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- [T-Bone Walker and the language of electric blues](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/t-bone-walker-and-the-language-of-electric-blues/) - This is a chapter from "All Over the Map: True Heroes of Texas Music" by Michael Corcoran (UNT Press, 2017) At first Jimmie Vaughan seems a little overwhelmed by the question, as if he's an Olympic swimmer who's just been asked to describe the role of water in his sport. "How significant was T-Bone Walker
- [Mediocre, TX goes to the ol' ball g-a-m-e](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/more-mediocre-thoughts-from-the-home-of-the-toros/) - Haven't been to a Round Rock Express game in years, but I can imagine that, since it's Austin's team, the Express has got a ball park that's better than the rest. Yes, they have hot dogs, but these are artisan franks made from antelope and bison sausage with grilled horseradish slaw. More than 20 food
- [Blind Willie Johnson chapter from "Ghost Notes" by Michael Corcoran](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/blind-willie-johnson-chapter-cut-from-new-all-over-the-map/) - When Jack White of the White Stripes announced at Stubb's Austin in June 2003, "It's good to be in Texas, the home of Blind Willie Johnson," you can be sure that few on hand had ever heard of the gospel blues singer/guitarist who pioneered a ferocity that still lives in modern rock. The first songs
- [Pogues LP review in Spin 1988](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/pogues-lp-review-in-spin-1988/)
- [Meet Houston lawyer Tony "the Shark" Buzbee](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/meet-rick-perrys-lawyer-tony-buzbee/) - (originally published in Texas Super Lawyers Magazine 2014) by Michael Corcoran Tony Buzbee was a 22-year-old lieutenant just out of the ROTC at Texas A&M when he faced his Marine squad for the first time during the Persian Gulf War in 1991. If his men had any thoughts of testing the new “kid” commander in
- [Unsung Pioneers of Austin Music Mural](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/unsung-pioneers-of-austin-music-mural/) - As a musician, Tim Kerr has been on the ground floor of punk-funk (Big Boys, Bad Mutha Goose), grunge (Poison 13) and neo-soul (Now Time Delegation), so it's fitting that he paint an homage to Austin music pioneers at the corner of E. 9th and Red River Streets. Commissioned by Public City, we worked together
- [Stevie Ray Vaughan  Oct. 3, 1954 - Aug. 27, 1990](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/stevie-ray-vaughan-oct-3-1954-aug-27-1990/) - The Austin music community woke up on Aug. 27, 1990, with a chunk of its soul gone - Stevie Ray Vaughan had perished in a helicopter crash after a concert.
- [She Dares to Be Different: Janis at UT 1962](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/she-dares-to-be-different-janis-at-ut-1962/) - She goes barefooted when she feels like it, wears Levi’s to class because they’re more comfortable, and carries her Autoharp with her everywhere she goes so that in case she gets the urge to break into song it will be handy. Her name is Janis Joplin...
- [Airport Boulevard 2008: Real Food Row](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/airport-boulevard-2008-real-food-row/) - by Michael Corcoran AAS 2008 There are really two Airport Boulevards. There is the one that's a good way to get from East Austin to North Austin or vice versa. But then there's the Airport Boulevard that's a destination from the 4900 block to the 5600 block. With the Travis County Tax Office smack dab
- [From July 2008: the first story on Austin's food trailer scene](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/from-july-2008-the-first-story-on-austins-food-trailer-scene/) - They say that street food is an up-close look into the soul of a city, with hot dog push carts, corner pizza stands and Italian sausage vendors saying more about the real New York City than the chic pan-Asian eateries with the paparazzi outside. In South Austin, a slew of mobile food vendors provides a
- ["There's no virtual substitution for the smell of burning flesh"](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/theres-no-virtual-substitution-for-the-smell-of-burning-flesh/) - AAS 2012 by Michael Corcoran Buying and selling. Media. Conversations. Writing. Photography. Celebrity gossip. School. Is there any area of society and the workplace that the Internet hasn’t profoundly affected? Tattooing. Most tattoo businesses have nifty Web sites, yes, but you still have to go to a shop to get inked up. You have to
- [Don Robey: Gangster of Worship](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/don-robey-gangster-of-worship/) - Listen while you read Houston's Don Deadric Robey -- half black, half Jewish, all gangster -- beat Berry Gordy by ten years to become the first African-American record mogul. A gambler and a hustler, he did not get there by playing fair, but Robey put out some of the greatest gospel, R&B and rock and
- [Evelyn Johnson 1920- 2005](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/evelyn-johnson-1920-2005/) - Don Robey had the muscle and the money, but Evelyn Johnson was the brains and the backbone behind the Duke/ Peacock music business empire of the ‘50s and ‘60s. Ten years before Berry Gordy started Motown, Houston had the hottest black music label in the country, and Johnson ran day-to-day operations. She was also in
- [From Caffeine to Springsteen: First 25 years of SXSW](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/history-of-sxsw-year-by-year/) - 1987 Number of acts: 172 Number of registrants: 700 Keynote speaker: Record producer Huey P. Meaux Buzz bands: Dash Rip Rock, Reivers, True Believers, Buck Pets, Wagoneers, Reverend Horton Heat SXSW organizers can’t get the computers working at registration, so even though the turnout is moderate, waits are long. That’s something that the first year
- [Legendary Black Cat owner Paul Sessums (1940-1998)](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/legendary-black-cat-owner-paul-sessums-1941-1998/) - Paul Sessums loved the sound of loud electric guitars. When he'd stand on the Sixth Street sidewalk and rail about this and that, using a parking meter as his pulpit, everything was all right in his universe as long as the guitars were ringing through the doors of his Black Cat Lounge. He'd hire any
- ["Ghost Notes" review](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/ghost-notes-review/) - By Gary W. Burnett, author of “The Gospel According to the Blues” What a sumptuous feast of a book this is. Coffee table sized, lavishly illustrated, and utterly engaging, it oozes quality from the standard of the writing to the beautiful quality of paper. You’ll love it just to have around the place or to
- [Blaze Foley: Killing of a Songwriter](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/blaze-foley-killing-of-a-songwriter/) - By Michael Corcoran Published on 2/1/04, the 15th anniversary of Foley's killing. The years since his 1989 passing have been kind to Blaze Foley. While he was alive, the singer-songwriter had released only a single and an LP that was never distributed aside from a box full of vinyl albums he would barter for
- [Shit Street Memories](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/shit-street-memories/) - Honolulu's seedy Hotel Street in the '70s The sailors and soldiers called it "Shit Street." During Vietnam and a few years after, Hotel Street in Honolulu's Chinatown was the Broadway of the skankiest red light district in the country. The Combat Zone in Boston wasn't shit! Besides strippers, there were live sex shows, Korean handjob
- ["The first guy that women just wanted to fuck"](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/9671-2/) - He was found around 2:15 p.m. Aug. 16, 1977, face down on the red shag carpet in the bathroom adjacent to his bedroom on the second floor of Graceland. Cause of death was a heart attack, brought on by an addiction to prescription drugs. The coroner reported that the 260-pound man had died about five
- [Welcome to Mediocre, Texas](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/welcome-to-mediocre-texas/) - April 2012 By Michael Corcoran Only the mediocre are always at their best, someone said, which could be why Austin is so damn proud of itself. Welcome to Mediocre, Texas, the home of the Texas Longhorns, Harry Knowles, the bats, Bright Light Social Hour, KGSR, the weekly 10K fun run and street closer, "country legend" Ray
- [Make It Beautiful: the Bobby Doyle story](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/make-it-beautiful-the-bobby-doyle-story/) - "One man, one mic, one piano: nobody could do it better than Bobby Doyle. Nobody."
- [Hear Jimmy LaFave sing "In My Life" (John Lennon)](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/hear-jimmy-lafave-sing-in-my-life-john-lennon/) - On Oct. 9, 2000, which would've been John Lennon's 60th birthday, Jody Denberg hosted a tribute concert at the KGSR studios. On Facebook, Marsha Milam posted about how Jimmy LaFave just walked in, asked Jody which songs were left (Shawn Colvin, Patty Griffin and many other acts were involved) and when he found that "In
- [Blind Willie Johnson: Revelations In the Dark](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/blind-willie-johnson-revelations-in-the-dark/) - By Michael Corcoran From "Ghost Notes: Pioneering Spirits of Texas Music" (TCU Press) When Jack White of the White Stripes announced at Stubb's Austin in June 2003, "It's good to be in Texas, the home of Blind Willie Johnson," you can be sure that few on hand had ever heard of the gospel blues singer/guitarist
- [Gilbert Askey 1925- 2014](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/most-influential-austin-musician-of-all-time-roky-stevie-kenny-dorham-it-just-might-be-gil-askey-who-passed-away-wednesday-at-age-89/) - by Michael Corcoran Gilbert Askey left Austin for good at age 17 in 1942, but the former Motown arranger, who received an Oscar nomination for his work with Diana Ross on “Lady Sings the Blues” and had a part in “discovering” the Jackson 5, said Austin has never left him. I interviewed the trumpet man,
- [Patti Smith, alter girl](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/patti-smith-alter-girl/) - It changed me, I lost it, then it came back.
- [Material Issue 1991](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/material-issue-1991/) - Though power pop (a.k.a. "the skinny-tie era") was the rage in New York and Los Angeles for only a brief time at the start of the '80s, that style of melodic rock has survived in the Midwest for two decades thanks to practitioners such as Cheap Trick, the Raspberries, Shoes and the Romantics. The band
- [Pixies 1991](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/pixies-1991/) - Looking for a place to stay, near some friendly star; he found this mote, and now we wonder where we are." The Pixies, "Motorway to Roswell" HOUSTON In Texas, they have a saying: Never eat at a place called Mom's, never play cards with a man named Doc and never patronize any business named after
- [East Side Stories](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/east-austin-history/) - TONY VON: THE ORIGINAL T.V. ON THE RADIO "This is Tony Von, T.V. on the radio, in living color." The mellow, mesmerizing voice rolled out of the 1260 slot on the AM dial at 4 p.m. every weekday and at 2 p.m. Saturdays from 1954 until tragedy was a sad silencer in 1979. His real
- [Kill Fee by Michael Corcoran](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/true-fiction-all-thats-left-is-everything/) - Set in the Chicago music scene in the early ‘90s, when CDs were king, the Internet was a rumor, and your phone stayed home. I: ALL THAT’S LEFT IS EVERYTHING If a growling stomach was grounds for justifiable homicide, Sallee would’ve left a row of dead boyfriends in her wake. You did not obstruct her
- [Isaac Tigrett and the Birth of the Blues (House of...)](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/isaac-tigrett-and-the-birth-of-the-blues-house-of/) - CAMBRIDGE, Mass. 1993 - It is somewhat fitting that former Hard Rock Cafe owner Isaac Tigrett is driven to the entrance of his new House of Blues eatery/nightclub in the Bluesmobile from the movie The Blues Brothers. In white letters on the side of this gaudy, yet functional, slab of Tigrett memorabilia are the words,
- [Deb Pastor talk about the passion](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/deb-pastor-talk-about-the-passion/) - By Michael Corcoran If you lived in Austin in the ‘80s, you know Debbie Pastor. Hot Amazon blonde on roller skates at Club Foot. Resident of the future stars flophouse on San Gabriel, where the Replacements, members of Faith No More and other acts crashed and R.E.M. came to party. The "House of Many Women"
- [Austin's Greatest Athlete, Dick "Night Train" Lane](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/austins-greatest-athlete-dick-night-train-lane/) - 1997 Westlake High grad Drew Brees erased Dan Marino’s NFL single-season passing yardage record in 2011 by four football fields, airing it out for 5,476 yards. But the Saints QB isn't the only Austinite to hold a major NFL record: Richard "Night Train" Lane, who graduated from all-black L.C. Anderson High in East Austin in
- [Stevie Ray Vaughan: the lost interview, found](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/stevie-ray-vaughan-was-born-60-years-ago-today/) - "I remember the first time Jimmie and I played a talent show and we realized in the middle of a song we'd played dozens of times that we'd never ended it before. We knew we had a ways to go."
- [1000-word history: Red River Street](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/1000-word-history-red-river-street/) - By Michael Cororan Red River Street was at the eastern edge of Austin when the street plan was laid out by Edwin Waller, Austin’s first mayor, in 1839. It became a main north-south thoroughfare because Red River is the only street north of Pecan (Sixth) Street and east of Congress Ave. that wasn’t uphill. Red
- [Don Albert's Keyhole: San Antonio's integrated club in the '50s](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/don-alberts-keyhole-club/) - The turquoise facade with big ears suggests “Dumbo,” but the animation inside 1619 West Poplar St. on a recent Thursday evening was decidedly un-Disneylike, as men in Lucha Libre masks bodyslammed each other into submission. Operated by the Cruz Blanca Sociedad Fraternal, the 6,000 square foot building rents out to weddings, bingo nights, quinceaneras and
- [STEWED, SCREWED AND TATTOOED: The Selling of Sailor Jerry](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/stewed-screwed-and-tattooed-the-selling-of-sailor-jerry/) - The underground rumblings at Punchbowl cemetery have no doubt moved the earth in recent years as the proudly Conservative man buried there has become a hip lifestyle brand.
- [The 100 greatest recordings of the past 1,000 years](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/the-100-greatest-recordings-of-the-past-1000-years/) - 1. ``I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry'' by Hank Williams 2. ``Highway Patrolman'' by Bruce Springsteen 3. ``Will You Love Me Tomorrow'' by Carole King 4. ``Proud Mary'' by Ike and Tina Turner 5. ``Whole Lotta Rosie'' by AC/DC 6. ``To Sir With Love'' by Lulu 7. ``People Who Died'' by Jim Carroll 8. ``Tears
- [An Oasis from rock n' rote](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/an-oasis-from-rock-n-rote/) - Dallas Morning News Feb. 1995 The best rock 'n' roll band in the world right now is coming to Dallas on Saturday night, and it's not Nine Inch Nails. Sure, it'll be a beautiful thing when Trent Reznor and company inspire their huge, ecstatic, black-attired crowd to sing along and slam together to alienation anthems.
- [Nashville, We Have a Problem: Country in the '90s](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/nashville-we-have-a-problem-country-in-the-90s/) - Not many trends or fads have the luxury of knowing exactly when they peaked and started heading back toward normal, but for country music's boom, the pivotal moment occurred on a hot September night in 1993 when Garth Brooks tried to take his hat act to the Stadium Age and got soaked in posture and
- [Hank Williams' Final Heartbreak](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/hank-williams-final-heartbreak/) - New Year's Eve is the big musical party night of the year, with merriment in the mist as tipsy toasters dance the year away in glittery abandon. It's ironic, then, that the major music event to occur in the hours connecting two years is significant mainly for the songs it prevented. In the quiet back
- [Ice Storm on the Texas Horizon 2005](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/ice-storm-on-the-texas-horizon-2005/) - He thought he was done with methamphetamine, the poor man's cocaine that had been so popular with his peers in the Austin music scene of the 1980s. Loren had happily gone eight years without the sleepless weekends and ensuing crash into depression and paranoia that speed brings. But then he ran into his old dealer,
- [Janis Joplin's Detonation Blues, Pt. 1](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/janis-joplins-detonation-blues-pt-1/) - To be a high school beatnik in 1960 in Port Arthur, Tex. is to set yourself up for a rough time. But Janis Joplin had made up her mind that she was going to live life her way, damn the small-minded. She discovered the blues at a time when blacks and whites couldn’t eat at
- [Heroin: Music Industry Confronts Its "Dark, Dirty Secret"](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/heroin-music-industry-confronts-its-dark-dirty-secret/) - "Musicians can be admired for their quest for higher consciousness,'' Wimmer said, ``but when heroin is the vehicle to get there, the mental quest often becomes secondary to the body's quest to keep stabilized. The once glorious path becomes little more than a shortcut that leads to nowhere.''
- [Power Trip: Heroin](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/power-trip-heroin/) - The N-word and the C-word are the two most dangerous terms in the English language. Steady at No. 3 is "heroin,'' which won't get you punched, but might kill ya. As today's rebel youth are embracing the deadly drug, you wonder why they choose to ride this roller coaster without seat belts. The easy explanation
- [Austin's Crazy Beautiful $5 Music Festival (Mushrooms extra)](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/austins-greatest-music-festival-mushrooms-included/) - So many memories of anarchy tamed by nature, when punks turned into hippies if only for the longest day.
- [Michael Jackson's HIStory- a Greatest Hits Flop](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/michael-jacksons-history-a-greatest-hits-flop/) - A stage is higher than the floor because you're supposed to do something special when you're performing on that stage, and no one has been so consumed by that challenge as Michael Jackson. At the same time, no other superstar has fallen so hard on the realities of life at the ground level.
- [Burton Wilson: the Heyday's Memory](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/burton-wilson-stoned-out-austins-memory/) - Wilson's organization was so precise, he actually helped solve the 1975 killing of Armadillo bouncer and poster artist Ken Featherstone, who was shot to death by a patron who had been prevented from leaving with an open container and vowed revenge.
- [A month of Saturdays: Honolulu 1971](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/a-month-of-saturdays-honolulu-sept-1971/) - Led Zeppelin, Jackson 5 and CCR all converge on "The Rock"
- [Michael Jackson: Dead at 50, dead at 25](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/michael-jackson-dead-at-50-dead-at-25/) - Michael Jackson owned the Beatles and nmarried Presley's daughter. Now, who's the King of Pop?
- [1995: The Year of Dave Grohl and Jay Farrar](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/1995-the-year-of-dave-grohl-and-jay-farrar/) - It comes in cycles, this "year-in-music" stuff, and 1995 had the misfortune of following one of the most dramatic years in a long time, when such rock monoliths as Pink Floyd, the Eagles, and the Rolling Stones broke box-office records, while a disillusioned youth market shouted out, "Who killed Kurt Cobain?" when, after all, it
- [The Royal Rule: Listen or Leave](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/coach-royal/) - The party was far from over in a room across the courtyard of the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center in March 2011, but the namesake of this Darrell K Royal Songwriters Homecoming sat in an otherwise empty amphitheater with his wife, Edith. Everyone at the party wanted to say hi to the iconic Texas
- [Jack Teagarden: Big T From Texas](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/jack-teagarden/) - In that time of segregation, Teagarden couldn’t publicly perform with his musical kindreds, but he broke the studio color line in 1929 when he recorded “Knockin’ a Jug” with Louis Armstrong.
