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THE DALLAS INTERNATIONALVaughanGuitar Festival has an-nounced the 2019 lineup. The per-formers at the premiere Dallas guitarevent set fo My 2-5 willinclude: EricGales, Sonny Landreth, AndyTimmons, Rick Vito, Phil X, PhilipSayce, Doyle Dykes, Greg Koch , PaulReed Smith, Rocky Athas, BuddyWhittington, Johnathan BoogieLong, The Stratoblasters, Wallace &Branch, Bosco France, Van Wilks,Kara Grange, Danny Franchie, South,Austin Moonlighters, Maylee Tho-mas, Wes Jeans, Arielle, JoannaConner, Ron Artis, Jr Clark, JackieDon Loe, Andrew Jr Boy Jones,Texas Flood, Clint Strong and moreto be announced soon The “YoungGuns” Stage will include:”Christone“Kingfish” Ingram, Ally Venable, Sal-vation From Sundown, JakeKershaw, Anthony Cullins, HaydenFogel, Griffin Tucker & The RealRock, Revolution, Ben Goldsmith,Jack Barksdale, Dylan Koski, AsherBelsky, Stanley Brothers TexasOverdrive, and School of Rock AllStars.

EventsTHE WILDFLOWRER! ARTS &Music Festival announced that morethan 100 national and regional head-lines, performing songwriters, clas-sic tribute bands, and local artistsfeatured on 6 stages over May 17-19in Richardson. The Al Johnson Per-forming Songwriter Contest will fea-ture independent performing singer-songwriters. The winner will com-pete for thousands in cash and tworecording days at Audio Dallas. TomKimmel will host and teach duringthe May 17 Songwriter Workshop.For compete information visitwildflowerfestival.com

The popular Lake-A-Palooza!Music Festival at White Rock Lale’sBath House Cultural Center returnsApril 27 from Noon to 9 pm at 521East Lawther Drive. The event willinclude music by Urban Gypsy fea-turing original Toadies members LisaUmbarger and Charles Mooney III.Music and art lovers cam emkpu ajpst pf actovotoes: a BUDDY Magazinephoto exhibit in the main hall galeriesfeaturing work by Chuck Flores, RonMcKeown, Darlene McAdams, aswell as live music on multiple stages,food, beer and wine sales, freechildren’s and family activities.Former editor Kirby Warnock willhave the trailers to When Dallas Rockedand his new Vaughan Brothers docu-mentaries on display as well.

Tickets are on sale forHomegrown’s 10th festival on April13, at Main Street Garden Park inDallas. Bring your kiddos (10 andunder) or canine in for free to enjoythe music too. The lineup consists ofToadies, Tripping Daisy,Seryn, Black Pumas, Marc Rebillet,The Suffers, Robert Ellis, IsraelNash, The 40 Acre Mule, and PearlEarl.

Southern Junction Nightclub &Steakhouse has changed a bit of itsline-up scheduling and is now in-cluding more Texas Regional bandson Friday nights. The Dirty RiverBoys, Jason Boland & The Strag-glers, Kris Gordon, John Baumann,and others will be playing these Fri-day Night Live concerts. On April12, Matt Williams will host Salute toHeroes during his Friday Night Liveconcert. There’s no cover charge foranyone in the military, and no coverfor anyone before 9 pm. OperationOnce In A Lifetime will be on handand accepting donated items to assistthose in active duty or veterans whomay need just a bit of assistance.Donated items could be toothpaste,deodorant, blankets, and such. VisitSouthernJunctionLive.com for moreinfo

The 2019 Rusty Wier singer-

BLAH By Bellicose Bullfeather

BLAHsongwriter challenge has come to aclose, with Reid Perry taking the No.1 spot. Hosted by Love & War inTexas’ Plano, the contest finale wasMarch 17, with nine of the originalsongwriters who tried out making itinto the finals. The others eight were:Dave Thomas, Harley Dale Brown,James Lann, Stacey Shope, JaredThomas, Larry Martin, Byron Dowd,and Zach Pohl. KHYI’s on-air per-sonality Brett Dillon organizes thecontest each year. This year, he an-nounced that it was a tough decision,perhaps the toughest one ever in thecontest’s 9-year history, the winnerwas chosen because of the Rustyfactor, one of four criteria on thescore sheets. The other three factorsare lyrics, musicianship, and fan base.Rusty Wier was well-known for,among other unique qualities of histalent, his on-stage bigger-than-lifemovements and energy, and Perryexhibited more of that trait than theothers. One of his prizes is an open-ing spot on a Shiner Sunday at Love& War in Texas.

The Singer/Songwriter Showcasehosted each year at Larry Joe Taylor’sMelody Mountain Ranch is comingto a close soon. Those still in thecontest, which began in early March,are Jordan Nix, Austin English,Canaan Bryce, Cami Maki, Ty Dillon,Dustin Brown, Jonna Mae, NylesRobakiewicz, Kerri Lick, TyllerGummersall, and Garrett Bradford.The final round is scheduled forMonday, April 15. The winner heregets an acoustic set on the Allsup’sStage during this year’s LJT TexasMusic Festival running from April22-27, and a free trip on the 2020Coastin’ & Cruisin’ Songwriter’sCruise, plus some other career-en-hancing prizes.

