May 31, 2012 Island Moon A 11

By Ronnie Narmour

ronnienarmour@gmail.com

Three Chords and the Truth

Live MusicThursday, May 31st

John Arthur Martinez @ Back Porch Duke E. Brown @ Doctor Rockits Local Licks @ House of Rock Whiskey Myers/ Bleu Edmondson @ Brewster Street Ice House The Shakedown @ Executive Surf Club Rich Lockhart @ Scuttlebutt’s

Friday, June 1st

Raeanne Reed and the Bar Room Prophets @ Pier 99 Six Market Boulevard @ Back Porch Snoop Dogg @ Concrete Street Spazmatics @ Brewster Street Ice House Palacios Brothers @ Dr. Rockits Art Walk w/ Bar Nutz/ Creatures of Impulse @ House of Rock Flashback @ Executive Surf Club Hilda Lamas and the Hilda Lamas Band @ The Sea Wall

Saturday, June 2nd

Derailers @ Back Porch Casey Donahew Band/ Charlie Robison @ Brewster Street Ice House Another Level @ Dr. Rockits Supervillains/ Kayavibe/ Weak Day Boyz/ Johnny 5/ Dead Passenger @ House of Rock South Texas Walk of Fame Music & Art Fest with Two Tons of Steel & Karen Abrahams/ Latin Talk @ Executive Surf Club Profile @ The Sea Wall

Sunday, June 3rd

Open Jam w/ Rockin’ Ricke @ Tarpon Ice House Weak Day Boys @ Dr. Rockits

Monday, June 4th

Acoustic Night w/ Collin Roche @ House of Rock Open Jam w/ Antone Perez @ Doctor Rockits

Tuesday, June 5th

Open Mic w/ Tiffany & the Lost Boys @ Tarpon Ice House Antone & the All Stars @ Doctor Rockits

Wednesday, June 6th

Willford Experience @ House of Rock Open Mic @ Executive Surf Club

Pete Devlin Band @ Vernon’s

Thursday, June 7th

Emory Quinn @ Back Porch

Delbert McClinton/ Toni Price @ Rockport

Music Festival Damn Quails/

Midnight River Choir @ Brewster Street Ice

House Antone & the All Stars

@ Dr. Rockits On Blast Standup

Showdown @ House of Rock

Friday, June 8th

Greezy Wheels @ Back Porch |

Aqua Vox @ Sunset Sounds- Roberts Point

Park Rodney Crowell/ Hayes

Carll @ Rockport Music Festival

Another Level @ Brewster Street Ice House NetherMedia presents JAMFEST 2012 (6

bands) @ House of Rock Aloha Dave & the Tourists @ Executive Surf

Club Hilda Lamas and the Hilda Lamas Band @

The Sea Wall

Saturday, June 9th

Jesse Dayton @ Back Porch Reba & Her Naked Sisters @ Tarpon Ice

House Albert and Gage @ Third Coast Theater

Los Lobos/ Marcia Ball/ Blues Broads/ RMF All Stars/ Greezy Wheels @ Rockport Music

Festival 2nd Saturday Sing-

Along Piano Show @ Brewster Street Ice

House Brightly Feathered

Ones/ Microphonic/ Golden Meanies @

House of Rock Soul Struck @

Executive Surf Club Destiny @ The Sea

Wall

Sunday, June 10th

Open Jam w/ Rockin’ Ricke @ Tarpon Ice

House Ballabajoomba Poetry Jam @ House of Rock

Mike Guerra & John Lopez @ The Sea Wall

Here we go. There’s a lot to tell you about. Let’s roll…

Texas RenegadeThe surprise of the week goes to Texas

Renegade (Austin, TX). They played the Back Porch on the Thursday before Memorial Day. By the sound of their name, I figured they were another boot scootin’ hat act but they weren’t. What they were are five young guys from Austin who played the bejessus out of their guitars and sang with conviction. These boys were having a great time up there and the music was big and full. Their songs were good, their music was good. Made you want to dance. Let’s hope they’ll be back again this season.

My Memorial Day weekend revisted…I spent a good deal of my holiday weekend

in Rockport at the Festival of Food and Wine. It was a fund raiser for the Texas Maritime Museum and was a lot of fun. They had tons of stuff going on: wine and beer tastings, food

demonstrations, lots of local cuisine and crafts and three bands playing each day. On Friday I saw Another Level (Corpus Christi, TX), Aqua Vox (Port A, TX) and Carolyn Wonderland (Austin, TX). On Saturday I caught Carol Elliott (Port A, TX) and some of Bo Porter’s (Austin, TX) show. I missed the Larry Joe Taylor show but heard it was good. Miss Wonderland was amazing. That’s one powerful woman. She wailed and wailed hard playing guitar, lap steel and trumpet. Her voice is like a force. We didn’t get to hear any whistling,

though… she’s an incredible whistler. Aqua Vox’s debut was good. L. Leon Sands, Woodie Lawson, Andrew Blankenship and Carol Elliott put on a good show. It was a trip back to the 60’s and 70’s… Hollies, Beatles, Dick Dale, Safaris. They rocked pretty darn good for their first time out! Aqua Vox will be playing again on this Friday the 8th at the Sunset Sounds show on the Patsy Jones stage at Roberts Point Park in Port A. Bo Porter sounded great as always. He’s been playing a lot lately and moving around a lot… Gruene Hall, Hondo’s, Luchenback, Switzerland… He had his great band with him: Gary Delz on drums and Huck

