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WHILE REMEMBERING THEWlife of Stevie Ray Vaughan,enjoy a fun-filled combination mo-torcycle parade and afternoon con-cert honoring Texas’ most belovedbluesman. The annual SRV Remem-brance Ride & Concert is scheduledfor Sunday, October 5.The partystarts at the Hooters in Dallas’ WestEnd beginning at 9am,

The parade departs at 11:15 am.The concert is Noon - 6pm at Cow-boys Dancehall in Arlington starringTommy Katona & Texas Flood host-ing a Special Tribute to Stevie. Spe-cial guests include BuddyWhittington, Wanda King, Joey Love,Kayla Reeves, Lance Lopez, TallanLatz, Wes Jeans, Nick Harless,Kenny Kranzow, Kouichi Morita andPeterson Brothers. All proceeds ben-efit the S.R.V. Memorial ScholarshipFund established by MarthaVaughan, Stevie’s mother.

For more info and advance tick-ets visit srvrideandconcert.org. BUDDY

magazine is proud to be co-sponsoragain this year.

EventsMel Tillis WILL HEADLINE THEKenneth Threadgill Concert Seriesin downtown Greenville on Septem-ber 18. Tommy Alverson will open.Tillis is a member of the CountryMusic Hall of Fame and the GrandOle Opry with his songs such as “IAin’t Never,” “Good Woman Blues,”

Coca Cola Cowboy,”Ruby, Don’t Take YourGuns to Town, DetroitCity and Honey (Openthat Door) and manyothers.

TopCat RecordsBlues Jam & ArtistShowcase is happeningevery Sunday night from9 pm till 1 am atTailgaters Sports Bar &Restaurant. Specialguest artists include isHash Brown on Septem-ber 7 and Lance Lopezon September 27.Tailgaters is located at14831 Midway Rd. 2blocks south of Nate’sin Addison.

Harbor Point Club& Grill in Richardsonhas convinced BuddyTexas Tornado LynnGroom to return to Dal-las. He is playing his pi-ano and having an occa-sional special guest on

Friday at beginning at 8. Robert LeeKolb was the first to set in.

The Rhymes & Vines fest is slatedfor September 18-20, at the Taylors’Melody Mountain Ranch inStephenville. This year, the line-upincludes William Clark Green,Propheets & Outlaws, Bruce Robison& Kelly Willis, Walt Wilkins, CooderGraw, Brandon Rhyder, RogerCreager, and of course LJT and hisband. Visit melodymountainranch.com

Two weeks later, and maybe evena little cooler weather, on Oct. 2–4Tommy Alverson will host his yearlymusical gathering at Hog MountainRetreat in Mineral Wells. This year,Alverson is featuring Deryl Dodd,Larry Joe Taylor band, BuffaloRuckus, Big Gus & Swampadelic,Steve Helms, Bo Phillips, and more.And just a little side note, Big Gusreported this morning that Alversonis including one of his songs on anew Family Gathering Live CD. Infoon this event is available online attommyalverson.com or call 817-304-6290.

KNON will present Gregg Smith’s22 nd Anniversary show party at PoorDavid’s Pub on October 11

Fort Worth native and awardwinning local guitar player, GaryMcGrath is heading west to raisemoney for Cancer Research. Theevent is bringing out some ofthe biggest names in the musicand entertainment industry. This re-

cently charted top 5 Reverb Nationrocker and band will be joining forceswith some all star friends as the open-ing act for prominent glam rock band,the “Sweet.” You can catch TheMcGrath Project on stage regularlyright outside the Cowtown Coliseumlocated in the Fort Worth Stock-yards. More info on shows and thefundraiser visit at firstgiving.com

New ReleasesTHE SECOND EP FROM Lost &Nameless this year is the six-songWhen You Walked into the Room. TheAustin-based quartet calls its musicfiddle-driven contemporary folkrock. The band is Patrick Conway(vocals, guitars, banjo, singing bowl),Chris Peterson (mandolin, fiddle,vocals), Nathan Quiring (piano, or-gan, accordion, vocals), and Kim-berly Zielnicki (vocals, fiddle, bass,piano). Zielnicki won the Old Settler’sYouth Talent Competition in 2012under the tutelage of Peterson, aformer Arkansas fiddle championwho began playing in the PetersonFamily Band at age four.

Due out September 16 is LongWay Down, a seven-song,roughhewn, sometimes irreverent EPfrom Casey Berry, an Amarillo na-tive now trying to make it in Nash-ville. One of the songs, “Stupid An-gels,” made it onto the TV drama“Nashville” last November. Berry re-corded in Nashville with guitaristAudley Freed (The Black Crowes,Cry of Love), drummer FredEltringham (The Wallflowers, SherylCrow, K.D. Lang), bassist Billy Mer-cer (Ryan Adams), harmonica playerMickey Raphael (Willie Nelson),and legendary steel guitarist LloydMaines.

Rapture is the second release fromAustin-based Sam Pace & The GildedGrit. The 11 songs are pretty muchrock and soul. Pace (guitars, vocals),Patrick Sanderson (bass), and SethFasske (drums) recorded Rapture inChicago with Chris Kress, longtimeengineer for Dave Matthews Band.

Detours from Mike and DorisMerritt is a cowboy Christian album.It’s influenced by what Mike Merrittcalls “a certain code of ethics andvalues” and their Christian ministry.

Redneck Revival from LouisianaSwamp Donky is basically Southernrock with country influences. Just sothere’s no surprise about the songs,note that the quartet is said to love tohunt, fish, mud ride, and have agood time hanging around with bud-dies at evening bonfires. ■

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He performed one of his Dallas PerformancesJune 17, 1990 at Starplex: Stevie Ray Vaughan

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