4 BUDDY MARCH 2016

POOR DAVID’S PUB IS CEL-Pebrating its 39th anniversary asthe oldest continuously runningvenue supporting Texas music, withits signature style a lineup not to bemissed and giveaways that include alifetime ticket to concerts at this Dal-las venue. This year’s anniversarymonth lineup includes some per-formers who have been making mu-sic there and across Texas for just aslong. For instance, March 12 willhave Walt Wilkins on the PDP stage,and on March 12 it’ll be Brave Combo,some burlesque, and prizes givenaway. David Card, AKA Poor David,said, “The first 39 years are the hard-est!” In anticipation of the next 39years, David has already announcedthat John Sebastian will be playingon September 23 and that KathyMattea will be here for Poor DavidPub’s 40th anniversary, performingon March 9, 2017. Tickets will “flyoff the shelf like drones on steroids,”David said. Tickets are available onFrontGateTickets.com.

Tanya Tucker will headline theMarch 18 Kenneth Threadgill Con-cert Series at the historic GreenvilleMunicipal Auditorium in downtownGreenville. Kimberly Dunn will open.For more information go toGreenville-texas.com

KNON’s Blue Lisa has put to-gether the 7th Annual KNON BluesFest on March 20 at Lola’s 2736West 6th Street in Fort Worth. It’sone day and two stages of great Blues.Making a special appearance this yearwill former hometown Blues manRandy McAllister coming from NorthDakota. Also appearing Keri Lepaiwith Andrew Jr. Boy Jones, ToneSummers Guitar Army, James Hinkle,Larry Lampkin, Jason Elmore,Michael Lee, Guthrie Kennard, KMWilliams, Paul Byrd and more.KNON’s 3rd Annual Chili Cookoff isSunday April 3rd at The Gas MonkeyBar and Grill with special guestTommy Alverson

The sixth Rusty Wier singer/songwriter challenge will have cometo a conclusion on March 6, with thefinal seven artists having met on theLove & War in Texas stage in Plano.Making it into the final seven are:Saille Branch, Ian Dickson, MichaelO’Neal, Brad Purdom, Marina Rocks,Tin Man Travis, and StephenValenzuela. Sponsored each year byLove & War in Texas, the contest hasproduced such past winners asMichael Prysock, Guthrie Kennard,Mark Shelton, Scott Sean White, andMick Tinsley.

The White Elephant Saloon’sBattle of the Bands is in full swing,now halfway through its first round.This is held every Wednesday nightat the Fort Worth Stockyards’ venue,with Brad Hines opening at 7 pm,and the competing bands beginningat 8 pm KHYI 95.3 The Range is a co-sponsor of this contest, which offersmany career-enhancing prizes to its

top band, and those prizes includean automatic entry into KHYI’s yearlyShiner Rising Star band contest.

New releasesOn March 12 Andy Meadows willcelebrate the release of his new Mod-ern Day Crooner CD with a CD Re-lease Party at the Stagecoach Ball-room in Fort Worth. Hear a samplemix of the new tracks right now atandymeadows.net. Along with four ofhis own songs Andy brings his uniqueblend of jazz, country, blues andswing to some classic tunes like,“Just One of Those Things,” “You’reSomething Special to Me,” “One forMy Baby and One for the Road,” anda duet with Kayley Nell on, “Houseof Blue Lights.” Recorded at PatrickMcGuire Recording Studios in Ar-lington Kayley Nell will open at 8:30pm and the show will also feature aswing dance competition with a $100cash prize.

