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vin Gaye tune to the Beatles’ eerie Something into some hot Latin (Santana) and then maybe play a few soulful originals…then back to some major butt rocking blues, all the time scorching his guitar and singing like it’s his last dying breath. His face contorts with every note he plays, he’s like an open book. The soul that exudes out of this young man is infectious. He completely draws you in and owns that stage. V mentored with the late Chris Holzhaus who didn’t have one calm bone in his body. It shows. He’ll be back at the Porch on September 24th.

DO NOT MISS LISTHoR Blues Fest

The House of Rock in Cor-pus will host a “Blues Fest” on September 3rd. I’m not sure you can quite call this a festival but it’s definite-ly a good blues show they have planned. And, though this is a stretch from the usual heavier HoR fanfare, the lineup for this event is promising with a nation-al, a regional and three lo-cal blues acts. The line-up will include Guitar Shorty (Los Angeles, CA), Alan Haynes (Austin, TX), The John Cortez Band

(Corpus Christi, TX), Cathouse (Corpus Christi, TX) and Ernie and Tom (Corpus Christi, TX).

Guitar Shorty (born David Kear-ny in 1939) is a man who has been around. At the tender age of 16, Shorty spent a year playing with Ray Charles and recorded his first single on Cobra Records in 1957 under the direction of Willie Dix-on. He has played with blues greats such as Guitar Slim, T-Bone Walk-er, Big Joe Turner, Little Richard and Sam Cooke. In 1961, Shorty married Jimi Hendrix’ sister Mar-cia. His famous bother-in-law would often come to his shows and they were friends until Hendrix’s un-timely death in 1970. In his young-er, more agile years, Shorty was fa-mous for his onstage acrobatics,

amazing audiences with his somersaults and flips. He has two W.C. Handy awards with 13 CD’s to his credit and currently records for Alligator Records.

Alan Haynes’ resume reads like a blues player’s Who’s Who. He has performed with such blues greats as Ste-vie Ray Vaughan, The Fabulous Thunderbirds (with Jimmie Vaughan), Albert Collins, John Lee Hook-er, Otis Rush, Hubert Sumlin, Bonnie Raitt, Robert Cray, Bugs Henderson, Gregg Martin, Joe Walsh, Le-roy Parnell, Willie Nelson, John Mayall, James Cot-ton, Denny Freeman, Austin’s Sexton brothers (Will & Charlie), Derek O’Brien, Doyle Bramhall II, and the great Johnny Winter (who he claims as a major inspi-ration). This influence can be heard especially in Alan’s passionate and throaty singing style. He’s opened for the Talking Heads, Muddy Waters, and Buddy Guy and has toured with Albert King and Bobby Blue Bland, to name a few. For six years in the 1990’s Alan was the house band at the legendary Antone’s Blues Club in Aus-tin, TX.

The John Cortez band, Cathouse and Ernie & Tom are all local talent. The Cortez band is a Stevie clone pow-erhouse trio who plays frequently in the Corpus area. I wasn’t familiar with the other two acts but HoR owner, Casey Lane, tells me, “Cathouse is a local blues band

By Ronnie Narmour

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Three Chords and the Truth

Well folks, Labor Day Weekend is upon us and the season is wind-ing down. August brought us some great moments as the Back Porch continued to hit home runs. They recently hosted a totally awesome weekend of music on the 11th-13th that I thoroughly enjoyed with the

Bo Porter Band, the Sisters Morales and Miss Neesie and the Earfood Orchestra. All three of those shows were absolutely outstanding. Also, I caught the Ruben V and Almost Patsy Cline shows there last weekend. Ruben was on fire. I gave him a little ink, here. He de-serves it. We didn’t stay long for Almost Patsy Cline…it reminded me too much of the dances at the American Legion Hall that my parents used to drag me to during my youth. But, I am glad to see this music is be-ing kept alive (50’s, 60’s and 70’s C& W top 40…lots of Ray Price). They even played the theme for the old western, The Magnificent Sev-en. For some reason I kept flashing back to the old dancehall in San An-tonio, the Farmer’s Daughter. This band would be perfect there.

