February 16, 2012 Island Moon A 11 By Ronnie Narmour [email protected] Three Chords and the Truth Live Music -Thursday, Feb. 16th Free Beer Band @ Tarpon Ice House Battle of the Bands @ House of Rock Stoney LaRue/ Dirty River Boys @ Brewster Street Ice House Antone & the All Stars @ Dr. Rockits Shakedown @ Executive Surf Club Friday, Feb. 17th Philip Thomas/ Divided Revival @ House of Rock Another Level @ Brewster Street Ice House Chris Watson @ Dr. Rockits Bushbulit @ Executive Surf Club Saturday, Feb. 18th Richard Leigh & Larry Joe Taylor @ 3 rd Coast Theater Bluegrass Festival @ The Gaff Bri Bagwell & Banned @ Executive Surf Club Ruben V @ Dr. Rockits Not in the Face @ House of Rock CC Symphony @ Performing Arts Center TAMUCC Sunday, Feb. 19th Open Electric Jam w/ Rockin’ Ricke @ Tarpon Ice House Ranson Jack @ Dr. Rockits Tumble Dry Low @ Bernie’s Beach House Monday, Feb. 20th Gretchen Peters @ Burning Bush Coffee House Curtis Grimes @ House of Rock Open Jam w/ Antone Perez @ Dr. Rockits Tuesday, Feb.21st FAT TUESDAY Open Mic w/ Rev. Matt Martinez @ House of Rock Steven James & Shakedown @ Dr. Rockits Sesame Street Live: Elmo Makes Music @ American Bank Center Mike Williams Jazz Quartet / Hy Edelmman @ Tarpon Ice House Wednesday, Feb. 22nd Open Jam w/ Wolf Jaw @ Flats Lounge PA Rockers @ Bernie’s Beach House Beer & Berto Show @ House of Rock Neil Edwards Band @ Dr. Rockits Medicare Band @ Moby Dick’s Thursday, Feb. 23rd Supersuckers/ Spittin’ Cobras @ Executive Surf Club Casey Donahew/ Ryan Beaver @ Brewster Street Ice House Free Beer Band @ Tarpon Ice House Antone & the All Stars @ Dr. Rockits Voodoo Glow Skulls/ Authority Zero/ Skyfox @ House of Rock Friday, Feb. 24th Hamilton Loomis @ Executive Surf Club Matt Haimovitz/ Javier Caderon/ Lee Buckner @ House of Rock The Groove @ Dr. Rockits JR Castillo @ Brewster Street Ice House American Spirit (Corpus Christi Live) @ Performing Arts Center TAMUCC Saturday, Feb. 25th Vallejo @ Executive Surf Club Rosie Flores @ Dr. Rockits Lot’s to talk about. No time to waste. Let’s roll… Terri Hendrix Terri Hendrix (San Marcos, TX) put on one of the very best shows I’ve ever seen her perform on February 4 th at the Third Coast Theater in Port A (and I’ve seen her play many, many times in the last 15 years or so.) Although, she only performs here about once a year, it’s obvious she loves this venue and she loves Port A….and Port A loves Terri Hendrix. On this night, the energy in this packed house was off the charts and Hendrix fed off it like a Thanksgiving Day feast. Terri Hendrix’s music is unique and uplifting. It is full of amazing sounds from the arsenal of acoustic instruments that she and her accompanist, Lloyd Maines, play without flaw. Their stage looks like a pawn shop: guitars, mandolin, lap steel, papoose, harmonicas, and yes…even a banjo. Maines is a master musician plain and simple. Put strings on it and Lloyd will make it pop wheelies. Hendrix has put out 12 albums on her own label since 1996 and all of them showcase her talented songwriting and beautiful voice. She is truly a woman who has created her own universe and our world is a better place for it. On this night in Port A, the audience had the honor of listening to several songs Hendrix had never played in public before. She is in the process of putting a new CD together with a blues and gospel slant. Her treatment of the American Folk Hymn, Arise and Go To Jesus, was chilling. She also broke out the old jump blues number, Feets to Big, which has been covered by Fats Waller, the Ink Spots, Leon Redbone and the Beatles. It’s obvious that Terri has been woodshedding on her harmonica lately and she’s been focusing on roots and blues. She told me, “I’m working hard on the blues stuff. I’m a total beginner and it’s tough.” If these two numbers are any indication, I’d say she’s being a bit humble. They sounded perfectly in sync with her otherwise folky style and she positively nailed it on both songs. DO NOT MISS LIST Richard Leigh & Larry Joe Taylor Richard Leigh (Nashville, TN) and Larry Joe Taylor (Stephenville, TX) will play the Third Coast Theater in Port A on Saturday, February 18 th . Leigh, who has been writing songs since he was ten years old and professionally since he was twenty-three, got his first break in 1976 when Crystal Gayle released “I’ll Get Over You”, and took it to #1 on Billboard’s Country Chart. His big hit, “Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue,” reached the #1 position on both Pop and Country charts and