- ["Oh, Boy, there's a Chevy Chase movie on TV!"](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/oh-boy-theres-a-robbie-benson-movie-on-tv/) - The whiny adolescent "who never asked to be born" has grown up into someone who thinks the world owes him a living room.
- [Songs of an Empty Sky: One Year After](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/songs-of-an-empty-sky-one-year-after/) - 9/11/2002 It had been touted as the first great work of art based on the Sept. 11 tragedy, but the Bruce Springsteen fans who filled the Mercury nightclub in July to get an early listen to The Rising would've been there if their Boss had just made a concept album about the London subway system
- [Last item of last Austin Chronicle column](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/last-item-of-austin-chronicle-column/) - It’s 2 a.m. and I’m dying. My heart is pounding like an offbeat engine and my arms and legs are numb. I would go to the emergency room, but I did that last week. Just tired of it all. The problem is not methamphetamine. That’s not what killed me. It was the realization that a
- [B.L. Joyce and the Yellow Jacket Band: Extensions of Him](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/b-l-joyce-and-the-yellow-jacket-band-extensions-of-him/) - This is a chapter in "Ghost Notes: Pioneering Spirits of Texas Music by Michael Corcoran Trumpet players blew so hard to produce the slightest spit of sound that they almost passed out. Drummers snapped their sticks with all the rhythmic sense of a pair of tennis shoes in the dryer. The honks of confusion rang
- [THE PRIDE OF EAST AUSTIN: L.C. ANDERSON YELLOW JACKETS](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/the-pride-of-east-austin-l-c-anderson-yellow-jackets/) - The Anderson High School Yellow Jacket Band, whose lofty alumni include bop trumpet great Kenny Dorham and former Motown arranger Gil Askey, had only two directors in its 38-year history.
- [Freddie King: Texas Cannonball](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/freddy-king-texas-cannonball/) - If you’ve spent any time in a Texas blues club, you’ve heard not only T-Bone Walker, but Freddie King, whose influence goes beyond notes, style and material. The “Texas Cannonball'' is there in the stinging leads that pierce precaution and in the low-slung blues breakers that remind everyone to tip the waitress or bartender. King’s
- ["Sam Cooke was so smooth he was harder than hard"](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/sam-cooke-the-keen-years/) - The self-penned “You Send Me” launched Keen Records in a gorgeous shower of woah-woah-ohs in September 1957, selling nearly two million copies and perfecting a gospelized-pop template for soul music.
- [Random Statesman music columns](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/9511-2/) - You might as well pay for that hand stamp since it's gonna last three days.
- [Musical Like Me](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/musical-like-me/) - If you’re in Austin and not a musician you might as well be impotent at Plato’s Retreat. Sure, us ordinary and un-godlike folk can have a swell time just listening to all the music around, but it’s the guys with calloused fingertips that get respect, turn heads and, most importantly, get the cute blonde girls
- ["Corky" Turns 35](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/corky-at-30/) - The best of "Don't You Start Me Talking"
- [SRV: True Hero of Texas Music](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/srv-true-hero-of-texas-music/) - It was a thick Austin night in the summer of ’86 and Stevie Ray Vaughan looked bad.
- [How to make a year-end list 1998](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/how-to-make-a-year-end-list/) - As a critic gets older, certain tasks become more difficult-- like trying to show any interest whatsoever in the latest R.E.M. release. But other activities become a breeze, such as making a year-end list of the 10 best records. In the old days I used to spend weeks compiling the list that best defined my
- [1997: The Year of Chris Rock](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/1997-the-year-of-chris-rock/) - Bill Hicks, Andy Kaufman and Sam Kinison are dead. Richard Pryor, Steve Martin, Bill Cosby, Robin Williams and Eddie Murphy might as well be, as many chuckles as they've inspired in recent years. Then there are all those once-promising comics like Jerry Seinfeld, Rosanne, Ellen DeGeneres, Tim Allen, Brett Butler and Paul Reiser who've sold
- [Randy Travis Maui 1993](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/randy-travis-maui-1993/) - Randy Travis was, easily, my favorite singer when I was country music critic of the Dallas Morning News – he still is. So when I went to Oahu in 1993 for my sister’s wedding, I arranged a sidetrip to Maui. Randy was a great interview that day, didn’t flinch or hold back at all, and
- [Song of the Fathers](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/song-of-the-fathers/) - by Michael Corcoran for AAS 2014 Ray Wylie Hubbard made his debut on “The Late Show With David Letterman” in January 2014 by singing the story of a notorious Dallas rock club with an underage girl at the door checking IDs. Weaving through the lyrics of “Mother Blues” is a tantalizing guitar and its continued
- [No Impression: How I Didn't Discover Uncle Tupelo](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/no-impression-how-i-didnt-discover-uncle-tupelo/) - It was at the Chicago nightclub Lounge Ax in late '88 -- or maybe it was early '89 -- and I was waiting for headliner Evan Johns and the H-Bombs to come on. But first was a set from a loud, frisky trio from the St. Louis suburbs that sounded like yet another band in
- [The most anticipated parties are usually the worst](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/the-most-anticipated-parties-are-usually-the-worst/) - SANTA MONICA, Jan. 1993. -- It promised to be the party of the year. To put a joyous and sloppy ex-clamation point at the end of the Cowboys' 52-17 win in the Super Bowl, owner Jerry Jones rented the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, hired an expensive caterer, had the place decorated in silver and blue
- [Boyd Elder 1944 - 2019](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/boyd-elder-1944-2019/) - In the 1960s at his Soho building in New York City, “minimalism” icon Donald Judd would take his phone off the hook and park his elevator on the second floor to avoid the agents, the media, and the young artists who saw him as a mentor. He wanted to work without distraction. Judd found his
- [SXSW 2001: The Throng Remains the Same](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/sxsw-2001-the-throng-remains-the-same/) - Welcome to Groundhog Week, where every day is exactly the same as it's been the past few years. Oh, it may look a bit different as you stroll around downtown Beirut, but everything else is unchanged as we head into another campaign that Jon Dee Graham has dubbed "the festival of false hope." Even the
- [Vidor, Texas 1988](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/vidor-texas-1988-part-i/) - By Michael Corcoran Six miles east of the downtown Beaumont exit, Interstate 10 splits the town of Vidor into near equal portions, like the hyphen between semi and rural. From the overpass at Main St., the town looks like countless other inhabitable freeway exits. Its founding father seems to have been a guy in a
- [Country Charley's Pride Sans Prejudice](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/8729-2/) - From 1992, Dallas Morning News by Michael Corcoran Most of the characters of Robert Altman's 1975 film Nashville were loosely based on famous country singers, which caused some speculation- like, was Ronee Blakely doing Loretta Lynn, Karen Black as Tammy Wynette? But there was no question who inspired the African-American country singer played by Tommy
- [On Texas native Sly Stone's 50th birthday (3/15/1993)](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/on-texas-native-sly-stones-50th-birthday/) - Usually you're surprised, one way or the other, when someone famous turns 50. You thought they were older or younger. It makes perfect sense, however, that Sylvester "Sly Stone" Stewart, hit the big 5-0 on Tuesday. Forty-nine would've been too young and 51 too old for the musical genius who, as leader of Sly and
- [Behind the curtain: SXSW 1995](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/behind-the-curtain-sxsw-1995/) - DMN 3/95 by Michael Corcoran Two years ago, it was the Red Hot Chili Peppers. But now every new band wants to be Soundgarden. At least that's what it sounds like in the smoky back office of the South By Southwest Music and Media Conference on anunseasonably warm mid-January afternoon. Music festival director Brent
- [Home Slice, Salvation, ESP and Southside keep their eyes on the pies](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/home-slice-salvation-esp-and-southside-keep-their-eyes-on-the-pies/) - Pizza is the ultimate communal slacker grub, able to feed the whole band. As minimalist food that you can eat walking down the street delivering existential lines in a Richard Linklater film, pizza could be among the most Austin of foods.
- [Sportslines from the mind of Red Corcoran](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/sportslines/) - Most of these nuggets are from the Statesman's "Game On" column circa 2004-2006 * The Horns gave up 400 yards of offense and trailed 36-2 after two quarters. Mrs. John Wayne Gacy had a better half. The Horns DBs couldn’t cover “Louie Louie.” * Offensive coordinator Greg Davis is so overcautious he checks his tire
- [Live and De-mystified: Dylan in Dallas 1995](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/live-and-de-mystified-dylan-in-dallas-1995/) - Vanity and greed, the cufflinks of rock, are what set Dylan apart from his idol Woody Guthrie--that and a childhood ripped open like a feather pillow by the music of Elvis, Little Richard, and B.B. King.
- [Why I love the team I useta hate/ Nashville's Team](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/why-i-love-the-team-i-useta-hate/) - DMN 1992 Maybe it was the way their offensive linemen settled into their stance by heaving upwards in unison, like a Fascist chorus line. Then there was their humorless coach in his trilby hat. And, then, let's face it: They were from Dallas, which nobody would have heard of if not for a building that
- [Aretha Franklin from A- Z](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/aretha-franklin-from-a-z/) - May the letters of the alphabet spell out the story of a preacher's daughter who sang sanctified rhythm and blues like none other and became the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. A: "Amazing Grace." Franklin grew up deep in the church, which was the concept of this 1972 return
- [Report from the Rock Hall Opening 1995](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-opens/) - CLEVELAND. Susan and Harvey Justmann had an hour or so to kill before the Indians game; so, they went for a walk to the I.M. Pei-designed Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which will open to the public on Saturday. ``I'm in shock,'' Harvey said as he gazed upon the structure, which is said to
- [Wow! Austin club residencies 2006](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/wow-austin-club-residencies-2006/) - Toni Price is the undisputed queen of the calendar tattoo, making the term "residency" purt near permanent with her Tuesday night "Hippie Hour" shows at the Continental Club. In 13 years of Tuesdays, Toni's missed her spiritual party about as often as the University of Texas offensive line has skipped supper. Then you've got the
- [Country Music's Year of the One-liner](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/country-musics-year-of-the-one-liner/) - I got the gig of country music critic for the Dallas Morning News in 1992 with some thoughtful pieces on artists like Roseanne Cash, Lyle Lovett and k.d. lang, but since Dallas was the #1 market for country music during that Garth Boom, I had to cover all the mainstream acts. I was not always a
- [She's the Boss: Dolores and the Blue Bonnet Boys](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/shes-the-boss-dolores-and-the-blue-bonnet-boys/) - In the nine years between the end of World War II and the big bang of rock 'n' roll, the Austin music scene was dominated by Western Swing and country bands with such names as Jesse James and All the Boys, Jimmy Heap and the Melody Masters, Doug and the Falstaff Swing Boys, Grouchy and
- [Lil' Black: Gangsta from the Sticks](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/lil-black-gangsta-from-the-sticks/) - When Nathan Mackey saw the police lights behind him on Cameron Road the night of June 27, 1999, he knew his number was up. His head swirled with thoughts of leading police on a chase or jumping out of the car and taking off on foot. The former Elgin High School football and track star
- [Bob's Burden](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/bobs-burden-2/) - Austin singer-songwriter has his own way of doing things
- [Remember Austin's Cajun Craze?](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/austins-cajun-craze-2008/) - Is there a style of cooking as tightly associated with sounds as Cajun/Creole is with Cajun/Zydeco music? When I hear a conjunto group I don't automatically think of migas, but when Beausoleil or Boozoo Chavis or Doug Kershaw's "Louisiana Man" come out of the speakers I've got a big pot of gumbo on the noggin.
- [Obama 2008: Bigger than the Beatles?](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/bigger-than-the-beatles/) - 'All your life You were only waiting for this moment to arise' CHICAGO - The Magnificent Mile of Michigan Avenue that leads to Grant Park has never quite earned its nickname as it did on Election Day, when history and hysteria hugged it out. Hundreds of thousands of people were down there and just about
- [Jimmy Bowen: A Pirate, a Poet, a Pawn and a King](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/jimmy-bowen-a-pirate-a-poet-a-pawn-and-a-king/) - By Michael Corcoran The 25-year-old Texan sat in the limo outside a Palm Springs desert compound for about an hour, waiting for Frank Sinatra. The junior exec had been recently hired by Reprise Records, which had half a dozen strong acts, but the problem was that there were over 100 on the label. Reprise was
- [Regrets, Sinatra Jr. kidnapper has had a few](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/sinatra-kidnapper/) - There was no spark of recognition in Frank Sinatra Jr.'s eyes. As he made his way down the row of well-wishers, he was unaware that he had just been talking to one of the strangers in the night who kidnapped him at gunpoint from a Lake Tahoe motel on Dec. 8, 1963.
- [RIP the Ramones: Band of Brothers](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/rip-the-ramones-band-of-brothers/) - "Onstage, they were brothers, liberated from humdrum, hopeless lives, beating the odds with a baseball bat."
- [The biggest SXSW "gets"? Prince (2013), Metallica at Stubb's (2009) and...](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/prince-at-sxsw-omar-coming-2013-plus-metallica-at-stubbs-2009/) - Who’s been the biggest “get” of SXSW thus far? Johnny Cash in ’94 and Tom Waits in ’99 really helped put the Austin conference on the map. Norah Jones had the No.1 album in the country when she played SXSW in 2002, Metallica at Stubb’s in ’09 was huge, as was Bruce Springsteen in 2012.
- [Austin Inside/Out](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/9540-2/) - Remember when I had Old Austin’s good ear from 1998-2000? I tried to make my three-dot column in the Statesman fun, but some of the bigwigs in town just wanted to see their names in bold type and didn’t care for the sarcasm. My editors got tired of the phone calls, but I think it’s
- [Kill 'Em Again, the Blues Ain't Dead](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/kill-em-again-the-blues-aint-dead/) - by Michael Corcoran AAS 1999 John Lennon described the blues as a chair. ``It's not a design for a chair or a better chair,'' he said. ``It's the first chair. It's a chair for sitting on, not for looking at. You sit on that music.'' Too often, however, the music that calls itself the blues
- [Townes Van Zandt: The Alchemist](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/townes-van-zandt-the-alchemist/) - by Paul Kopasz 1996 In 1975 Lester Bangs wrote ``Lou Reed is my hero principally because he stands for all of the most fucked up things I can think of, which probably just goes to show the limits of my own imagination.'' I feel that exact way about Townes Van Zandt. Aside from the obvious
- [Paul Sessums Obit: August 1998](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/paul-sessums-obit-august-1998/) - Paul Sessums loved the sound of loud electric guitars. When he'd stand on the Sixth Street sidewalk and rail about this and that, using a parking meter as his pulpit, everything was all right in his universe as long as the guitars were ringing through the doors of his Black Cat Lounge. He'd hire any
- [King Curtis: Cowtown Soul Stew](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/king-curtis-manhattan-murder-of-a-sax-king/) - It’s a nice, small brownstone with ornate gates on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, just two blocks from Central Park. A young Tom Cruise used to live in the building, as did Robert Downey Jr., when he was with Sarah Jessica Parker. But the front stoop at 50 W. 86th St. holds a tragic
- [U2 Post 9/11: Now More Than Ever](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/u2-post-9-11-now-more-than-ever/) - When U2 began its "Elevation" tour in March, the Irish Supergroup joked that it was reapplying for the job as the best band in the world. "Beautiful Day," from the band's most recent album, "All That You Can't Leave Behind," had just swept the song and record of the year categories at the Gram- mys,
- [The 1997 Virgin Club Crawl](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/the-1997-virgin-club-crawl/) - by Michael Corcoran AAS As much as I try to come off as a party animal, fueled by that saying about that which doesn't kill me only makes me stronger, I'm really more a creature of habit. When I go out to see bands, I follow a certain circuit -- Hole in the Wall, Continental,
- [Obits 2009: Robin, Rusty, Poodie, Paul, Narum, Simcoe](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/obits-2009-robin-rusty-poodie-paul/) - October 2009 In April 1994, Kevin Connor was fired from KGSR-FM for unspecified reasons and was moping at home, taking occasional "keep your head up" calls from friends. "My identity was so wrapped up in my job that when that was taken away from me, I was completely distraught," recalls Connor, who's now head of
- [Worst Music Festival in Texas History](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/worst-music-festival-in-texas-history/) - The World United Music Fest held, kinda, in Nov. 2008, was a little shy of its goal of 100,000 fans during the three days. Yeah, just 99,800 short. WUMF could've been sponsored by Sharpie because, with high ticket prices and a local-heavy lineup, it had disaster written all over it. On the bright side -
- [Ghostland: Rage With the Machine](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/codename-ghostland/) - AAS 2010 Aaron Behrens and Thomas Turner , who make up the Austin dance rock duo Ghostland Observatory, are as different as a live wire and a solid state circuit, Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz. The gregarious, pigtail-wearing Behrens, 28, is a natural entertainer who's been performing in public since he lip-synced and danced
- [2005: Mavis Staples comes to SXSW](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/mavis-staples-comes-to-sxsw/) - Sometimes you have to listen to husband-wife art rock duos and review Jimmy Buffett concerts, but other times this rock critic stuff can be pretty cool. Just the other day, for instance, I called a number in Chicago and Mavis Staples picked up the phone. You have to understand that Freedom Highway, the gospel/folk album
- [Beating the straight life with the Rolling Stones](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/1677/) - Taking responsibility for your life is something you hear a lot about these days, but I have to pretty much blame the Rolling Stones for how mine turned out. If Mick Jagger and Keith Richards hadn't run into each other at that train station in Dartford in 1961, I'd probably be making a ton of
- [To C-Boy, With Love](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/to-c-boy-with-love/) - People make the place. Consider the Austin music scene, where a hideous National Guard armory (Armadillo World Headquarters), abandoned furniture warehouse (the original Antone's on Sixth), and a lumberyard (Liberty Lunch) transformed into live music palaces because of the bands that played, the people who ran the joints, and the crowds that couldn't believe
- [Idaho Stories 1965-1971](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/idaho-stories-1965-1971/) - The most unracist white people in America grew up on military bases, where blacks and whites have lived next door to each other, gone to school together, and swam in the same pools since Harry Truman desegregated the military in 1948. There’s no unemployment in the military, so the street corners are empty. Everyone has
- [Tunes of the Unknown Soldier](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/tunes-of-the-unknown-soldier/) - Bill Carter steps out of the shadow of best friend Johnny Depp with brilliant new LP
- [The Allure of Austin Virginity](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/aint-no-haunt-to-the-newbies-jaunt/) - Living in Austin is like sex in that what happened in the past has only sentimental value, which when it comes to sex is no value. Who would you rather be, the old guy hunched over his cereal who used to do Victoria Principal or the insufferable hipster in the trucker hat who goes home to that hot barista, the one without the tattoos?