I also caught some of Suzi Bravo’s show at the Gaff last Saturday. Bra-vo’s band, Soul Revue, does S.A. proud. She’s got a fat B-3 blues and soul vibe going with some Etta James meets Randy Garibay for barbacoa and Big Red. Her slow blues really rocks! It showcases Bravo’s voice…patient and sassy. I hope we see her at SandFest again next spring! This is a good band!

Look for a big Labor Day Weekend line-up around the Coastal Bend: Larry Joe Taylor and Davin James will be at the Porch, The Jerry Diaz Trio and Sol Tribe will be at the Tarpon Ice House, and there’s a big show at Concrete Street with Randy Rogers and Pat Green. But, the really big news lately is the House of Rock’s mu-sic calendar. Michael O’Connor (w/ 40 lb. Dog open-ing) just played his CD Release (Devil Stole the Moon) there on the 19th. And, over this holiday weekend, they will be having the great Bob Schneider plus a very cool blues fest with Guitar Shorty and Alan Haynes. I’ll have the skinny on that for you as well. Plus, on the near horizon, the HoR will have none other than Hank Wil-liams III and I’ll tell you all about that. The LIVE MU-SIC TONIGHT box is jammed full of shows to check out, so get out there and support our live music scene. There’s plenty of it. But right now, time’s a wasting…let’s roll!

Ruben VRuben V (San Antonio, TX) blazed into the Back Porch

on August 19th. The word I keep coming back to with Mr. Ruben Vela is intense. He sings and plays every song with a super intense passion. He does a mix of what I call the good stuff. He’ll jump from a soulful Mar-

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Bob SchneiderBob Schneider (Austin, TX) will play the

House of Rock on September 4th. A genu-ine Austin phenomenon, Bob Schneider is a singer/songwriter who began his solo act in 1999, after years of leading three of Austin’s

most recognized bands: Joe Rock-head, The Scabs, and Ugly Amer-icans. Bob’s musical approach as a solo artist has proven as eclec-tic as the diverse musical styles of his former bands--a little bit singer/songwriter and a whole lot of bits and pieces of funk, country, rock, and folk. After 12 years as a solo act, Sch-

neider has a long list of accom-plishments he’s achieved while be-coming Austin’s darling. Among those are his 2009-2010 SXSW Austin Mu-sic Award: Band of the Year, Musician of the

Year, Song of the Year (Like Romeo and Juliet), Album of the Year (Lovely Creatures), Male Vocalist of the Year, and Songwriter of the Year. He’s earned an invita-tion to appear on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and has an amazing record for selling more than 15,000 self-released CD’s at just one Austin record store. Also, he used to date Sandra Bullock and is a total chick mag-net. His X rated songs and funky rhythms always draw sell-out crowds at every gig he plays in Austin (usually at Antones). You don’t want to miss this show. He usu-ally plays Brewster Street and I have a feeling this one at HoR will be down and dirty.

Hank William IIIHank Williams III (Nashville, TN), now and forev-

er more to be known as Hank3, will play the House of Rock in Corpus on September 12th. Williams, age 38, will release four (count ‘em- that’s FOUR) new CD’s on September 5th and embark on a 22 city tour begin-

ning in the South, going through Texas on to the West Coast and culminating in the Rockies. Once a defiant (and pissed-off) recording artist with the major Nashville label, Curb Records, Williams has now formed his own record company and is doing things his way. “I’ve been off the road for awhile, and I’m looking’ at two years of being full-on dedicated to go-ing out there and doing what we do,” said Hank3.  “That’s one of the reasons I want-ed to release all four of these albums at the same time, so I could just focus back on the touring again.”

Williams will be performing two-and-a-half to three-hour shows, opening with a Country set, followed by a louder, rowdy Hellbilly set, and finishing with a set fea-turing his new metal/doom band, Atten-tion Deficit Domination. All of the new

CD’s (Ghost to a Ghost/ Gutter Town, 3 Bar Ranch Cat-tle Callin’ and Attention Deficit Domination) were re-corded at The Haunted Ranch, Hank3’s home and re-cording studio outside of Nashville. The two disc re-lease, Ghost to a Ghost/ Gutter Town, is a straight shoot-ing 41 track County record flavored with his trademark Hellbilly sound, mostly all penned by Williams. The 9 track, Attention Deficit Domination, is a crunching, met-al world of the heavy and the slow, complete with his renowned, fundamental percussion. The 23-track Cattle Callin’ features Hank3’s driving guitar attack, with in-strumentation built around auctioneering calls…a little something for everybody.

