Yo y'all! Time to write again! I got the new Los Lobos CD ("Tin Can Trust") in the mail today. I've been hearing a track here and there, also the entire CD on NPR (a site well worth checking out). But, I'm not gonna do a review here, although you should give it a listen. Nope, nor am I gonna talk about the new Jimmie Vaughan CD, since I've already kinda done that. But I am gonna stay in Texas for a fine book I picked up years ago, called "Texas Rhythm, Texas Rhyme".
This book is a pictorial history of Texas music (as it sez right there on da cover). There is quite a bit o' text in there too. What's so cool is alla the music they cover. It starts out talking about the 19th century music and the early Country stuff, people like Scott Joplin, Lefty Frizzell, Ernest Tubb, Woody Guthrie, Jim Reeves, and Ray Price. It then heads off into the singing cowboy types (Gene Autry, Tex Ritter), before hitting Country Blues. Mance Lipscomb, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Leadbelly, Big Mama Thorton, Lightnin' Hopkins. Skipping ahead, there's a chapter on Rhythm and Blues. This is where we see T-Bone Walker, Charlie Christian, Albert Collins, Gatemouth Brown, and Lowell Fulson, among others. This book clearly doesn't mess around. Freddie King, Clifton Chenier, the Vaughan Brothers, Fabulous Thunderbirds, Janis Joplin, Edgar and Johnny Winter, ZZ Top, Buddy Holly, Roy Orbison, Waylon, Willie, Stephen Stills, Boz Scaggs, Steve Miller, Kristofferson, the Austin scene in the 70's (some of which mentioned earlier), and lots of others I've left out! It's only a 159 page book! If you wanna get a taste of the Texas flavor and where it came from, this is a great place to start.
'Til we groove again...
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