- [The Best Real Dive in Texas](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/the-best-real-dive-in-texas/) - The Tap in El Paso is to dive for!
- [Review: Ryan Bingham at Whitewater Amphitheater 7/5](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/review-ryan-bingham-at-whitewater-amphitheater-75/) - Turnpike Troubadours open for Ryan Bingham at sold-out concert.
- [The New Sincerity- Spin magazine 1986](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/the-new-sincerity-spin-magazine-1986-2/) - (Written the year before SXSW) For most people who've even bothered to consider it, Austin music is Stevie Ray Vaughan, PBS's Austin City Limits, the Fabulous Thunderbirds, Willie Nelson, Joe "King" Carrasco, Jerry Jeff Walker and Joe Ely. But then most people think New York City is only Manhattan. If Thomas Wolfe were an Austinite
- [Sarah at 17](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/sarah-at-17/) - April 16, 2009 by Michael Corcoran The two producers had been hunkered down in a Nashville studio all weekend, tweaking an album that mixes bluegrass virtuosity with airy country pop vocals. “Let’s call it a day,” producer Gary Paczosa said one Sunday evening. “We’ll pick it up tomorrow.” But producing partner Sarah Jarosz, whose debut
- [Muddy Waters at the Vulcan 1968](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/muddy-waters-at-the-vulcan-1968/) - It's one of the most notorious bookings in Austin music history, the weekend in 1968 that Muddy Waters and his band played the Vulcan Gas Company, with an albino blues guitarist from Beaumont named Johnny Winter opening the show. On the Friday night, the Waters band didn't arrive until after the Winter trio finished. "They
- [Washington Phillips, a son of freed slaves, created sacred porch songs for the ages](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/juneteenth-wash-phillips-son-of-slaves-makes-music-for-the-ages/) - His gospel points to a higher power, for how could man alone make music for the angels?
- [Margaritaville Empire started on Anderson Lane](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/margaritaville-empire-started-on-anderson-lane/) - Jimmy Buffett's new $370 million Margarita Resort opens next month in NYC's Times Square, but the "Margaritaville" legacy began in Austin at a six-bedroom Northwest Hills duplex you could've bought for $290,000 twenty years ago. It was on the deck that Buffett started writing his signature song after having his first (followed in quick succession
- [G-L-O-R-I-A-THON!](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/g-l-o-r-i-a-thon/) - Gloriathon at Liberty Lunch July 23-24, 1999 Many would choose to list the 1974 Van Morrison concert at the Armadillo World Headquarters where he played seven encores. But I picked the show where he just phoned it in. Liberty Lunch was the Armadillo in the trousers of ‘80s and ‘90s Austin. It was a special,
- [How you can tell a biker's from Austin](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/how-you-can-tell-a-bikers-from-austin/) - Since the Sturgi-spreader in South Dakota in August, a good rule is to skip any restaurant with Harleys parked in front. But I will say that bikers from here are a kinder, more thoughtful breed. A true Austin outlaw biker: 1. Cooks crystal in a food trailer called “You Do the Meth.” 2. "Got his
- [Roots of the Roller Derby Revival](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/roots-of-the-roller-derby-revival/) - It re-started in Austin: Roller Derby
- [Soothed by Sweet Hawaiian Soul Music](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/slack-key-guitar/) - It was the longest, scariest night of my life, the time my son Jack came home from the hospital after being born. His mother and I had several people over to share in our joy, but when the baby started crying, then didn't stop, our friends wisely said goodnight and left us with our cluelessness.
- [Discovering Israel Kamakawiwo'ole 2001](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/discovering-israel-kamakawiwoole-ten-years-ago/) - HONOLULU -- There's the opening reggae strum of the ukulele and the "ooooh, ooooh" crooning as glassy as the wall of a 20-foot wave, as breezy as the tradewinds on a perfect day. Then the exotic becomes familiar. "Somewhere over the rainbow, way up high," sings the velvet-smooth voice, poised to flip into falsetto. "Who
- [My writing years Pt. 5- Back to Hawaii, then the dart lands on Austin](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/my-writing-years-pt-4-back-to-hawaii-then-the-dart-lands-on-austin/) - Buoyed by Crumb's accolades for Honolulu Babylon, Rollo Invited me to come back to Hawaii and stay with him to made another Babylon. Winter to Albany, New York or Oahu? I didn't have enough money to fly all the way back, so I bought a one-way Greyhound bus ticket from New York City to San
- [Hop Wilson: Blue Steel from H-Town](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/hop-wilson-aint-in-no-struction-book/) - There's just nobody like Poppa Hop, nobody that can make despair sound like a jet at takeoff.
- [Frankie Lee Sims: "Don't Forget Me, Baby"](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/frankie-lee-sims-dont-forget-me-baby/) - Frankie Lee brought melody to the stomp, whipping himself into a rhythmic trance. “I put some rock and roll money on it,” is how he laid out his approach to the country blues. The dollars never came his way, though.
- [I love the years, but sometimes hate the days](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/i-love-the-years-but-sometimes-hate-the-days/) - By Michael Corcoran I've let myself go. Look at those words individually: let myself go. Where is the negative? It’s liberating to grow old and not give a shit. I don’t want to die and I do things to add time between now and that day, but I’m not going to do dumb stuff to
- [Signed books for sale](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/signed-books-for-sale/) - “If you’re a fan of popular music and you want to know more about it, you should know the name ‘Michael Corcoran’- Marshall Crenshaw WFUV’s “Bottomless Pit.” “Corcoran has few rivals for following a story to its logical conclusion, then refining it into a seamless narrative. Even the means of reporting become part of the
- [Before Austin](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/before-austin/) - By Michael Corcoran Louis Black of the Austin Chronicle likes to think he discovered novice me working in a t-shirt shop and that the Chron made me what I am today. What follows are over 4,000 words that prove the first part wrong. But he's completely right that my column for the Austin Chronicle from
- [Nuevo Laredo's "Boystown" 1987](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/nuevo-laredos-boystown-1987/) - We all fit into one cab. The driver charged us $20 for the six-mile drive from Nuevo Laredo to the legal brothel hood, Boystown, which was slightly less than we had spent on three hotel rooms for the night. They used to have horse racing in Nuevo Laredo, just across the border into Mexico and
- [Wizard](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/wizard/) - What's Goin' On at 12th and Chicon?
- [Charles Stagg house (abandoned) Vidor, TX](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/charles-stagg-house-abandoned-vidor-tx/) - More on Charlie Stagg.
- [Too Smooth: When Austin's Musical Outlaws Were Rockers](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/too-smooths-bumpy-road-to-national-prominence/) - originally published in the Austin American-Statesman 2011 by Michael Corcoran Austin made its musical hotbed reputation nationally with the progressive country movement in the 1970s, as Rolling Stone, Time and the record-buying public discovered the “cosmic cowboy” scene. But perhaps the most popular act on the local nightlife circuit that decade was a progressive rock
- [Sportswriting](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/sports-2/) - Moving the Goalposts: Michael Corcoran always wanted to be a sportswriter. At age 55, he's getting the chance.
- [Gonzales, TX: Come and Take It In](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/gonzales-tx-come-and-take-it-in/) - When you’re known as “the birthplace of Texas freedom” you have a lot to live up to and Gonzales doesn’t disappoint, celebrating its past like Austin does its live music scene. This township of 7,237 has the only state-designated Texas History Museum District, plus there’s a Pioneer Village of cabins, barns, churches and blacksmith
- [Townes Van Zandt: Poet.](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/20-years-gone-townes-van-zandt/) - His young daughter, Katie Belle, came running in and said, “Daddy's having a fight with his heart.” It wasn’t the first time, but this one was physical and cost Townes Van Zandt his life. The singer-songwriter, whose dark and illuminating lyrics walked with a self-destructive limp, died of a heart attack Jan. 1, 1997, at
- [Souls On Fire: Gram and Emmy](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/souls-on-fire-gram-and-emmy/) - He wore the sequined Nudie suits favored by the classic country singers, but Parsons had his decorated with marijuana leaves, pills and naked women where the glittery cacti, wagon wheels and lariats usually went. He was the original cosmic cowboy, recording songs by Merle Haggard and George Jones with the International Submarine Band way back in 1966.
- [Waylon Jennings: Nashville Rebel](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/waylon-jennings-nashville-rebel/) - “Mainly what I learned from Buddy was an attitude,” Jennings said. “He taught me that music shouldn’t have any barriers to it.”
- [The greatest concert I will ever see](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/the-greatest-concert-i-will-ever-see/) - Remembering the greatest concert I'll ever see, with a heart full of love
- [Five cool Texas towns: Marfa, Oak Cliff, Brenham, Smithville, Gonzales](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/small-towns-big-fun/) - Click on the town name for the full story. Marfa The land and the light and a sense of space unlike anywhere else. 2. Oak Cliff It’s possible to spend a few days in Oak Cliff without ever going into Dallas proper, whose skyline provides a spectacular view to the north. To paraphrase a
- [The Real Sonny Curtis Story](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/2212/) - West Texan Sonny Curtis could very well be the Bo Jackson of songwriting. Instead of excelling in two sports, the 84-year-old Curtis penned two classics that are as different as football and baseball. As a Lubbock sandstorm howled outside his window in the summer of 1958, he wrote “I Fought the Law,” one of the
- [Blues In the Night: Ricky Broussard](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/blues-in-the-night-ricky-broussard/) - By Michael Corcoran, AAS 2004 His eyes were darting, terrified, like an animal not yet used to a new cage. Ricky Broussard looked spooked as he waited to take the stage at the Hole In the Wall -- a territory he once utterly owned -- on June 7, 2002. He stiffly nodded and smiled at
- [Chasing the Ghosts of Texas Music](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/chasing-the-ghosts-of-texas-music-2/) - Before I devoted myself to history, I was prone to hysteria, as a rock critic in love with the notion that opinion can’t be proven incorrect. There was no right or wrong, only interesting or boring.
- [A Pair Blossoms: Warren Hood and Emily Gimble](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/a-pair-blossoms-warren-hood-and-emily-gimble/) - New "Warren Hood Band" LP, produced by Charlie Sexton, takes former musical prodigies to the next level
- [Sorry, but you're not an Austin musician until...](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/sorry-but-youre-not-an-austin-musician-until/) - Meatloaf has moved to Austin. Jazz notable Esperanza Spaulding supposedly lives here, too. Ditto Greg Rolle of Santana, Greg Ginn of Black Flag and John Doe. Glad to have ‘em, but these folks are not to be referred to as “Austin musicians.” It takes more than a ZIP code that starts with 787 to truly
- [King Vidor](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/king-vidor/) - His father hoped he would grow up to be the man who would build the railroad to his lumber. Instead, King Vidor became a leader in the generation that built Hollywood.
- [15 Austin Music Venues Open at Least 20 years](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/14-austin-music-venues-open-at-least-20-years/) - From Texas Highways 2017 and updated As Austin is becoming more like Dallas and Houston, one thing that distinguishes the Texas capital’s quality of life is the live-music scene. The almighty South by Southwest conference, which makes Austin the capital of the new world each mid-March, was built on the backs of Austin clubs. They
- [Michael Corcoran’s LAWN](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/michael-corcorans-lawn/) - I TRY PRINCE'S 5X HOT CHICKEN AND... DOWN GOES FRAYZHUH! DOWN GOES FRAYZHUH! You ever wake up in Kentucky and wish you were home? Then, outside is not a taxi to take you to the airport, but a Nissan Altima with three weeks of funk and a shriveled wardrobe in the trunk. Yesterday was supposed
- [Down From the Mountain: 'Reckless' Braun brothers have Idaho in their souls](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/down-from-the-mountain-braun-brothers/) - Raised in a remote frame house without electricity or running water in Idaho's Sawtooth Mountains, Micky, Gary, Willy and Cody Braun had never heard of "The Tonight Show" until they appeared on it in 1989. Micky, the youngest, was 8 at the time. Oldest brother Cody was 12. The band's lead singer was father Muzzie
- [Greatest Austin Clubs Ever: #16 Austin Opera House, #17 Mohawk](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/greatest-austin-clubs-ever-16-mohawk-17-austin-opera-house/) - #16 Austin Opera House When I moved to Austin in ’84, the Armadillo and Raul’s were closed, but there were great, intimate roadshows at the Austin Opera House, and serious punk rock action at Voltaire’s. I saw Elvis Costello at the Opera House soon after I got here- and they announced an impromptu second night,
- [Austin's Lebanese influence and the roots of ACL Fest](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/austins-lebanese-influence-and-the-roots-of-acl-fest/) - by Michael Corcoran His newborn daughter had him up at 4am again and after he put her down, Charles Attal knew he couldn't go back to sleep, so he got dressed and walked the mile down the hill to Zilker Park. This was late September 2008 and the park's Great Lawn was in the process
- [Meet Paul Oscher, one of the two greatest 1960’s era Muddy Waters harmonica players who live in Manchaca](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/meet-paul-oscher-one-of-the-two-greatest-1960s-era-muddy-waters-harmonica-players-who-live-in-manchaca/) - The sign outside Railroad BBQ in Manchaca says, simply, “Live Blues.” It’s Tuesday night just past 7:30 and a family of four chucks their Styrofoam cups on the way out of the smoke-perfumed establishment. Outside, the father says, “that was pretty cool”. “Yeah, that guy was good,” adds the daughter, about 20. They check the sign on the way out for a name and then drive away, unaware that they’d just been eating brisket and sausage to Muddy Waters’ former harmonica player Paul Oscher.
- [He Is My Story: The Sanctified Soul of Arizona Dranes (excerpt)](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/he-is-my-story-the-sanctified-soul-of-arizona-dranes-excerpt/) - From "Ghost Notes: Pioneering Spirits of Texas Music" (TCU Press) by Michael Corcoran When Arizona Dranes, blind and broke and a little wary, took a train from Fort Worth to Chicago in June 1926 to record for OKeh Records, there was no assurance that anything would come out of the trip. “Please understand that
- [Continental Club 1987: Door closes, but not for long](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/hot-august-night-closing-of-the-mark-j-net-continental/) - From August 2012 There were three times more people outside the 300-capacity club than were able to fit inside, where it was brutally hot and gloriously sweaty. Sitting in little clumps on the sidewalk and standing in the street behind the stage, the throng drank 7-11 beer, smoked joints and reminisced about nights spent in
- [Elm Grove Lodge: Murder in West Lake Hills](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/elm-grove-lodge-murder-in-the-hills/) - Long before it was Soap Creek Saloon, this building three miles from town and up the hill from Bee Cave Road was the Elm Grove Lodge. On June 17, 1947 it was the site of a murder, when Arnold W. Barrier, who managed The Windmill club on the San Antonio Highway (far South Congress), was
- [Never Stagedive In a Babydoll Dress and 27 Other Things Every Band Should Remember](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/never-start-a-trio-with-a-married-couple-and-35-other-things-bands-should-know/) - by Robert Wilonsky and Michael Corcoran (circa 2000) 1. Before you sign a record deal, look up the word ``recoupable'' in the dictionary. 2. Your manager's not helping you. Fire him or her. Same with your publicist. 3. Never start a trio with a married couple. 4. When you talk on stage, you are never
- [Yes, You Are a Groupie and 27 Other Things Every Rock Critic Should Know](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/yes-you-are-a-groupie-and-32-other-things-every-rock-critic-should-know/) - (originally published during SXSW 2002) by Michael Corcoran and Robert Wilonsky 1. Writing for rollingstone.com isn't the same as writing for Rolling Stone. But then, these days writing for Rolling Stone isn't the same as writing for Rolling Stone. 2. The first person is not the First Amendment. It's a privilege, not a right. 3.
- [Overheard at SXSW 1989](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/tweets-from-sxsw-1989-3/) - 1. “The registration line was insane. That’s 25 minutes of my life I won’t get back.” 2. “Do you know where Saturday’s day party is?” 3. “Austin learned its lesson from the Armadillo. No way they’re tearing down Liberty Lunch for an office building.” 4. “I’m in such a hurry I’m gonna have to grab
- [Austin's Secret: Killing in the Classroom 1978](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/austins-secret-murder-in-the-classroom-1978/) - By Michael Corcoran Austin was not big enough to hold all its grief on May 18, 1978, when two authority figures- a policeman and a schoolteacher- were shot to death hours apart while doing their jobs. The murder of Ralph Ablanedo of APD made news all over again in June 2010 when his killer David
- [Frank Murray (1950- 2016): the Dublin-Austin Connection](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/frank-murray-1950-2016-the-irish-texan-connection/) - By Michael Corcoran Pogues fans on this side of the Pond are often unaware that the Celtic roots/punk band was from England, not Ireland. But when Dubliner Frank Murray became their manager and got them signed to Stiff Records in 1984, they were held in the embrace of Irish music royalty. Murray worked with traditional
- [Self-Isolation Disc: 'Love Songs' by Billie Holiday](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/self-isolation-disc-love-songs-by-billie-holiday/) - If I could have only one LP during the current pandemic it would be this one.
