I Like Texas........

macallan25 · #1 08-03-2007, 07:10 PM

....screw Pat Green.

#2 08-04-2007, 04:46 PM

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Originally Posted by macallan25

....screw Pat Green.

Probably the first time I've ever agreed with you.

macallan25 · #3 08-04-2007, 10:51 PM

There is little to no current Texas music that I can even listen to anymore.

Pretty much stick with REK, James McMurtry, and Townes Van Zandt and the other old guys.

#4 08-05-2007, 01:10 AM

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Originally Posted by macallan25

There is little to no current Texas music that I can even listen to anymore.

Pretty much stick with REK, James McMurtry, and Townes Van Zandt and the other old guys.

Now I'm no music snob, but for me personally its a question of the songwriting and the ability of the songwriter to tell a story. Yeah when I was in HS I was all over REK's "No. 2 Live Diner" album and Pat Green cause they sang about Texas and getting drunk. For some reason all of Cory Morrow's songs sound the same to me, lyrics and melody.

Now if I listen to Texas country its Randy Rogers and Reckless Kelly with a little Roger Creager. Still songs about Texas and drinking, but I think Reckless Kelly's Live at the Zona Rosa CD is a truly stellar live music recording.

SATX*APhi · #5 08-06-2007, 09:00 AM

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Originally Posted by macallan25

....screw Pat Green.

Ditto.

He was down here in Corpus a few months back headlining an event. We showed up for the 3-4 openers and left when PG came on.

SATX*APhi · #6 08-10-2007, 05:11 PM

I hit The Peddler Show every time they are in town (every 3 months). I loooove it! Anyone else?

Upcoming dates:
Arlington Peddler Show
August 10 - 12 2007

Corpus Christi (new facility)
August 17 - 19, 2007

Midland
August 24 - 26, 2007

Plano (Fall Dates Added!)
September 7 - 9, 2007

Bryan/College Station
September 14 - 16, 2007

Pasadena
September 21 - 23, 2007

Bossier City (Cancelled)
October 5 - 7, 2007

Lubbock
October 12 - 14, 2007

Amarillo
October 19 - 21, 2007

Rosenberg
October 26 - 28, 2007

Kevlar281 · #7 08-18-2007, 03:53 PM

Not to bust up the music conversation. But when Tropical Storm Erin came through Houston my sister-in-law flooded her car. My brother was at work so she called me up asking for help. We live only a block away from each other so it only took me five minutes to get over there and by the time I did there were already three men pushing her car into her driveway. It was definitely one of those proud to be Texan moments.

justabeachbrat · #8 08-18-2007, 10:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Kevlar281

Not to bust up the music conversation. But when Tropical Storm Erin came through Houston my sister-in-law flooded her car. My brother was at work so she called me up asking for help. We live only a block away from each other so it only took me five minutes to get over there and by the time I did there were already three men pushing her car into her driveway. It was definitely one of those proud to be Texan moments.

Ah, yes, Texas rain, and storms. My newly-wed sister, fresh from Sunset Beach, Ca, moved to Tex in 2001, June, "near Huntsville" (actually the woods, a house way out of town). She followed her then new husband-- now ex-- in her car, tailing his. They hit Houston as the sky opened up, for days. I don't know if the storm had an official name, my sister had several names for it, none acceptable on GC.
Rather than forge ahead, they holed up in a motel for a few days in Houston. Then, he headed on, she was to follow, he thought she was fine. Her car made it barely out of the lot, and was way deep in water. The depth of the water grows as she has told the story over time.
Anyway, she was sitting atop her car, wet and pissed.
Two truckers stopped, one carried her to a dry area, they pushed the car out of the water. They noticed the CA license plates and the Wind and Sea t-shirt she wore (from a former huntington Beach surf shop), and one of the truckers told her: "little girl, you really must have made a wrong turn."

As posted, my best friend, a Texan, fled CA, now is home. I visited her and my sister. The only original painting I own was bought in Texas, of a girl on a horse, with beautiful sky. It and two small pictures, of Texas clouds, and a horse/cowboy by a campfire, I bought for $4 at a thrift store in a tiny town near Victoria, are up in my new apt.

icelandelf · #9 08-18-2007, 11:43 PM

Well, as a result of Erin, here in San Antonio, we've had a few flood related deaths and it took out the entire first floor of one of the high schools. Students are set to go back to school in a week or so and the district is going to have to send them to it's only other high school. We had a lot of rain this last couple of days.

justabeachbrat · #10 08-18-2007, 11:54 PM

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Originally Posted by icelandelf

Well, as a result of Erin, here in San Antonio, we've had a few flood related deaths and it took out the entire first floor of one of the high schools. Students are set to go back to school in a week or so and the district is going to have to send them to it's only other high school. We had a lot of rain this last couple of days.

sorry to hear of deaths, the rough weather.

i hopefully didn't make light of bad weather, it just seemed so endless, the rain, 2001. Rain, i think we have had 1 day or 2 of it this summer. none in weeks. mid 90s is considered ideal in summer in CA central valley, 80s is news, and rain, we read about.