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MAY 2016 BUDDY 5 T HERE WILL A MEMORIAL TBenefit for Jon Early Ligon on May 15 at Babb Brothers BBQ start- ing at 2 pm presented by the Dallas International Guitar Festival. The event features The Stratoblasters, Maylee Thomas Band, the Boogie Men, plus “The Mint Reunion” and surprise guests to honor Ligon and his family. There will be a silent and live auction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Events IT’S FESTIVAL SEASON, AND there’s quite a few in May across the Lone Star State. Here’s just a few, and others can be found on line FestivalsOfTexas.com. The Wildflower! Arts & Music Festival, May 20-22, Richardson, TX; Programming includes a Singer Songwriter Stage featuring Eliza Gilkyson, Gretchen Peters, Slaid Cleaves, Terri Hendrix and Lloyd Maines, Ellis Paul and others; Also performing at the Festival: Peter Frampton, Toadies, Survivor, John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, Dennis DeYoung and the Music of Styx, Finger Eleven, John Waite, Jimmie Vaughan, The Guess Who, Soul Asylum, Black Joe Lewis, Hoobastank and Alien Ant Farm. Wildfower! discussed on Page 11 in Texas Nexus. . . . . . . . . . . . Running from May 26 through June 12 is the 45th year of the Kerrville Folk Festival at Quiet Val- ley Ranch in Kerrville. For more in- formation Visit KerrvilleFolk Festival.org and you’ll see quite a variety of musical genres — folk, bluegrass, country, blues, jazz, Americana, and lots of singer/ songwriter activities, including con- certs by the 24 finalists in the yearly New Folk competition. The line-up includes Judy Collins, Peter Rowan, Peter Yarrow, Andrew Delaney, Terri Hendrix, Ruthie Foster, and more. The 8th Annual North Texas Songwriter’s Festival is happening on May 14-15 this year. Come out and support the many talented singer songwriters who will be performing at the Pilot Point Community Opera House in historic downtown Pilot Point. Jon Rutherford, Mark David Manders, Doc Hogan and many oth- ers will share their original music. Go to the festival’s FaceBook page On May 14, new Whitewright Tractor Pull Arena owners are bring- ing the North Texas popular Honky Tonk Fest back to life after a several- year silence. Playing are Mike & the Moonpies, Reckless Kelly, John David Kent band, the Pear Ratz, Aubrey Lynn England. As a bonus, Randy Brown will play a Whitewright Volunteer Fire Department fundraiser the night before. The Trac- tor Pull Arena is east of Whitewright on State Highway 11 . . . . . . . . . . Also that weekend is the Marsh- mallow Jam in the Eustace/Walton area, 12 miles west of Athens. This is an acoustic-in-nature event on the West.More.Land property at 6981 CR 3901, and features A Tiger Lilly, Straw Hat Society, Thunder Punkin and many other musicians. Info on this is available on Facebook under the festival name, Marshmallow Jam. There’s still time for bluegrass bands to sign up for the Bluegrass Heritage Foundation’s Front Porch Showdown contest, scheduled to run on June 4 at Dallas Heritage Village. The top band will walk away with $500 prize and another $1,000 is split between other top-placing bands. Interested? Sign up online at BluegrassHeritage.org/store/ . . . . . . On Friday, May 27th, legendary singer songwriter and Buddy Texas Tornado guitar player, Marc Benno will be inducted into the Texas Mu- sicians Museum in downtown Irv- ing. The ceremony will include rare memorabilia and a book signing of his new book, The Road to LA Woman, The Life and Times of Marc Benno. As well as a concert with Benno per- forming live and telling stories about his illustrious career. With more than twenty albums to his credit, Benno was a member of The Asylum Choir with Leon Russell in the late sixties and played rhythm guitar on The Doors, “LA Woman,” won a Grammy award in 1985 for the soundtrack of Beverley Hills Cop and has worked with such artists as Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Rita Coolidge. For more information visit TexasMusiciansMuseum.com. . . . . . Congratulations to Gulf Coast resident Marina Rocks who took top honors, which included a $1,000 prize, in this year’s B.W. Stevenson singer/songwriting contest, held yearly at Poor David’s Pub in Dallas. In second place was Washington state’s