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Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Blue October to get played on ‘NCIS’
San Marcos-based Blue October has licensed their song “Kangaroo Cry” to the hit show “NCIS,” which will air the tune at the end of the Dec. 15 episode.
“This is also no ordinary song use,” says the band’s manager Paul Nugent. The song actually ties in with the story line and will be used for a full three minutes during the final scene.
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Dylan does Brave Combo
Brave Combo’s version of ‘Must Be Santa’
Dylan’s version
Bob Dylan has acknowleged that his new Christmas single “Must Be Santa” uses an arrangement of the song- including added lyrics- cribbed from Denton polka band Brave Combo. Dylan has played the song by B.C. on his XM radio show.
“I’ve already got my Christmas present,” says Carl Finch of Brave Combo, which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. “Just to have our music in the head of Bob Dylan blows my mind.” Finch puts the Dylan cover up with Brave Combo’s appearance on “The Simpsons” a few years back as alltime great moments.
Curiously, the Dylan version contains lyrics added by the band after their recording of “Must Be Santa” came out on Rounder in 1991. Percussionist Jeff Barnes added this, “Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen/ Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon/ Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen/ Carter, Reagan, Bush, and Clinton” after Clinton was elected in ‘92.
Brave Combo, which didn’t write the rest of the song (heard on an old Mitch Miller album) has a couple of Xmas shows in Austin coming up, Dec. 13 at the Armadillo Christmas Bazaar and Dec. 18 at Jovita’s.
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Shearwater debut album details, new song “Castaways”
The indie music Internet world is abuzz today with details on “The Golden Archipelago,” the sixth album from Austin’s cinematic rock trio Shearwater and follow-up to the widely acclaimed “Rook.” We already knew the album was hitting Feb. 23, but courtesy of Matador Records’ blog, we now know we can also anticipate a “50-page perfect-bound book that is a set of extracts from a dossier of records, photos, regulations and images collected by Shearwater’s Jonathan Meiburg,” according to Matador.
The book will be included with the CD, as well as pre-orders of the vinyl, which are available now. Matador is also offering a free MP3 download of “Castaways,” the eighth track off the album, at their blog.
Shearwater will be hitting Europe in February but should announce a round of spring U.S. dates soon. A South By Southwest appearance is a serious possibility.
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Carrie Rodriguez: working hard for the money
The lovely and talented Carrie Rodriguez has moved back to Austin, but we won’t see her much around town starting mid-January when she opens a few dates for Edwin McCain, then starts a three-week “Acoustic Cafe Tour” with Ben Sollee and Erin McKeown.
After less than a week off, the fiddling singer-songwriter (on her own after several great years with Angelina Jolie’s uncle Chip Taylor) joins Los Lonely Boys’ “Acoustic Brotherhood Tour,” which also features Alejandro Escovedo. Expect lots of interplay between the two openers- Rodriguez toured with Escovedo this year as Susan Voelz’ replacement.
After SXSW, Rodriguez will hit the road again to promote her next studio album, which comes out April 13. No title yet that I can find.
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Armadillo Christmas Bazaar musical lineup
Betty Soo kicks off an impressive lineup that includes Band of Heathens, Eliza Gilkyson, the Gourds and a Dec. 20 tribute to Stephen Bruton.
The Armadillo Christmas Bazaar takes place at the Austin Convention Center (Enter on Trinity near 2nd Street). Admission is $3 weekdays before 7 p.m., $6 evenings & weekends. Kids under 12 free.
Here’s the full music schedule:
Friday, December 11
BettySoo - 12:00 to 2:30PM
Son Dos/Del Castillo - 8:00 to 11:00PM
Saturday, December 12
Ian McLagan & The Bump Band - 12:00 to 2:30PM
Toni Price - 3:30 to 6:00PM
Eliza Gilkyson - 8:00 to 11:00PM
Sunday, December 13
Austin Lounge Lizards - 12:00 to 2:30PM
Brave Combo - 3:30 to 6:00PM
Cienfuegos - 8:00 to 11:00PM
Monday, December 14
Kalu James - 12:00 to 2:30PM
W.C. Clark - 8:00 to 11:00PM
Tuesday, December 15
Kat Edmonson - 12:00 to 2:30PM
The Gourds - 8:00 to 11:00PM
Wednesday, December 16
porterdavis - 12:00 to 2:30PM
Ray Wylie Hubbard - 8:00 to 11:00PM
Thursday, December 17
Suzanna Choffel - 12:00 to 2:30PM
Marcia Ball & Pianorama - 8:00 to 11:00PM
Friday, December 18
Sahara Smith - 12:00 to 2:30PM
Hank & Shaidri Alrich with Doug Harman - 3:30 to 6:00PM
Jimmy LaFave - 8:00 to 11:00PM
Saturday, December 19
Band of Heathens - 12:00 to 2:30PM
Terri Hendrix - 3:30 to 6:00PM
Van Wilks - 8:00 to 11:00PM
Sunday, December 20
Rick Trevino - 12:00 to 2:30PM
Asleep at the Wheel Quartet - 3:30 to 6:00PM
An Evening with the Music of Stephen Bruton - 8:00 to 11:00PM
Monday, December 21
The Biscuit Brothers - 12:00 to 2:30PM
Blazing Bows - 3:00 to 3:30PM
Joe McDermott - 3:30 to 6:00PM
The Eggmen - 8:00 to 11:00PM
Tuesday, December 22
Dustin Welch - 12:00 to 2:30PM
Warren Hood - 3:30 to 6:00PM
Albert & Gage - 8:00 to 11:00PM
Wednesday, December 23
Shelley King - 12:00 to 2:30PM
Guy Forsyth - 3:30 to 6:00PM
Carolyn Wonderland - 8:00 to 11:00PM
Thursday, December 24
Slim Richey - 12:00 to 2:30PM
Greezy Wheels - 3:30 to 6:00PM
Texana Dames - 8:00PM
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Big Bill Lister 1923- 2009
Photo from www.bigbilllister.com
Dubbed “Radio’s Tallest Singing Cowboy,” Bill Lister of Brady was 6’ 7” at a time when that height was enough to keep you out of the military. But it couldn’t keep him out of Hank Williams’ Drifting Cowboys band. For the last 11 months of Williams’ life, Lister played rhythm guitar behind him. When he died Tuesday in San Antonio at age 86, he was the last of Hank’s Drifting Cowboys to go.
Read more about Big Bill’s life here.
In 1988, Lister’s wife Lila found an old demo of Hank and the Cowboys singing “There’s a Tear In My Beer,” a recording no one knew existed. He gave the demo to Hank Williams Jr., who turned it into a #1 duet with his daddy. Hank Jr. ended up giving Lister a piece of the royalties and a gold record for his walls.