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Stacy Jones “can't do nothin’ right.” Or may-be she can, with this yet to be released collec-tion of 12 original songs recorded and co-produced by Floyd Rietsma (Pearl Jam and Dave Mathews) at Studio Litho in Seattle. Stacy has been nominated by Washington Blues Society for over two dozen “Best of the Blues’ Awards for songwriting, perfor-mance, harmonica and guitar playing skills, showing that while she may be unlucky in love her true talent in life is music. With her fourth studio album Stacy shows off her country, folk and Americana roots while always having a touch of the blues in her soul. She enlisted the talents of award win-ning guitarists Kevin Sutton, Mark Riley and Sean Denton to add firepower to her long time rhythm section of Tom Jones and Rick J Bowen. Veteran fiddle player John Perry also makes a guest appearance, adding the perfect spice to the sound. Having made appearances at SXSW, Chicago Blues Festival, Beale St. Memphis during the IBC's and several other national and regional festivals, her talent is awaiting the next level of recognition. Stacy has shared the stage with Elvin Bishop, Lee Oskar, John Nemeth, Ian Siegall, Charlie Musselwhite and more, her wait for recogni-tion won't be long.

STEAM: I hear you are in the process of finishing your fourth album. What is the name going to be, and when is it going to be released to the public? STACY: Well so far everybody is in favor in the name Whiskey Wine and Water, which is one of the tracks on the new album. There are some other great titles too, Keep on Keepin On and Can't do Nothin Right. Whis-key Wine and Water is about good times with friends and the great family we have, and parents who raised us to follow our dreams and not be afraid to raise a little hell, so that's probably going to be the title track. We of course want to get the CD out as soon as possible and we are going to try to pick up as much momentum from it as we can from

it, so we will get it into the best hands we can and I guess see what happens. Spring would be our ideal release. The mastering will be done at the end of this month.

STEAM: Your previous albums have won you many accolades from the Blues Society. What are some of the awards that you have won? STACY: Well every year the band is nominat-ed for handful of awards including Performer of the year, Harmonica, Songwriter, Acoustic Guitar, Drummer, Bassist, Electric Guitar, Band, and this last year I was nominated for Keeping the Blues Alive and won for the sec-ond time for Female Vocalist of the year. We have also been to Memphis for the IBC's rep-resenting the South Sound Blues Society for best self-produced album for the Live and Untapped album.

STEAM: Is the newest CD going to be classi-fied in Blues genre? STACY: Nope. The new album really is just an all-around roots album. Every genre that the Blues has influenced is on it. Some coun-try, some Americana, some gritty driving your car down the road tunes and some sweet easy listening southern rock ballad type songs. There are no twelve bars, and every song is one of my originals. In the past I have had a lot of writers and some covers mixed in with the originals. This is more like the life of Stacy Jones set to music. There's a lot of personal

stuff and that's just one of the things that really sets this apart from what we've done in the past.

STEAM: I notice that one of the songs on the new album is titled “San Antonio”. How does a girl who has made a following for herself in your hometown of Seattle come up with a song called “San Antonio”? STACY: San Antonio is the song about moving my brother Jon-Paul Jones (Jonny 3 Fingers Creative Services) to San Antonio last year. We had a little road trouble and a gig we were trying to make it to. It’s a story about crossing state to state, and being stuck in Price, Utah. I've been to Texas before and it’s sort of about just wanting to be there again.

STEAM: You have played festivals and events throughout the U.S., including SXSW two years ago. Were you able to make any connections with some of our local Texas musicians? STACY: SXSW is a great place to meet people from all over. Yes, I was able to meet some great musicians in Austin, and I also met people in Memphis that led to us playing the Chicago Blues Festival, as well as some other great festivals and events outside of the Pacific Northwest area that we're from.

STEAM: Do you have any good stories about your first experience at SXSW? STACY: Like chicken shit bingo (Ginny’s Little Longhorn Saloon)? Really, there are a lot of great moments, running into Tom Morello (Audioslave, Rage Against The Machine) playing on a dumpster in the mid-dle of the street, jamming at the legendary White Swan with Mike Schermer, a great friend of mine from the Marcia Ball band, and all of the shows I was able to play with my fellow Critical Sun Records folks; The Furniture Girls, Sightseer, In Cahoots, and a handful of other great bands and artists.

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It’s happened to me, and it’s happened to you. Problem is, most don’t recognize it, or trust it, or we’re not prepared. Those times in our life when an extraordinary idea, dis-covery, revelation, force, breakthrough, sur-prise, or sudden shift shows up, unexpected-ly, without fanfare or ballyhoo, and offers us possibilities and opportunities, which can reshape, refocus and redirect our life and career forever...for the better. That said, when it happens, when that sudden, unex-pected, “Unidentified Fortuitous Opportuni-ty” (UFO) suddenly appears, (and it will), don’t doubt, don’t cower, and don’t run and hide. Rather, welcome it with all the courage you can muster, and all the gratitude you can offer.

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1. Unfocused: Fooling yourself into thinking that you have a clear vision of where you’re headed. Constantly switch-ing gears and changing direction only prolongs the circle game.

2. Low Expectations: You set the bar too low, thinking that winning the small ones now will give you the courage to go for the big ones later. But that’s a trap. Winning the small ones only keeps you stuck in an illusion that you’re getting somewhere.

3. Inflexible: Rigid, jammed and stuck on how it has to be. Holding a firm grip on how the end result must look only blinds you from seeing the unlimited options and possibil-ities that are available.

