This week’s Rawktober offering is Stevie Ray Vaughan – The Fire Meets The Fury Allmusic- https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-fire-meets-the-fury-mw0001629069 Track Listing Stand on It Tightrope Going Down Pride and Joy Guitar Shop The House Is a Rockin’ Blue Wind Couldnt Stand the Weather Savoy Crossfire Freeway Jam Look at Little Sister Superstition Superstition …
Read More »Live in Texas: ZZ Top Live in Germany 10-6-22
First Rawktober 2022 performance is ZZ Top Live in Germany 1980 Review by Greg Prato [-] Interestingly, while always priding themselves on being a kick-ass live band, ZZ Top never got around to issuing a full-length live album during their 1970s/1980s peak. But as they say, it’s better late than …
Read More »Live in Texas: Songs for Worship: Country Live 9-29-22
Mixing it up this week with Songs 4 Worship: Country Live Track Listing Lenny LeBlanc – How Can I Keep From Singing The Palmetto State Quartet – Trading My Sorrows Rebecca Lynn Howard, Rachel Robinson (5) – Heart Of Worship Collin Raye – Get Up In Jesus’ Name Collin Raye …
Read More »Live In Texas: Alan Jackson/ George Strait/ Jimmy Buffett at TX Stadium 9-22-22
It’s Alan Jackson/ George Strait/ Jimmy Buffett at TX Stadium. Live at Texas Stadium Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine [-] Live at Texas Stadium captures a concert Alan Jackson, George Strait and Jimmy Buffett gave at the venue on May 29, 2004. What connects these three? Well, Jackson and Buffett dueted …
Read More »Live in Texas: Johnny Cash 9-15-2022
Johnny Cash double-header this week with two new albums to the program The Johnny Cash Show- https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-johnny-cash-show-mw0000885057 and Johnny Cash – Pa Osteraker https://www.allmusic.com/album/p%C3%A5-%C3ster%C3%A5ker-mw0000809579 Although this performance at Sweden’s Österåker Prison isn’t as timeless or integral to the Johnny Cash catalog as At Folsom Prison and At San Quentin, it still delivers an …
Read More »Live In Texas: Texas Tornados 9 – 8 -22
Late to the party This week’s Live In Texas is Texas Tornados – Live @ Austin. Live from Austin TX Review by Mark Deming [-] It’s hard to imagine a band that was more perfectly suited for Austin, TX, than the Texas Tornados. Never mind the fact that two of the …
Read More »Live in Texas – Okie from Muskogee – 8-25-22
Yee Howdy! This week’s album is Merle Haggard – Okie from Muskogee Allmusic- https://www.allmusic.com/album/okie-from-muskogee-mw0000319168 Okie from Muskogee Review by Bruce Eder [-] The hit single title-tune didn’t make it onto an LP for three years, but purchasers of this disc were getting something better, a good live album, the first of …
Read More »Live in Texas: Merle Haggard – Okie from Muskogee – 8-18-22
Yee Howdy! This week’s album is Merle Haggard – Okie from Muskogee – 8-18-22 Allmusic- https://www.allmusic.com/album/okie-from-muskogee-mw0000319168 Okie from Muskogee Review by Bruce Eder [-] The hit single title-tune didn’t make it onto an LP for three years, but purchasers of this disc were getting something better, a good live album, …
Read More »Live in Texas: – September 78 John Prine – July 28
This week its John Prine from his Album September 78, Live in Texas. Track Listing: 1. Often is a Word I Seldom Use 2. Angel From Montgomery 3. Crooked Piece of Time 4. I Had a Dream 5. Try To Find Another Man 6. Pretty Good 7. Iron Ore Betty 8. Please Don’t Bury Me 9. …
Read More »Live in Texas: One Fair Evening with Nanci Griffith 7-21-22
One Fair Summer Evening Review by Lindsay Planer [-] This is singer/songwriter Nanci Griffith’s first live album, and it captures the essence of what has endeared Griffith to fans of both folk and cosmopolitan country. Although One Fair Summer Evening was not an immediate phenomenon at the cash registers, the revealing …
Read More »Live in Texas: Elvis – An Afternoon In The Garden 7-7-22