Dan Weber. Others in the 2016 finals were Tim York, Rick Babb, Kelsey Lewis, Andrew Delaney and Caroline Murphy, most of whom are from the Metroplex. . . . . . . . . . . . The name Dean Dillon is familiar to most songwriters, as he wrote many George Strait hits (Strait re- corded at least 58 Dillon songs), plus about dozens by other artists. Dillon and another Nashville songwriter, Roger Springer , are hosting a songwriters workshop on May 27 at The Pickin’ Parlor (The Friday night showcase venue for numerous Texas songwriters) in Tishomingo, Okla- homa For more information, contact Springer at 615-427-5224. . . . . . New Releases Jim Suhler & Monkey Beat announced the release of their new CD, Live at the Kessler, is scheduled for June 17 on Underworld Records. Live was recorded at the storied Kessler Theater in Dallas November 28, 2015 and was produced by Suhler and featuring smoking live versions of 13 songs that originally appeared on the studio albums, Panther Burn, BLAH By Bellicose Bullfeather BLAH Tijuana Bible, Bad Ju Ju and Dirt Road, plus two new songs, “Doin’ the Best I Can” and “Reverie.” The band in- cludes Suhler (guitar, vocals), Chris Alexander (bass, vocals), Shawn Phares (keyboards) and Beau Chadwell (drums, percussion). Join- ing as special guests on Live at the Kessler are Tim Alexander on key- boards and Tex Lovera on cigar box guitar. “I chose the Kessler Theater in Dallas for the recording of our live CD because it is the best listening room in the north Texas area, but still retains an excitement due to the intimacy of the room,” said Jim Suhler about the new album. For more in- formation, visit jimsuhler.com . . . . Lukas Nelson & The Promise of the Real are on the road again, with most of May finding them at numer- ous venues across the U.S.A. (After having spent the April leg of this tour in Texas). Then — and here’s the extra clincher for band fans — in June they will be touring Europe with Neil Young, making stops in Dublin, Amsterdam, Rome, Berlin, and 18 other major cities. Mean- while, fans everywhere can watch their new video, Something Real, on YouTube from their new CD by the same name. The band consist of Nelson, his brother and Micah (vo- cals and guitar), bassist Corey McCormick percussionist Tato Melga and drummer Anthony Logerfo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Frequently referred to as “the Mount Rushmore of country music,” The Highwaymen – Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash–and Kris Kristofferson – were American country music’s first bona fide su- pergroup. The Grammy-winning group was active from 1985–– 1995: recording three albums, touring the world and acting in the movie–Stage- coach (1986). American Masters –– The Highwaymen: Friends Till the End, will premier nationwide–May 27 at 8 pm on KERA locally as part of the 30th anniversary season of this American Masters series and explores how these men came together and the fruits of their historic collabora- tion. Watch full episodes and more at pbs.org/americanmasters. The High- waymen Live - American Outlaws, a new 3 CD/1 DVD or Blu-ray box set of concert performances will be avail- able May 20 from Columbia/Legacy, along with a new single-disc compi- lation CD, The Very Best of The High- waymen. Splice Records will release Texas roots rocker John Evans’ first album in six years entitled Polyester on May 13. “Polyester embodies the iconic style and genre-bending Evans is notorious for,” said Grammy-win- ning engineer Steve Christensen, who engineered and mixed the al- bum. “It defines what great Ameri- can music is all about. It’s home- grown, written on the highways, it’s got roots.” ■
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MAY 2016 BUDDY 5
THERE WILL A MEMORIALTBenefit for Jon Early Ligon onMay 15 at Babb Brothers BBQ start-ing at 2 pm presented by the DallasInternational Guitar Festival. Theevent features The Stratoblasters,Maylee Thomas Band, the BoogieMen, plus “The Mint Reunion” andsurprise guests to honor Ligon andhis family. There will be a silent andlive auction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
EventsIT’S FESTIVAL SEASON, ANDthere’s quite a few in May across theLone Star State. Here’s just a few, andothers can be found on lineFestivalsOfTexas.com.
