B 8 Island Moon September 9, 2011

By Ronnie Narmour

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Live Music TonightFriday, Sept. 9thThe Ones @ Back Porch Periphery/Human Abstract/Textures/Contortionists/Buried Under Texas/Fall @ House of Rock The Pictures @ Brewster Street Mr. Mo & the Famous Unknowns @ Hooks B-B-Q Emily @ Wildhorse Get Off the Lawn @ Coffee Waves Ray T & the City Crew @ Flats Lounge Time Pilots @ Executive Surf Club Antone & the Atomic Blues Band @ Dr. Rockits Brian Winfrey @ Island Italian George Ensle @ Roberts Point Park

Saturday, Sept. 10thCruise Control @ Back Porch Sing Along Piano Bar @ Brewster Street Seed @ Hooks B-B-Q Austin Forrest @ Wildhorse Beltsander Races w/ Willie @ The Gaff Javas Big Texas Tiki Tour/Burlesque Show @ House of Rock Acoustic Breeze @ Coffee Waves Bus Stop Stallions @ Executive Surf Club Duke E. Brown @ Dr. Rockits Ruben Limas @ Island Italian

Sunday, Sept. 11thAcoustic Jam w/ Van Blize @ Tarpon Ice House Green Mountain Grass @ Dr. Rockits

Monday, Sept. 12thHank Williams III @ House of Rock Open Jam w/ Antone Perez @ Dr. Rockits

Tuesday, Sept. 13thOpen Mic w/ Rev. Fred @ House of Rock Antone & the Atomic Blues Band @ Dr. Rockits

Wednesday, Sept. 14thFlatbroke @ House of Rock Cold/One Eyed Doll/The Next Day @ Brewster Street Steven James & the Shakedown @ Dr. Rockits John Eric @ Pelicans Lounge

Thursday, Sept. 15thTerri Hendrix/Lloyd Maines/Michael O’Connor @ House of Rock Aaron Watson/James Lann @ Brewster Street Grupo Fantasma @ Executive Surf Club John Cortez @ Dr. Rockits Free Beer @ Tarpon Ice House

Friday, Sept. 16thScarecrow People @ Back Porch Another Level @ Brewster Street Richard Lockhart Band @ Hooks B-B-Q

Friday, Sept. 16thHOBO @ The Gaff

Matt Ahern @ Wildhorse Stuart Burns @ Coffee Waves

Friends and Lovers @ House of Rock

Ray T & the City Crew @ Flats Lounge

The Groove @ Executive Surf Club

John Cortez @ Dr. Rockits Brian Winfrey @ Island Italian

Saturday, Sept. 17thAaron Einhouse @ Back Porch Metal Shop @ Brewster Street

Richard Lockhart Band @ Hooks B-B-Q

Jim Dugan @ The Gaff Billy Dean @ Executive Surf Club

C-Roots @ Coffee Waves Mighty Org @ Dr. Rockits

Ruben Limas @ Island Italian Stuart Burns @ Wildhorse ECHO/Witness by Proxy

@ House of Rock

Sunday, Sept. 18thAt My Signal/Dear Grace/Oh? The

Irony @ House of Rock Acoustic Jam w/ Van Blize

@ Tarpon Ice House Blindfold @ Dr. Rockits

Pirate Ball @ The Gaff

Monday, Sept. 19thAcoustic Night @ House of Rock

Open Jam w/ Antone Perez @ Dr. Rockits

Tuesday, Sept. 20thAgnostic Front/Mongoloids/Naysayer @ House of Rock

Antone & the Atomic Blues Band @ Dr. Rockits Clarissa Serna

@ Revolution Bar & Grill

Wednesday, Sept. 21stNeil Edwards Band @ Dr. Rockits

John Eric @ Pelicans Lounge

Thursday, Sept. 22ndBallabajoomba Poetry Slam

@ House of Rock Roger Creager @ Brewster Street

John Cortez @ Dr. Rockits Free Beer @ Tarpon Ice House

Friday, Sept. 23rdGinger Leigh @ Back Porch Le Freak @ Brewster Street

Acoustic Breeze @ Coffee Waves Maya Guirao @ Wildhorse

DJ Duss/The Vettes/Raspas/Johnny Hotcakes @ House of Rock

Ray T & the City Crew @ Flats Lounge

Scarecrow People @ Executive Surf Club

Mondo & the 3rd Coast Rhythm Section @ Dr. Rockits Brian Winfrey @ Island Italian

