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The Return of JEFF the Brotherhood with The Greenhornes
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The music over the sound system cuts out and there they go up on stage again just the two of them -- Jake and Jamin Orrall. It starts. Strong guitar riff, pounding drums. Energy. The sound that’s way too big to come out of a drum kit and a guitar with three strings. JEFF the Brotherhood. Already I’m grinning. I was there the last time they came…
Continue Reading »The Generationals, Milk Tooth, and Floating Action at Old No. 2
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The chief pops in. We buy each other rounds, share stories, and talk about afters. Then, like that it’s over. Another great B Live show has passed – like a spring shower – leaving mad-happy grins on the faces of the alcohol-soaked and the music-high and everyone’s chatting about their favorite “do you remember when they played that I can’t belie…
Continue Reading »Those Darlins
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I walk outside to the patio at Old No. 2 and I see them. They’re sitting in a corner, chatting the way strangers in a new -- maybe unfamiliar setting – do: quiet, huddled – almost conspiratorily. They’re perfectly dishevelled, off-kilter wild, looking like characters out of a mix between a Jim Jarmusch and John Waters film, looking both fresh and…
Continue Reading »Craig the Superfan.
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This is a follow up to my last blog about Ram Danesse and his gig at Average Joe’s. It was while watching his show that two disparate, and at the time, seemingly unrelated events took place: I stopped a waitress and complemented her on her body art. Ram Danesse made a shout out to a gentleman from England in the crowd as he proceeded to do a comme…
Continue Reading »Ram Danesse
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I have a confession to make. I was supposed to have gone last Saturday to check out LEAF – the Laredo Emerging Artists Festival, but took a detour. That detour was completely the fault of my editor, Chuck. About LEAF – well, that’s another blog. We stopped off at Vamp where I had the Shrimp Tacos (awesome, by the way – props to Chef Lou) then did…
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