- [When Red River was ruled by antiques and junk stores](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/when-red-river-was-ruled-by-antiques-and-junk-stores/) - By Michael Corcoran originally published in 2001 Charles "Lucky" Attal looks back to 1959 and wonders if his life would have been different if he'd happened upon that garage sale on East 11th Street just a few minutes later and the bowl marked 50 cents had already been sold. Would he have gone into the
- [Rich Minus Tribute](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/rich-minus-tribute-47/) - (Rich Minus passed away in 2016 at age 75. This was written for a tribute/benefit while he was alive). First time I met Rich Minus was on Will Sexton's 17th birthday. An RV had been parked in the back of the Continental Club that night in 1987 and after MCA recording artists Will and the
- [Lefty Frizzell: The Voice of Honky Tonk](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/lefty-frizzell-the-voice-of-honky-tonk/) - We praise our pioneers who’ve found subtle new ways to play their instruments, but rare is the one who invents a new way to sing. Lefty Frizzell is up there with Jimmie Rodgers, Hank Williams, Bill Monroe and the Carter Family as the most influential country musicians of all time and yet his name is
- [Bobby Ramirez: Everybody's Brother](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/bobby-ramirez-everybodys-brother/) - Drummer Bobby Ramirez was the golden boy of the Golden Triangle in the ’60s, the 11-year-old who played with teenagers, the 14-year old who played with men. He didn’t just keep the beat, he BECAME the beat, with a natural rhythm that was not above further education. When Edgar Winter and singer Jerry LaCroix set
- [Little lambs to Slaughter Lane: the Rockin' Roots of Southpark Meadows](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/little-lambs-to-slaughter-lane-a-history-of-southpark-meadows/) - published on Aug. 8, 1995 Looking out over the land from Abel Theriot's 40-foot-high observation deck in the back of his Southpark Meadows venue, you can't help but see the possibilities. With its natural slope, thick grass, shade trees and lack of neighbors, the Meadows lends an Austin air to the mega-concert experience. There are
- [The Punk Rock Alamo: Pistols in S.A.](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/sex-pistols-in-san-antonio-jan-8-1978/) - Originally published in the Austin American Statesman 1/6/13 SAN ANTONIO. “Wow, 35 years!” exclaimed Ty Gavin, singer of the regrouped band the Next, whose members met at the infamous Sex Pistols show in San Antonio on Jan. 8, 1978. “Has it really been that long?” Three days before the anniversary of the most notorious rock
- [Stax Records: The ABA to Motown's NBA](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/stax-records/) - MEMPHIS - There's almost nothing in this world cooler than driving down McLemore Avenue blasting "Green Onions," the 1962 hit by Booker T. and the MGs that let the world know there was an imposing musical force coming from a South Memphis neighborhood. It was a time of racial upheaval in the South, but a
- [Lydia Mendoza: La Alondra de la Frontera](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/lydia-mendoza-la-alondra-de-la-frontera/) - Which city in Texas had the greatest decade in music history? Austin in the '70s is a close second, but I'd have to give it to San Antonio in the '30s. Not just because Robert Johnson made his first recordings at the Gunter Hotel in 1936 and the holy trinity of accordion players- Valerio Longoria,
- [Kathy Valentine's Vacation Is Over](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/kathy-valentines-vacation-is-over/) - From 2013 By Michael Corcoran The wild child who grew up in Austin and would probably be a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame if not for the Runaways and runaway egos. The woman, the mother, who takes college English and history classes at St. Edward’s University and who recently got her
- [History of SXSW: Year by Year (through 2011)](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/1160/) - 1987 Number of acts: 172 Number of registrants: 700 Keynote speaker: Record producer Huey P. Meaux Buzz bands: Dash Rip Rock, Reivers, True Believers, Buck Pets, Wagoneers, Reverend Horton Heat, Hundredth Monkey SXSW organizers can't get the computers working at registration, so even though the turnout is moderate, waits are long. That's something that the
- [Heaven is Backstage at Hell: the Austin Chronicle '80s](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/heaven-is-backstage-at-hell/) - Watch Out for the Clear Cocaine! Every once in a while I’ll be at a concert and run into someone I used to know before I became a famous columnist. After the 30 or 40 seconds it takes me to remember their name, fingers a’snappin’, they invariably eye the backstage pass taking up residence
- [Austin's most important recording?](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/80-years-ago-austins-most-important-recording/) - The Soul Stirrers are best known today as the Chicago gospel group that launched the career of Sam Cooke from 1951 until he crossed over to pop with “You Send Me” in 1957. But the group is actually from Trinity, Texas, by way of Houston. The Stirrers revolutionized gospel quartets by adding a fifth member-
- [Ghost Notes: Pioneering Spirits of Texas Music](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/ghost-notes-pioneering-spirits-of-texas-music/) - “Ghost notes” is a musical term for sounds barely audible, a wisp lingering around the beat, yet somehow driving the groove. The Texas musicians profiled here, ranging from 1920s gospel performers to the first psychedelic band, are generally not well known, but the impact of their early contributions on popular music is unmistakable. This beautiful Tim Kerr-illustrated collection provides more background on the Texas from which these artists sprang, fully formed.
- [My writing years, Pt. 4- Albany](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/my-writing-years-pt-4-albany/) - Days of the Albany Lark. W/ Lin Brehmer, Harvey Kojan, J.B. Scott's
- [My writing years, Pt. 3- Pico Rivera and Honolulu Babylon](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/my-writing-years-pt-3-pico-rivera-and-honolulu-babylon/) - My Sunbums glory year was over by 1976. There were a couple bad years after that. I wrote for a cheezy tourist rag called "Hotlines Hawaii" and had my first real fling with the art director Pam Baxter, who had lots of cool stories about living with photographer Bob Gruen. (Another namedrop: Pam started seeing
- [1978](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/1978-2/) - Ages 18- 22 were the best years and the worst years of my life. My mother got cancer and died. I dropped out of college after a year. I squatted for a few months at an aircraft hangar in Pearl Harbor. But I also started getting recognition - and a little bit of money -
- [Nanny Dearest](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/nanny-dearest/) - I told y'all a couple months ago about the time an on-the-clock dancer from the Yellow Rose babysat my three-year-old son. Well, on the 7-hour drive from Marfa, I remembered quite a few more details of that night in '97 or '98. To refresh: Don King, who managed the Yellow Rose, invited me to cover
- [Aerosmith Became Rock Stars in Hawaii](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/8890-2/) - They’re in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame now, but in the summer of ’74, Aerosmith was known in only two places: their hometown of Boston and the Hawaiian Islands, 6,000 miles away.
- [Rupert Neve, the Wizard of Wimberley 1927-2021](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/rupert-neve-at-87-sxsw-13s-chairman-of-the-board/) - British recording icon has lived in Wimberley for decades
- [Happy 100th Ernest Tubb: Thanks a Lot](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/happy-100-ernest-tubb-thanks-a-lot/) - Ernest Tubb, the father-protector of pure Texas honky-tonk music, died of emphysema Sept. 9, 1984, but since he created a spirit, he gets to live forever. On Feb. 9, the media will turn enmasse to acknowlege the 50th anniversary of the Beatles' culture-changing first appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show. But let's also mark the
- [Straight Into Compton: How a Texan Became the Wordsmith for N.W.A.](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/straight-into-compton-how-a-texan-became-the-wordsmith-for-n-w-a/) - "I'm a leader, not a follower, so I moved from the projects of West Dallas to the projects of Compton."
- [Austin – Zeitgeist #1](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/austin-zeitgeist-1/) - Complain all you want about the traffic, the rising cost of living, the rash of condos, the second weekend of ACL Fest and how this once-sleepy college town has gone to hell in a pedicab. But the luckiest residents of Austin are the ones who just moved here. Huh? “You must also love those assholes
- [Austin 1996: "Is the Boom a Bust for Austin Music?"](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/austin-1996-is-the-boom-a-bust-for-austin-music/) - Clubs by Michael Corcoran, Musicians by Chris Riemenschneider, Additional writing by Don McLeese Published in Austin American-Statesman October 17, 1996 Sometimes it's still like it was Friday night at Liberty Lunch. About 500 people have paid $7 to see two local bands and as the couples break off into little dance circles during 8 1/2
- [Kerrville's Kennedy Was Austin Music's "Rodfather"](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/kerrvilles-rodfather/) - Austin became known as a town of free spirits and cheap living in the ’70s and ’80s, but it took a lot of hard work from people like Rod Kennedy to build the Groover’s Paradise that became the Slacker’s Playground.
- [Sam Phillips drove the Mystery Train](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/sam-phillips-drove-the-mystery-train/) - If he could find a white man who could sing like a black man, he could make a million dollars. That's what Sam Phillips would say over and over again from his Memphis Recording Service on Union Avenue. Then one day in 1953 Elvis Presley walked in, and the desire became a reality. Elvis, and
- [Hungry For More God: Roots of the Pentecostal Movement](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/hungry-for-more-god-roots-of-the-pentecostal-movement/) - On the morning of April 18, 1906, a headline on the front page of the Los Angeles Daily News screamed of "Weird Babel of Tongues" heard from a "New Sect of Fanatics Breaking Loose" at a former livery stable at 312 Azusa St. in downtown Los Angeles. The reporter described a racially mixed congregation, which
- [Sister Bobbie Nelson's Amazing Grace](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/happy-85th-birthday-sister-bobbie/) - From All Over the Map: True Heroes of Texas Music (2017 UNT Press) She had done whatever it took to raise three sons alone after their father died in an automobile accident in 1961. She demonstrated organs for Hammond, taught at J.R. Reed Music on Congress Avenue in Austin and at night played elegant solo
- ["Superfly Me 2004": Eating every meal in East Austin for a month](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/superfly-me-east-austin-eats-2004/) - Whenever it's time for lunch or dinner, my mind starts to drive. If I'm at the office, my mental route is east, down either Cesar Chavez Street, with all its great Azul to Arkie's variety, or East Seventh Street, which could be the best avenue for the appetite in Austin. Surveying the dining options starts
- [Deep dish pizza, "Margaritaville," Dabney Coleman, Teddy Wilson: they came from Austin](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/deep-dish-pizza-margaritaville-dabney-coleman-they-came-from-austin/) - We all know about Janis Joplin singing at Threadgill's, Austinite William Sydney Porter gaining literary notoriety as O. Henry and baseball great Don Baylor growing up in the Clarksville neighborhood. And you knew Gucci's main man Tom Ford grew up in San Marcos, right? But did you know that Chicago deep-dish pizza was invented in
- [What's Goin' On at 12th and Chicon? Part 2: OTIS and LOLA](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/whats-goin-on-at-12th-and-chicon-pt-2-otis-lola/) - "I was done with men," said Lola.
- [Bobby Keys: Rolling Stone From Texas 1943- 2014](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/bobby-keys-rolling-stone-from-texas-1943-2014/) - Bobby Keys was the larger-than-life Texan the Rolling Stones had hoped to meet on their first visit to the mythical Lone Star State to play the Teenage World’s Fair in 1964.
- [Texas Guinan: From Waco To the Great White Way](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/texas-guinan-from-waco-to-the-great-white-way/) - By Michael Corcoran During Prohibition, the life of New York City’s illegal party was a former cowgirl from Waco named Mary Louise “Texas” Guinan. Greeting customers with “Hello, Sucker!” and deci-bellowing “Curfew shall not ring tonight!”, Guinan turned pure brass into gold during the Roaring Twenties. Her talent to foster excitement “from eleven to seven”
- [Alleged Rodney Reed victim speaks out about 1995 rape](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/rodney-reed-victim-speaks-out-about-1995-rape/) - By Michael Corcoran “After he raped me, he had this look in his eyes like he wanted to kill me,” says Vivian Harbottle. “I begged him for my life. I told him that I had three kids... He just kept staring at me. I was crying ‘please don’t kill me’ and then he finally left.”
- [Selena: Frozen in Perfection](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/selena-frozen-in-perfection/) - Where were you were when you heard the news? I was at work at the Dallas Morning News, and someone poked his head in and said that Selena had been shot. A few minutes later, the co-worker returned to say the Tejano superstar was dead. I sat there stunned, wondering why and how and who
- [James Street Is What Happened When Guts Met Opportunity](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/4477/) - Article from Jan. 1, 2006 AAS by Michael Corcoran On a wall in a conference room in the shadow of the state Capitol hangs a painting that freezes the pivotal moment of the Texas victory over Notre Dame in the Cotton Bowl that sewed up the 1969 national championship. Senior quarterback James Street is
- [Dear Dad, your eldest son is gay](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/dear-dad-your-eldest-son-is-gay/) - "Dear Dad, I have some startling news: Your eldest son is gay." That was my lead in the first draft of a Celine Dion concert review from ten years ago. The show was a schmaltzy smorgasbord of bombastic ballads, over-the-top production numbers and more costume changes than Isaac Mizrahi getting dressed to meet Jude Law
- [Brick by Brick: Blaine Irby Returns To Football One Step At a Time](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/brick-by-brick-blaine-irby-returns-to-football-one-step-at-a-time/) - The tunnel was a womb, so heavy was the yearn of a team to be reborn nine months after its previous game. The scene at Darrell K. Royal Memorial Stadium before the Texas Longhorns took the field against Rice for the 2011 season opener Sept. 3 was almost psychedelic in anticipation. As 5-7 became 0-0,
- [Bobby Blue Bland and James Cotton are brothers?](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/bobby-blue-bland-and-james-cotton-are-brothers/) - Bland discovered before his death that he and harp great Cotton had the same father.
- [Billy Joe Shaver wudn't born no yesterday](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/ode-to-billy-joe-shaver-who-wudnt-born-no-yesterday/) - From "All Over the Map: True Heroes of Texas Music" (UNT Press) May 2002 When Billy Joe Shaver gives directions to his modest house on the outskirts of Waco, he says to disregard the handwritten sign on his front door. "Please do not disturb. I haven't slept in two days," it says. "That's just so
- [The man who rocked the world](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/the-man-who-rocked-the-world/) - An appreciation of Sam Phillips from 2003, written the day after he died. Everybody knows he discovered Elvis, but he also made early recordings of Howlin' Wolf, B.B. King, Junior Parker and other R&B greats.
- [Infamous rave review of the 3rd Oasis LP](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/infamous-rave-review-of-the-3rd-oasis-lp/) - OASIS - `BE HERE NOW' (Epic) * * * * Even when they were so unknown that they had to feud with Blur to get noticed, Manchester, England, band OASIS -- led by a pair of uncouth party yobs named Gallagher -- laid claim to the title of the best band on the planet. On
- [Post Malone: Bleeding Well Is the Best Revenge](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/post-apocalypse-now/) - It's Post Malone's World (we just stream it)
- [Margaret Moser 1954- 2017](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/margaret-moser-1954-2017/) - A high school dropout with no discernible skill when she came to Austin as a 19-year-old in 1973, Margaret Moser used guile, guts and no small amounts of talent and instinct to become the most celebrated and influential female music journalist in Texas. Her 40-year career started with a music/gossip column in the Austin Sun
- [Chairman of the board Rupert Neve](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/chairman-of-the-board-rupert-neve/) - WIMBERLEY -- The guy on the phone said he needed to have his videocassette recorder fixed, as soon as possible. "But we don't do that sort of work," a man with a stately English accent answered. The fellow with the broken VCR persisted. "C'mon, man, give me a price. There's a show tonight I need
- [1979 Calling](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/1979-calling-2/) - In September 1979, the Big Apple sounded like outer space.
- [Chasing the Ghosts of Texas Music](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/chasing-the-ghosts-of-texas-music/) - Before I devoted myself to history, I was prone to hysteria, as a rock critic in love with the notion that opinion can’t be proven incorrect. There was no right or wrong, only interesting or boring.
- [Road Apples](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/road-apples/) - August 2016 By Michael Corcoran The Tragically Hip shows I saw in Canada on August 8 and 10 were more than I could've hoped for. The band played magnificently and singer Gord Downie went from Canadian rock star to national folk hero with courageous performances just seven months after two brain surgeries and first round
- [Up on the Sun: The Nick Curran Story](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/up-on-the-sun-the-nick-curran-story/) - This is a chapter of the 2017 book All Over the Map: True Heroes of Texas Music Some people are stars without being famous. Their talent shines so brightly and the way they carry themselves is so confident that destiny calls their name. Nick Curran had all that and his own look/s. He was a
- [Cindy Walker: First Lady of Texas Song](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/cindy-walker-first-lady-of-texas-song/) - Excerpt from "All Over the Map: True Heroes of Texas Music" (UNT Press) “Do you want to hear my new song?” the voice on the other end of the phone asked, as giddy as a teenager. “I just got it back from my demo guys in Fort Worth and I think it’s a real
- [Pulling Out All the Stops: Mike Flanigin’s B3 Shot](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/pulling-out-all-the-stops-mike-flanigans-b3-shot/) - Mike Flanigin puts down the guitar to sit behind a "desk"
- [The Chuck Woolery I Knew (for a week)](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/8578-2/) - We’ve glimpsed our share of movie and TV stars at the Austin City Limits Music Festival, and it’s usually easy to piece together why they’re there. Actress Gwyneth Paltrow was on hand in 2005 with baby Apple because husband Chris Martin’s band Coldplay headlined. Actor Bill Murray’s omnipresence two years ago was explained by his
- [Milton Brown, the Edison of Western Swing](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/bob-wills-was-western-swings-king-but-milton-brown-was-its-edison/) - “It’s the same ol’ tune, fiddle and guitar, where do we take it from here?” An ol’ honky tonk hero sang that in the ‘70s, but back in the early ‘30s, Milton Brown and Bob Wills were thinking the same thing. The singer and the fiddler worked together less than two years in the Light
- [Barbara Lynn: True Hero of Texas Music](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/barbara-lynn-true-hero-of-texas-music/) - Don't call Barbara Lynn a One-Hit Wonder. Her influence is huge.
- [25 Sidebar: More Notorious Than Significant](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/25-sidebar-just-notorious-not-significant/) - An addendum to the 25 Most Significant and/or Notorious Nights in Austin Music History.
- ["Ghost Notes" excerpt: Texans help create West Coast R&B scene](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/ghost-notes-excerpt-texans-help-create-west-coast-rb-scene/) - An excerpt from "Ghost Notes: Pioneering Spirits of Texas Music" (TCU Press) by Michael Corcoran. Illustrated by Tim Kerr. Charles Brown and Amos Milburn became associates in 1946, when Charles was ridin’ high with “Drifting Blues” and Amos, just back from the war, was the new
- [Kidwhipped](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/kidwhipped/) - AAS 2004 When it was first announced that Weird Al Yankovic was coming to the Paramount Theatre Friday, I got a little jolt of giddiness. Yes! Weird Al, coming to Austin! I wrote it in red on my calendar. After his publicist contacted me about a possible interview or concert review, I e-mailed her back
- [James Hand: Magic Where the Shadows Were](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/james-hand-magic-where-the-shadows-were/) - “I guess I’ve just been a haunted bastard my whole life,” Hand said. He said he first knew he was different in the first grade. “They made us put our heads down on a towel and take a nap,” he said. “Then they’d play a lullabye and I’d just start sobbing. Nobody could tell me why.”
- [Born Under a Bad Sign: Alabama 3 July 2008](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/born-under-a-bad-sign-alabama-3-tour-july-2008/) - Trafficking in an exotic hodgepodge of sounds both rooted and interstellar, Spragg said Alabama 3 is steered by a unique attitude: "The reason you need us is because we don't need you."
