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Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Spoon at the Parish for Texas Democrats
Tickets go on sale Thursday at 10 a.m. on www.frontgatetickets.com to see Spoon Oct. 13 at the Parish. Gary Clark Jr. opens.
The show is a benefit for Texas Democrats and Railroad Commissioner candidate Mark Thompson.
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Austin’s Rogers hits #3 on charts
The self-titled album from the Austin-based Randy Rogers Band has landed at #3 on the Billboard country album sales chart. The first single is “In My Arms Instead.”
Rogers and band are currently touring the Midwest. Next Austin date is an acoustic show at Hill’s Cafe Oct. 15.
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And the best selling artists at the Waterloo booth during ACL are….
(No album titles are used, so we’re not sure which records sold, just that this particular artist sold the following number of CDs during the festival
MGMT 239
Vampire Weekend 212
Back Door Slam 149
Jenny Lewis 143
Fleet Foxes 141
Alison Krauss & Robert Plant 130
Manu Chao 118
Electric Touch 103
Jamie Lidell 92
What Made Milwaukee… 90
Abigail Washburn 86
Rodney Crowell 82
Nicole Atkins 82
Raconteurs 80
Okkervil River 80
Xavier Rudd 77
Black and White Years 76
Gogol Bordello 72
Conor Oberst 66
Eli Young Band 65
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“Willie and the Wheel” coming in early ‘09
Legendary producer Jerry Wexler had an idea 30-plus years ago to have Willie Nelson, who was then on Atlantic, record an album of western swing classics selected by Wexler. That vision comes through early next year with the release of “Willie and the Wheel,” Nelson backed by Ray Benson and Asleep At the Wheel.
Benson says the project was accidentally revived in 2003, when Wexler sent Benson a box of western swing albums that were collecting dust. Next to some of the titles were the initials “WN.” Those were the songs Wexler had selected for Willie to record decades ago.
When the Wheel backed Willie, Merle Haggard and Ray Price on the “Last of the Breed” tour in 2007, Willie’s manager Mark Rothbaum told Benson that Wexler said the time was right for the western swing album and did he have the albums with the selections?
Benson and Wexler talked constantly on the phone the next few weeks and settled on 14 songs for Willie to sing. “Jerry was hands on with the project,” Benson says. “When I sent him some of the tracks, he loved them.” Wexler agreed with Benson that there should be an instrumental, so the Wheel recorded “South!” in December. The band was on a benefit for Habitat for Humanity with David Letterman at Antone’s, so they enlisted Paul Shafer to play keyboards on the session.
Sadly, “Willie and the Wheel” executive producer Wexler didn’t live to see the record’s release. He passed away in August at age 91.
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LaFave, Remmert form new label
Singer Jimmy LaFave and Cedar Creek studio owner Fred Remmert have launched Music Road Records, with a roster that includes not only LaFave, but the Subdudes, John Inmon and the Woody Guthrie tribute project.
Within the next couple of months, Music Road will release the LaFave rarities set “Bohemia Beat Collection,” which includes live radio performances and unreleased studio tracks from ten years ago.
Remmert says LaFave owed Minnesota’s Red House Records one more album, but he was able to get out of that deal to release his next studio LP on Music Road, which has financial backing from a Dallas businessman.