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There are no more holidays until Halloween and the kids are all back in school…so now we get our island back…right? I caught a few good shows over the past couple of weeks. Mr. Mo and the Famous Unknowns (Port Aransas, TX) played the Wing Ding at the Gaff over Labor Day and put on a fine show. I was also impressed with the reggae outfit, Sol Tribe (San Antonio, TX), who played the Tarpon Ice House. They had a sweet island groove going and some nice vocals. I want to remind you about the big Hank 3 show com-ing to the House of Rock on the 12th. Also, a fabu-lous Latino/Cubano big band from Austin, Grupo Fantasma will be playing at the Executive Surf Club on the 15th. And, don’t miss Ginger Leigh at the Back Porch on September 23rd. She is a re-ally great performer and singer/songwriter. So is Ruben V who will be at the Porch the next night.

My heart is heavy for the victims of more than 60 wildfires that raged across Central Texas over the Labor Day Weekend. The hardest hit was in Bas-trop County. As of this writing, more than 5000 people have been evacuated, nearly 500 homes destroyed and two people have died. My family lives in that area and the hellish chain of events have been harrowing. Anyone interested in help-ing these victims with donations can contact the “Distribution Center for Victims of the Bastrop County Fires” on Facebook. Count your blessings every day, people.

And, on the local scene, wunderkind Cody An-gel, who finally graduated from Port A High School and went away to South Plains College to pursue music related studies, has been checking in lately. He changed his Facebook status to “Cur-rent City: Plainview, TX”. He is in three schools bands and seems to be taking the Great Plains by storm…dust storm that is. I understand he got his first dose of a real West Texas dust storm and was left speechless. That’s a first for Cody. But, right now time’s a wasting…let’s roll!

French Smith I want to give a shout-out to Port A residents,

French Smith and his wife, Tayna Fain. The City of Austin recently celebrated the 20th anni-versary of declaring their city the “Live Music Capital of the World” by giving out “Austin Mu-sic Awards” to those who helped make the city worthy of such a moniker. French Smith is one of those people honored at City Hall on August 25th.

In the 70’s French Smith owned the popular Dis-covery Records on the drag in Austin and was in-volved in booking the storied Armadillo World Headquarters. In 1980 he established his produc-tion company, Roadstar Productions and began doing concerts in Austin by the hundreds. High-lights would include The T-Bird Riverfest (Fab-ulous Thunderbirds) at Auditorium Shores, Austin Freedom Festivals at Zilker Park, Louisi-ana Swamp  Romp, City of Austin Sesquicenten-nial Concert and Texas State Sesquicentennial Concert.  Additionally he created the Old Pecan Street Festival in the early 80’s, which is still held twice each year on 6th Street in downtown Austin. Smith’s wife, Tanya Fain, handled all the market-ing and promotions for each music event and co-produced all of French’s shows.

I lived in Austin and worked on 6th Street dur-ing this time and can attest that French Smith was “the man.” This was a time when the live music scene was just starting to explode and Smith was one of the guys who put Austin on the map. His

name was a household word and Roadstar Pro-ductions was the biggest events company in town. Of course, there are many others that stepped up to the plate, but French Smith and Tanya Fain’s efforts made an enormous impact on the city of Austin.

Today Austin can boast over 250 live music ven-ues and estimates 50,000 live music performances there each year. Matt Curtis, communications di-rector for the Mayor’s office recently stated, “Mu-sic is not only a big part of our creative culture, it’s also an enormous economic asset.  10 years ago, a City study showed that Austin’s music in-dustry generated over $600 million per year in economic activity.  Since that time we’ve added the Austin City Limits Music Festival, and, South by Southwest has grown dramatically. Those two events alone are estimated to generate nearly $200 million in annual economic impact.  So my guess would be that music is now well over a billion-dollar-a-year industry in Austin.” 

We congratulate French and Tanya on this well deserved recognition and are proud they have chosen Port Aransas as their home now. (By the way, Tanya is the sister of Paul Fain, owner of the Tarpon Ice House, and still dabbles in bringing shows there, from time to time). Here’s to French and Tanya…hip, hip hooray!

