Bill Cunningham wrote:
Some of the best live music I have ever heard was in Austin.....and, at the risk of being critical, a disproportionally high number who would struggle to rise to amateur status anywhere . They seem to migrate there from around the country.
i'm glad that observation came from you Bill...i've thought the same thing. and hey, i'm for anyone following their dreams btw. Austin seems like the modern day Boulder or Athens, GA or Seattle - it's where you go to go somewhere better than where you are..
there are a few good 'roots' festivals i have gone to over the years that have amassed a HUGE following and guess what happens...the small hard working bands out there carrying on the tradition suddenly get replaced by big name acts that themselves are hurting on the touring circuit. its happening to far too many of these. the young hungry bands build up the festival and then the money bands with busses come in and knock em off. sad...the promoters think they can actually grow by adding these headliners and they dont understand the people are not coming to hear s*#t from FM radio.
Adam! You might have hit on to something. Let's see. when Big Corp.Country Music Business comes to town next year in the Big D at AT&T for Jerry Jones you and all of Texas $100,000,000.00 supporters are going to be there,Right. Am just speaking like a coonass from Louisiana who don't know nothing about Music,but, as to how live is nothing but a joke and how words are what they are,words.Am not fighting anybody on this forum am just trying to understand all the steal parts of what is real traditional Country music in to days world just because they put a steel guitar in it and rock it up with drum beats that you can buy in Nashville from the same cookie cutting sound that has no art to it. Great! The sense of it is being sense able about being fair to the common everyday musician who ain't around anymore. Uncle Leo J.Eiffert,jr. holding on to what was our Country Music that nobody wants to stand up for. Like these here USA. Nobody knows what laws we live under because we have so many on the book for the crooks who run this Country. Get my point yet. Just the truth.I know they are going to kill me again for being honor.
Adam Przybyla wrote:Leo, I could be wrong, but ithinkyou r runonsentences.and, oddly;placed pun,ctuation are whatBob ishaveing.a hard timecom.prehending.
Somehow, it seems that grammar and syntax have gone the way of traditional county music.
Red dirt music and bands like them from Texas might not be traditional but they are still way better than what they play on the radio out of Nashville.
They do play a mix of different kinds of music from country, folk, rock, and singer/songwriter genres.
It reminds me of the Alt country from the nineties.
You just have to remove all of their rock songs from your mix cd's to hear the country.
I don't see how one can pen down "traditional" Texas music as it has always included, blues, polka, swing, jazz, Cajun, Conjunto, Tejano, Honky Tonk, and a few others.
FYI the example clip of Jake Hookers that I played on was actually recorded in Nashville, not Texas....Bob Moore, Pig Robbins, Pete Wade, Jimmy Capps, Jim Loesberg (drums and producer), Bobby Flores, and myself were the band.
When I want to hear some traditional Texas music I listen to Milton Brown or the Sir Douglas Quintet.
I'm impressed that Brown's music inspired Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grapelli to form the Hot Club de Paris quintet.
I would have figured it to be the other way around.
It's sad,but, the real Musicians are gone in likes of Pete Drake,Carl West,Roy Nichols,Jimmy Bryant,Don Rich & so many others. Most of all my Nashville Musicians friends are gone,but still some old ones are still hanging on. I remember when the spirit of Musicians/Artist/Songwriters & indie record companies was like a real family across this nation. I don't think most of you get it about Corp.Country Music Industry and how we all have been derailed from the common musician who gets abused and used by off the walls rules that make no sense unless you are so bad off for the money cause it ain't for a career. Uncle Leo J Eiffert Jr & the Pigeons - facebook.
Sorry to pull up an old thread but I felt the need to correct those who say there is no where to play country music in Texas. I am in houston and here is a list off the top of my head:
Redneck country club, stetson's, stampede, dosey doe, masone's, bareback bar, firehouse saloon, the track shack, hyde's cafe, armadillo palace, armadillo ballroom, nutty Jerry's, about 100 more plus countless rodeos and a decent amount of off road parks, rodeo arenas, etc.
Then of course there are a lot honky tonks and dancehalls in the hill country, east texas etc.
I stay busy playing country in TX when I'm off the road and so do my texas steel buddies!
yeah will i agree .....i lived out around marble falls..for 10 years or so...played lotsa country music....8-12 times a mo. never got rich...but i got to play a lot of steel...met a lot of good players...i miss the music the tx ladies.n the speed limits rock on.........dean
David Kurrasch wrote:If Texas artists don't need Nashville, then why do so many of the more successful ones have phone numbers with the 615 area code on the contact pages of their websites?
Because a lot of Texas artists are booked and/or managed by agencies in Nashville.
They have divisions in their companies to market Texas/Red Dirt acts
They seem to migrate there from around the country.
Uncle Leo J.Eiffert,jr. holding on to what was our Country Music that nobody wants to stand up for. Like these here USA. Nobody knows what laws we live under because we have so many on the book for the crooks who run this Country. Get my point yet. Just the truth.I know they are going to kill me again for being honor. 
Uncle Leo J Eiffert Jr & the Pigeons - facebook.