- [AC/DC is the world's greatest rock n' roll band](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/acdc-is-the-worlds-greatest-rock-n-roll-band/) - By Michael Corcoran originally published in Jan. 1996 Most people who were alive at the time remember where they were when Kennedy was shot or when they heard that Mike Tyson had been knocked out by Buster Douglas, but for me an equally indelible time and place was that warm, sunny day in 1977 when
- [Dallas Stories 1992- 1995](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/dallas-stories-1992-1995/) - The first time I’d ever had Cajun-fried turkey- at Bill Davis’s wedding in New Orleans circa ’90- I moaned. Oh my god, it was the best thing I’d ever put in my mouth. It wasn’t a fad back then like it is now, where you can buy a kit with a fryer and spices and
- [My favorite interview: Bette Midler 1998](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/my-favorite-interview-bette-midler-1998/) - Fellow Radford High graduate Bette Midler talks about growing up in Hawaii with another haole who grew up in Hawaii.
- [Tour like a rock star (on a roadie's budget)](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/travel-like-a-rock-star-on-an-opening-acts-budget/) - I try to think of myself as a wise and thrifty traveler. I stay in $50 motels instead of $100 ones because that means I can afford to stay out on the road twice as long. Besides, who needs all those pillows? I know to bring a cooler to fill up with free ice in
- [Jefferson Hotel likely site of historic 1927 recordings in Dallas](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/jefferson-hotel-likely-site-of-historic-1927-recordings-in-dallas/) - I've been trying to confirm, for twenty years, where the historic Dallas sessions of 1927-1929 took place. These annual December recordings, by Columbia producer Frank B. Walker, include "Dark Was the Night," "If I Had My Way," "Motherless Children" and "Nobody's Fault But Mine" by Blind Willie Johnson, as well as every track Washington Phillips
- [Roy Head and the Traits](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/roy-head-and-the-traits/) - SAN MARCOS, 2007: It doesn't get much more incongruous than this: a group of men in their 60s playing up-tempo sock-hop blues in a vacant house next door to the funeral home owned by their bassist. But the Traits, former San Marcos High School mates who had regional hits soon after forming in 1957, have
- [Talking Heads in Austin](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/talking-heads-in-austin/) - Most Significant Nights in Austin Music History: #10 Talking Heads at Fiesta Gardens Sept. 7, 1982 This was the NYC band’s 7th concert in Austin in four years and the first not at the Armadillo World Headquarters. Yet, although there were some amazing shows on Barton Springs Road, this was the T. Heads' most notorious
- ["Where To Begin" by the Damnations](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/where-to-begin-by-the-damnations-world-premiere/) - Here's "Where To Begin" from the 2006 Bruce Robison-produced Damnations LP which was never released. The great cover of "Sally Go Round the Roses" Here's a more bluegrass track from the sessions. Title unknown. This is the kind of material the Damnations built their name on.
- [The Calvin Russell Story: From Pflugerville to Paris](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/calvin-russell/) - Singer-songwriter Calvin Russell’s story was one for the movies, an ex-con toiling in obscurity in Austin dives before a homemade cassette made him a star in Europe. The Townes Van Zandt protege with the rugged features and signature hobo hat passed away Sunday (April 2011) at his home in Garfield after a lengthy battle with
- [For Once In Your Life](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/for-once-in-your-life/) - Austin American Statesman 2011 To celebrate Stevie Wonder’s 50th birthday on May 13, 2000, Jody Denberg dedicated his two-hour Sunday night radio show on KGSR to the manchild whose records constantly strived for higher ground. Any worries that Denberg would have to pad the last half hour of the show with lesser tunes like “Isn’t
- [San Antonio Excerpt: "Ghost Notes: Pioneering Spirits of Texas Music"](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/san-antonio-excerpt-ghost-notes-pioneering-spirits-of-texas-music/) - Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam/ And the deer and the antelope play. Thus opens one of the most beloved tunes of Western American folklore, a song that survived changing times due to the efforts of famed “ballad hunter” John A. Lomax and blind musician Henry Lebermann. Lomax first heard “Home
- [Willie at 70 (17 years ago)](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/willie-at-70-14-and-a-half-years-ago/) - By Michael Corcoran First published April 2003 in AAS Willie understood. When Frank Sinatra kept touring well into his 70s, reading the words of his classic songs off giant TelePrompTers, critics and fans wondered why he didn’t retire. How much money did he need? But Willie Nelson knew that concert receipts had nothing to do
- [Willie Nelson & Family: "You can't get out of this band even if you die."](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/willie-nelson-family-a-band-a-code-a-way-of-life/) - Willie understood. When Frank Sinatra kept touring well into his 70s, reading the words of his classic songs off giant TelePrompTers, critics and fans wondered why he didn't retire. How much money did he need? But Willie Nelson knew that concert receipts had nothing to do with his friend and idol's busy schedule. "When you
- [The 25 ESSENTIAL Texas Music LPs](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/the-25-essential-texas-music-lps/) - Let's go back to the time when music was packaged to create a continual listening experience, when songs were sequenced to sustain a mood or provide a chronological context. Here's a list I put together years ago, during the glory years of Rhino Records. Things have changed, but all these songs are out there somewhere.
- [Greatest Austin Clubs of All-Time: Broken Spoke, Saxon Pub, Backroom](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/greatest-austin-clubs-of-all-time-broken-spoke-saxon-pub-backroom/) - #24 The Broken Spoke 1964- present Honky tonk Texas lives in a rustic red roadhouse that used to be on the outskirts of town, but now is surrounded by expensive condos. South Lamar has changed, but inside the Spoke it’s still 1964, the band is playing “Walking the Floor Over You” and the dancefloor is
- [Greatest Austin Clubs: #19 Victory Grill](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/greatest-austin-clubs-24-victory-grill/) - During a time of segregation (anytime before 1964 in Texas), the black community found safe havens, away from the white gaze, in church and at the juke joint. Just as touring religious singers had “the gospel highway” of connected gigs and places to stay, R&B entertainers traveled the “chitlin circuit.” Before they became mainstream acts,
- [Greatest Austin Clubs of All Time: #6 Antone's](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/greatest-austin-clubs-of-all-time-6-antones/) - 1975- present Kill it again, it’s not dead yet Clifford Antone was a blues fanatic who wanted to meet his idols. He also wanted to turn others onto the music of all those Chicago greats nicknamed after their size. His club would book the legends for five nights in a row, to give them a
- [GAMCOAT: #12 Cactus Cafe](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/gamcoat-12-cactus-cafe/) - When the Texas Union reopened in 1979 after extensive renovations, it featured a new coffeehouse called the Cactus Café. But long before that, going back to the ‘30s, the space was known as the Chuckwagon. It’s where a UT student named Janis Joplin first performed in front of an audience in 1962, with a folk
- [Greatest Austin Clubs of All Time: #20 Electric Lounge](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/greatest-austin-clubs-of-all-time-20-electric-lounge/) - 1993- 1999 Opened by architect Jay Hughey and filmmaker Mark Shuman, and managed by poet Mike Henry, the Electric Lounge was the closest Austin had to a New York City nightclub in the ‘90s. The place aimed for boldness, as the two most popular residencies early on were Hamell On Trial, a one-man punk band
- [Greatest Austin Clubs of All Time: #14 Hole In the Wall](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/greatest-austin-clubs-of-all-time-14-hole-in-the-wall/) - 1974 to present My theory is that the mob buried some bodies under the building in the ‘50s. How else could you explain that the Hole In the Wall is still there on the Drag, unleveled in this era when “mixed use” throttles mixed drinks? This nightlife warhorse has had more false farewells than the
- [How I got to the Holy Trinity](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/the-holy-trinity-of-1920s-texas-gospel-pioneers/) - By Michael Corcoran In July 2001, I received this Amazing Gospel CD in the mail at my job at the Austin American Statesman. It's an unauthorized British compilation of 1920s American gospel music that would would end up playing a big part in my slow transformation from cynical/ abrasive music critic to deep-digging historian. A
- [Intro to '[Ghost Notes] Pioneering Spirits of Texas Music'](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/intro-to-ghost-notes-pioneering-spirits-of-texas-music/) - The rocker, the singer-songwriter, the guitar hero all sprung from this holy trinity, who recorded before any of the more celebrated Mississippi Delta deities. And yet, because they played gospel, not the more collectable and researchable blues, Arizona Dranes, Washington Phillips and Blind Willie Johnson had been woefully bypassed by musicologists and historians until recently.
- [All Over The Map: True Heroes of Texas Music](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/all-over-the-map-true-heroes-of-texas-music/) - Beautifully illustrated by the photos of Scott Newton and others, this book profiles 42 Texas musicians who left their mark and inspired others, including Janis Joplin, Lefty Frizzell, T-Bone Walker, Ella Mae Morse, King Curtis and Townes Van Zandt. "The best book ever written about Texas music," - Joe Nick Patoski. $22-signed trade paperback (includes
- [He Is My Story: The Sanctified Soul Of Arizona Dranes](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/he-is-my-story-the-sanctified-soul-of-arizona-dranes/) - Complete works of gospel piano pioneer Arizona Dranes, with a comprehensive booklet. Also Grammy-nominated. That’s the exciting part for Corcoran: the limitless possibilities of reporting on gospel music, a rich genre that’s not capitalized on by many music writers. – Texas Monthly $20 (includes shipping) via paypal. NPR did a 9-minute segment on this
- [Washington Phillips and His Manzarene Dreams](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/washington-phillips-and-his-manzarene-dreams/) - Remastered CD of 1920's gospel curiosity from East Texas, with 77 page booklet by Michael Corcoran. (The sole of Washington Phillips is not included.) Grammy-nominated. “Corcoran has few rivals for following a story to its logical conclusion, then refining it into a seamless narrative. Even the means of reporting become part of the stories.” Michael
- [SXSW Stories: Night and Day With Van the Man (2008)](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/sxsw-stories-night-and-day-with-van-the-man/) - Celtic soul lion Van Morrison kicked off a short U.S. tour in 2008 with two shows in Austin on March 11 and 12, the first a private concert at the Austin Music Hall with tickets sold and the second an official SXSW showcase at La Zona Rosa. Morrison was promoting the new album Keep It
- [SXSW Stories: Marriage, MTV, half-hearted defections and Taco Bell!](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/sxsw-stories-marriage-mtv-half-hearted-defections-and-taco-bell/) - by Michael Corcoran Was that Russian band serious about wanting to defect after a SXSW showcase? Or did they just want to stay in Austin for free as long as they could? It was in the early ‘90s, soon after implementation of SXSW’s international housing 0program, where bands from overseas are put up in local
- [Tim C. Curry 1951- 2015: an epitaph in song](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/tim-curry-1951-2015-an-epitaph-in-song/) - Leaving the troubles of this world and going home. But not before leaving a piece of his soul.
- [SXSW Stories: The Year of Amy (2007) and a Killer Choir (2004)](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/sxsw-stories-2004-a-killer-choir/) - They’ve gone on to sell millions of records and tickets, but not many people had heard of the Killers or Brandon Flowers before they played SXSW in 2004, three months before the release of debut LP Hot Fuss. The Las Vegas-based band debuted at the Caucus Club (now the Mohawk) on Thursday March 18, then
- [Born in 1987: The History of Lizzie Brenner (and SXSW)](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/born-in-1987-the-history-of-lizzie-brenner-and-sxsw/) - (published on sxsw.com in Sept. 2015) Pt. 1 (1987- 1994): From baby acts and first steps to inspiration from the man in black If you want to see how old South by Southwest is, look at volunteer coordinator Lizzie Brenner, who was born in April 1987, a month after her current employer. SXSW
- [SXSW Stories: Hip Hop Arrives, 2010 Big Star Memories](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/sxsw-stories-2010-big-star-memories/) - Hip Hop at SXSW: From Kool Keith to Kanye South by Southwest has become a Hip Hop Mecca in recent years, with seemingly everyone from the big names to the rising artists coming to Austin every year for the pub and the party. But that wasn’t always the case. “We’d hear the same thing every
- [SXSW Stories 2009: Mumford and Sons, 2002 Polyphonic Spree](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/sxsw-stories-2009-mumford-and-sons/) - The stories of huge headlining acts playing SXSW when they were nobody are well-told, with Billy Ray Cyrus (year two) leading a breakout army that includes Green Day, White Stripes, John Mayer, the Strokes, Uncle Tupelo, Florence + the Machine, Gary Clark Jr. and so on. Then there was a folk-rock band from England that
- [What Makes Texas Music Special?](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/what-makes-texas-music-special/) - Money, independence, big noise and dirt: that’s Texas, a land of opportunity within the land of opportunity. It’s where the South ends and the West begins and yet Texas remains independent of those regions.
- [SXSW Stories: 1988 Coyotes in the Wild](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/sxsw-stories-1988-coyotes-in-the-wild/) - Kevin Russell has played SXSW promiscuously, as a member of the Gourds and now Shinyribs. But you never forget your first time. Russell played the second SXSW in 1988 with his punk/ new wave band Picket Line Coyotes. They were from Shreveport and SXSW’s then-booker Louis Meyers managed a band (Killer Bees) whose members were
- [SXSW Stories- Patti Smith 2000](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/sxsw-stories-patti-smith-2000/) - They say you shouldn’t meet your idols because they just can’t live up to your expectations. But Leslie Uppinghouse, whose 20-year run handling production at SXSW ended in March 2016, became an even bigger fan of Patti Smith after working with the high priestess of punk at SXSW 2000. This was back when the big
- [Dance hall day trip](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/10-within-90-dance-hall-day-trip/) - by Michael Corcoran, 2008 The classic Texas dancehalls are treasures, and they're buried right in your back yard. We all know about Luckenbach and Gruene Hall , the most famous dancehalls in Texas. And though it's not technically a dancehall, Floores Country Store in Helotes is a fave way-back venue for the college country crowd.
- [Fairytale of New Orleans: Me and the Pogues, 1988](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/fairytale-of-new-orleans-on-the-road-with-the-pogues-1988/) - Return of the drunken Irish bastard.
- [The Great 1996 Dead Austin Club Crawl](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/the-great-1996-dead-austin-club-crawl/) - It’s somewhere between the time they get their electricity turned on and when they get their Texas driver’s license that newcomers to Austin are exposed to that big Austin tradition: hearing about all the great clubs in town that they’ll never get to go to. It is not unusual, in fact, for our nouveau citizens
- [Gary Clark Jr. Ain't Messin' Around](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/gary-clark-jr-aint-messin-around/) - (From the Austin Chronicle Oct. 2012) by Michael Corcoran He's gone from "the gospel tent" to the main stage, and it only took a decade. As an 18-year-old recent graduate of Austin High, blues guitarist Gary Clark Jr. played the very first Austin City Limits Music Festival in 2002. Sunday, he'll perform on a
- [Stephen Bruton, Austin's Mentor: 1948- 2009](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/all-over-the-map-dedication-stephen-bruton/) - By Michael Corcoran One Saturday, every Saturday, in Fort Worth, 1960: A pair of 12-year-olds in the T.H. Conn music store messing around with the various stringed instruments hanging from the walls. The shorter of the kids always went back to his favorite guitar, a beat-up Epiphone Texan acoustic, which had the sweetest tone he’d
- [A Legend Grows In San Marcos](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/a-legend-grows-in-san-marcos/) - The story behind George Strait's Ace In the Hole Band.
- [Tweets From SXSW 1989](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/tweets-from-sxsw-1989/) - By Michael Corcoran "The registration line was insane. That's 20 minutes of my life I won't get back." "Some band just handed me an album. Haven't they heard of cassettes?" "Do you know where Saturday's day party is?" "Austin learned its lesson from the Armadillo. No way they're tearing down Liberty Lunch for an office
- [SXSW Holy Ghost Party! Golden Echoes reunion](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/sxsw-holy-ghost-party-golden-echoes-reunion/) - Like most of the other white middle class American males born in the ‘50s, the only black gospel music I heard growing up was “Oh, Happy Day,” a 1969 hit by the Edwin Hawkins Singers and Paul Simon’s “Loves Me Like a Rock” (1973), which featured the Dixie Hummingbirds. I’d never heard the stuff live
- [Tweets from SXSW 1989](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/tweets-from-sxsw-1989-2/) - 1. “The registration line was insane. That’s 20 minutes of my life I won’t get back.” “Some band just handed me an album. Haven’t they heard of cassettes?” “Do you know where Saturday’s day party is?” “Austin learned its lesson from the Armadillo. No way they’re tearing down Liberty Lunch for an office building.” “I’m in
- [Photos: The Yellow Dogs at SXSW '13 in March](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/photos-the-yellow-dogs-at-sxsw-13-in-march/) - Tragic Iranian band was joined by Ali Eskandarian on vocals in Austin.
- [Tweets from SXSW 1989](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/floyd-tillman-the-influence/) - Country music's pioneer triple threat was a huge influence on Willie.
- ["Jimmy Kimmel Live" to broadcast from Austin during SXSW](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/jimmy-kimmel-live-from-austin-during-sxsw/) - Talk show taps into SXSW glitz and energy.
- [20 years later: when SXSW went to Portland](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/20-years-later-when-sxsw-went-to-portland/) - originally published Oct. 3, 1995, the second of seven years of NXNW PORTLAND, Ore. -- After ``Giant recording artists'' Big Car broke up in early 1992, bassist Jeff Groves sold everything he owned, including his home recording studio, and embarked on a gypsy adventure with his new bride, Laura. They just took off and drove
- [SXSW Stories #1: The Russians Ain't Goin,' the Russians Ain't Goin'](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/sxsw-stories-1-the-russians-aint-goin-the-russians-aint-goin/) - International housing: Marriage, MTV, half-hearted defections and Taco Bell! Was that Russian band serious about wanting to defect after a SXSW showcase? Or did they just want to stay in Austin for free as long as they could? It was in the early ‘90s, soon after implementation of SXSW’s international housing program, where bands from
- [Biggest SXSW "get"? SXSW stories #2](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/biggest-sxsw-get-sxsw-stories-2/) - Who’s been the biggest “get” of SXSW thus far? Johnny Cash in ’94 and Tom Waits in ’99 really helped put the Austin conference on the map. Norah Jones had the No. 1 album in the country when she played SXSW in 2002, Metallica at Stubb’s in ’09 was huge, as was Bruce Springsteen in
- [History of Hip Hop at SXSW From Keith to Khalifa](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/history-of-hip-hop-at-sxsw-from-keith-to-khalifa/) - South by Southwest has become a Hip Hop Mecca in recent years, with seemingly everyone from big names to rising artists coming to Austin every year for the pub and the party. But that wasn’t always the case. “We’d hear the same thing every time we called New York,” says former SXSW booker Matt Sonzala.