remained on the charts for more than six months and won a Grammy Award for “Best Country Song”. It was a million selling single, and was named one of the ten most performed “Country Songs of the Century” at the 1999 ASCAP Awards. In addition to his own three Grammy Nominations, five of Leigh’s songs have become vehicles to the Grammy Awards for other artists in the “Best Performance”, “Record of the Year”, and “Vocal Event” categories. To date, Leigh has made fourteen trips to the Top Ten and has written or co-written eight #1 singles. I met Richard last year through Lighthouse Rick when we met for beers at Shorty’s. He’s a pleasant sort with a tow sack full of stories. When I told him the name of my column, Three Chords and the Truth, the first thing out of his mouth was, ”Harlan Howard” and he proceeded to tell me all about him. (The late Harlan Howard was a noted Nashville songwriter and Country Music Hall of Fame inductee and is credited for formulating the oft-quoted definition of a great country song: “Three chords and the truth.” I must say, I’m proud to have stolen my moniker from such a noteworthy source.) Then Richard went to the jukebox and played six of his songs. I was impressed. Larry Joe Taylor is definitely an island fave. He plays Port A half dozen times each year and always draws sellout crowds. His music festival in Stephenville each April pulls in 40,000 fans and features some of the biggest names in country music. A prolific songwriter, Taylor has been recorded by such artists as Jerry Jeff Walker, Keith Sykes, Richard Leigh, Gary P. Nunn, Michael Hearne and Tommy Alverson. Though I’ve ragged on LJT in the past for dialing in the same rhetoric at every show, he’s an island treasure and a consummate pro and there’s not a soul in Port A who doesn’t know the words to Island Time. I went to this song swap with LJT and Richard Leigh last year and thoroughly enjoyed it. I was especially amused after listening to one of Larry Joe’s particularly lengthy introductions, when Leigh-who had waited patiently for his turn- introduced his next number by saying, “I wrote this next song during Larry Joe’s last song.” Gaff’s 2 nd Annual Bluegrass Festival Mama Tried, The Crystal Creek Boys, and Get Off The Lawn will perform in Port A at The Gaff’s 2 nd Annual Bluegrass Music Festival, on Saturday, February 18. This family- friendly “jamboree” promises to provide the type of Pirate and Island flair which the Gaff has become famous for. There will also be an old-fashioned auction for the first time this year. The live music and fun games, such as “Chicken Bingo with The Amazing Pearl”, will begin at 1 p.m. and continue until 10 p.m. The Gaff is known for delicious pizza, cold beer, and unique events such as their Pirate Pub Crawls and the world famous Beltsander Races. This event will benefit non-profit organizations such as the ARK and AIR. Free booth spaces for non-profit organizations, as well as vendor space and sponsorships, are still available for this event. For more information go to www.gotothegaff.com or contact [email protected]. Gretchen Peters Gretchen Peters (Nashville, TN) will perform for the Burning Bush Concert Series at the Parkdale Presbyterian Church (3703 Santa Fe Street) in Corpus on Monday, February 20 th . The concert series is held in conjunction with Texas Public Radio station KEDT 90.3 and the Sunday night program, “Some Call It Folk” hosted by Pam Stakes, Brad Brown and James C. Davis. Past performances include Sarah Hickman, Susan Gibson, Carolyn Aiken, Karen Mal, Shake Russell, Dana Cooper, Butch Morgan, Taylor Pie and John Smith, among others. Peters’ own voice and guitar playing have been at the core of her music since she started performing in the Boulder, Colorado folk circuit as a teenager. She was inspired by Paul Simon, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell and a new generation of songwriters rising out of Nashville that included Steve Earle and Nanci Griffith. She has written songs for hits Martina McBride, Etta James, Trisha Yearwood, Faith Hill, Patty Loveless, George Straight and Neil Diamond and has co-written with Bryan Adams. The Grammy nominated singer-songwriter has seven solo albums to her credit since 2001 and has recorded with such heavyweights as Tom Russell and Rodney Crowell. She calls her most resent release, Hello Cruel World, the “most close-to-the-bone work, written at a time when I felt absolutely fearless about telling the truth.” For more information go to www. burningbushconcerts.com. Port