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My Morning Jacket Show at Stubb's

Last night I went to Stubb's to see My Morning Jacket for the first time and all I can say is wow!
I have been a fan of theirs for a while but had yet to see them live. I can tell you that I will now be at any show they play in the San Antonio/Austin area. The show started at about 7:30 and they proceeded to amaze me for the next 2 hours then came back out and played almost a hour more for the encore. Here is the set list from the show last night:
1. Anytime
2. Off The Record
3. Gideon
4. Evil Urges
5. Touch Me I'm Going To Scream Pt.1
6. The Way That He sings
7. What A Wonderful Man
8. I'm Amazed
9. Thank You Too!
10. Evelyn Is Not Real
11. Two Halves
12. Sec Walkin
13. War Begun
14. Lay Low
15. Aluminum Park
16. Phone Went West
17. Golden
18. Librarian
19. Dondante
20. Smokin From Shootin
21. Touch Me I'm Going To Scream Pt.2
22. Run Thru
---Break---
23. Wordless Chorus
24. Highly Suspicious
25. Cobra
26. I Will Sing You Songs
27. Mahgeetah
28. One Big Holiday

Ryan Adams & the Cardinals Fall Tour

Ryan Adams announced today via his web site and MySpace site the Cardinals Fall schedule.
I for one am excited as they will be coming to Texas for three shows. I will be going to the Austin show and am looking forward to it as it will be the first time for me to see him live.
Here is the part of the schedule that was released today:
October 7th - Ames, IA - Stephens Auditorium
October 9th - Kansas City, MO - Uptown Theater
October 10th - Tulsa, OK - Brady Theater
October 11th - Grand Prairie, TX - Nokia Theater
October 13th - Austin, TX - Paramount
October 14th - Houston, TX - Verizon
October 16th - Tuscaloosa, AL - Bama Theater
October 17th - Atlanta, GA - Verizon Wireless Amphitheater

Click here to see info ticket sales dates

Dream Team vs Redeem Team

Since we are in the middle of the Olympics, we decide to make an Olympics post on a hot topic Men's Basketball. With the current USA basketball team (Redeem Team) looking dominate again it has brought up a debate is this team better than the original USA team in 1992 (Dream Team). Lets look at the rosters:

1992 DREAM TEAM
Charles Barkley F 6-6 250 Phoenix Suns
Larry Bird F 6-9 220 Boston Celtics
Clyde Drexler G 6-7 222 Portland Trail Blazers
Patrick Ewing C 7-0 240 New York Knicks
Earvin Johnson G 6-9 220 Los Angeles Lakers
Michael Jordan G 6-6 198 Chicago Bulls
Christian Laettner F 6-11 235 Duke University
Karl Malone F 6-9 256 Utah Jazz
Chris Mullin F 6-7 215 Golden State Warriors
Scottie Pippen G/F 6-7 210 Chicago Bulls
David Robinson C 7-1 235 San Antonio Spurs
John Stockton G 6-1 175 Utah Jazz

2008 REDEEM TEAM
Carmelo Anthony F 6-8 230 Denver Nuggets
Carlos Boozer F 6-9 258 Utah Jazz
Chris Bosh F 6-10 230 Toronto Raptors
Kobe Bryant G 6-6 220 Los Angeles Lakers
Dwight Howard F-C 6-11 265 Orlando Magic
LeBron James F 6-8 240 Cleveland Cavaliers
Jason Kidd G 6-4 210 Dallas Mavericks
Chris Paul G 6-0 170 New Orleans Hornets
Tayshaun Prince F 6-9 205 Detroit Pistons
Michael Redd G 6-6 215 Milwaukee Bucks
Dwayne Wade G 6-4 212 Miami Heat
Deron Williams G 6-3 205 Utah Jazz

While the Redeem team is younger as Magic had been retired for a year and Bird was close to retirement, but Jordan was in his prime and in the middle of winning 6 NBA championship and the greatest player and clutch player of all time. The wing men is were this is a tough debate however the big men is were Dream team stands head and shoulders above the Redeem team.