Johnson on stand-up bass and Chris Reeves on guitar. They had a lot of road dust on them. Also, during the weekend, I caught Gary P. Nunn (Austin, TX) at the Porch and Jul and the Chrome Wheels (Austin, TX) at the Tarpon Ice House. Jul and the Chrome Wheels was great. What a voice on that gal! Strong! Gary P. sang all his hits to a packed house. It was a fun night! I even made a couple of the late night Flat’s shows on my way home. Ray T was rockin’ hard all weekend and Goodnight Avenue played one of the nights. It was cool

seeing Ray there on Sunday. Throw in Sunday’s jam at the Ice House and I count 10 good bands I saw over the weekend. Sad really.

DO NOT MISS LIST

Derailers @ Porch/ Two Tons @ Surf Club/ Charlie Robison @ Brewster

This coming weekend has even more going on. On Saturday, June 2nd the Derailers (Austin, TX) will be at the Back Porch. This is pure Austin honky tonk and has grown to be an institution. If you’ve never been to a Derailers show at the Broken Spoke then your life is lacking. Also on Saturday, Brad Lomax and the guys over at Executive Surf Club compound (Water Street Market: restaurant, record store, surf museum, etc) are having their annual South Texas Walk of Fame Music and Art Festival. Their lineup is great on many levels. You have conjunto (Mingo Saldivar “The Singing Cowboy”), jazz (The Caceres Brothers, latin jazz (Latin Talk), great Texas roadhouse (Two Tons of Steel), singer songwriter (Karen Abrahams) and hot rod rocker (Matt Hole). There will be a ribbon cutting ceremony at 9:00 a.m. And, while we’re here on Saturday, the 2nd, I want to throw in that the great Charlie Robison and Casey Donahew are at Brewster. This is all good stuff… tuck and roll, there’s too much to choose from.

The Rockport Music Festival is finally here!!!

And on the following weekend (June 7-10) there are even MORE shows! On Thursday the Rockport Music Festival kicks off with Delbert McClinton (Ft. Worth, TX) and Toni Price (Austin, TX). Then on Friday its Rodney Crowell (Nashville, TN) and Hayes

Carll (Austin, TX). The festival opens at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday with Austin icons Greezy Wheels (actually all these people are from Austin except Tracy Nelson and Los Lobos) then proceeds to the RMF All Stars (Derek O’Brien, David Grissom, Chris Layton) at 3:00 p.m, The Blues Broads featuring Tracy Nelson and Angela Strehlil at 5:00, Marcia Ball at 7:00 and finally Los Lobos (East L.A.) at 9:00 p.m. There are General Admission tickets still available for all three days, prepaid only for $20 and there are “non-member VIP” passes available at $400 for the three day pass (pricey but worth it). There will be a stage set up in the General Admission area this year with local acts: Hilda Lamas, Texas Toast, Sam & the Some Beaches, Statesboro Revue and Josh Weathers. I’ve written detailed previews of this festival in previous columns and it can be accessed online on the The Island Moon Newspaper and CC Magazine’s Facebook pages.

It just gets better and better…The Back Porch lineup for next weekend is

strong. On Thursday the 7th they have Emory Quinn (San Antonio, TX), Greezy Wheels (It ain’t easy being greezy!) on Friday and Jesse Dayton (Austin, TX) on Saturday. That’s a great lineup. If you’ve been paying attention, you will notice that Greezy Wheels is playing Friday in Port A and Saturday in Rockport. How cool is that? If you are an old Austin hippy, there is simply no excuse for not catching them somewhere along the weekend. It’s Greezy Wheels for goodness sake!. Albert and Gage (Austin, TX) will play Third Coast Theater on Saturday June 9. That’s as in Christine Albert and Chris Gage… they are great folk artists from Austin old school and Kerrville favorites. On the near horizon, on June 15th, Pat Green plays the big Texas Game Warden Fishing Tournament in Port A, on June 16th, Terri Hendrix, Lloyd Maines and Jack Saunders is at House of Rock and Houston Marchman is at the Porch. More on those shows later. All of these shows are undeniably DO NOT MISS LIST shows. Trust me on this.

Man, that was a lot of stuff… I’m dizzy. Be safe out there!

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Carolyn Wonderland played the Rockport Festival of Food and Wine on May 26th.

Greezy Wheels will play the Back Porch on June 1st and again at the Rockport

Music Festival on June 2nd.

Jul & the Chrome Wheels played the Tarpon Ice House on May 26th.

Texas Renegade played the Back Porch on May 24th.

The Derailer will play the Back Porch on Saturday, June 2nd.

Gary P. Nunn played the Back Porch on May 25th.