bog-guss, Chris LeDoux and Jerry Jeff Walker. He mixes infectiously hummable melodies with straight-from-the-saddle poetry, quoting bumper stickers, proverbs, world leaders and old cow-boys. His guitar playing is smooth, rich and rhyth-mic.

9th Annual Coastal Bender The Back Porch will host the 9th Annual Coastal

Bender with Shelley King (Austin, TX) on Octo-ber 21 and the Cosmic Dust Devils (Austin, TX) on the 22nd. The Coastal Bender is the brainchild of head Dust Devil, Kevin Higgins, who noticed a steady gain of fans from the Texas Hill Coun-try (affectionately known as “Storm Chasers”) that kept following the band to the coast for their Back Porch gigs. Higgins decided to dedicate a full weekend for the event each October as “fan appreciation” and the result is one high powered blow-out. Take my word for it, the Storm Chas-ers are all maniacs. Their dedication to partying is nearly as much fun to watch as the band! The Dust Devil themselves are definitely one of the Porch’s top draws and deservedly so. Higgins and (band) mate, Barbara Maltese, are talented mu-

sicians who know how to hold an audience’s at-tention. Higgins’ songs are heady observations of a romantic man in the throws of life’s complicated situations. I personally think that he is one of the brightest songwriters around. Shelley King will start the ball rolling on Friday with a soulful voice as big as the Gulf. She has a bluesy per-sona and a powerful de-livery that’s made her one of Austin’s darlings. This is going to be a great DO NOT MISS weekend at the Porch! (BTW, a T h u r s d a y night show was unconfirmed at press time.)

Corb Lund Corb Lund and the Hurtin’ Albertans (Alber-ta, Canada) will play the House of Rock on Oc-tober 23rd. Pate Rossi (Corpus Christi, TX) will open the show. Unlike many so-called “country artists,” he is no drugstore cowboy – he’s the real McCoy. “My family is all ranchers and rodeo people,” Lund says. “They’ve been in Canada for about 100 years, and before that they were raising cattle in Utah and Nevada. I grew up rodeoing.” Lund’s influences include Marty Robbins, John-ny Horton and Ramblin’ Jack Elliott. His songs are vivid depictions of Canada’s West and he has been named Roots Artist of the Year by the Cana-dian Country Music Association for the last five years running. I’m looking forward to this one. And that’s the truth!

honky-tonker who has worked with Willie Nelson, Ray Price, Johnny Bush, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jen-nings, Kris Kristofferson, the Super-suckers and more. The Austin Ameri-can Statesman says, “Like the Possum (George Jones) Dayton is the possess-or of a tear-stained voice, a lost soul sensibility and a high degree of famil-iarity with the kinds of places mama warned you about.” Dayton also has a penchant for zombies and vampires (but don’t we all). He has recorded mu-sic for and acted in several Rob Zom-bie movies as well as other T.V. Shows (True Blood, Justified, Son of Anarchy, etc) and is currently in the process of directing and acting in the feature film, Zombex, scheduled for release in May. Put this show high on your DO NOT MISS LIST...and wear some garlic.

Chuck Pyle Chuck Pyle (Boulder, CO) will play

the Third Coast Studio in Port A on October 15th. Known as the Zen Cow-boy, Pyle has 11 CD’s to his credit and his songs have been recorded by John

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