- September 2, 2010
It's a busy time over here at Wayward Central. The newest item to come across the desk is:
That's right, this coming Thursday, your Harbingers of Happiness will be opening for Drag the River! It will be Chad Price and Jon Snodgrass on acoustic and Cory Branan will play before them. However, if you get there early, you can rock out the triple header awesomeness this show will be.
Rudyard's
2010 Waugh
Houston, TX 77006
- Going on this week.
Saturday August 7th
Saturday night a few of the fellas and I will be Playing at the Corner Pub in Conroe. They are holding a Benefit Honoring Arlene Duncan and Raising Awareness of Breast Cancer.
Music begins at 6:00.
Raffle Tickets $2.00 or Three for $5.00 25 raffles prizes.
BBQ food plates $5.00.
Lots of great music. Come by and bring your friends. $$$ for a great cause.Randy Hill and I will take the stage at 9pm.
also on the bill are Jeremy Bankhead, The Sibs, Charles P and %10, Mike Amabile, and a few more TBA.
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Also, our comrade Samuel Barker, Will be back in Memphis, TN this Friday, August 6th for a solo gig... So if any of you from Memphis check this site out go to Java Cabana and check him out.
- Album of the week - Hang Jones
Hang Jones - The Ballad of Carlsbad County
The best Americana songs all have one thing in common: someone has to get shot. Singer/songwriter Hang Jones took this to heart when writing the songs for his debut album The Ballad of Carlsbad County. What began as a collection of bluegrass inspired country-rock songs evolved into a Western Outlaw-themed story album complete with hangings, gunfights, love, sex, and revenge. Jones credits two of his songs as catalysts for inspiring him to write a concept record. “When I began writing material for the new record, ‘Caroline’ and ‘Red’ were my favorites. I liked them for their cinematic quality, and they were a lot of fun to sing, but when I noticed that they could be chapters in a much larger story, I got really excited about rewriting all the other tunes to fit into the story.” The album chronicles the life and fall of William Bishop. Born the son of a notorious outlaw, William, at an early age, witnesses his father’s capture and hanging. He spends his developmental years wrestling with the stigma of his father’s crimes (and punishment) while his mother stresses that William’s fate is not the same as his father’s. “I liked the idea of playing with free will versus destiny. Put the protagonist into situations where if he does what he feels is morally right, he will eventually wind up on the same road as his father, a man he himself views as amoral.” Each track on the album is a chapter in the story, taking William, and the listener, to the inevitable crossroads where our hero will have to decide his own fate: hang like his father, or live free like his mother taught him.
- GRIZZLY at Rock Baby Rock It festival this weekend.
Our friends GRIZZLY are playing 'Big E's Rock Baby Rock It' festival this Saturday afternoon. There will be Hot Rods and Hot Wax spinning as well. You should go check them out at 3pm.
Also, hop on over to iTunes and pick up GRIZZLY's brand spanking new EP, 'How Fast They Fade'
How Fast They Fade at the iTunes store
- Must Own Albums
I'm going to start posting some of my favorite listening selections as "Must Own Album's", Because these are albums that I personally need on my iPod at all times. Hopefully I can turn you onto something you will enjoy. This is the first, and more will follow time to time.
Grayson Capps - Songbones
Word of this album has been circulating among Grayson Capps' fans for years. Recorded in 2003--two years before his debut album "If You Knew My Mind"--this magical, stripped-down session features Grayson on acoustic guitar and his longtime friend Tom Marron on fiddle. Recorded at New Orleans' 9th Street Pickin Parlor, Grayson let the tape roll, cutting the entire album in less than five hours. Appropriately titled "Songbones," Grayson's original renditions of songs like "Washboard Lisa," "I Can't Hear You," "Slidell" and "Mermaid," that have since become staples in his repertoire, are featured. Also included are rarities that have never been officially released like "Junior & The Old African Queen," "Guitar" and "Psychic Channel Blues." It's a pristine recording that captures Grayson's songwriting, voice and guitar-picking in all of its unadorned glory. Only 5000 copies of the album are being made available as a collector's piece for Grayson's diehard fans. "Songbones" is intimate, front porch music, honest, down-home and pure; all of the traits that make Grayson Capps one of the most important songwriters to emerge from the South in recent memory.