4. Waiting to be discovered: Huh? Really?

5. Knowing too much: Thinking you have all the answers because you have an education, or experience, or money, or previous success. There’s no right or wrong road to success today. That’s what the techno revolution is all about— absence of formula! Try waking up in the morning with a “beginners mind” and proceed from there.

6. Tech Dread: Do I really have to say this? To the degree you learn and use the tools and technology, to that degree creating, promoting and shipping your art & commerce will be that much more rewarding.

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8. Stuck in indecision: Unable to make confident choices and decisions because you’re afraid of making the wrong choices and decisions. Keep the game moving. Do the research, gather the facts, then throw the dart.

9. Brittle Confidence: Confidence Is Everything. It trumps experience, rivals talent and beats the beans out of a good education. If you can’t find any, fake it!

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GRADY CHAMPION

BOOTLEG WHISKEY

(MALACO RECORDS) Mississippi blues man Grady Champion is back with his eighth album Bootleg Whiskey this time teaming with legendary R&B label Malco and label chief Tommy Crouch Jr. released in September of 2014 the eleven song album has one foot in the tradition of authentic Mississippi juke joint blues and the other in modern ultra produced dance party soul and R&B. Crouch surrounds Grady; his southern story teller charm, smoke filled delivery and sizzling harmonica chops, with a spot on rhythm section, full bodied horn section and slick background vocals. The album opens with ‘Beg, Barrow, Steal,’ smoothing out the shuffle from The Beat Daddy’s into a gospel flavored two beat swing reminiscent of Little Milton. The title track was written by George Jackson wrote "Down Home Blues", which became a theme tune for Malaco Records in the 1980s. Champion and company deliver a solid reading of the muscle shoals styled soul burner. The first of the five new tunes written by Champi-on ‘Home Alone,’ is swampy tale of heartache that tempers the sadness with Memphis styled horn lines, but the low down blues continues during ‘Ten Dollars,’ no matter how hard those fellas blow. Champion preaches to the choir as extols the virtues of the “South Side,” of town, then digs deeper into the spirit during contemplative ‘Who

Dat.’ Fueled by a monster bass line from David Hood, ‘Here We Go Ya’ll,’ is certain to be a House Rockin’ feature of Champion’s live show. The last of the new tunes written by Champion, the island tinged ‘Mr. Right,’ show off his love for poetic vernacular and colloquial-ism to deliver his message. Organist Clayton Ivey leads the choir providing the backdrop of “Amazing Grace,” while champion delivers the eulogy “White Boy with the Blues,’ to close the album. Amen.

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(PRO SHO BUSINESS) Chicago born guitarist Jeff Dale gathered together over a dozen of his good friends from his home town and L.A many of whom are veteran players from the bands of Buddy Guy, James Cotton, Mag-ic Slim and Otis Rush to make what he calls ‘Good Music.” That became the title track for his new album, released July of 2014. The twelve song collection is a home spun set of tunes that does not take itself too seriously as the title track im-plies “if you like good music let me hear ya holler Hey.” Dale and his off the cuff talk singing easy going style is center of every one of the tunes. High on humor and low on bravado Dale goes for

the fun right off the bat with the saucy Chi Town styled ‘Naked Women In My Bed,’ then moves on to search for redemption using the words of Dr. King in ‘Letter From the Birmingham Jail.’ Dale stretches his vocal abilities alongside some blue moaning cello from Dane Little on ‘Final Destination,’ then gets downright goofy for the little south side shuffle “She Love Me.” the slow burning ‘Wagon Wheel,’ is tongue in check new take on a familiar blues theme. Dale mines more familiar blues territory while making social commentary on ‘Black and White” and retreads Hoochie Coochie man for his own ‘The Devil I Know.’ The playful swing of ‘Murder,’ complete with Oboe solo is likely the most inventive and original tune in the set. The album closes with the full tilt party song ‘My Brain Took The Whole Night Off,’ with the band joining in on shout along chorus. Jeff Dale and his friends may not win any awards for this album but the last tracks show they certainly had a Good Time mak-ing their brand of “Good Music.”

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I don’t know if you know but we went on va-cation not too long ago. And like many South Texans we headed north to a cooler place! Yep, we went way north… All the way to Se-attle, WA! The goal of the trip was to be with family and friends, get some relaxation time, and of course do a little work too. We took one day to hang out in Snohomish, a small town known for its antique stores, which meant a stop at the Oxford Saloon. The Ox-ford is a throw-back-in-time bar that opened in 1909 and is said to be haunted; although the only spirits we saw were the kinds being poured by our friendly bar-tender. It was here that we had the good fortune to meet Steve Fossen for a beer. We had, and this is important be-cause there could be a test at the end, Diamond Knot IPA which is brewed locally by Pat Ringe and crew. That is local-ly to Steve in Mukilteo (Muck-ill-tee-oh) Washington. Alt-hough you may not know Ste-ve Fossen by name, you know his music; in fact I bet there’s one of his songs on a classic rock station right now!

STEAM So tell me the story of

how Heart came to be.

SF Roger Fisher and I met in junior

high school when we were 13. We talked and daydreamed of being in a band and play instruments all through 8th and 9th grades. Then when we were sophomores we couldn’t stand it any longer and that’s when we got our instru-

ments and began playing.

STEAM How does it feel to go

from being in 8th grade and saying,

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“Wouldn’t it be great to be in a band” to being in the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame? I mean, oh my gosh!!!