The Wildflower! Arts & MusicFestival, May 20-22, Richardson, TX;Programming includes a SingerSongwriter Stage featuring ElizaGilkyson, Gretchen Peters, SlaidCleaves, Terri Hendrix and LloydMaines, Ellis Paul and others; Alsoperforming at the Festival: PeterFrampton, Toadies, Survivor, JohnMayall & the Bluesbreakers, DennisDeYoung and the Musicof Styx, Finger Eleven, John Waite,Jimmie Vaughan, The GuessWho, Soul Asylum, Black Joe Lewis, Hoobastank and Alien AntFarm. Wildfower! discussed on Page11 in Texas Nexus. . . . . . . . . . . .
Running from May 26 throughJune 12 is the 45th year of theKerrville Folk Festival at Quiet Val-ley Ranch in Kerrville. For more in-formation Visit KerrvilleFolkFestival.org and you’ll see quite avariety of musical genres — folk,bluegrass, country, blues, jazz,Americana, and lots of singer/songwriter activities, including con-certs by the 24 finalists in the yearlyNew Folk competition. The line-upincludes Judy Collins, Peter Rowan,Peter Yarrow, Andrew Delaney, TerriHendrix, Ruthie Foster, and more.
The 8th Annual North TexasSongwriter’s Festival is happeningon May 14-15 this year. Come outand support the many talented singersongwriters who will be performingat the Pilot Point Community OperaHouse in historic downtown PilotPoint. Jon Rutherford, Mark DavidManders, Doc Hogan and many oth-ers will share their original music.Go to the festival’s FaceBook page
On May 14, new WhitewrightTractor Pull Arena owners are bring-ing the North Texas popular HonkyTonk Fest back to life after a several-year silence. Playing are Mike & theMoonpies, Reckless Kelly, JohnDavid Kent band, the Pear Ratz,Aubrey Lynn England. As a bonus,Randy Brown will play a WhitewrightVolunteer Fire Departmentfundraiser the night before. The Trac-tor Pull Arena is east of Whitewrighton State Highway 11 . . . . . . . . . .
Also that weekend is the Marsh-mallow Jam in the Eustace/Waltonarea, 12 miles west of Athens. This is
an acoustic-in-nature event on theWest.More.Land property at 6981CR 3901, and features A Tiger Lilly,Straw Hat Society, Thunder Punkinand many other musicians. Info onthis is available on Facebook underthe festival name, Marshmallow Jam.
There’s still time for bluegrassbands to sign up for the BluegrassHeritage Foundation’s Front PorchShowdown contest, scheduled to runon June 4 at Dallas Heritage Village.The top band will walk away with$500 prize and another $1,000 issplit between other top-placingbands. Interested? Sign up online atBluegrassHeritage.org/store/ . . . . . .
On Friday, May 27th, legendarysinger songwriter and Buddy TexasTornado guitar player, Marc Bennowill be inducted into the Texas Mu-sicians Museum in downtown Irv-ing. The ceremony will include rarememorabilia and a book signing ofhis new book, The Road to LA Woman,The Life and Times of Marc Benno. Aswell as a concert with Benno per-forming live and telling stories abouthis illustrious career. With more thantwenty albums to his credit, Bennowas a member of The Asylum Choirwith Leon Russell in the late sixtiesand played rhythm guitar on TheDoors, “LA Woman,” won a Grammyaward in 1985 for the soundtrack ofBeverley Hills Cop and has workedwith such artists as Eric Clapton,Stevie Ray Vaughan and RitaCoolidge. For more information visitTexasMusiciansMuseum.com. . . . . .