Join us Live in Texas this Thursday, we’re digging up one I haven’t played in a very long time since the Elvis movie is out. Elvis – An Afternoon In The Garden Here’s Allmusic- https://www.allmusic.com/album/an-afternoon-in-the-garden-mw0000093276 An Afternoon in the Garden Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine Afternoon in the Garden is …
Read More »Live In Texas: Sing Me Back Home – The Music of Merle Haggard 6-23-22
Join us Live in Texas this Thursday, we’ll be playing Another 2-week program, playing Sing Me Back Home – The Music of Merle Haggard Here’s Allmusic https://www.allmusic.com/album/sing-me-back-home-the-music-of-merle-haggard-mw0003449531 Track Listing What Am I Gonna Do (With the Rest of My Life) Heaven Was a Drink of Wine The Farmer’s Daughter …
Read More »Live In Texas: Loretta Lynn Coal Miners Daughter Live 6-9-22
Loretta Lynn Coal Miners Daughter Join us Live in Texas this Thursday, we’ll be playing Loretta Lynn Coal Miners Daughter Track Listings 1 Hey Loretta 2 Coal Miner’s Daughter 3 Let Your Love Flow 4 You’re Lookin’ At Country 5 Me And Bobby Mcgee 6 Medley: One’s On The Way …
Read More »Live in Texas- It’s Jason Boland & The Stragglers – Live At Billy Bob’s 5-26-22
Join us on Thursday, May 12th at 7 pm. This week we will be playing “It’s Jason Boland & The Stragglers – Live At Billy Bob’s” Here’s Allmusic https://www.allmusic.com/album/live-at-billy-bobs-mw0000228701 Track Listing Drinkin’ Song Tennessee Whiskey Shot Full of Holes Proud Souls Pearl Snaps Mexico or Crazy Somewhere Down in Texas …
Read More »Live in Texas: It’s Nitty Gritty Dirt Band & Friends – Circlin’ Back: Celebrating 50 Years – 5-12-22
Join us on Thursday, May 12th at 7 pm. This week we will be playing It’s Nitty Gritty Dirt Band & Friends – Circlin’ Back: Celebrating 50 Years. Track Listing You Ain’t Going Nowhere Bob Dylan Grandpa Was a Carpenter John Prine Paradise John Prine My Walkin’ Shoes Jimmy Martin …
Read More »Live in Texas: The Judds – Reunion Live – 5-5-22
Playing selections from The Judds – Reunion Live. Here’s Allmusic https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-judds-reunion-live-mw000060750 The Judds Reunion Live Review by AllMusic Naomi and Wynonna reunited and recorded in concert on December 31, 1999, i.e. the cusp of the new Millennium (the audience countdown comes just before the show-closing ballad “Freedom”). All their big hits …
Read More »Live in Texas: George Jones Double Album 4-21-22
This week’s LIT is a double album George Jones – First Time Live George Jones – Setlist Allmusic for First Time Live- https://www.allmusic.com/album/first-time-live-mw0000190401 First Time Live Review by AllMusic Anyone who has ever seen George Jones live knows that there’s nothing “studio enhanced” about his awe-inspiring vocals. Jones is every bit …
Read More »Live in Texas: Glen Frey 4-7-22
It’s halfway to Rawktober with this week’s Live In Texas The album is Glenn Frey – Live Glenn Frey Live Review Here’s allmusic https://www.allmusic.com/album/glenn-frey-live-mw0000101241by William Ruhlmann In the course of this 70-minute, 14-song live disc, recorded at the Stadium in Dublin on July 8, 1992, Glenn Frey divides the set list just about …
Read More »Live in Texas: Johnny Cash – At Folsom Prison 3-31-22
It’s an album many people felon love with. Johnny Cash – At Folsom Prison Here’s Allmusic https://www.allmusic.com/album/at-folsom-prison-mw0000257048 At Folsom Prison Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine [-] Folsom Prison looms large in Johnny Cash‘s legacy, providing the setting for perhaps his definitive song and the location for his definitive album, At Folsom Prison. The …
Read More »Live in Texas: It’s Willie Nelson – Live @ Choctaw Event Center 3-24-22
This week’s LIT is a tribute to Bobbie Nelson, Willie Nelson’s sister and longtime piano player with his band. It’s Willie Nelson – Live @ Choctaw Event Center No Allmusic, so here’s the tracklisting Whiskey River – Still is Still Movin’ To Me – Beer For My Horses Good Hearted …
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