Barkley, Malone, Robinson, Ewing over Bosh, Boozer and Howard. Ask yourself would you take any of the bigs from current team over the dream team. For me the deciding factor is MJ I would take him over Kobe, LeBron any day.

While it would be a great match up but with MJ and the big men of the Dream Team I would take them over the Redeem Team.

What are your thoughts?

Upcoming Texas/ Americana CD Releases

It's going to be a busy fall for Texas\Americana fans as there are quite a few artist releasing albums in the next few monthes. Here is what I have found with release dates.

8/19/08
Brandon Rhyder - Every Night
Darrell Scott - Modern Hyms
Chris Knight - Heart of Stone
Hank Williams III - Hank III Collectors Edition
George Jones - Burn Your Playhouse Down

8/26/08
Britt Llyod Band - Ink
Roger Creager - Here It Is
Derailers - Guaranteed To Satisfy
Jason Boland & The Stragglers - Comal County Blue

9/2/08
Rodney Crowell - Sex and Gasoline
Bruce Robison - The New World

9/9/08
Hal Ketchum - Father Time

9/16/08
Eli Young Band - Jet Black and Jealous
John Evans - Lucky 13

9/23/08
Randy Rogers Band -Randy Rogers Band

9/30/08
Rich O'Toole - In A Minute
Wade Bowen - If We Ever Make It Here

10/7/08
Brandon Jenkins - Faster Than A Stone

10/14/08
Todd Snider - Peace Queer
Bleu Edmondson - Live At Billy Bob's

TBA releases from Pat Green, Zack Walther and The Cronkites, Mark Monaco

Premiere of New Kings of Leon Song

One of my favorite bands Kings of Leon have a new album coming out on September 23rd called Only By The Night. Well they released the premiere of the new sinlge "Sex On Fire" on their MySpace site. Go check it out!

Kings Of Leon MySpace

Fallon Franklin Benefit Jam

This past June Fallon Franklin had throat surgery. Since she is self employed and a musician there are medical bills owed. So this Sunday (August 10th) Waldo Entertainment is putting on the Fallon Franklin Benefit Jam. It will be held at Gruene Home Run off Gruene Road in New Braunfels, TX at 2pm. There will be raffles, live music, and cold beer. The artist scheduled to appear are Blake and Fallon, Drew Kennedy, Jack Levitt, Scott Rotge, Stephanie Briggs, Brison Bursey, Keith Davis Band, Zack Walther, Scott Wiggins Band. So if you are in the area come help support this cause.
Check out Fallon with her band Blake and Fallon:

Pat Green

Aside from Willie Nelson and Robert Earl Keen, Pat Green is one of the artists that got me into Texas Music and listening to true original music thus making me the music snob that I am today. I remember seeing him at shows here in San Antonio with maybe 50 people there. As Pat's popularity has grown I have remained a fan and a supporter of his. As people over the years have called him a sell out when he signed with a major record label and took his music national. All I am going to say about this is BULL SHIT! Pat kicked down the door making it easier for bands in the Texas Music scene like Cross Candian Ragweed, Reckless Kelly, Kevin Fowler, and Randy Rogers to get major labels.
That brings me to Saturday night when I went to see Pat Green at Whitewater Ampitheater in New Braunfels. While I had not seen Pat in concert in a few years so I was looking forward to seeing if any changes had been made since the last time I saw him. The anwser is no Pat still puts on a bad ass show. He mixed in his newer stuff with old classics like "Me and Billy The Kid", "Southbound 35" and "Hey We Go". On "Texas On My Mind" he had Django Walker and Cory Morrow sing with him. His band has expanded since the old days but still includes Brendon Anthony, Brett Danaher Michael Tarabay, and Justin Pollard (while he didn't play this show because he just had a baby) that have played with Pat for as long as I can remember. Not the signs of someone that has sold out!