Congratulations to Gulf Coastresident Marina Rocks who tooktop honors, which included a $1,000prize, in this year’s B.W. Stevensonsinger/songwriting contest, heldyearly at Poor David’s Pub in Dallas.In second place was Washingtonstate’s Dan Weber. Others in the2016 finals were Tim York, Rick Babb,Kelsey Lewis, Andrew Delaney andCaroline Murphy, most of whom arefrom the Metroplex. . . . . . . . . . . .
The name Dean Dillon is familiarto most songwriters, as he wrotemany George Strait hits (Strait re-corded at least 58 Dillon songs), plusabout dozens by other artists. Dillonand another Nashville songwriter,Roger Springer, are hosting asongwriters workshop on May 27 atThe Pickin’ Parlor (The Friday nightshowcase venue for numerous Texassongwriters) in Tishomingo, Okla-homa For more information, contactSpringer at 615-427-5224. . . . . .
New ReleasesJim Suhler & Monkey Beatannounced the release of their newCD, Live at the Kessler, is scheduledfor June 17 on Underworld Records.Live was recorded at the storiedKessler Theater in Dallas November28, 2015 and was produced by Suhlerand featuring smoking live versionsof 13 songs that originally appearedon the studio albums, Panther Burn,
BLAH By Bellicose Bullfeather
BLAHTijuana Bible, Bad Ju Ju and Dirt Road,plus two new songs, “Doin’ the BestI Can” and “Reverie.” The band in-cludes Suhler (guitar, vocals), ChrisAlexander (bass, vocals), ShawnPhares (keyboards) and BeauChadwell (drums, percussion). Join-ing as special guests on Live at theKessler are Tim Alexander on key-boards and Tex Lovera on cigar boxguitar. “I chose the Kessler Theater inDallas for the recording of our liveCD because it is the best listeningroom in the north Texas area, butstill retains an excitement due to theintimacy of the room,” said Jim Suhlerabout the new album. For more in-formation, visit jimsuhler.com . . . .
Lukas Nelson & The Promise ofthe Real are on the road again, withmost of May finding them at numer-ous venues across the U.S.A. (Afterhaving spent the April leg of this tourin Texas). Then — and here’s theextra clincher for band fans — inJune they will be touring Europewith Neil Young, making stops inDublin, Amsterdam, Rome, Berlin,and 18 other major cities. Mean-while, fans everywhere can watchtheir new video, Something Real, onYouTube from their new CD by thesame name. The band consist ofNelson, his brother and Micah (vo-cals and guitar), bassist CoreyMcCormick percussionist TatoMelga and drummer AnthonyLogerfo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Frequently referred to as “theMount Rushmore of country music,”The Highwaymen – Willie Nelson,Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash–andKris Kristofferson – were Americancountry music’s first bona fide su-pergroup. The Grammy-winninggroup was active from 1985–– 1995:recording three albums, touring theworld and acting in the movie–Stage-coach (1986). American Masters ––The Highwaymen: Friends Till the End,will premier nationwide–May 27 at8 pm on KERA locally as part of the30th anniversary season of thisAmerican Masters series and exploreshow these men came together andthe fruits of their historic collabora-tion. Watch full episodes and moreat pbs.org/americanmasters. The High-waymen Live - American Outlaws, anew 3 CD/1 DVD or Blu-ray box setof concert performances will be avail-able May 20 from Columbia/Legacy,along with a new single-disc compi-lation CD, The Very Best of The High-waymen.
Splice Records will release Texasroots rocker John Evans’ first albumin six years entitled Polyester on May13. “Polyester embodies the iconicstyle and genre-bending Evans isnotorious for,” said Grammy-win-ning engineer Steve Christensen,who engineered and mixed the al-bum. “It defines what great Ameri-can music is all about. It’s home-grown, written on the highways, it’sgot roots.” ■
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