Alan HaynesAlan Haynes (Austin, TX) played the House

of Rock Blues Festival on September 3rd. Origi-nally from Houston, TX, Alan Haynes’ resume reads like a blues player’s Who’s Who. He has performed with such blues greats as Stevie Ray Vaughan, The Fabulous Thunderbirds (with Jimmie Vaughan), Albert Collins, John Lee Hooker, Otis Rush, Hubert Sumlin, Bonnie Raitt, Robert Cray, Bugs Henderson, Gregg Martin, Joe Walsh, Leroy Parnell, Willie Nel-son, John Mayall, James Cotton, Denny Free-man, Austin’s Sexton brothers (Will & Char-lie), Derek O’Brien, Doyle Bramhall II, and the great Johnny Winter (who he claims as a ma-

than a bullet. It was truly a sight to behold. I es-pecially dug it when he picked up a Corona bot-tle off a table and ripped it up with some real deal bottleneck. This is one guy who never really got his fair due but is unquestionably an incredibly talented blues guitarist.

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Terri HendrixTerri Hendrix (San Marcos, TX) will play the

House of Rock on September 15th. The Grammy award winning singer-songwriter and multi-in-strumentalist will share the HoR stage with two of the best in the business, Lloyd Maines and Mi-chael O’Connor. Hendrix has 14 CDs out since 1996 and has won many impressive awards in-cluding the Austin Music Award for “Best Folk Act,” “Best Singer-Songwriter” and “Best New Band”; the Austin American Statesman Music Critics Poll for “Best New Artist”; and the San Antonio Current’s Music Awards for “Best Folk/Acoustic Band”, “Songwriter of the Year”, “Fe-male Entertainer of the Year” and “Female Vo-calist of the Year”…not to mention her Grammy

for “Best Country Instrumental Performance” in 2002 for co-writing the Dixie Chicks’ song, Lil’ Jack Slade. She also received the “Art of Peace Award” from St. Mary’s University in San Anto-nio, honoring her for creating art in the service of peace, justice, and human understanding. Not a bad list of credentials for a gal once so shy she played Open Mic’s with her back to the audience, some 19 years ago. Kind of makes you wonder how far she can go in the next 19 years. This sweet lady is pure magic and I wouldn’t miss this show for love or money.

Rosie FloresRosie Flores (Austin, TX) will play Doctor

Rockits on September 24th. Rosie Flores whips the best of rock and roll, honky tonk, early rockabil-ly, blues, and jazz with the traditional sounds of her roots in San Antonio, TX. She took flight in Southern California, and has been a major figure in the Los Angeles, Austin, TX and Nashville mu-sic scenes – as well as Europe and Japan. I first saw her perform as an opening act for Rodney Crowell at Slim’s in San Francisco in the mid 80’s, and have been a fan ever since. Critical raves from prestigious publications such as the Los An-geles Times and Guitar Player magazine, an LA Weekly Music Award for Best Rockabilly Swing Artist, a 2007 cover story in the Austin Chroni-cle, and the proclamation of Rosie Flores Day in August 2006 by Austin Mayor Will Wynn was topped off by an induction into the Austin Mu-sic Hall of Fame in 2007. She was recently vot-ed as one of the “Top 75 Greatest Female Guitar-ists of All Time” by Venuszine. Rosie’s solo re-cordings have found homes on both the Billboard and Gavin charts and are featured in seven motion pictures. Her revved-up performances from Cali-fornia to New York have won legions of fans and earned appearances on such nationally broadcast television programs as “Austin City Limits” and “Late Night with Conan O’Brian.” This is defi-nitely a DO NOT MISS show.

And that’s the truth!

jor inspiration). This influence can be heard especially in Alan’s passionate and throaty singing style. He’s opened for the Talking Heads, Muddy Wa-ters, and Buddy Guy and has toured with Albert King and Bobby Blue Bland, to name a few. For six years in the 1990’s Alan was the house band at the legendary Antone’s Blues Club in Austin, TX.

Hayne’s put on a text book example of a blues show. Working as a three piece, he spent most of his set on the floor in front of the stage, walking through the audience. I’ve known Alan for the better part of 25 years and he’s never sounded better. His guitar playing is amazing…clean as a whistle and faster

French Smith and Tanya Fain received Austin Music Award

Alan Haynes playing some bottleneck at the House of Rock

Blues Festival on Sept. 3rd

Terri Hendrix will play the House of Rock on Sept. 15th