And that’s the truth!

Live Music TonightFriday, Aug. 26th

Mike Blakely y los Yahoos @ Back Porch Five Card Draw @ Brewster Street Witness by Proxy @ Hooks B-B-Q Ray T & the City Crew @ Flats Lounge The Iguanas/Weak Day Boyz @ House of Rock Scarecrow People @ Executive Surf Club Acoustic Breeze @ Coffee Waves Sol Tribe @ The Gaff Better Angels @ The Wildhorse Saloon Ruben V @ Dr. Rockits Brian Winfrey @ Island Italian

Saturday, Aug. 27th

Dust Devils @ Back Porch The Ones @ Tarpon Ice House Hanna’s Reef @ Brewster Street Dave “Bottlehead” Miller @ Hooks B-B-Q Rodney Bowens & Jambonz @ House of Rock Flashback @ Executive Surf Club Stuart Burns @ Coffee Waves Ruben Limas @ Island Italian Green River Ordinance @ Wataburger Field Lyrical Bynge @ Flats Lounge Beltsander Races w/ Willie @ The Gaff Tiffany Kay @ The Wildhorse Saloon Chris Ruest @ Dr. Rockits

Tuesday, Aug. 30th

Open Mic w/ Rev. Fred @ House of Rock Scarecrow People @ Executive Surf Club Antone & the Atomic Blues Band @ Dr. Rockits Clarissa Serna @ Revolution Bar & Grill Adrian Taylor @ Blackbeard’s Too Bobby Carter @ Blackbeard’s

Wednesday, Aug. 31st

HOBO @ House of Rock John Eric @ Pelicans Lounge

Thursday, Sept. 1st

Emory Quinn @ Back Porch Cody Canada & the Departed.Stewart Mann & Statesboro Revue @ Brewster Street Free Beer @ Tarpon Ice House Mark Lozano @ Hooks B-B-Q Adam Hood & Brian Kean @ Executive Surf Club

Friday, Sept. 2ndCarol Elliott @ Tarpon Ice House

Jerry Diaz Trio @ Tarpon Ice House

Davin James @ Back Porch Wing Ding Chicken Wing Cook-

Off @ The Gaff Dave Bottlehead Miller @ Hooks

B-B-Q The Spazmatics @ Brewster Street

Trysum @ Executive Surf Club Dub Gideon @ The Gaff

Ray T & the City Crew @ Flats Lounge

Spark in the Dark @ Coffee Waves Dave “Bottlehead” Miller @ Hooks B-B-Q

Bar Nutz @ House of Rock Duke E. Brown @ Dr. Rockits

Sarah McQuaid @ Rialto TheaterSaturday, Sept 3rd

Larry Joe Taylor @ Back Porch Jerry Diaz Trio @ Tarpon Ice

House Two Rivers Trio @ Hooks B-B-Q

Oso Texas @ Brewster Street Blues Fest: Guitar Shorty/Alan

Haynes/John Cortez/Cathouse @ House of Rock

The Fossils @ The Gaff The Lavens @ Wildhorse

Get Off the Lawn @ Coffee Waves Lyrical Bynge @ Flats Lounge Max Stalling @ Executive Surf

Club Another Level @ Dr. Rockits

Sunday, Sept. 4thBob Schneider/Deadbeat Darling

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Josh Abbott/Whiskey Myers @ Concrete Street

Del Castillo @ Brewster Street Two Rivers Trio (noon) @ Hooks

B-B-Q Russ McGilvay @ Hooks B-B-Q

Sol Tribe @ Tarpon Ice House Kabomba @ Dr. Rockits

Thursday, Sept. 8thBrandon Rhyder @ Brewster Street

Bri Bagwell & the Banned @ Executive Surf Club Free Beer @ Tarpon Ice House

John Cortez @ Dr. Rockits

Friday, Sept. 9thThe Ones @ Back Porch

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Fall @ House of Rock The Pictures @ Brewster Street

Mr. Mo & the Famous Unknowns @ Hooks B-B-Q

Get Off the Lawn @ Coffee Waves Ray T & the City Crew @ Flats

Lounge Time Pilots @ Executive Surf Club

Antone & the Atomic Blues Band @ Dr. Rockits

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