A Mardi Gras Parade Mike Williams Jazz Quartet Ya Ya Ya and Bon Ton Roulet!!! It’s Mardi Gras time on the island, yall. Pick your spot and get ready to catch some beads with the thousands of folks on the streets of Port A. The Fat Tuesday parade in Port A grows bigger and bigger by the year. I got a feeling this year’s parade will be the biggest yet. All floats need to lineup down Beach Street behind The Gaff by 3:30 or 4. The parade starts from the Gaff at 5:00. This year the route will be extended to include parts of the city south of the high school. ( Last year the head kept meeting the tail.) Then after the parade, get ready for some swinging New Orleans style Dixieland Jazz when the Mike Williams Jazz Quartet (Port Aransas, TX) plays on Fat Tuesday, February 21 st , at the Tarpon Ice House in Port A. The parade in Port A is scheduled to start at 5 p.m. and the band will play immediately after. The group features Rocky Arnold, a nationally acclaimed keyboardist who has played with such jazz stars as Paul Desmond and Bud Powell. The band plays traditional and mainstream jazz and, in addition to Arnold, is composed of Jack Trowbridge on saxophone, Cheo Reyes on trumpet and Pete Salazar on drums. Mike Williams plays rhythm guitar, trombone and handles the vocals. Hy Edleman will play his energetic style of Americana following the jazz show. With their stage located right on Alister Street, the Tarpon Ice House is definitely the best place on the island to watch the parade and get into the spirit of Mardi Gras. And that’s the truth! Live Music Every Friday Mon-Sat 10am- 2am Sun Noon- 2am Welcome Winter Texans The Gaff Beer ● Pizza ● Belt Sander Races (361) 749-5970 Tonight MIke Williams Jazz Quartet on Fat Tusday Feb. 21 Free Beer Band Every Thursday (7:00pm) 321 N Alister * (361) 749-2337 Carol Elliott (5-7) Every Friday HAPPY MARDI GRAS Moby Dicks 517 South Alister Street Port Aransas, Tx Medicare Band Every Wednesday All You Can Eat Shrimp Now Open Good Eats Cafe 132 West Cotter Street Port A Mike Williams at the Beach Lodge on Valentine’s Terri Hendrix and Lloyd Maines played the Third Coast Studio on Feb. 4th The Crystal Creek Boys will play the Gaff’s 2nd Annual Bluegrass Festival on Feb. 18 Larry Joe Taylor and Richard Leigh will play the Third Coast Studio on Feb. 18 BACK PORCH OPENS MARCH 8 Sat. 3/10 RUBEN V! Lisabellas Bistro & Bar Celebrating Coastal Cuisine 361-749-4222 Tues - Sat 5pm - ? Casual Dining at it’s Finest Come Visit Our New Location
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February 16, 2012 Island Moon A 11
By Ronnie Narmour
Three Chords and the Truth
Live Music
-Thursday, Feb. 16th Free Beer Band @ Tarpon Ice House Battle of the Bands @ House of Rock Stoney LaRue/ Dirty River Boys @ Brewster Street Ice House Antone & the All Stars @ Dr. Rockits Shakedown @ Executive Surf Club
Friday, Feb. 17th Philip Thomas/ Divided Revival @ House of RockAnother Level @ Brewster Street Ice House Chris Watson @ Dr. RockitsBushbulit @ Executive Surf Club
Saturday, Feb. 18th Richard Leigh & Larry Joe Taylor @ 3rd Coast TheaterBluegrass Festival @ The GaffBri Bagwell & Banned @ Executive Surf ClubRuben V @ Dr. RockitsNot in the Face @ House of Rock CC Symphony @ Performing Arts Center TAMUCC
Sunday, Feb. 19th Open Electric Jam w/ Rockin’ Ricke @ Tarpon Ice HouseRanson Jack @ Dr. Rockits Tumble Dry Low @ Bernie’s Beach House
Monday, Feb. 20thGretchen Peters @ Burning Bush Coffee HouseCurtis Grimes @ House of Rock Open Jam w/ Antone Perez @ Dr. Rockits
Tuesday, Feb.21st FAT TUESDAYOpen Mic w/ Rev. Matt Martinez @
House of Rock Steven James &
Shakedown @ Dr. Rockits
Sesame Street Live: Elmo Makes Music @ American Bank
CenterMike Williams
Jazz Quartet / Hy Edelmman @
Tarpon Ice HouseWednesday, Feb. 22nd
Open Jam w/ Wolf Jaw @ Flats Lounge
PA Rockers @ Bernie’s Beach
HouseBeer & Berto Show
@ House of RockNeil Edwards Band
@ Dr. Rockits Medicare Band @
Moby Dick’s
Thursday, Feb. 23rd Supersuckers/ Spittin’ Cobras @
Executive Surf ClubCasey Donahew/ Ryan Beaver @
Brewster Street Ice HouseFree Beer Band @ Tarpon Ice House Antone & the All
Stars @ Dr. Rockits Voodoo Glow Skulls/
Authority Zero/ Skyfox @ House of
Rock
Friday, Feb. 24th Hamilton Loomis @ Executive Surf Club
Matt Haimovitz/ Javier Caderon/ Lee Buckner @ House of Rock The Groove @ Dr. Rockits
JR Castillo @ Brewster Street Ice House American Spirit (Corpus Christi Live)
@ Performing Arts Center TAMUCC
Saturday, Feb. 25th Vallejo @ Executive
Surf ClubRosie Flores @ Dr.