SF I know! It was a dream that we’d started when we

were 14 years old. For the first two years that Roger and I had our instruments we played in separate bands. Then when we were 17, in the basement of my parent’s home, we shook hands and decided we were going to start a band and see what we could do with it. I called Don Wilhelm (singer, guitar, and keyboards) who we both knew and he got a hold of his friend Ray Schaefer (drums). And the rest is history.

At this point Steve leans over and whispers into the mic… I just took a sip of IPA.

STEAM An amazing history! It must have been

breathtaking to get a call saying that you’ve been nom-

inated for the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame, let alone be-ing told you’re in. I mean I probably would have faint-ed!

SF Well, here’s what happened… I had just dropped

Somar [Macek, Steve’s girlfriend] off at work and I was driving home. “Owner of a Broken Heart” by Yes had just finished playing on the radio and the next song

was “Kick It Out” by Heart. And when the song finished the DJ said, “Hey, did you hear that Heart has been nominated for the Hall of Fame?”

STEAM And that’s how you heard about it?

SF Yeah. I almost ran off the road! I was just

shocked, so I drove home and called Somar and asked if she wanted to go to Cleveland. I spent the next three months as a basket case; I couldn’t sleep, I’d wake up thinking about it, I was just nuts over it. Then December came around and they announced that we didn’t make it, so it was really, really disap-pointing. …I just took a sip of IPA. I spent the next year just kind of commiserating over the fact that we didn’t make it, but it is what it is. Sep-tember 2012 rolls around and the nominations are

announced and we’re on the list for the second year in a row. This time I was much calmer and I just felt this confidence about it. And I got very sick which took my mind off the nomination. I developed “glomerulonephritis” which is a very serious syndrome that breaks down the filters in the kidneys de-pleting protein in your blood caus-ing your muscles to fill with fluid, so I swelled with 65 pounds of water weight. I found an excellent doctor who knew exactly what needed to be done. Seven months after the onset of this terrible syndrome, there we were playing in Los Ange-les at the induction ceremony in April 2013. They pronounced me cured just a year ago.

STEAM Wow, you are one for-

tunate man! Now I know we could keep going on these subjects, but I really want to hear about your cur-rent project, Heart By Heart. When

did you start putting this group together?

SF Somar and I began putting Heart By Heart togeth-

er in 2008 along with Michael “Mike” DeRosier (Heart drummer ’75-82) but it’s only become solid about 18 months ago with the addition of Lizzy Daymont on vo-cals and rhythm guitar and Bob Rivers on keyboards. Our lead guitarist is Randy Hanson, who won an Oscar

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for Best Sound for “Apocalypse Now” and if you haven’t heard it go online and check it out. Anyway Randy brings this very Hendrix-esque sound that sets us apart from anything else. Somar and Lizzy are great friends and sing so well together; in fact the first time I heard them was on Dog And Butterfly and it took my breath away.

STEAM That’s awesome. By the way that is

my favorite Heart song. I remember getting the Greatest Hits/Live double compilation LP for Christmas and wearing out just that track. Tell It Like It Is and Crazy On You are my other favorites, but when I saw you, Heart By Heart, perform Barracuda it became my ultimate fa-vorite. So which songs were your, Heart’s, big-gest hits?

SF Barracuda is probably the biggest, but

Magic Man and Crazy On You are up there too. I mean we’re just fortunate that we have the kind of repertoire that you can do 90 minute sets and everybody recognizes every song. We were just lucky that we knew Somar and

found Lizzy.

STEAM Everyone in Heart By Heart is a sea-

soned and talented musician. I’m just thrilled to see you back on stage with your music and wondering what took you so long. (laughing)

SF Well for many, many years I didn’t play these

songs and when we started putting the group to-gether I had to relearn my parts because I couldn’t remember what I use to do. …I just took a sip of IPA.

STEAM That has to be a weird sensation going

back out there, because now you got your our gen-eration and our kids into your music.

SF Oh yeah, we have people come up and tell us

they saw us at the Coliseum (now Key Arena) or somewhere else in the country and that hearing Heart By Heart takes them back to those great memories. It’s very cool.

STEAM Are you planning to put out an album

soon?

SF Yes and no; right now we have some demos

that have been made. We’re working with songwriter Lisa Nemzo on new material, and Randy and I both write, too. But right now the emphasis is on the Heart materi-al, because we need to get Somar’s voice out there and recognizable before we move on. …I just took a sip of IPA.

STEAM Are you working on touring

soon? We’d love to see you guys in Tex-as!

SF I think our big push is going to start

in January and we’re going to be doing a lot of festivals all over the country and I’m sure we’ll be down there. What Mike and I hope that everybody takes away from this is that as the rhythm section Mike and I were very instrumental in why Heart was so big. However, when we finish our set all peo-ple talk about is Som-er, Lizzy, and Randy. I guess that means we’re doing our job right. …I just finished my IPA, so what kind was it?

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From Mother Earth Living, by Linda B. White

What do you love doing? Accord-

ing to surveys, some of Americans’ favorite hobbies include fishing, gar-dening, traveling, sewing, playing mu-sic and crafts. Why do we enjoy these activities? They all tend to draw us into the present moment. They employ our senses and clear our heads. They make us feel engaged, alert and vital.

What if we could bring that wide-eyed awareness to even the most mundane activity? What if we could spend more of our lives fully engaged?

