The Gobblers Knob

CD’s I am Diggin’ Right Now is an occasionally occurring series where I casually highlight some discs (new and old) that I think you might like, without boring you with an overly-wordy, metaphor-filled “review” that I often like to bestow upon some other discs. I have dabbled a bit in the Bright Eyes catalog in [...]

I’ll be heading down to Stephenville beginning tomorrow morning (Thursday) to catch one of the biggest shin-digs that Texas features yearly.  Sets from many Texas greats like; Randy Rogers, Wade Bowen, Reckless Kelly, Band of Heathens and many more will be rocking close to 40,000 people. Me thinks me might come home with a good bit of podcast audio GOLD for [...]

Short post, but so full of creamy, slobbery decadence. I love Slobberbone. My boy, the sweet, clean, disease-free (presumably) Brody Vercher from The 9513 sent this to me, and I now send it to you with love. This well-recorded acoustic gig is from a Dallas Bookstore gig before the Crow Pot Pie album came out…consider yourself served [...]

I don’t care.  Say what you will about the mans music, but I had a blast last night catching my first Jimmy Buffett show.  I won the tickets, and was looking forward to it as a free night of rather simple fun.  Drinks, beach balls, drunk 50 year olds, high-fiving those drunk folks and tunes that [...]

My recent Awesome Song Alerts have a common thread that intertwines them together -  Simplicity.  Hayes Carll told us about a girl that he liked, but wasnt going to get in “Beaumont”.  Buddy & Julie Miller filled us in on what made moments of their past so precious, and with Paul Eason’s “The Mountains of Nuevo Leon”, we have [...]