Rockits
Lot’s to talk about. No time to waste. Let’s roll…
Terri HendrixTerri Hendrix (San Marcos, TX) put on
one of the very best shows I’ve ever seen her perform on February 4th at the Third Coast Theater in Port A (and I’ve seen her play many, many times in the last 15 years or so.) Although, she only performs here about once a year, it’s obvious she loves this venue and she loves Port A….and Port A loves Terri Hendrix. On this night, the energy in this packed house was off the charts and Hendrix fed off it like a Thanksgiving Day feast.
Terri Hendrix’s music is unique and uplifting. It is full of amazing sounds from the arsenal of acoustic instruments that she and her accompanist, Lloyd Maines, play without flaw. Their stage looks like a pawn shop: guitars, mandolin, lap steel, papoose, harmonicas, and yes…even a banjo. Maines is a master musician plain and simple. Put strings on it and Lloyd will make it pop wheelies. Hendrix has put out 12 albums on her own label since 1996 and all of them showcase her talented songwriting and beautiful voice. She is truly a woman who has created her own universe and our world is a better place for it.
On this night in Port A, the audience had the honor of listening to several songs Hendrix had never played in public before. She is in the process of putting a new CD together with a blues and gospel slant. Her treatment of the American Folk Hymn, Arise and Go To Jesus, was chilling. She also broke out the old jump blues number, Feets to Big, which has been covered by Fats Waller, the Ink Spots, Leon Redbone and the Beatles. It’s obvious that Terri has been woodshedding on her harmonica lately and she’s been focusing on roots and blues. She told me, “I’m working hard on the blues stuff. I’m a total beginner and it’s tough.” If these two numbers are any indication, I’d say she’s being a bit humble. They sounded perfectly in sync with her otherwise folky style and she positively nailed it on both songs.
DO NOT MISS LIST
Richard Leigh & Larry Joe TaylorRichard Leigh (Nashville, TN) and Larry Joe
Taylor (Stephenville, TX) will play the Third Coast Theater in Port A on Saturday, February 18th. Leigh, who has been writing songs since
he was ten years old and professionally since he was twenty-three, got his first break in 1976 when Crystal Gayle released “I’ll Get Over You”, and took it to #1 on Billboard’s Country Chart. His big hit, “Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue,” reached the #1 position on both Pop and Country charts and remained on the charts for more than six months and won a Grammy Award for “Best Country Song”. It was a million selling single, and was named one of the ten most performed “Country Songs of the Century” at the 1999 ASCAP Awards. In addition to his own three Grammy Nominations, five of Leigh’s songs have become vehicles to the Grammy Awards for other artists in the “Best Performance”, “Record of the Year”, and “Vocal Event” categories. To date, Leigh has made fourteen trips to the Top Ten and has written or co-written eight #1 singles.
I met Richard last year through Lighthouse Rick when we met for beers at Shorty’s. He’s a pleasant sort with a tow sack full of stories. When I told him the name of my column, Three Chords and the Truth, the first thing out of his mouth was, ”Harlan Howard” and he proceeded to tell me all about him. (The late Harlan Howard was a noted Nashville songwriter and Country Music Hall of Fame inductee and is credited for formulating the oft-quoted definition of a great country song: “Three chords and the truth.” I must say, I’m proud to have stolen my moniker from such a noteworthy source.) Then Richard went to the jukebox and played six of his songs. I was impressed.