My Aha Moment

I hadn’t quite appreciated the value of mindfulness until last fall, when I re-ceived a dire medical diagnosis. Nig-gling concerns about the past sudden-ly seemed petty and irrelevant. Many future-based preoccupations — pro-moting books, planning lectures, re-placing the carpets, expanding my Twitter following — fell away.

What mattered was each precious moment. Anxiety, grief and outright terror hovered, ready to swoop in. The remedy was pulling myself back to the present.

Becoming a Student of Mindfulness

To deepen that skill, I enrolled in a course on Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), a program devel-oped by author and researcher Jon Kabat-Zinn at the Center for Mindful-ness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachu-

setts Medical School.

Here's What I Learned

At our first meeting, participants talked about our motivations for en-rolling. Objectives included relief from stress, anxiety, depression, anger, insomnia, overeating and pain.

In addition to being a practice, mind-fulness is a way of being. We Western-ers tend to spend most of our time doing — and doing things on auto-matic pilot rather than with full awareness. From an early age, we’re encouraged to keep busy.

What follows is a description of the key MBSR practices.

The body scan. This 30- to 45-minute practice entails sensing the whole body, toes to head. It both heightens our consciousness of physical sensa-tions and diminishes mental preoccu-pations. It also trains us to do one thing at a time.

First, lie on your back or take a com-fortable seat. Allow your eyelids to close. Get an overall sense of your body and mind. Take a moment to focus on your breathing, the rising and falling of your abdomen. Now, bring your awareness to your right big toe, noticing what you feel. Release your attention from your big toe, and sys-tematically move to each toe, the sole, the sides and tops of the feet. Now, shift your attention to the right ankle, then the right lower leg, the knee and so on.

Remain curious and open to sensa-tions (or lack thereof), refraining from analyzing them or labeling them as bad or good. When your mind wan-ders, let the thought pass (without self-rebuke) and return to the scan. Keep doing the scan daily for the first two weeks. Later, alternate it with mindful movement.

Although some group members didn’t like this practice initially, I enjoyed the deep relaxation it evoked. In fact, I became disabused of my belief that I can’t nap. If I dozed off, I simply fin-ished the body scan afterward. The scan became a tool for returning to sleep after nighttime awakenings.

Seated meditations. The first seated meditation, which we learned in our second week, involves focusing on the breath, a surefire means of being in the present. Begin by sitting in a chair or on the floor. Allow your eyelids to shut. Place one or both palms on your abdomen. As you inhale, your dia-phragm descends, pushing your belly outward. As you release the breath, your belly moves in. Notice the way your chest expands with inhalation, the movement of air through your nostrils.

Mindful Movement. This practice, which we added in week three, in-volves moving the body in a slow, de-liberate manner. Most of the exercises derive from yoga. In class, we flexed and extended our spines, balanced on one leg then the other, stretched our legs — all while focusing on breath

and bodily sensations.

Thoughts and emotions do arise. Notice what comes up when you encounter physical limitations. Then return atten-tion to the movements.

Walking meditation. During week four, we walked silently in a big circle, slow-ing our pace so that each step matched our breathing. Try mindfully walking as you go to work or enter the grocery store. Ramble slowly through your neighborhood, with no particular desti-nation in mind. Just put one foot in front of the other.

By the end of my MBSR program, bene-fits were apparent.

Washing the Dishes and Other Mun-dane Activities

Experiment with mindfully performing one mundane activity each day. Exam-ples include chopping vegetables, wash-ing dishes, showering, making the bed, folding the laundry, sipping a cup of tea, putting your child to bed or tending your garden.

Mindful Stress Management

Denver pediatrician Peggy Sheehan taught our Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) class the STOP meth-od of coping with potentially stressful events.

Stop.

Take a breath.

Observe your thoughts, emotions and physical sensations.

Proceed with a plan borne of awareness and, ideally, wisdom.

kindly did so anyways be-fore they began to play some of their hits and some songs off of their new al-

bum Between The Stars. New vocalist of the band Kristen May was beyond humble and put on one of the most energy filled performances I have seen to date. She crowd surfed, held hands with her fans as she sang to them and even joined the crowd and took photos WHILE performing! But as all good things come to an end, so did their set and as they made their way back-stage the crowd already began to chant “one more song!” Suddenly lights began to flash and sure enough Flyleaf had made their way back to the stage. Kristen shared with everyone she would in fact perform two songs for the encore starting off with their hit I’m So Sick and ending with a duet with Ryan White.

At the end of the night, the crowd could not have been more pleased by the energy and performances all of the bands had put on for them. Each band expressed enjoy-ment and you could really sense how much they love what they do and knew very well how to put on one hell of a show.

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Anyone who enjoys music and good times knows that House of Rock is the place to be in Corpus Christi and this night would be no different. The crowd was scat-tered as I walked in the doors. Groups of people stood separated as they enjoyed cold drinks and chatted amongst themselves. Without much warning, a powerful voice started to sing and silenced the crowd. As he con-cluded the first song of his acoustic set, he introduced himself as Ryan White. He cracked a few jokes to con-nect with the audience and began to sing again. He had so much passion in his small set, the loud applause at the end made it apparent he had definitely gained some fans.

Shortly after Ryan had finished, Lullwater made their way to the stage. Once again the crowd’s attention was set on the stage as they played an energetic set. Their southern-style rock show was no shorter than a regular set, but time flies when you enjoy good music and before you knew it, Flyleaf was ready to put on a performance like no other.