- [Gettin’ Mighty Crowded: the story of SXSW is the story of Austin today](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/gettin-mighty-crowded-the-story-of-sxsw-is-the-story-of-austin-today/) - This column is from Feb. 2014 Sunday is March 1. MARCH FIRST! People in Austin start freaking out- a mix of horror and excitement- when they flip the calendar and see it’s March. The chest pounds like being in the tunnel before a big football game. The third month means South by Southwest and, godammit,
- [Mississippi 1963: Waking up to racism](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/mississippi-1963-waking-up-to-racism/) - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the soul of a man.
- [Charlie Company: The Roots of C3](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/charlie-company-the-roots-of-c3/) - While some are grumbling about the corporate takeover, how about a story about a small Austin company that grew into one worth a quarter- billion dollars?
- [Mirth, Sins & Fire: 40 years of throwing my life away](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/mirth-drugs-fire-forty-years-of-throwing-my-life-away/) - The night I joined the rock n' roll circus
- [My writing years, Pt. 2: Sunbums](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/my-writing-years-pt-2-sunbums/) - Being a new student senior year is awkward enough, but my last year of high school was wholly unremarkable because 1) Thanks to hardcore schooling in Idaho, I had to go only half day to meet my grad requirements and 2) There was a teacher's strike that closed schools for about two months. So while my
- [Waco's Tom Wilson: A Record Producer Is a Psychoanalyst with Rhythm](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/wacos-tom-wilson-a-record-producer-is-a-psychoanalyst-with-rhythm/) - Producing Dylan, Velvets, Zappa, Sun Ra, Simon & Garfunkel
- [Los Lobos: How Have the Wolves Survived?](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/los-lobos-how-have-the-wolves-survived/) - HOUSTON 2012. Thunder and lightning and buckets of rain. In the hotel lobby bar of the Doubletree Hotel, members of Los Lobos are hanging out, waiting the word on whether or not their headlining set at the Houston International Festival is cancelled. Outside the window is a strobe-lit storm from a B movie. These men
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- [The Austin Music Scene Needs Help (2015 version)](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/the-austin-music-scene-needs-help/) - The live music venues are the house of cards that the Austin scene is built on.
- [Shinyribs: Dancing with the Scars](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/shinyribs-dancing-with-the-scars/) - Shinyribs doesn't want stardom. Not that there's anything wrong with it.
- [As long as you're not finished:  the Harvey "Tex Thomas" Young Story](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/as-long-as-youre-not-finished-the-harvey-young-story/) - Young songwriter shows us a treasure buried in our own backyard.
- [How do you know a biker is from Austin?](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/how-do-you-know-a-biker-is-from-austin/) - He rides a Harley Prius and once worked security at Old Settler's for all the gingko tea he could drink.
- [Saving “Home on the Range”](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/saving-home-on-the-range/) - Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam/ And the deer and the antelope play. Thus opens one of the most beloved tunes of Western American folklore, a song that may have been lost forever if not for the efforts of a trio of Austinites: song hunter John A. Lomax, musician Henry Lebermann, who
- [Urban Cowboyz 1993](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/urban-cowboyz-1993/) - Dance music infiltrated country music nightclubs more than 20 years ago in Texas
- [Lovie Smith: the star of Big Sandy](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/lovie-smith-the-star-of-big-sandy-was-the-son-of-the-town-drunk/) - From humble beginnings, football coach Lovie Smith rose on hard work and Christian values.
- [Obama's Hawaii: the '70s](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/obamas-hawaii/) - (From November 2008) If you want to make President-elect Barack Obama smile about something that has nothing to do with Tuesday's election, ask him if he remembers the address of Lex Brodie's flagship tire shop in Honolulu. He should immediately answer "701 Queen Street," no matter how much other stuff has filled his mind since
- [Sam Cooke: Long Time Comin'](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/sam-cooke-long-time-comin/) - By Michael Corcoran When Sam Cooke heard "Blowin' in the Wind" by Bob Dylan in the summer of 1963, it was as if a whole new world of expression opened up. Cooke not only heard sweet poetry in the call for deliverance from struggle, he foresaw a shuffling of the status quo. The era of
- [The House That Freddie King Built](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/the-house-that-freddie-king-built/) - Sorry, the chapter on Freddie King in the upcoming book All Over the Map: True Heroes of Texas Music was posted only one day, the 40th anniversary of Freddie's death. The book, which features 41 other chapters on Texas music pioneers, will be in stores and online in late April via the University of North
- [How To Talk To Rock Stars #1: Metallica](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/how-to-talk-to-rock-stars-1-metallica/) - by Michael Corcoran I don’t like action movies or superheroes or any of that stuff. I’ve got enough fantasy in my real life, so when I pay money to be entertained, I like reality. One of my big fantasies when I was starting out was that I would become friends with my musical heroes through
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- [Patty Griffin 2002: Let Her Fly](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/patty-griffin-2002-let-her-fly/) - From the Austin-American Statesman, April 2002 by Michael Corcoran She was raised in a small town in Maine, graduated to Boston, where she fell in with the rock crowd and then it was on to Nashville after a solo career blossomed. But for the past four years 38-year-old singer Patty Griffin, the eternal up-and-comer
- [RIP Roscoe: Death of a True Believer](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/rip-roscoe-death-of-a-fan/) - His love of music was contagious.
- [Still Freewheelin': Happy 76th birthday Bob Dylan](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/still-freewheelin-happy-76th-birthday-bob-dylan/) - The best Bob Dylan show I ever saw, will ever see, was in November 1995 at the Austin Music Hall. This was not long after his friend Jerry Garcia died from substance abuse-related causes, and Dylan seemed sharper, more in-the-moment, than the barely coherent legend I saw at the Chicago Theater a couple years earlier.
- [The Swan Song of the Austin Moser Awards](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/the-swan-song-of-the-austin-moser-awards/) - Story originally published March 2014 on Arts & Labor blog. I sometimes refer to the Austin Music Awards as the Austin Moser Awards and it wasn’t a jab so much as the truth. Margaret Moser's Olympic-sized personality dominates every aspect of the proceedings. Her graciousness is reflected by the vast number of categories and her
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- [Ryan Bingham before the Oscar](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/ryan-bingham-before-the-oscar/) - Originally published Nov. 2009 By Michael Corcoran Ryan Bingham isn't the first cowboy to dig rap, but what's unique to the Johnny Depp-ish Americana singer-songwriter is that he developed an appreciation for hardcore Houston hip-hop at the rodeo. Though calf-roping and barrel-racing — and Bingham's music — don't seem to have much in common with
- [Who is Rodney Reed?](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/who-is-rodney-reed/) - Instead of asking "Who Killed Stacey Stites?" shouldn't the Austin Chronicle wonder "How did Rodney Reed's semen end up inside a 12-year-old girl?"
- [Bassist/ Bookbinder: Glenn Fukunaga 2012](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/bassist-bookbinder-glenn-fukunaga-2012/) - Most people would feel lucky to master one art in their lifetime, but Austin’s Glenn Fukunaga is not only an in demand bass player (Robert Plant, Dixie Chicks), but he’s a noted restorer of rare books. Playing bass and restoring books wouldn’t seem to have much in common, but Fukunaga says, “they both require an
- ["Professor" Jackson: Diboll musician who mentored Harry James](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/fessor-jackson-diboll-musician-who-mentored-harry-james-in-1924/) - The Diboll bluesman who taught Harry James the blues.
- [12th and Chicon Soundtrack](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/12th-and-chicon-soundtrack/) - https://open.spotify.com/user/yikes%21crawford/playlist/74p8AczgoRujUFJn13eqyQ?si=o-TYNMNsQqSAg6sNLZSw5w East Austin’s most infamous corner used to be called “The Ends” in the 1930s because that’s as far as the streetcar went on East 12th St. When buses replaced streetcars in 1940, 12th and Chicon was still the last stop. “We called it the Ends when I was coming up,” said Dorothy McPhaul, whose
- [Memphis 1994](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/memphis-1994/) - By Michael Corcoran It's the latest in a series of dead Friday nights on Beale St., and if 11-year-old "Little Momo" Tabron appears any more bored, you'll be tempted to snap your fingers in front of his face. This kid - who's spent half his life playing drums for tips on Beale - looks as
- [25,000 sets in 25 years: Saxon Pub sound man Richard Vannoy](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/25000-acts-in-25-years-saxon-pub-soundman-richard-vannoy/) - Call the Guinness Book: we may have a world record sound man in South Austin.
- [GOLDEN AGE OF GOSPEL: 10 Essential LPs](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/golden-age-of-gospel-10-essential-lps/) - About twenty years ago, old black gospel music started being where I went when I wanted to lose the last bits of my mind each night. Where's the notch up in intensity after Al Green? I found it in the SS groups- Soul Stirrers, Swan Silvertones and Staple Singers. It was there in that little
- [Goodbye Old Friend: Ian McLagan 1945- 2014](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/goodbye-old-friend-ian-mclagan-1945-2014/) - McLagan didn’t come to Austin to retire on his laurels. He came here to thump that piano and sing like he and his mates were up to no good.
- [They couldn't make 'Blazing Saddles' today](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/they-couldnt-make-blazing-saddles-today/) - By Michael Corcoran They couldn’t make “Blazing Saddles” today. Not in this vitriolic racial climate, where a Super Bowl quarterback can’t even get a backup job because he wouldn’t stand for the anthem, and owners are afraid of offending fans. This culture would be less without “Blazing Saddles,” my vote for funniest movie ever made.
- [Austin, what did I do to deserve you?](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/austin-what-did-i-do-to-deserve-you-dave-grohl-finds-the-soul-of-the-city/) - This song is about the soul of Austin, Texas being priced out of the market. It doesn't matter anymore that the music was here first.
- [Allow me to clear up a few things](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/allow-me-to-clear-up-a-few-things/) - By Michael Corcoran It's been going around in various comments sections (the enemy of culture) that I was fired from the Austin Chronicle because I wrote a review of a show I didn't attend. That's untrue. I wasn't fired. (And the other part's not true, either. I did write a review of Hootie and the
- [Vintage Austin music advertisements](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/austin-50s-band-w-one-hell-of-a-lawsuit/) - Leon Carter and the Rolling Stones, a 1950s Austin band with one helluva retroactive cease-and-desist order possibility. Here's an ad for the Continental Club in 1958, the year after it opened.
- [2008: the roots of Church House recording studio](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/2008-the-roots-of-church-house-recording-studio/) - By Michael Corcoran In the summer of 2006, David Boyle spent a month on his knees in an old Baptist church in East Austin, but he wasn't repenting for his time as keyboardist in the naughty funk band the Scabs. The Australia native, who moved to Austin in 1991, was on all fours refinishing the
- [Maud Cuney-Hare, a former Austinite you need to know about](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/maude-cuney-hare-a-former-austinite-you-need-to-know-about/) - By Michael Corcoran In the spring of 1897, renowned Austin pianist Edmund Ludwig (originally of Heidelberg, Germany), arranged a dual recital at the Millett Opera House on Ninth Street with pianist Maud Cuney, the head of the music department for the Texas Institute of Deaf, Dumb, Blind Colored Youth. But when Cuney discovered that opera
- [1907 article gives proof that Washington Phillips didn't play the dolceola](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/indisputable-proof-that-washington-phillips-didnt-play-the-dolceola/) - Clip from Teague newspaper Nov. 8, 1907
- [The time Dale Watson went crazy](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/the-time-dale-watson-went-crazy/) - First published in 2005 Local honky-tonk hero Dale Watson is the portrait of tranquility as he sits on a porch and tells the camera that he went crazy in 2002. He talks about hearing voices until finally committing himself to the Austin State Hospital. He describes torturous dealings with what he thinks was Satan, about
- [Blues bassist Sarah Brown, descendant of famous slave owners](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/blues-bassist-sarah-brown-descendant-of-famous-slave-owners/) - By Michael Corcoran You've seen Sarah Brown on-stage if you ever went to Antone's in the '80s or early '90s. She was the house bass player when Antone's was a blues club, period, and so she backed everyone from Big Joe Turner and Sunnyland Slim to Buddy Guy and Albert Collins and Otis Rush. For
- [Hunt Sales Memorial- from 2012](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/hunt-sales-memorial-from-2012/) - With Iggy Pop’s “Lust For Life,” Hunt Sales laid down the most famous drum intro in rock history, the rollicking jungle beat heard on TV commercials, in the movie “Trainspotting” and daily on Jim Rome’s sports radio show. But that perch in posterity will have to be reward enough, as Sales has never received a
- [Sometimes we use others as a source of pride. Lisa Pankratz is happy to help.](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/sometimes-we-use-others-as-a-source-of-pride-lisa-pankratz-is-happy-to-help/) - I was married for a little while in the ‘90s. Future ex-wife was in the art business, but her previous boyfriend was MC 900-FT Jesus so she knew a little about electronica, jazz and hip hop lite. Didn’t know- or seem to care- anything about the roots and country music I covered for the Dallas
- [End of the Century: Liberty Lunch July 31, 1999](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/end-of-the-century-liberty-lunch-july-31-1999/) - By Michael Corcoran 7/15/99 Austin American Statesman IT'S ONLY A BUILDING, and an ugly one at that, with bathrooms that would've been an issue at the Geneva Convention and a hippy dippy mural dominated by a pouring coconut. It's just a building, yes, but for the last 20-plus years it's been a structure where musicians
- [The worst thing I ever went through never happened](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/the-worst-thing-i-ever-went-through-never-happened/) - By Michael Corcoran Was this really happening? Being marched, handcuffed behind my back, through the crowd of about 5,000 at Waterloo Park, sobered me up and gave me time to think practically. Busted for hitting on a joint a friend passed me, I would certainly be fired from my job as music critic for the
- [Hattie Burleson's Dead Lover Blues](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/hattie-burlesons-dead-lover-blues/) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7n0mW5SZMEo A blues singer who recorded for Brunswick and Paramount and owned the Green Parrot dancehall, Bastrop-born Hattie Burleson was the queen of Deep Ellum in Dallas in the 1920’s. But on Aug. 20, 1919, she looked headed to prison after shooting to death one of Dallas’ most prominent black citizens, Dallas Express founder and
- ["He who lives by the sword..." the infamous 1988 Johnny Wadd column](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/he-who-lives-by-the-sword-the-infamous-1988-johnny-wadd-column/) - By Michael Corcoran Justice has prevailed. John “Johnny Wadd” Holmes has AIDS! Finally, the guy whose member looked like the whole damn club has paid his debt to a society of guys whose sexual satisfaction came mainly from tossing off in sweaty stag closets while Big John eyed Miss Utah runners-up and went about filling
- [Slacking Towards Babylon: Fastball, Spoon, David Garza in the '90s](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/slacking-towards-babylon-fastball-spoon-david-garza-in-the-90s/) - by Michael Corcoran "The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned" - W.B. Yeats, "The Second Coming." NEW YORK CITY -- It's a long Tuesday, this 21st of April, 1998, which begins for Fastball with a 9 a.m. live acoustic appearance on some stupid radio station on Long Island. In
- [John- John Forever](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/john-john-forever/) - Why do I have a tattoo of John-John saluting his father's casket?
- [There's never a wrong time to be born](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/theres-never-a-wrong-time-to-be-born/) - Suzanna Choffel got pregnant and broke my heart. I got over it.
- [Signed copies of Washington Phillips book/CD $25](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/signed-copies-of-washington-phillips-bookcd-30/) - The box of books came today. I’ve been waiting two years for them. Gospel music's great re-appearing act Washington Phillips taught me patience. His musical prowess on a homemade instrument was the subject of a newspaper article in the home paper in Teague in 1907. But it would be 20 years later until this self-made
- [Death of a Mailman](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/death-of-a-mailman/) - From 2014 Bill Martin, who married into the Franklins, Austin’s first family of gospel, delivered good news. The night before East Austin's legendary gospel announcer and promoter Bill “The Mailman” Martin was laid to rest at age 81, there was a musical memorial at the St. James Missionary Baptist Church on MLK pastored by his
- [A phone call for Mr. Amos Milburn](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/a-phone-call-for-mr-amos-milburn/) - It sometimes takes just one person to make the rest of us look bad. Lola Anne Cullum was the African American talent scout in Houston who discovered both Amos Milburn and Lightnin’ Hopkins and signed them to a deal with Aladdin Records in Los Angeles. Milburn was the fantastic piano player and singer who profoundly
- [Houston 1917: the Race War of Camp Logan](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/houston-1917-the-race-war-of-camp-logan/) - by Michael Corcoran The gallows smelled of fresh-cut lumber. Thirteen nooses for the black soldiers who’d killed 15 white cops and civilians in Houston. As the ropes were tightened around their necks, one of the condemned men started singing a Negro spiritual. The others fell in with shaky voices that got stronger. “I’m comin’ home,”
- [The loving legacy of Sims Ellison](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/the-loving-legacy-of-sims-ellison/) - This story first appeared in 2010 in the Austin American Statesman. by Michael Corcoran The music business is full of hard-luck stories, but no Austin act rose faster and fell harder than metal band Pariah in the 1990s. Like Guns N' Roses three years earlier, they were signed to Geffen Records by golden boy talent
- [If a tie is like kissing your sister, going 6-6 is a hand down the pants of your cousin](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/charlie-company-a-recap-of-the-stronghorns-debut/) - Charlie swept out the football factory and sent so many young black men packing that it seemed the military draft had returned.
- [The Year in Music Writing: Mine](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/the-year-in-music-writing-mine/) - Bill Carter: Austin Chronicle Okkervil River: Darkness In the Heart of Town Ramsay's Midwood Crisis: Austin Chronicle 12/5
- [A school and not an asylum: 125th anniversary of Austin school for deaf, blind blacks](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/a-school-and-not-an-asylum-125th-anniversary-of-austin-school-for-deaf-blind-blacks/) - “This institution is neither an orphan asylum, a children’s home, an asylum for embeciles, nor a hospital, but it is a school for the educable blind and deaf.” When the Institute of Deaf, Dumb and Blind Colored Youths opened on Oct. 17, 1887- 125 years ago this month- with 17 pupils and two teachers at
- [Lady, you shot me! Last words of a genius](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/lady-you-shot-me-last-words-of-a-genius/) - Before a 19-year-old Sam Cooke replaced his idol R.H. Harris in the Soul Stirrers in 1950, the older people sat in the front of the church and the teen-agers sat in the back.