Larry Joe Taylor is definitely an island fave. He plays Port A half dozen times each year and always draws sellout crowds. His music festival in Stephenville each April pulls in 40,000 fans and features some of the biggest names in country music. A prolific songwriter, Taylor has been recorded by such artists as Jerry Jeff Walker, Keith Sykes, Richard Leigh, Gary P. Nunn, Michael Hearne and Tommy Alverson. Though I’ve ragged on LJT in the past for dialing in the same rhetoric at every show, he’s an island treasure and a consummate pro and there’s not a soul in Port A who doesn’t know the words to Island Time. I went to this song swap with LJT and Richard Leigh last year and thoroughly enjoyed it. I was especially amused after listening to one of Larry Joe’s particularly lengthy introductions, when Leigh-who had waited patiently for his turn- introduced his next number by saying, “I wrote this next song during Larry Joe’s last song.”
Gaff’s 2nd Annual Bluegrass FestivalMama Tried, The Crystal Creek Boys,
and Get Off The Lawn will perform in Port A at The Gaff’s 2nd Annual Bluegrass Music Festival, on Saturday, February 18. This family-friendly “jamboree” promises to provide the type of Pirate and Island flair which the Gaff has become famous for. There will also be an old-fashioned auction for the first time this year. The live music and fun games, such as “Chicken Bingo with The Amazing Pearl”, will begin at 1 p.m. and continue until 10 p.m. The Gaff is known for delicious pizza, cold beer, and unique events such as their Pirate Pub Crawls and the world famous Beltsander Races. This event will benefit non-profit organizations such
as the ARK and AIR. Free booth spaces for non-profit organizations, as well as vendor space and sponsorships, are still available for this event. For more information go to www.gotothegaff.com or contact [email protected].
Gretchen Peters Gretchen Peters (Nashville, TN)
will perform for the Burning Bush Concert Series at the Parkdale Presbyterian Church (3703 Santa Fe Street) in Corpus on Monday, February 20th. The concert series is held in conjunction with Texas Public Radio station KEDT 90.3 and the Sunday night program, “Some Call It Folk” hosted by Pam Stakes, Brad Brown and James C. Davis. Past performances include Sarah Hickman, Susan Gibson, Carolyn Aiken, Karen Mal, Shake Russell, Dana Cooper, Butch Morgan, Taylor Pie and John Smith, among others.
Peters’ own voice and guitar playing have been at the core of her music since she started performing in the Boulder, Colorado folk circuit as a teenager. She was inspired by Paul Simon, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell and a new generation of songwriters rising out of Nashville that included Steve Earle and Nanci Griffith. She has written songs for hits Martina McBride, Etta James, Trisha Yearwood, Faith Hill, Patty Loveless, George Straight and Neil Diamond and has co-written with Bryan Adams. The Grammy nominated singer-songwriter has seven solo albums to her credit since 2001 and has recorded with such heavyweights as Tom Russell and Rodney Crowell. She calls her most resent release, Hello Cruel World, the “most close-to-the-bone work, written at a time when I felt absolutely fearless about telling the truth.” For more information go to www.burningbushconcerts.com.
Port A Mardi Gras ParadeMike Williams Jazz QuartetYa Ya Ya and Bon Ton Roulet!!!
It’s Mardi Gras time on the island, yall. Pick your spot and get ready to catch some beads with the thousands of folks on the streets of Port A. The Fat Tuesday parade in Port A grows bigger and bigger by the year. I got a feeling this year’s parade will be the biggest yet. All
floats need to lineup down Beach Street behind The Gaff by 3:30 or 4. The parade starts from the Gaff at 5:00. This year the route will be extended to include parts of the city south of the high school. ( Last year the head kept meeting the tail.)
Then after the parade, get ready for some swinging New Orleans style Dixieland Jazz when the Mike Williams Jazz Quartet (Port Aransas, TX) plays on Fat Tuesday, February 21st, at the Tarpon Ice House in Port A. The parade in Port A is scheduled to start at 5 p.m. and the band will play immediately after. The group features Rocky Arnold, a nationally acclaimed keyboardist who has played with such jazz stars as Paul Desmond and Bud Powell. The band plays traditional and mainstream jazz and, in addition to Arnold, is composed of Jack Trowbridge on saxophone, Cheo Reyes on trumpet and Pete Salazar on drums. Mike Williams plays rhythm guitar, trombone and handles the vocals. Hy Edleman will play his energetic style of Americana following the jazz show. With their stage located right on Alister Street, the Tarpon Ice House is definitely the best place on the island to watch the parade and get into the spirit of Mardi Gras.
And that’s the truth!
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Mike Williams at the Beach Lodge on
Valentine’s
Terri Hendrix and Lloyd Maines played the Third Coast Studio on Feb. 4th
The Crystal Creek Boys will play the Gaff’s 2nd Annual Bluegrass Festival on
Feb. 18
Larry Joe Taylor and Richard Leigh will play the Third Coast Studio on Feb. 18
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