As the headlining act made their way to the stage the crowd went crazy. They needed no introduction but

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IN THEATER’S THIS MONTH NOVEMBER ALBUM RELEASES

3 November

Clark Clark

Damien Rice My Favourite Faded Fantasy

Fearless Vampire Killers Unbreakable Hearts

Peter Gordon Symphony 5

4 November

Amelia Curran They Promised You Mercy

Arrica Rose Wavefunction

Bette Midler It's The Girls

Calvin Harris Motio

Dean Blunt Black Metal

Deerhoof La Isla Bonita

Deptford Goth Songs

Dirty Beaches Stateless

Gold Lake Years

Hideout Rookie

Korallreven Second Comin’

Les Sins Michael

Mariachi El Bronx III

Megafortress Believer

Mother Mother Very Good Bad Thing

Neil Young Storytone

Ryan Hemsworth Alone For The First Time

The Doobie Brothers Southbound

Trophy Eyes Mend, Move On

We Are The Willows Picture (Portrait) Pt. 1

10 November

Foo Fighters Sonic Highways

Legitimate Beef Grinder

Machine Head Bloodstone & Diamonds

The Voyeurs Rhubarb Rhubarb

11 November

2:54 The Other I

Big K.R.I.T. Cadillactica

Cult of Youth Final Days

Dream Police Hypnotized

Ghost Brigade IV: One With The Storm

Hookworms The Hum

Marianne Faithfull Give My Love To London

Mark McGuire Noctilucence

Ne-Yo Non-Fiction

Nick Jonas Nick Jonas

Parkay Quarts Content Nausea

Pink Floyd The Endless River

Röyksopp The Inevitable End

Secret Chiefs 3 Perichoresis

Swingin' Utters Fistful Of Hollow

The Jazz June After The Earthquake

Torn Hawk Let's Cry And Do...

17 November

Bryan Ferry Avonmore

Depeche Mode Live in Berlin

Exit Verse Exit Verse

frYars Power

King Of Cats Working Out

Loscil Sea Island

One Direction Four

Paul McCartney The Art Of McCartney

The Ghost Inside Dear Youth

18 November

Ariel Pink pom pom

David Bowie Nothing Has Changed

Manchester Orchestra Hope

Meligrove Band Bones Of Things

Mr. Oizo The Church

TV on the Radio Seeds

Tyga The Gold Album: 18th Dynasty

Warsawwasraw Sensitizer

24 November

Circa Survive Descensus

Mary J. Blige The London Sessions

Nicki Minaj The Pinkprint

Rick Ross Hood Billionaire

25 November

Bella Novela Telemetry

Nicholas Krgovich On Cahuenga

Snowday As We Travel

28 November

Eminem Shady XV

Wu-Tang Clan A Better Tomorrow

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After playing two sold-out shows at Floores Country Store, Texas icon Willie Nelson cancelled several shows due to an undisclosed illness. The news was sent out through his website with the makeup dates listed for March and April of 2015. A look at his remaining tour dates for this year would make a young man tired. As I often do in these pages, I just don’t see how a man his age keeps up such a brutal schedule. He still releases several albums each year and tours constantly. Like his song says, ‘Still is Still Moving To Me,’ and Willie lives by that motto. Some say Ol’ Willie is just going through the motions and to some extent that’s true. His set list has remained virtually unchanged for the past twenty years and as members of his family band either retire or pass away, Willie just keeps on trucking. His latest CD, ‘Band of Brothers,’ is one of his strongest and in-cludes ‘It’s Hard To Be An Outlaw,’ writ-ten by his good friend Billy Joe Shaver. In fact, Shaver has been opening a lot of shows for Willie, including the ones in the upcoming months. Here are the Texas dates in case you are in the mood for some vintage Willie; Nov. 14 – Galveston; Nov. 16 – Gruene Hall, New Braunfels; Nov. 17 – College Station; Nov. 18 –

Houston; Nov. 23 – San Antonio; Dec. 30 & 31 – Moody Theater, Austin. Keep tabs on him at willienelson.com.

Though it’s not due out until January

of 2015, the new Cody Canada & the Departed album, HippieLovePunk, is

already stirring up inter-est among the Red Dirt faithful due to its Cross Canadian Ragweed sound. After Ragweed broke up, Canada formed the Departed with pal and fellow guitarist Seth James. They recorded two albums together before Seth decided he wanted to do his own thing. Cody and the boys went back in the studio this summer and e m e r g e d w i t h ‘HippieLovePunk,’ an album of Cody songs cut from the same mold as vintage Rag-weed material. Canada recently told Rolling Stone Magazine that some of the material on their last album, ‘Adventus,’ was a little out of his element. As a

fan of that CD, I liked the new direction the band was going. I’ve heard the new CD and must admit, it sounds a lot like Ragweed, so the diehard fans should be happy. Here’s a look at their upcoming Texas tour dates: Nov. 15 – Nutty Brown Café, Austin; Nov. 21 – Goliad; Nov. 22 – Bryan; Dec. 12 – Temple; Dec. 13 – Floores Country Store, Helotes; Dec. 17 – Conroe and Dec. 20 – Brauntex Theatre, New Braunfels.

