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Summer Showcase Concert Series returning to Buddy Holly Center A-J Media The Buddy Holly Centers annual Summer Showcase Concert Series returns this summer for its 21st season. In addition to the free concerts, guests are encouraged to visit Buddy Holly exhibitions and the Fine Arts Gallery during Summer Showcase hours with free admission. Performances are every Thursday evening from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. in the Meadows Courtyard, May 20 through Aug. 19. The center is located at 1801 Crickets Ave....

How John Deere is helping Black farmers and their descendants take back unjustly seized land Posted on New York (CNN Business)Its been nine years since Michael Robinson of Columbus, Ohio, nearly lost a major part of his familys legacy. Hes still fighting to regain full control of it. In 2012, the 57-year-old married father of four, who is Black, found out someone hed never met named James E. Deshler II was suing his family members to force them to sell their portion of the 127 acres of Barlow...

Rolling Stone Menu The Flatlanders Reunite for New Album ‘Treasure of Love’ Texas trio of Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, and Butch Hancock will release their first album in a dozen years in July By Back in 2009, the Flatlanders released Hills and Valleys, their last album of original recordings. A dozen years later, the Texas trio of Butch Hancock, Joe Ely, and Jimmie Dale Gilmore reunite for a new record: Treasure of Love will be released July 9th. The LP is technically the fo...

Joe Ely has collected a lot of labels over his more than five decade career. Initially labelled a Texas music rebel he is now considered one of the states elder statesman – all without changing his style in any significant way. Ely grew up in Amarillo before moving to Lubbock where he got his first interest in music sparked by seeing a Jerry Lee Lewis concert. After his father died when he was fourteen and his mother was institutionalized for a time from the trauma, the children scattered to ...

A Legendary Lubbock Club Is Up for Sale What if I told you that you could own the Lubbock club where U2, The Clash, Talking Heads, The Ramones and others legendary acts played? The club also hosted Head East, Pat Benetar, Joan Jett, John Kay & Steppenwolf and The Cramps. I saw an epic show with a real punk band called 999 there. Most of the elder statesmen from the Lubbock music scene played the club during their teen years. I literally saw so many bands there during the late 70s and early 80s ...

Lyle Lovett keeps the music alive with pandemic duo shows Gary Graff, cleveland.com CLEVELAND, Ohio - Lyle Lovett is not on “The Road to Ensenada” — or to much of anywhere else these days. Prevented, like all his performing peers, from touring by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Texas-born singer-songwriter is hardly dormant. Shortly into the shutdown Lovett, 63, took to social media to begin hosting duo shows with friends and previous collaborators, and he hasn’t taken his fo...

By Keefer Mar 9, 2021 1969 - Wiggen sisters Dorothy, Helen, Betty, and Rachel record Philosophy of the World as The Shaggs. Numerous music critics and historians consider it the worst album ever recorded, but years later both Frank Zappa and Kurt Cobain call it one of their favorites ever made. The original 100 pressings become some of the most coveted albums in the world among collectors. 1970 - Having recently changed their name from Earth to Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer ...

5:32 Raul Malo: I wanted this record to be a celebration of the diversity of all the Latin cultures that we have in this country that I grew up listening to, and that’s why the Mavericks were the perfect vehicle for this because I knew that it was not going to be a mariachi record or a cumbia record or a salsa record. All we are is a bunch of musicians that like playing music and like exploring different styles and are versatile enough and willing enough to–if we don’t know it, we’re go...

Courtesy of Nancy Barnard How many music posters can fit in a forty-by-sixty-foot barn in Hill Country?  It’s a problem that Nancy Barnard, the former co-owner of San Marcos’s Sundance Records, is struggling to solve. “Fifteen hundred [posters]? Two thousand? We were reaching hoarder levels of stuff, if I’m being honest,” she says. And posters are just one part of her massive collection, which includes thousands of items of music memorabilia.  Barnard owned the beloved record store ...

Donations have poured in from such locations as Ireland, Italy and Dubai. At least 35,000 people viewed the virtual concert on a streaming platform. FARMINGTON — Last weekends Food for Love virtual concert that raised money for organizations across New Mexico that feed the hungry has generated more than $700,000 in donations so far. The five-hour event, which featured virtual performances by The Chicks, Jackson Browne, Lyle Lovett, David Byrne, Steve Earle, Rodney Crowell and Shawn Colvin, a...