Justin Pickard’s laurels include the Best Americana award from last year s
Dallas Observer Music Awards and, maybe more important, the respect and admiration of every musician who has come into contact with his music. Recently, Pickard trekked with his band down to Sun Studios in Memphis where luminaries such as Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, and Carl Perkins also recorded to lay down his next album, to be released on Fun Guy Records, the label of Dallas’ own luminary, the Reverend Horton Heat .
Tin Man Travis
Tin Man Travis is a country-blues artist who plays around regularly. When you can’t catch him anywhere from Dallas to Decatur at any number of local dive bars playing his brand of “blues-infused psycho-folkabilly,” you can find him streaming his variety show TuPlay Tuesdays with bandmate James Kirk Hampton and guests on Facebook Live 8-10 p.m. every Tuesday.
Kilo Bravo for BigTakeover.com) and a musician (playing guitar for
The Silent Comedy). Most of the time, he’s working for someone else but in 2019, Lekas released his first book of poetry, Saturday Night Sage, featuring cover art by poster artist and painter
Alan Forbes who has also done work for
The Chris Robinson Brotherhood,
Mudhoney,
Faith No More.
Interested in seeing how these poems would jump off the page, Lekas recorded five poems as spoken word tracks, sharing them with musician friends from
Howlin Rain,
Mrs. Henry and The Silent Comedy and asking them to write and record accompanying music. Those five songs were released digitally and as a limited edition vinyl EP,
Tuesday s MEDICINE BALL CARAVAN on KRVS (11am-noon cst on 88.7FM locally or krvs.org everywhere) rolls with new & recent recordings from Southern Culture on the Skids, Bas Clas, Valerie June, Nick Waterhouse, Lord Huron, Swallows and The Black Keys. Also: Reverend Horton Heat and classics from Velvet Underground, The Third Rail, The Supremes, Deep Purple, Ike & Tina Turner and King Crimson.
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The Continental Club has always been a home for the best rock and roll around and a real musicians venue where artists not only play often, but also come out in support of each other.
The club has also been a hub for rockabilly and Latino artists from the city and in a fitting reflection of this, Houston’s own The Flamin’ Hellcats will perform with special guests Shame On Me on Saturday, April 24.
“It should be a barn burner,” says lead singer and guitarist Jaime Marroquin enthusiastically. The Flamin’ Hellcats made a name for themselves in the 90s and early 2000s as a fast playing, hard partying band that would leave ears ringing for days.
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Ask anyone who’s caught them live and you’ll hear the same thing: It’s simply impossible to see
Lara Hope & the Ark-Tones perform and not have a great time. A smile on the lips, a swivel in the hips, and an earful of snappy tunes are the inevitable takeaways from any Ark-Tones appearance. The band’s singular blend of rock ‘n’ roll, country, blues, surf, Western swing, rockabilly, folk, pop, and jazzy rhythm & blues gets feet a-moving and hands a-clapping no matter the audience. By the end of the night, if they weren’t already, those lucky concertgoers are rabid fans.