Joseph’s Piano Improvisation Take a listen to the musical stylings of Joseph Monahan. Harvey “Tex” Thomas Young During my 30 year career in music I championed several artists, including Roky Erickson, Rick Broussard, Junior Brown, Collin Herring, Byron Scott, Harvey “Tex” Thomas Young and Bill Campbell. Each are utterly original and the time I spent […]
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I recorded this song using Stuart Sullivan at Wire Recording. Bass is played by Jodi Jenkins, guitar by Bill Campbell. Bill’s in hospice now as of August 25, 2024. Bill is without a doubt my favorite Texas guitarist of all time.
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Friends & Family Snapshots of my travels, career, friends, family, and moments that deserve to be cataloged. Featured: Casey & Governor Richards Photo by Scott Newton. After Richards beat Clayton Williams I thought that perhaps I might lose my job to politics. I’d held the job for nearly 2 years but in state government one’s
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Pictures from MIDEM. For a long time MIDEM was the must-attend music business event. I was a registrant for 24 consecutive years, but it was crushed by South by Southwest.
Van Cliburn was a legend. I was fortunate to spend some time with him during my stint at the Texas Music Office. This photo captures the only time we weren’t sharing a cocktail, as well as the only time I got to meet his mother, Rildia Bee Cliburn (her arm is resting on the Governor’s
My Mom went back to work in 1968 to be able to pay for me to attend Cistercian Preparatory School in Irving, Texas. Founded and run by the Cistercian Order of monks (founded in 1098) who fled the Soviet control of their homeland (Hungary) and created an amazing school in Irving, TX that I attended
Lost From Austin Originally appeared in June 1985 Third Coast Magazine Most Austinites will not recognize these 32 buildings. Every one of them has been razed and removed to the county dump. In their places are ten parking lots, seven highrises, four apartment complexes, three government buildings, one hotel, one garage, one office, one church,