Down in Austin, the psychedelicfolk band Calliope Musicals is releas-ing its debut CD Time Owes You Noth-ing, on April 15 at the Central Presby-terian Church, 200 E. 8 th St. Thisband mixes vibraphone, tribal drums,bass, lead guitar and vocals in a 6-piece group that also includes bassguitar. The band has been featured atthe Arkansas festival, Wakarusa, alongwith the Backwoods Music Festivaland others. Cold and Bitter Tears: TheSong of Ted Hawkins was released fromAustin-based Eight 30 Records. It’sthe first tribute album to the soulfulVenice Beach street performer. Lots offamiliar and welcome names on thetrack listing: “Big Things” sung byJames McMurtry, “Cold and BitterTears” by Kasey Chambers and BillChambers, “One Hundred Miles” byTim Easton, “Sorry You’re Sick” byMary Gauthier, “Strange Conversa-tion” by Jon Dee Graham, “HappyHour” by Sunny Sweeney, “I GotWhat I Wanted” by Randy Weeks,“Baby” by Tina-Marie HawkinsFowler with Elizabeth Hawkins, “IGave Up All I Had” by Gurf Morlix,“Bad Dog” by Danny Barnes, “Bring Iton Home Daddy” by The Damna-tions, “My Last Goodbye” by RamsayMidwood, “Who Got My NaturalComb” by Shinyribs, and more

Dave Insley is releasing his latestCD, Just the Way I Am, on his ownDIR Records. The release is sched-uled for April 23 at the White Horsein Austin. Special guests on this newCD are Kelly Willis, ElizabethMcQueen, Dale Watson, ReddVolkaert and Rick Shea.

Also, Lukas Nelson is deliveringhis third album, Something Real onMarch 11, on the Royal Potato Fam-ily label. It’s a full-band (Promise ofthe Real) project, who describe theirstyle as “cowboy hippie surf rock.”

On March 11, Lukas Nelson &Promise of the Real will deliver theirheavily-anticipated thirdalbum, Something Real, via Royal Po-

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BLAHtato Family. (SomethingReal documents the trail blazed bythis hard-driving ensemble in its re-cent past. Most of all, it captures themin all their current glory as songwriters,performers and progenitors of thestyle they characterize as “cowboyhippie surf rock.” The band consistsof Lukas Nelson, his brother MicahNelson (both sons of iconic WillieNelson), Corey McCormick, TatoMelgar, and Anthony LoGerfo. There’sa special guest vocal on the track titled“San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flow-ers in your Hair.)” Promoting this CD,Lukas Nelson will be traveling exten-sively throughout Europe, the UnitedKingdom, and the United States.

The Trishas — (Jamie Lin Wil-son, Liz Foster, Kelley Mickwee, andSavannah Welch) are touring again,hitting five of the top venues acrossTexas. Four of the five stops on TheSpring Fling Tour will be full-bandshows featuring their inimitable har-monies. The Trishas’ Metroplex stopwill be on March 10 at the Kessler inDallas/Oak Cliff.

Jamie Lin Wilson is one of manywho has recorded a CD honoring thelate Kent Finlay. This CD, along withits companion biographical book,“Kent Finlay, Dreamer,” written byBrian T. Atkinson and Jenni Finlay,was released March 2. Finlay, ownersince 1974 of the Cheatham StreetWarehouse and is credited with giv-ing more-than-token support to mu-sicians including George Strait,Stevie Ray Vaughan, Randy Rogers.Rogers is one of those who givestestimonial to Finlay in the book,with other accounts provided by ToddSnider, James McMurtry, Strait, andEric Johnson. The CD has perfor-mances by McMurtry, Wilson, JonDee Graham, Sunny Sweeney, andothers who called him friend

In MemoriamGeoffrey Dunbar LOST HIS battlewith cancer on February 12 at hishome in Colorado Springs Colorado.Geoffrey (Geoff) was not only mybrother-in-law, but a very good friendfor over 40 years. He was involvedwith many things….Geoff startedKAFM 92.5 (Dallas, Texas first pro-gressive country radio station). Hewas Waylon Jennings Road Man-ager during the Outlaw Tour. Inaddition, Marble Records; Farm Aide- Tyson Foods Heartland Cafr ; GMfor Hoffbrau Steakhouse; owner ofSan Angelo Grill (Dallas, Texas) andnumerous concert promotions. Mostof all Geoff will be remembered asthe pioneering force behind KTCKAM (THE TICKET 24/7 sports ra-dio). A little known fact about Geoff:he created “Super Gator”, the mascotfor the University of Florida in theearly 1970’s. He would lead the foot-ball team onto the home field dressedin his costume of Orange Helmet,Cape and Mask.

—STEVE BROOKS