WoodyFest, in Okemah, Okla.,is accepting songs for its yearly con-test with the top three contestantsperforming on this 2019 WoodyGuthrie Festival in July, plus cashprizes. The entry form and details areon WoodyFest.com, then click on ‘Par-ticipate’ and open ‘Songwriting Con-test.’ The songs do need to be sub-mitted in MP3 format or with a linkto the songwriter’s Website wherethe song is available.

Love & War in Texas will beginits popular Sunday afternoon con-certs, known for years as Shiner Sun-days, on April 28, with Wade Bowentaking the stage for this first concert,which begins at 4 p.m. each weekthroughout the summer. Other per-formers so far announced are (May5) Joe King Carrasco, and after thatit’ll be Larry Joe Taylor, Little Texas,Eleven Hundred Springs, JackIngram, Bruce Robison & Kelli Willis,Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers,and more to be announced. Therewill be opening acts for all concerts.

New ReleasesTHE Randy Rogers Band HAS re-leased another single off its forth-coming album, the second one offthis new project, Hellbent, borrow-ing its title after this release, “HellBent On A Heartache.” The late GuyClark wrote the song with Chris andMorgane Stapleton. This is the band’seighth studio album. On “Hell Bent,”the band’s well-known instrumenta-tion shines as does Rogers’ voice,which is filled with inflections oftruisms. The entire album, is due tobe released April 26, a week after heappears at the Hunt County Fair inGreenville, and just a day before he’splaying the Larry Joe Taylor Festival

Austin songwriter, DannySchmidt, tackles subjects that otherswon’t or can’t touch with his newalbum, Standard Deviation. The em-pathy that he displays to those on allsides of a given situation is rare inthese days and times. The new al-bum marks 20 years as a recording

artist and 10 albums for the unafraidsongwriter, both landmarks forSchmidt.

The lost recordings of heraldedAustin-based blues/roots musicianand songwriter Johnny Nicholas,with blues legends Big Walter Horton,Johnny Shines, Boogie Woogie Red,Ray Benson and others, are on anewly issued 18 gram double vinylLP reissue including a special bonusalbum of previously unreleased per-formances. This compilation is nomi-nated for a 2019 Grammy ––“BestBoxed or Special Limited EditionPackage.” The two-album set is awindow into an important era inAmerican music history in the late1960s. Arriving from the East coastfor the 1970 Ann Arbor Blues Festi-val, Johnny Nicholas brought someof the best blues players out of retire-ment to play together and create thesehistoric recordings. April 19 with aparty on the Galveston Bay shore-line. Wild Fire is building a buzz withtheir solo and blended vocals. “Wegrew up singing together from a veryyoung age and have always lovedharmonizing. It just feels natural,”says Kelli. But, Kayla adds, “Onething that distinguishes us from otherduos is that we alternate lead vocals.We don’t really have a designatedlead singer.” Wild Fire will widentheir impact beyond music in 2019as official ambassadors for the GlobalCountry Music Association (GCMA)and advocates for equality and fair-ness for the genre’s female artists.

Will Carter releases his sopho-more solo album, Good Bad Idea, onFriday, April 12. Born in Katy, Texas,Carter debuted as a singer at theSealy Fantasy of Lights Festival whenhe was just 3 years old. He sang leadwith Texas dancehall headliners TheEmotions before launching his solocareer in 2016 with his first album.

James Lann, a finalist in the 2019Rusty Wier singer/songwriter con-test, released “Memory Like You” asa single, and the song jumped up-ward about 30 places on the TexasRegional Radio Report after it en-tered the week before. With lyricslike, “Home is where the heart is, andI believe it’s true. They say you can’tcome back, but I always do.” It’s alaid-back country song, and withdobro, drums, bass, acoustic and leadguitars and B3 to keep it all roundedout. This is the first cut off an upcom-ing CD to be called Everydayers.

Yonder Mountain String Bandwill appear at the Granada Theateron March 30. This jamgrass bandrecently released-for free-the secondedition of Hines’ Finds, a compila-tion of their best recent live jams.

A songwriter’s songwriter, PiercePettis is back with his first new stu-dio album in nearly a decadewith FATHER’S SON, out January 18on Compass Records. NPR FolkAlley is premiering the entire albumonline as part of their “Hear It First”series.

An online version of a noted mu-sic reviews periodical, The John Con-quest Papers, is now available throughthe Texas Tech University SouthwestCollection/Special CollectionsLibrary (SWC/SCL). Operated fromAustin and San Antonio by editorJohn Conquest from 1989 until hisdeath in 2016, the publication wasknown first as “Music City Texas,”then “3rd Coast Music” beginning in1997. Almost 100 collections, in-cluding those of Keith Ferguson,Jesse “Guitar” Taylor, KimmieRhodes, historian Vine DeLoria,Michael Martin Murphey andorquesta leader Oscar Martinez, haveonline finding aids. Vast troves oforiginal gospel recordings, historicalphotographs like those recently usedby documentarian Ken Burns, con-cert posters, correspondence and ge-nealogical records are available