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We have received our tickets for the Texas Monthly BBQ Festival! It will be at the Long Center on Sep. 19th.  Here is some of what will be going on:

• Food samplings from more than 20 of the best BBQ joints in Texas
• Talk ‘Cue with the experts
• People’s Choice Awards for the Best BBQ (categories: Pork Ribs, Beef Ribs, Brisket, Sausage)
• Live music
• Marketplace featuring products and services from Texas retailers
• Cash bar
• Cooking demos with local chefs

If you were wanting to go, I am sorry to inform you but, it is already sold out.

The 2009 Americana Music Association Honors and Awards Nominees are:

ALBUM OF THE YEAR:

Real Animal, by Alejandro Escovedo
Written in Chalk, by Buddy & Julie Miller
Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit, by Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit
Midnight At The Movies, by Justin Townes Earle

ARTIST OF THE YEAR

Alejandro Escovedo
Buddy Miller
Justin Townes Earle
Raul Malo

INSTRUMENTALIST OF THE YEAR

Buddy Miller 
Gurf Morlix
Jerry Douglas
Sam Bush

NEW & EMERGING ARTIST

Band of Heathens
Belleville Outfit
Justin Townes Earle
Sarah Borges

SONG OF THE YEAR

“Chalk,” written by Julie Miller, performed by Buddy Miller & Patty Griffin
“Country Love” by the Gourds
“Homeland Refugee,” by Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, and Butch Hancock, performed by the Flatlanders
“Rattlin’ Bones” by Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson, performed by Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson
“Sex And Gasoline,” by Rodney Crowell, performed by Rodney Crowell

DUO/GROUP OF THE YEAR

Buddy & Julie Miller
Flatlanders
Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson
Reckless Kelly

I have always wanted to be involved in the music business in some way. I have been “trying” to play guitar for a LONG time now.  As much fun as this is I am never going to do anything other then just have fun with it. So, I have decided to try and combine my 20+ years of computer expertise with music by building a home recording studio! This project will take me most of the summer to put together.   I have put together a list of gear that I want to get for the first pass at this.

TASCAM FW-1082 10-Channel FireWire Audio/MIDI Interface   599.00

Musicians Gear TASCAM Monitor and Mic Package A  249.99

MXL MXL-90 Microphone Shockmount   38.99

Musicians Gear Mesh Microphone Grille   6.99

ProLine Universal Microphone Clip   4.99

I will be working sound this Thursday at The Amsterdam, 121 W. 8th St. and Colorado.

Technorati Tags: Austin, Music, Sounds

My friend was flying back from Florida and had a little layover in Houston. While there she got this pic of Jerry Jeff Walker sitting at the airport waiting on his flight. JJW is on the left. The guy on the far was his personal chef while down in Belize. I will be heading down to Belize in Aug. Maybe I can get luck and run into him as well.

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If you like the video you can pick up the album, Ragtops And Flip Flops, from CD Baby.  You can also find out more about Brent Burns from his website

I have been know to say that rap/hip-hop isn’t music. That is a taste thing and not a technical analysis on my part. However, Pandora’s blog has a great post on just this very question.

This idea that rap somehow “isn’t music,” is pretty prevalent, so let’s check it out. Setting aside the minefields of class and culture and race and just keeping it to the music.

Pop songs, folk songs, art songs, and even instrumental music are almost always built around a melody. In most rap, that focal role of the melody is replaced by the voice of the rapper, and by the words. Now it turns out that the vocal cadences of rapping do in fact have a whole music of their own (as do our own speaking voices), and it’s a music that is quite subtle and absolutely bursting with the kinds of deep human information that animate the strongest art.

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Technorati Tags: Pandora, rap, music

Just ran across this article on Digital Trends about Last.fm starting up a free music streaming service.

The company has signed agreements with all four major labels and some 150,000 indies to give access to a massive catalogue. Users will be able to listen to any track three times. After that, they’ll be encouraged to buy the track from one of a number of sources.

The beauty of all this is that Last.fm has promised to pay the artists a royalty every time a track is played – even unsigned artists who have their music available. If a track is purchased, Last.fm will share the fee.

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