Wade Bowen, who just happens to be

Cody Canada’s brother in law, just re-leased a new self-titled CD. It’s his first

release on the +180 Records label and contains some of his strongest material to date. The first single, ‘Woke Up Today,’ jumped to the top of the charts and has held a tight grip on that slot. It’s a solid collection with a bit more crunch of big guitars than normal, thanks to the latest addi-tion of Will Knaak to the band. Will joins current guitarist Todd Laning-ham to give Bowen the dual guitar sound that makes his music rock even harder. Ironically, Will and Todd got their start playing together in Stewart Mann’s band, the Statesboro Revue, before leaving at different times to join up with Bowen. It’s all come full circle and the mighty duo are together again, so that’s all that matters.

Unless Taylor Swift and Garth

Brooks can do it when they release their new albums this month, 2014 will go down in history as the first year that no albums sold a million copies. It’s true that downloads have impacted album sales, but the major acts have always been good for at least a million units sold to the public. Until now that is. Looking at the CD release schedule for the next two months, only a handful of artists have the horsepower to move that many units. Swift released her new album, titled ‘1989’ after the year she was born, on October 27, so she may have already reached that lofty goal and you can stop reading this column now. Looking at the list of new re-leases between now and Dec. 31, it includes Pink Floyd, Foo Fighters, One Direction, Selena Gomez, AC/DC, Demi Lovato and Garth Brooks. Only Garth, with his ‘Man Against Machine’ album set for November 11 release seems likely to go platinum, the official name for albums that sell one million copies. It’s been an inter-esting year, that’s for sure. .

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Troubadour Insights

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STEAM What inspires the music you write?

TD I've been inspired by a lot of things. I find I do lean towards sadder subjects. I am careful not to write every song about a girl or failed love. I do have songs like that but I try not to "Randy Rogers" the listener with the same 'ol whiney break up songs. There are other kinds of heartache. I love a sad song, they make me smile.

STEAM Tell me about your last album and are you working on a new album?

TD The last album, Closer to Town, wasn't really planned. A friend of mine, Cassie Kirkpatrick, hooked the whole thing up. She and I went to Media Tech Institute in Austin for audio engineering. We didn't attend at the same time but found we had that in common. She became good friends with Jacob Sciba, the house engineer at Per-denales. She came to a show and told me she could get some time there. We set it up with the financial help of my loving Godparents, Jeannie and Terry Gage and recorded it in 3 days. I didn't have a band just a bass player, Justin Butts. Cassie and Jacob got Brian Beken in there with his fiddle and mandolin. I took Pake Rossi with me to help with pro-duction and we got as much as we could done in the short time we had. I'm happy with it. It’s raw. The second album hasn't been quite as easy. I've learned planning an album with a band is tough. It'll happen, though. When it does,

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See the Ty Dietz Band @ Nov 2 Dr Rockits, Corpus Christi Nov 9 Dr Rockits, Corpus Christi

Nov 12 Giggity's, Port Aransas Nov 14 Tin Can Tavern, Corpus Christi

Nov 15 Private Event Nov 22 Giggity's, Port Aransas Nov 29 Frontier, Calallen (CC) Dec 3 Giggity's, Port Aransas Dec 20 Frontier, Calallen (CC) Dec 24 Giggity's, Port Aransas Dec 26 Shorty's, Port Aransas

it's going to be good.

STEAM I have seen you do mostly acoustic shows with some of your friends, I heard that you have a band now and who’s in it?

TD I was doing a lot of acoustic shows with Pake Rossi, Jason Maddox, Dan Brodhag, Tyler McCumber, and all of our crew. Now we're doing almost 100% band stuff. Tony Saracene plays lead in the band. His playing is really something words can't describe. You just have to watch and listen. We should call it the Tony Saracene Band. Bobby Donahoe plays the drums. I love the way he plays. It sound like the 60's, man. Like Mitch Mitchell or something; very dynamic. My brother Jason Maddox is on bass guitar. He's really kickin' butt too. Originally a lead guitar player and singer song writer he's taken to bass like a duck to water. And yours truly on acoustic and har-monica. We really have something spe-cial going on. I couldn't ask for a better band.

STEAM Do you have any plans for touring?

TD We'd love to tour. We just need a financial boost. We love what we do but it ain't easy getting to the "next level" when you're broke. We have the talent and ambition but the money is tight. Yes, this is a hint to anyone who wants to help.

Find Ty Dietz Band Online @ Facebook.com: Ty-DietZ-Music and Ty.Dietz

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STEAM Yep, we did. We were flipping chan-nels and we stopped and said, “Isn’t that Lloyd Maines?”

LM It was a phenome-nal show! We got to back up Bonnie Raitt, Jeff bridges, Sheryl Crow, Kris Kristoffer-son, Joe Ely, Robert Earl Keen; it was just an amazing night!

STEAM I’m going to switch here to your Grammy Award for the Dixie Chicks.

LM Yeah, that was their third album, Home, and they received five nominations that year. They won Country Al-bum of the Year and as the producer I got one too. They asked me to perform with them, and of course I would have gone anyway, but it was really fun and great being there. One of the songs on that record, Little Jack Slade, was up for Country Instrumen-tal of the Year; it was co-written by Terri Hen-drix, so she went to New York too. Terri,

my wife, and I sat in the second row, right next to Norah Jones and behind Aretha Franklin.

STEAM OK, see right there! I would have been star struck!