- [Reviews for "Washington Phillips and His Manzarene Dreams"](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/reviews-for-washington-phillips-and-his-manzarene-dreams/) - New York Review of Books calls Manzarene Dreams "the authoritative new edition of Phillips’s music." Creative Loafing (Atlanta): This was the cover story by Chad Radford."When Phillips died, a secret history of pre-war gospel blues was born; a mystery shrouded in speculation and mistaken identity. But through the legwork and dedication of semi-retired Texas music
- [Sorry, Lyle](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/sorry-lyle/) - Can a personal website be an alternative to A.A.? We'll find out. Got another story for ya. I'm not talking about American Airlines, whose random flight cancellations and delays have caused many a sober traveler to fall off the wagon (or, the skateboard in my case because I'm constantly off and on). I'm talking about
- [Henry Lebermann: Secret History of Austin Music #1](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/henry-lebermann-secret-history-of-austin-music-1/) - When Henry Lebermann was 6 years old in 1879, his mother, Alice Marie, born and raised in the French Quarter of New Orleans, took him from their home in Galveston to visit her parents' native Paris. What a glorious time it must have been in young Henry's life, meeting relatives he didn't know he had
- [SLAVERY 2045](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/slavery-2045/) - After the 2023 discovery in Zimbabwe of mineral water that converts fat cells to penis girth, “the Dark Continent” became the richest on earth. Since the hot springs ($3.59 a gallon) were found everywhere, the wealth trickled down to all citizens of Africa. But the infiltration of Western programming and marketing, hoping to cash in
- [Steel is Real: A History of Slide](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/steel-is-real-a-history-of-slide/) - A history of the steel guitar, from the Hawaiians to the Church of God and Western Swing.
- [Wilco '96: So Misunderstood](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/wilco-96-so-misunderstood/) - CHICAGO -- Jeff Tweedy emerges from the wings strummimg an electric guitar and the jam-packed crowd at Lounge Ax erupts, but there is a slight problem. A CD of Beck's Odelay is still playing in the background, so Tweedy straightens all the way up and tries to catch the eye of his wife Sue Miller,
- [Johnny Degollado, the Austin Accordionista](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/3603/) - photo by Bob Zink Story originally published in the Austin American Statesman in 2002. It is 1954, and 19-year-old accordionist Johnny Degollado, "El Montopolis Kid," is on the road with a conjunto group that plays the migrant worker circuit, hitting the Texas towns where the populations double during picking season. At a quick-stop grocery in
- [Robert F.X. Sillerman and the roots of concert consolidation](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/robert-f-x-sillerman-and-the-roots-of-concert-consolidation/) - "Don't waste my time telling me how great you are" - Robert F.X. Sillerman, to a banker, not a hip hop artist with the ability to sell a ton of tickets. Sillerman started the consolidation of the North American concert market with money he made from selling SFX Broadcasting to Austin radio magnate Steve Hicks
- [Texas Top 40: the greatest recordings from the music mecca](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/texas-top-40-the-greatest-recordings-from-the-music-mecca/) - by Michael Corcoran, 2005 Which ones would you add/ subtract? "YOU'RE GONNA MISS ME" by 13 Floor Elevators (1966). Psychedelia is born as the region rocks to a new soul shouter named Roky Erickson. ."I FOUGHT THE LAW" by the Bobby Fuller Four (1966). Written by Sonny Curtis (who would later pen "The Mary Tyler
- [JFS: The Bay City Holy Rollers](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/jfs-the-bay-city-holy-rollers/) - Pentecostal gospel group from Bay City Texas
- [Gossip is not for wimps](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/gossip-is-not-for-wimps/) - A week after my ranking of the "25 Most Powerful People on the Austin Music Scene" made higherups at the Austin American-Statesman uncomfortable, I unleashed this column that got me called in on the carpet again. From Feb. 24, 2000 XL. A few months ago, several music critics held an intervention of sorts on me.
- [It's a 'ME' thing (some of my best friends are selfish)](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/its-a-me-thing-some-of-my-best-friends-are-selfish/) - published in Jan. 1996 We're a racist society. You hear those words so often and so matter-of-factly these days that they're rarely questioned, but charges of racism, even those with some merit, are often just a thick sheet of smoke that hides a far more reaching problem. We are a selfish society. It's not so
- [Cindy Cashdollar profile from 2007](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/cindy-cashdollar-profile-from-2007/) - Cindy Cashdollar has five Grammys from her 81/2 years of playing steel guitar for Asleep at the Wheel, but the statuettes didn't come easily. "I was completely petrified that first year (1993)," says the Woodstock, N.Y., native, who has made Austin her home for 14 years. "I was in way over my head." Although an
- [Most-Read Posts of 2014](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/top-posts-of-2014/) - 1. Vidor, Texas 1988 2. History of Black Gospel Music 3. Austin's Secret: Killing in the Classroom 4. Who Is Rodney Reed? 5. Welcome To Mediocre, Texas 6. The Austin Music Scene Needs Help 7. Bob's Burden 8. The Last DJ: Larry Monroe 9. Smithville, TX 10. Discovering Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
- [Weeded out: No pot on the UT plantation](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/weeding-out-the-40-acres-sans-mule/) - Marijuana’s active ingredient THC is not harmful, the scientific tests that I choose to believe have concluded. But if you’re a member of the University of Texas Longhorns, pot is really bad for you. It’ll cause you to lose your dreams, as well as your scholly. Forget that a Longhorns running back totally into Bob
- [This New York City does something to a person, Pt. 1](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/this-new-york-city-does-something-to-a-person-pt-1/) - Last week, I came out of the Trader Joe’s on Bee Cave Road and as I started to drive away, a man next to a car with the front door open was waving for me to stop. He had a story. His wife (in the front seat) had just gotten out of the hospital and
- [Band of Brothers](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/band-of-brothers/) - originally published in 2004, with quotes added following the death of Tommy Ramone. The singer was an Olympic-sized geek with obsessive-compulsive disorder who found his escape in grandiose pop songs. The guitarist was a sullen, right-wing former street tough turned control freak. The bassist was a bottom-feeding junkie who used to rent his body on
- [Austin music sitdown #2- Bobby Doyle](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/austin-music-sitdown-2-bobby-doyle/) - He gave Kenny Rogers a gig in 1959 and replaced David Clayton-Thomas in Blood, Sweat & Tears in 1972, but piano player Bobby Doyle made the most impact locally by establishing Ego's, a dark apartment complex lounge on South Congress Avenue, as a live music venue in the early '90s. A musician's musician, Doyle succumbed
- [Austin music sitdown: Robert "Fud" Shaw](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/austin-music-sitdown-robert-fud-shaw/) - The boogie woogie was born in East Texas, pioneered by George and Hersal Thomas (the older brothers of blues singer Sippie Wallace), who heard music in the choogle of steam locomotives. On such pre-1920 Thomas brother numbers as "The Fives" and "The Rocks," the percussive left hand aped the rhythm of trains carrying lumber from
- [Happy Birthday, Bob Dylan. You changed the world, Sir.](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/happy-birthday-bob-dylan-you-changed-the-world-sir/) - Going back in the archives to find something on Bob Dylan to post on his 73rd birthday. This was written in advance of the best Dylan show I will ever see- Nov. 1995 at the Austin Music Hall- when he called up such Austinites as Doug Sahm, Ray Benson, Charlie Sexton and, maybe, opening act
- [Jersey Boys: The lampost shines brighter than the sun](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/jersey-boys-the-lampost-shines-brighter-than-the-sun/) - In the whitewashed, pre-Beatles pop music landscape of the early '60s, two musical entities - the Beach Boys and Phil Spector's teenage symphonies - are generally credited with keeping pop music from being completely vapid. But an overlooked quartet of soulful Italian American kids from New Jersey matched their more vaunted West Coast contemporaries hit
- [Tragedy at South by Southwest: This can’t be about hip hop and race](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/tragedy-at-south-by-southwest-this-cant-be-about-hip-hop-and-race/) - by Michael Corcoran www.artslaboraustin.com Before SXSW there was NMS, Manhattan’s New Music Seminar. It got so big in the ‘80s that the New Yorkers decided to do a little spinoff in Austin, Texas, yee-haw! But they got cold feet in January 1987 and gave their blessing to an Austin group headed by Roland Swenson, supported
- [East Austin Clubs in 1957](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/east-austin-clubs-in-1957/) - Last week, I wrote this story about Charlie's Playhouse. Which led to my discovery of photos by Neal Douglass of a female impersonators' show at an unnamed East Austin bar. Today, I went to the Austin History Center and went through a city directory for 1957. Here are all the bars I could find in
- [Shame file: The time I compared Oasis' third album to 'Rubber Soul'](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/shame-file-the-time-i-compared-oasis-third-album-to-rubber-soul/) - OASIS `BE HERE NOW' (Epic) **** Even when they were so unknown that they had to feud with Blur to get noticed, Manchester, England, band OASIS -- led by a pair of uncouth party yobs named Gallagher -- laid claim to the title of the best band on the planet. On their third album, ``Be
- [The Last DJ: Larry Monroe 1942-2014](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/the-last-dj-larry-monroe-1942-2014/) - by Michael Corcoran "Free-form radio will not die as long as I'm alive,” Larry Monroe told the Austin Chronicle in 1997. Thirteen years later, he signed off at KUT, which had cut his hours on-air and implemented a partial playlist. "I'm Larry Monroe, and I'll see you in the future," the DJ said at the
- [Lance/ Oprah interview reminded me of this](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/lance-oprah-interview-reminded-me-of-this/) - It was the second or third year that Lance won the Tour de France. I’d only watched a few minutes here and there, because cycling is boring, right? But one night, I was up with my son, who was maybe 8 years old, and he’d been watching all those crappy Drake & Hillary shows on
- [Story behind Churchwood's banana hammock classic](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/story-behind-churchwoods-banana-hammock-classic/) - Churchwood video for "I Have a Devil In Me" The band Churchwood has one of the greatest Austin music videos of all time. It’s for the bluesy rock song “I Have a Devil In Me” and features a rotund man in a Speedo dancing with joy in an exercise class at a resort. It’s had
- [Game wraps 2013: The Texas Turnaround](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/game-wraps-2013-the-texas-turnaround/) - Aug. 31: Texas 56, New Mexico State 7 Sept. 7 BYU 40, Texas 21 Sept. 14 Ole Miss 44, Texas 23 Sept. 21 Texas 31, Kansas State 21 Oct. 3 Texas 31, Iowa State 30 Oct. 12 Texas 36, Oklahoma 20 Oct. 26 Texas 30, TCU 7 Nov. 2 Texas 35, Kansas 13 Nov. 9
- [Horns plummet back to Earth with 38-13 loss to Okla. State](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/horns-plummet-back-to-earth-with-38-13-loss-to-okla-state/) - Being ranked is Kryptonite to the No. 24 Texas Longhorns, who won’t have that weakness next game, when they’ll drop off the charts like the Dixie Chicks after losing 38-13 to Oklahoma State at home. UT’s six-game winning streak ended just before halftime Saturday, when Case McCoy threw his only touchdown pass of the day,
- [OT Special: Texas beats West Virginia 47-40 in thriller](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/ot-special-texas-beat-west-virginia-47-40-in-thriller/) - It was a gutsy, free-slugging prizefight, the kind of game that no team deserved to lose. But Texas wanted it a little more and came away with a 47-40 overtime win against the West Virginia Mountaineers in Morgantown. The winning touchdown was a two-yard pass to fullback Alex De La Torre, his first catch in
- [Locked in a Cabin with WILCO](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/locked-in-a-cabin-with-wilco/) - Reassessing the Tweedy catalogue after A.M. became Radiohead
- [Most Unlikely Celebrity Couples Ever](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/most-unlikely-celebrity-couples/) - Whoopi & Ted, John & Yoko, Lyle & Julia and more love connections that made us go "huh?"
- [RIP jazz singer Donna Hightower 1926-2013](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/rip-jazz-singer-donna-hightower/) - Singer made her mark in Europe, moved to Austin in 1990
- [From Allman to Zappa: Greatest rock guitar solos of all time](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/from-allman-to-zappa-greatest-rock-guitar-solos-of-all-time/) - DOIN' THE DOZEN: THE 12 GREATEST OVER-THE-TOP ROCK GUITAR SOLOS OF ALL TIME 1. Dickey Betts on ``Whipping Post'' 2. Johnny Winter on ``Be Careful With a Fool'' 3. Jimmy Page on ``Stairway to Heaven'' 4. Jimi Hendrix on ``Little Wing'' (or about 15 other numbers) 5. Freddie King on ``Remington Ride'' (second solo) 6.
- [Like a great neighbor, Strange Brew is out there](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/like-a-great-neighbor-strange-brew-is-out-there/) - New Austin music clubhouse on Manchaca Road
- [On the Saxon Pub's 20th anniversary 2010](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/on-the-saxon-pubs-20th-anniversary/) - The building at 1320 S. Lamar Blvd. had been the site of several clubs previously, but when Joe Ables and Craig Hillis opened the Saxon Pub in June 1990, 20 years ago this month, they created something altogether different than the earlier barfly incarnations such as the Boss' Office, the Living Room and Madison's. They
- [Remembering J.J. Cale](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/remembering-j-j-cale/) - April 5,2002 by Michael Corcoran Tuesday night J.J. Cale rocked a sold-out Texas Union Ballroom to its rafters -- and you could still hear your foot tapping on the hardwood floors. The 63-year-old Oklahoma native created a beautiful tension by playing groove-oriented songs such as "Louisiana Night" and "Anyway the Wind Blows" in an impossibly
- [Since you have access to everything: "7" by Poi Dog Pondering](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/since-you-have-access-to-everything-7-by-poi-dog-pondering/) - On the eve of Poi Dog's return to Austin
- [NBA Guide to Preferred Slang Usage](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/nba-guide-to-preferred-slang-usage/) - Roy Hibbert could've been $75,000 richer by just saying he was indifferent about Madonna
- [Club Hubba Hubba and the art of anticipation, pat, pat, pat](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/club-hubba-hubba/) - The sailors and soldiers called it "Shit Street." During Vietnam and a few years after, Hotel Street in Honolulu's Chinatown was the Broadway of the skankiest red light district in the country. Haven't been to them all, but can still say that with authority. There were live sex shows, transvestite revues, gypsy fortuneswindlers and whorehouses
- [The Ten Worst Career Moves In Music History](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/the-ten-worst-career-moves-in-music-history/) - In March 2003, as American troops were poised to invade Iraq, Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks decided to make a statement against President Bush that delighted the audience in England. But when the news was picked up in the States, the Chicks' skyrocket to the top hit a wall. Suddenly, they lost a huge
- [After Austin: 1988](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/after-austin-1988/) - From December 1984, when I filled in for Margaret Moser while she was on her honeymoon with my former roommate Rollo Banks, until June 1988 I wrote a music gossip column for the Austin Chronicle called "Don't You Start Me Talking." I got some crystal meth to help pen the first one and it worked
- [Live review: Suzanna Choffel at Shady Grove](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/live-review-suzanna-choffel-at-shady-grove/) - Her voice sounds like Stevie Nicks the morning after a screaming fight with Lindsay Buckingham in Rio, but Susanna Choffel's honeyed husk warmed a chilly evening for an hour and 40 minutes Thursday at KGSR's "Unplugged At the Grove." Total mystery why the Austin High product now living in Manhattan isn't a bigger star. Besides
- [My writing years, Pt. 1: from baseball poems to "Kill Haole Day" discovery](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/my-writing-years-pt-1-from-baseball-poems-to-kill-haole-day-discovery/) - by Michael Corcoran I didn’t know that my mother kept everything I wrote since I started in 1963 at age 7. I first got attention for my writing in the fourth grade in Mountain Home, Idaho, when I penned a poem that included the names of all my classmates. It was pretty crude stuff- “Victor
- [Review/setlist: Paul McCartney at Fenway Park Aug. 2009](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/reviewsetlist-paul-mccartney-at-fenway-park-aug-2009/) - BOSTON. The closest thing to going to a Beatles concert since the ‘60s is Paul McCartney’s current show, which ends with a flurry of Fab Four songs that will leave your heart- and ears- throbbing in ecstasy. It was LOUD Wednesday night at the home of the Red Sox, as the 67-year-old McCartney turned in
- [Late night music acts: 3/4- 3/8](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/late-night-music-acts-34-38/) - It's a week of reruns coming up for Letterman and Leno. Monday March 4 Leno- Norah Jones; Kimmel- Sean Rowe; Letterman- Little Big Town; Fallon- Bad Religion, Michael Bolton; Carson Daly- Regina Spektor Tuesday 3/5 Letterman- Buddy Guy; Kimmel- Dave Grohl's Sound City Players; Fallon- Graham Parker; Leno- Andy Grammer; C. Daly- Curtis Peoples Wednesday
- [Bar Rescue: Headhunters into Metal & Lace](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/bar-rescue-headhunters-into-metal-lace/) - Owner Steve Ricci, who looks like Rick Perry after a weekend bender, doesn't come off too well in the latest episode of "Bar Rescue" on Spike TV. Serial killers have tested with higher LQ- likeability quotient. The reality show portrays Headhunters on Red River as the most vile nightclub ever, with an owner who doesn't
- [A Season To Nowhere: Longhorns Basketball](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/a-season-to-nowhere-longhorns-basketball/) - By Michael Corcoran Though they may seem to mean the same thing, there’s a difference between embarrassment and humiliation. Embarrassment is trailing 60-30 and having the opposing team’s star player do a 360 dunk on you. Humiliation is having the other coach’s nerdy son- Kansas walk on Tyler Self- double his season point total with
- [What They Deserve](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/what-they-deserve/) - They came for the music, Kelly Willis from Washington, D.C., in 1987 and Bruce Robison from Bandera a couple years later. The “rockabilly filly” and the Hill Country songsmith started dating in 1991, married in 1996 and had four kids in a span of five years. With Willis signed to MCA in the ’90s and Robison
- [Bushwick Bill tries new direction in Austin](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/bushwick-bill-finds-new-direction-in-austin/) - Bushwick Bill of the Geto Boys has been sitting in with various acts at the Continental Club Gallery the past two weeks and has been so inspired by the interplay with live musicians that the rapper has moved the jam to Arlyn Studios at 6 a.m. on a couple of occasions. With Gordy Johnson of
- [Another Texas football honor for Johnny Manziel](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/another-milestone-for-johnny-manziel/) - Who's the greatest Texas football player of Middle Eastern descent? According to the reference book "Syrian and Lebanese Texans," which I read today at the Austin History Center, that distinction goes to former Texas Longhorn running back Chris Gilbert ('66-'68), whose mother was Lebanese. But since that book was published in 1974, it's not exactly
- [Happy Birthday, Ray Price](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/happy-birthday-ray-price/) - Originally published in 2006 The woefully underrated Ray Price, who revived country music not once but twice, has every right to be bitter. He’s rarely lumped in with the titans of twang who have more colorful, mythical names such as Lefty, Buck and Merle, and yet Price is perhaps more influential than anyone in the
- [Lance on Oprah: Have what he's having](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/lance-on-oprah-have-what-hes-having/) - 1 crowstuffing of your choicesalt and peppershorteningflour2 Pie crust mixes2-3 hard-boiled eggsStuff the crow. Loosen joints with a knife but do not cut through.Simmer the crow in a stew-pan, with enough water to cover, until nearly tender, then season with salt and pepper. Remove meat from bones and set aside.Prepare pie crusts as directed. (Do
- [L.A. Times reviews Arizona Dranes](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/l-a-times-reviews-arizona-dranes/) - Arizona Dranes "He Is My Story: The Sanctified Soul of Arizona Dranes" (Tompkins Square) Three stars Dranes was a blind gospel singer and pianist from Texas whose recordings surveyed here from the 1920s and '30s remained little known before this release, even among gospel enthusiasts. "Perhaps that's because she always listed her occupation as missionary
- [Kabongo Unchained Feb. 13](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/some-good-news-for-horns-hoops-fans/) - After they were taken to town by Georgetown at the Jimmy V Classic and swapped spit with a slutty UCLA team that won the game no one shoulda, a 5-4 Texas Longhorns basketball team looked like it might end Rick Barnes’ streak of 14 seasons of coaching 20-win teams. Even after they upset North Carolina
- [Coming from Bill Bentley...](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/coming-from-bill-bentley/) - Reissue of the Year: He is My Story: The Sanctified Soul of Arizona Dranes. Rarely do reissues come with an album booklet as compelling as the music, but that's what this classy set accomplishes. Writer Michael Corcoran tells the fascinating story of blind spiritual singer Arizona Dranes, and her mysterious life of singing for the
- [Hornucopia game-wraps 2012](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/hornucopia-game-wraps-2012/) - 2012 Season Preview "I propose Harsin and running back coach Major Applewhite devise some ground schemes with all three RBs in the backfield and Ash at the point. Call it “Wishbone Ash.” 9/1 Texas 37, Wyoming 17 "The play of the game was Kenny Vaccaro’s full-stride interception in the second half, with Wyoming leading 9-7 and headed into
- [Thankful Thursday](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/thankful-thursday/) - Yesterday was one of the best days of my life and it started with a Lebanese up my ass. Let me explain. (Oh, please do.) My true friend Suzee Brooks came by at 5:30 a.m. to take me to my colonoscopy/ endoscopy with Dr. Rashad Debaghi, whose probably my favorite doctor ever, having probably saved
- [RIP Darrell Royal, a sad song's best friend](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/rip-darrell-royal-a-sad-songs-best-friend/) - Originally published June 2011. Darrell Royal passed away today at age 88. by Michael Corcoran The party was far from over in a room across the courtyard of the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center in March, but the namesake of this Darrell K Royal Songwriters Homecoming sat in an otherwise empty amphitheater with his
- [Bill Bentley on Arizona Dranes](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/bill-bentley-on-arizona-dranes/) - Arizona Dranes, He is My Story. And what a story it is. Between 1926 and 1928, Arizona Dranes recorded 16 burning vinyl slabs of spiritual bliss, turning the most heathen into an audience who couldn't take their eyes off the sparrow. She did it with a mesmerizing voice and hypnotic piano, a blind woman who
- [Texas 41, Oklahoma State 36](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/texas-41-oklahoma-state-36/) - By Michael Corcoran Joe Bergeron burrowed into the first inch of the end zone with 29 seconds left for a 41-36 victory on the road Saturday against a tough Oklahoma State team, keeping the Longhorns undefeated. It was a disputed game-winner, as replays showed Joe the Mole may have fumbled before he crossed the plane.
