| Los Lonely Boys keep it fresh on their ambitious second disc
A fluke hit can turn into an artistic curse, as San Angelo's Los Lonely Boys might have feared. With the unexpected pop and adult contemporary staple "Heaven," the "Texican rock 'n' roll" brothers Henry, JoJo and Ringo Garza morphed from independent trio into nationally renowned next big thing. .
Jim Beal: Well-traveled Big Soy happy to see local fans
With July 4 falling on a Tuesday, it's not really a holiday weekend, but it's not really not a holiday weekend either. There are plenty of live-music happenings designed to keep your sparklers lit. Big Soy's back Big Soy, the alt-rock/folk-punk, etc. trio of John Edds (guitar, vocals, lyrics), Adam White (drums) and Joseph Caceres (bass), is back from a tour of England and Scotland and cranking up the local gigs. "It's really great to be back in front of the home crowd," White said. "We can relax, play for our friends and go home at night. In the U.K., we stayed with people we didn't know. Sometimes it was great. Sometimes it was a little weird." Hot on the heels of the release of the group's "Part of You" disc, the follow-up to the debut, "Putting the ___in___," Big Soy headed for Britain to do eight gigs in 14 days.
Worth the wait
Guns N' Roses fans have long grown accustomed to waiting, twiddling their thumbs as rumors about the release of the group's latest album, ''Chinese Democracy,'' surface every couple of years. As the album approaches its 15th year in music limbo, Spin magazine critic Chuck Klosterman writes, ''If you purchased a kitten on the day that 'Use Your Illusion I and II' arrived in stores, it's probably dead now.'' .
Groovin in the Summer of Oh Six
We all do it. Some of us do it with a bit of a bounce, while others sort of coolly glide, feet barely touching down. But everyone grooves, and everyone has music that just get ‘em to grooving. Here are some different ways to get your groove on for the summer of 2006. Lou Rawls
The Best of the Capitol Jazz & Blues Sessions
Capitol Jazz
2006 This twenty-song anthology delivers the definitive overview of Lou Rawls' vocal accomplishments before his late-1970s run with Gamble & Huff for Philly International records popped him into the mainstream. Like so many other blues-influenced pop singers, Rawls begins right from The Source, the family church, through the opening “Motherless Child," from The Soul Stirring Gospel Sound of the Pilgrim Travelers Featuring Lou Rawls (1962).
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