LM Oh yeah, it was pretty amazing being in

loyd Wayne Maines was the first of five

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kids Edith and James Maines would bring into the flat, dusty, windy little world of Lubbock, Tex-as. From tot to teen, Lloyd spent many an afternoon listening to the honky-tonk music of his Dad's band, The Maines Brothers, and the inspira-tional pedal steel guitar playing of Frank Carter, Wally Moyers Sr. and Bob Stuffelbeme. It was Bob, in fact, who crafted Lloyd's first pedal steel and nurtured his interest in the instrument. At the age of 14, while most teenage boys were pulling the wings off flies, Lloyd and his brothers played their first gig at the VFW hall in Slaton, Texas. Following in the footsteps of their father, they called themselves The Maines Brothers.

In the early '70s, Lloyd

met Joe Ely. Having heard Joe with The Flat-landers, Lloyd agreed to aid him in his musical quest to play just enough weekly band gigs, and earn just enough money at the Main Street Sa-loon, to get Joe a ticket out of Lubbock. Thus began the launch of the infamous Joe Ely Band, and with it, Lloyd's ticket out of Lubbock, too. From their legendary shows at The Cotton Club, perched on the outskirts of the Lubbock skyline, to packed, sweaty punk clubs in England, the Joe Ely Band won fans around the world - including the famed British punk band The Clash, who invited the Lubbock boys to tour with them. As Joe's following spread across the continent and across the sea, so did Lloyd's reputation as a steel guitarist to be reckoned with. With plenty of star-struck musicians ready to roll tape at Caldwell Studios, Lloyd quit touring steadily with Joe Ely in 1980 to focus more on his family and his production abilities. Around the same time, things started to take off with The Maines Broth-ers Band, but they were all married and had kids, so as a rule, they made an effort not to be on the road away from their families for any longer than 10 days at a time. Eventually, after building up a monstrous fan base with a good run of sold-out shows and considerable radio success, The Maines Brothers traded in their tour bus keys for different occupations, and Lloyd returned as fast as he could back into the studio.

STEAM As I was reading up and figuring out what to talk to you about and my jaw just kept hitting the floor as I was finding out about you! And I’ve just got to say… You’re pretty cool!

LM Yeah, I’ve been lucky enough to work with really good people and did some really

great music over the years. I just consider myself really lucky.

STEAM I wouldn’t

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consider you as much lucky as I would ex-tremely talented and the fact that people search you out is a testament to your abilities. You know as I was looking information up for this, I realized that you, like many well-know people, have probably done hundreds of inter-views and that I’ll probably ask the same ques-tions everyone else does, so I have a silly ques-tion for you – do you ever get star struck?

LM No, not really. I’m really good at keeping everything in perspective. I’ve never been one to think of anyone as more important than anyone else. Then again, there have been peo-ple that have called that I couldn’t believe that were actually calling.

STEAM You are best known for your steel guitar playing although you play other instru-ments just as well. Was that your first instru-ment?

LM Actually, the first instrument I learned to play was acoustic guitar and then I got myself an electric guitar and experimented with that for a while. A guy in my dad’s band, Bob Stuffelbeme, had been building his own pedal steel that he’d given up on and gave to me when I was 17, but he had gotten it to the point that it would play and I just picked it up on my own. This was in the late 60s and back in those days nobody taught pedal steel and the only way I could learn was by watching other players and asking questions. If you play guitar already, you can apply some guitar theo-ry to the pedal steel; it’s definitely a different instrument, so I figured a lot out on my own and, like I said, by watching other people. Anytime Willie Nelson came to town I’d go sit on the side of the stage where Jimmy Day, his steel player, was and watched every move he made. So, that’s why I think people say I have my own style; it comes from never having lessons. I mean now there’s YouTube where you can take lessons on everything, but back then there really was no outlet to learn pedal steel.

STEAM It seems to be one of those instru-ments that people are not looking to learn as much as they were say 30 years ago.

LM Yeah, I think a lot of people will get one and start to learn before realizing how much time it takes to get it under control and they give up. But you’re right, a lot of the great, accomplished steel players are getting up in years and passing away and there really aren’t enough young guys to fill the slots.

STEAM In 2013 in connec-tion with the Austin City Limits anniversary the mayor of Aus-tin proclaimed May 16th as Lloyd Maines Day and ACL did a tribute show to you be-cause you have been on that show more times and anyone else. We have talked with quite a few of the people that got up on that stage with you and I can’t image how amazing that night must have been. You have some great friends!

LM Oh yeah, totally. I have worked with so many great people and am still good friends with all of them. It really was a great night. We did another one back in June for ACL’s 40th Anniversary and I was lucky enough to be induct-ed in to their Hall of Fame. I got some good kudos two years in a row which is more than I thought I deserved, but I was-n’t going to turn it down. (laughing) ACL asked me to put the house band together for that show. I don’t know if you’ve seen it.

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and amongst those great artist that you have heard of for so many years.

STEAM Do you know how many albums you have either recorded on or produced?

LM Well, I tried to put a pencil to it one time and there is really no way of getting a com-pletely accurate count, but I started recording in 1971 or 72 and many of those early albums were from bands around Lubbock that no one can probably remember. I’ve done records with Terry Allen, Terri Hendrix, Robert Earl Keen, Joe Ely, of course the Dixie Chicks, and just so many more. But I believe that I have either played on or produced about 4,000 albums. It’s because I’ve just stayed so busy.

STEAM Wow! Busy is a good way to put it!