- [East Austin memories: blacks picketed Charlie's Playhouse for catering to UT students on weekends](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/east-austin-memories-blacks-picketed-charlies-playhouse/) - Villager publisher/ editor Tommy Wyatt talks about E. 11th St. in the 1950s and '60s From this oral history project "And then after that you just had little drinking lounges, you know, like then we had a place called, the big dance hall, was Charlie’s Playhouse which is right there on 11th Street about two
- [Arizona Dranes Project](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/arizona-dranes-project-2/) - Book signing and discussion Wednesday Sept. 26 at Waterloo Records. 5 p.m. Hear the report on NPR's "All Things Considered" "Essential... A magnificent and important set" - Roots and Rhythm Here's the full review "He Is My Story is essential reading for gospel fans, pre-war jazz and blues enthusiasts, church historians, and may well be the
- [The 25 Albums That Killed Rock N' Roll](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/the-25-albums-that-killed-rock-n-roll/) - Originally published in Jan. 1996 by Michael Corcoran and Don Mcleese. Where did all the fun go? Rock was once the reckless expression of youthful abandon, a rude blast of freedom. These days, it is more often the province of self- important mopes, laboring and agonizing over their angst-ridden profundities, making a career of their
- [Sundance out, Superfly in: Great record store news!](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/sundance-out-superfly-in-great-record-store-news/) - One 70s reference gives way to another: Sundance Kid meet Superfly! When Sundance Record Store in San Marcos closed recently after 35 years in business, it was sad news. But word came today that the 3,000-square foot space at 202 University Drive will be taken over by Superfly's Lone Star Music Emporium, a new record
- [Where to watch Longhorns season opener](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/where-to-watch-longhorns-season-opener/) - It's not their fault. That's what The Longhorn Network seems to be saying by hosting a big, free, UT football watch party at Republic Square Park for the Texas vs. Wyoming season opener Saturday. Kickoff is 7 p.m. LHN will repeat the favor for next week's slaughter of New Mexico. Republic Square is at 4th and
- [Scoot out, Scoot in: the nightlife boogie](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/nightlife-scootin-boogie/) - The Scoot Inn should have a new owner by next week. The man named Casino, who owns Casino El Camino on Sixth Street, confirmed that he's days away from closing a deal to take over the Scoot Inn from co-owners James Stockbauer and Kevin Crutchfield. "We're going to keep the name, but the format will
- [Hot August Night: 25th anniversary of the Mark/J-Net Continental Club Finale](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/hot-august-night-25th-anniversary-of-the-markj-net-continental-club-finale/) - There were three times more people outside the club than were able to fit inside, where it was brutally hot and gloriously sweaty. Sitting in little clumps on the sidewalk and standing in the street behind the stage, the throng drank 7-11 beer, smoked joints and reminisced about nights spent in the glorious black wooden
- [RIP Brent Grulke- a friend of music, a listener of life  ](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/rip-brent-grulke/) - Brent Grulke was a music man. He bought tons of records and worked with bands and eventually rose through the ranks of South By Southwest to become creative director in the mid-'90s. The reason that 2,000 acts play SXSW every year, instead of a more manageable 700 or 800 is, in part, because Grulke just
- ["No Way Out" letter in Creem 1972](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/no-way-out-letter-in-creem-1972/)
- [Grin magazine- If you think I'm a sick motherfucker now...](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/grin-magazine-if-you-think-im-a-sick-motherfucker-now/) - I've always had a twisted sense of humor, but a person's gotta make a living, so I've been able to suppress that side for the most part. Just today I found evidence that I've matured immensely through the years. It's a lifestyle magazine parody I wrote about cophraphaliacs- people who eat shit- call GRIN. These
- [Taking the buyout: one year later](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/the-aas-buyout-one-year-later/) - June 24, 2011 was my last day at the Austin American-Statesman, where I worked for 16 years as a music critic, three-dot columnist and feature writer. The terms of the buyout, which was taken by several other longtime staffers, was two weeks pay for each year of service. I received my last check on Feb.
- [Tyrant Rex didn't mince... words](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/tyrant-rex/) - Hunter S. Thompson? Lester Bangs? Jack Kerouac? Fitzgerald? Hemingway? Salinger? Nope, Reed. Rex Reed is, without a doubt, the person who most influenced my writing style. And I've never really read him. His TV appearances in the late '60s/ early '70s were my introduction to the Mean Queen that owes my head about 40 years
- [A date with Carol Burnett](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/my-date-with-carol-burnett/) - For a few months in 1978, I lived in a studio apartment in Pico Rivera, a suburb of Los Angeles that looks like it sounds. I slept on the couch and my friend Kathy slept on a futon on the floor. We were separated by a small dining room table and two chairs. Next door
- [Doc Watson at Soap Creek Saloon 1984](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/doc-watson-at-soap-creek-saloon-1984/) - Growing up in Honolulu- at least a six-hour-flight from anywhere- limited the array of music I heard as a teenager and young adult. We'd get the big acts on the way to Japan- Rolling Stones, Rod Stewart and Faces, Beach Boys, Lynyrd Skynyrd - and the Bay Area funksters like Lydia Pense and Cold Blood
- [Tony "Offender" Johnson 1957- 2012](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/tony-offender-johnson-1957-2012/) - In the early-to-mid-1980s, Austin was lousy with punk bands, but the most intense of the lot was unquestionably the Offenders. With J.J. on vocals, Tony on guitar, Mikey on bass and Pat on drums, they were such a whirling menace of aggro-brotherhood that everybody gave them the last name of their band. They were dangerous
- [Will America Get Howard Stern?](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/will-america-get-howard-stern/) - Howard Stern is the most misunderstood man in America. Here’s what most folks think he is: sexist, racist, crude, mean-spirited, self-centered, outrageous and egotistical. He is some of those things, but he’s so much more, as millions of hooked listeners of his Sirius satellite radio show are aware. Stern is 90% known for what happens
- [Two cops that saved my career (and killed any chance of a bigger one)](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/1582/) - I sometimes wonder how my life would've turned out if the police officers who arrested me outside a country music club in Dallas in 1992 weren't called off to back up another squad car in the vicinity. I was in my car in the parking lot of Cowboys, drinking a beer and smoking a joint,
- [Praising Arizona: the playing hands of a sanctified spitfire](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/praising-arizona/) - (Originally published in 2007) by Michael Corcoran New evidence shows that Arizona Dranes, the blind Pentecostal piano player who inspired everyone from Mahalia Jackson to Jerry Lee Lewis, attended the Institute for Deaf, Dumb and Blind Colored Youths in Northwest Austin from 1896- 1912. Let that sink in for a sec: The first person to
- [Girl In a Coma profile from 2009](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/girl-in-a-coma-profile-from-2009/) - SAN ANTONIO - Although it's best known for a Spanish mission downtown that looks like a facsimile, the Alamo City has also earned a reputation the past four decades as a hard rock hotbed - the Detroit of the Southwest. The words "Hello, San Antonio!" have launched a thousand nights of musical mayhem. And yet,
- [Horns Illustrated column: Tale of No Quarterbacks](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/1098/) - Quarterback is the most important position in all of team sports and the Texas Longhorns don’t have a good one. That’s a tidy assessment of the first nine games of the 2011 season. Texas has started three quarterbacks, but after Garrett Gilbert, like a waiter with no memory, just didn’t work out, it looks like
- [A football weekend saved by Lucky Tony and Vincent Mature](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/a-football-weekend-saved-by-lucky-tony-and-vincent-mature/) - Things can change in a hurry in the league nicknamed "Not For Long." Before Sunday, Tony Romo was tagged unlucky in the clutch and Vince Young was an immature brat, run out of Nashville like he was real country music. But dramatic road wins led by those supposed head cases have shaken up the NFC
- [Gale's Song](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/gales-song/) - Some people use it all up in a hurry, performing in a way that longevity can’t get next to. A 23-year-old London soul singer who cancels a North American tour due to vocal chord hemorrhaging. A quick-cutting running back from Kansas who’s a rookie sensation in 1965 and severely ligament-damaged in 1968. The singer pushes
- [Romo's my quarterback, for better or worse](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/romos-my-quarterback-for-better-or-worse/) - Has there ever been a worse weekend for DFW sports fans? First, there was the thing with the bats and balls we're not even going to get into, then the Dallas Cowboys lost 34-7 to their hated rivals in TV's Sunday night feature game. The only things that could make it worse would be Dirk
- [Israel Fontaine, grandson of Jacob, played with Satchmo](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/israel-fontaine-gradson-of-jacob-played-with-satchmo/) - Originally published in 2001 On this, the 100th birthday of the greatest musical genius America has ever produced, it's appropriate to recall all that Louis Armstrong has given us. Besides presaging swing with his work in the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra in 1924 and laying the foundation for bebop with his flights of improvisation, Armstrong was
- [Wilson Street Cottages retain Soul Austin soul, for now](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/wilson-street-cottages-retain-soul-austin-soul-for-now/) - (originally published in Dec. 2008, but valid today) Singer-songwriter Charlie Faye had finally felt at home in a place all her own. In April, the 27-year-old native New Yorker moved into the longtime musician enclave of cottages on Wilson Street in South Austin, where her rent is $495 a month. "I'm sure there are plenty
- [It's Nap time as Rangers are one win away](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/its-nap-time-as-rangers-are-one-win-away/) - "Hap-py flight! Hap-py Flight" is what the St. Louis Cardinals chant after winning the last game of an away series before heading back home. They had won something like 14 of those "getaway games" in a row. But on Monday night at the Ballpark in Arlington, that chant was nullified by another three shouted syllables.
- [Flip Wilson](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/flip-wilson/) - Symbolized by the black-fisted defiance of the 1968 Olympics, the late '60s was the beginning of the era of the Angry Black Man. You had Muhammad Ali questioning which side was the real villain of the Vietnam War and the piercing observations of Richard Pryor making Bill Cosby's gentle recollections obsolete. The country was polarized
- [Red River Reality](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/red-river-reality/) - by Michael Corcoran A 4-0 start, including revenge wins on the road against UCLA and Iowa State, had some Longhorn fans thinking their team had a shot against mighty Oklahoma on Saturday. But since the game is played in the Cotton Bowl, not the Coddle Bowl, the prized blue chip recruits of Texas didn’t have
- [Gary Clark Jr.'s 21st Century Blues](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/gary-clark-jr-s-21st-century-blues/) - Young African American guitarist Gary Clark Jr. is building on blues traditions and bringing the form fresh into the 21st Century.
- [Rolling Thunder: How Low Can You Go?](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/rolling-thunder-how-low-can-you-go/) - When Bradley Bohac comes and goes from his house near Ramsey Park, his neighbors know. His Ford Mustang may look modest, but it packs a pair of 18-inch sub-woofers in the trunk, powered by a $2,000 amplifier to announce his arrival and departure in no uncertain terms. His windshield shimmers from a sonic overload
- [The New Sincerity- Spin magazine 1986](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/the-new-sincerity-spin-magazine-1986/)
- [Evis Presley program from Sportcenter 8/25/55](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/evis-presley-program-from-sportcenter-82555/) - Program of Elvis ("Folk Music Fireball") Presley's August 1955 concert at the future home of the Armadillo World Headquarters
- [Did Elvis play the Armadillo (when it was called the Sportcenter)?](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/who-knows-anything-about-the-sportcenter/) - Elvis Presley played Austin four times before his Jan. 28, 1956 TV debut on the "Dorsey Brothers Stage Show." First was March 17, 1955 at Dessau Hall, then Aug. 25 at the Sportcenter on Barton Springs Rd. He played the Skyline Club on Oct. 6, 1955 (after a matinee show at SWTSU in San Marcos)
- [The Dark Lottery](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/the-dark-lottery/) - It's not because I don't like to waste money or that I don't know how to do it; the reason I don't play the lottery is it's a pipe dream with an equally extreme flip side. If you truly believe that you could be that lucky one in a million who hits all the right
- [Johnny Gimble, the common man as master](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/johnny-gimble-a-classic-musical-gentleman/) - Part of being a true living legend is not talking about it, so even as Johnny Gimble made his name playing hot country jazz fiddle with Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys in the late 1940s and then did Nashville session work on classic albums by Merle Haggard, Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Willie Nelson and
- [1979 Calling](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/1979-calling/) - Standing at the intersection of hip hop and "London Calling," when everything started to change.
- [Howard Springstern: Born To Run Off at the Mouth](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/howard-springstern-born-to-run-off-at-the-mouth/) - There are three kinds of dreams: the ones you have when you're awake (``3-2-1, he let's it fly just before the final buzzer and -- swish -- it's all over! It's all over! Texas wins the NCAA championship thanks to the gutsy effort of walk-on freshman Michael Corcoran! Just two days earlier he was hospitalized
- [The H Word](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/the-h-word/) - The N-word and the C-word are the two most dangerous terms in the English language. Steady at No. 3 is "heroin,'' which won't get you punched, but might cause more serious repercussions in the long run. As today's rebel youth increasingly are embracing the deadly drug, even after the high-profile overdose of street-wise flower child
- [Weirdo column, summer '89](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/weirdo-column-summer-89/)
- [What if Richie died and Jimi lived?](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/what-if-richie-died-and-jimi-lived/) - Has it really been 40 years since Richie Havens, destined to be the greatest folk performer America ever produced, was silenced by a freak dentistry accident? It doesn't seem that long. The legend's music continues to grow in popularity. Since he met death -- so soon after the overnight stardom that came with his electrifying,
- [From the AAS archives](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/a-statesman-farewell/) - Boredom is a bitch. Boredom made me start this web site, when I was just getting the hang of Facebook and Twitter. Eventually, I'll be posting stuff here every day, including breaking music news, I hope, and reviews of concerts, DVDs, restaurants, TV shows and so on. I'm also going to try to write more
- [Lovie Smith, "The Star of Big Sandy"](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/lovie-smith-the-star-of-big-sandy/) - Here's one of the first stories about the humble East Texas upbringing of Chicago Bears coach Lovie Smith, "The Star of Big Sandy." http://www.austin360.com/arts/star-of-big-sandy-1554831.html
- [All that's left is everything](https://www.michaelcorcoran.net/126/) - The worst thing that ever happened to somebody, happened to somebody I knew, the great pop/rock singer Bryan Harvey. He, wife Kathryn and their two daughters were massacred at home in Richmond on New Year’s Day 2006 by a couple of career shitstains who chose them randomly. Googling it will only make you sick to

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