LM One reason I have added so much to that number in the last few years is because of digital recording; people from all over the country send me songs and I’ll put pedal steel on it, right here in my home studio, and I’ll send .wav files back to them to be incorpo-rated into their masters. Sometimes I’ll do 10 to 15 songs a week just like that from my house. I love over-dubbing long distance like that. I just finished Robert Earl Keen’s upcoming record, Happy Prisoner: the Bluegrass Sessions (February 2015). We took a year and recorded 26 songs then he narrowed it down to this release, but I think all of the tracks will get used in one way or the other. Terri Hendrix has three recording projects that we’re work-ing on. I’m also working on Max Stalling’s project and I’m doing a duo project with Randy Rogers and Wade Bowen. Not too long ago I finished up Adam Carroll’s record and I’m starting on a new one with Cory Morrow. Then in February I’ll be working with Dale Watson for his new project. Every January I tell myself I’m not going to take on as many projects, but artists that I’ve worked with call and I’ve told them all, “As long as I can still hear, I’ll work with you.”

STEAM Being so busy in the studio, when do you have time to fit in touring?

LM Well, you know I am just really good at managing my time.

STEAM Lastly, do you have any advice for people either just starting out or already in the business?

LM Yeah, you know I general don’t give up, but there are two things. First, always be on time. If you tell somebody you’re going to do something, be there on time and do it. And don’t expect it to be easy; don’t feel entitled. You know there is a lot of luck involved, but I have found that the luckier you are the hard you have to work. So don’t go in to this busi-ness thinking it’s one big party, because you have to learn the business end of it too. So basically, you have to be consistent with peo-ple and don’t feel entitled.

STEAM That’s very good advice and I think it applies to all aspects of life, not just the music side. Thank you.

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out of Luckenbach the first road on the left is Grapetown Rd. Follow the road through the beau-tiful farm country for a few miles and it will end on Old Route 9. Take a left and on the left within a mile is the historic town of Grapetown. It con-sists of an old school house, teacher’s house and dancehall/ shooting club. It is maintained and the shooting club is active. I couldn’t find any infor-mation on the dancehall except that it is inactive these days, but locals say they use it for weddings. Continuing south down the road a couple of miles is the once historic town of Bankersmith TX.

It was named after the banker Temple Doswell Smith who was the bank president that financed the train that ran from Fredericksburg to Comfort. The town formed in 1914, and by the 20’s it had a store, a dance hall, a lumberyard, and about fifty residents. The train closed down in the 40’s and the town turned into a ghost town with the remains of a house and an old bus. Much of the land, including the former town site, remained in the Klinksiek family in the 2010s. The town was put up for sale on Craigslist and was bought by Doug Guller, own-er of the Bikini’s Sports Bar & Grill Franchise, in 2012.

Guller renamed the town to Bikinis TX, and started ren-ovating the town. He converted the house into a bar. It is not the image of what you may think. It has the feel of an old west vintage bar. There isn’t a kitchen, and it is not filled with girls wearing bikinis. It is a very classy establishment where the locals like to hang out and have a beer or two. It has a small retail store inside the bar for buying t-shirts, and a wall dedicated to the histo-ry of the bikini, it is separated from the bar by a wall with some windows and a door. There are a few tables out front, and a very nice deck in the back to sit and relax.

Next door to the bar is the dancehall, it looks like the

original, but it is brand new built from reclaimed materials. Mr. Guller is aware of how fast the music scene is growing in South Texas and wanted a music venue. This is a very nice dance-hall with a relaxed vintage feel. It has a nice green room for the band to relax in between sets. It has a second room for equipment storage. It has a wrapa-round deck with rockers and benches for the people to kick back and relax with their drink from the bar located inside the dancehall. While I was there Joe Ely and Rich O’ Toole were getting set-up to entertain the crowd for the evening.

The property is set-up with room to roam. There is a walk-up bar located in the back of the property, and behind the dancehall is a food truck. There is a fire pit and several areas to sit in the

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TT his month I finish up what I call the Boerne-

Fredericksburg Dancehall Loop. Heading north

the parking lot sits the old abandoned bus. On the web site www.bikinistexas.com they have it listed as a tequila bar, but for right now it is just a cool old abandoned bus.

While I was visiting, one of the local ranch owners was trimming the trees on the property. While he took a break I had time to sit and chat with him at the bar. I ended up finding out that he also holds Cowboy Church at the dancehall on the 2nd and 4th Sunday of the month. The dancehall can also be rented out for special occasions and weddings. You can use the form on the web site for more infor-mation: bikinistexas.com/private-events. This is a

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special dancehall, as I have only lived in Texas a short time, this is the first place where I truly felt welcomed to sit and chat.

This loop of dancehalls would make for the perfect week-end trip. I would start my trip with stopping at the Sisterdale Dancehall on Friday afternoon. Check-out the historic dancehall hopefully Rhonda will be there and she can give you the tour of this masterpiece. From there I would head up to Lucken-bach to either camp or take in one of the many B&B’s in the area for both Friday and Saturday night. If a concert is at Guller Hall it most likely would be on a Friday night so I would go there to

dance the night way, but if they didn’t Luckenbach always has music on Friday night. I would spend my Saturday touring the local vineyards finishing Saturday off with the music at Luckenbach. I would wake up Sunday morning and take in the Cowboy Church at Guller Hall. Have lunch at the Alamo Springs General Store and Café by Old Tunnel State Park on Old Route 9. Walk off lunch at Old Tunnel State Park and see the bats flying around inside the tunnel. Then drive back out through Sisterdale, or visit the small antique town of Comfort as I head back home.

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