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Rosie Flores in the Austin Chronicle

August 15th 2007 in Legends, News, alt.country

The Austin Chronicle has a nice write up on Austin, Texas’ honky-tonk sweetheart Rosie Flores.

Rosie talks about her childhood in San Antonio, her early band – Rosie & the Screamers, featuring the Band’s Rick Danko brother Terry Danko on bass and getting to wear the pants Gram Parsons wore on the cover of the Flying Burrito Brothers’ Gilded Palace of Sin. Rosie is also quite forthcoming about her mother’s death and how she started taking pain pills and sleeping pills to deal with the grief.

Rosie Flores-You Tear me Up

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COUNTRY FEST 2007 is a fundraiser which a portion of all proceeds will benefit The American Cancer Society. Country Fest is to be held on Friday, August 17th from 4:00 pm to 10:00 pm—Saturday, August 18th from 2:00 pm to 11:00 pm with fireworks starting at 10:30 pm and Sunday, August 19th from noon to 6:30 pm. The event will be held at Renziehausen Park (aka Renzie Park) on Eden Park Boulevard in McKeesport, PA. There will be crafts, food, [...]

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Elliot Randall – Take the Fall (self released)

Elliott Randall is a man to watch.

Randall, not Elliott Randall the ex-Steely Dan guitarist best known for his guitar solos on Reelin’ in the Years, but the Bay area by-way-of Charleston, South Carolina, alt.country rocker has a lot going for him. On first listen it’s easy to be lazy and compare Elliot Randall’s superb release “Take the Fall” (self released) to some of Ryan Adams best work.

For instance take the melancholy slide-guitar and Rhodes keyboard steeped “Elephant” and the soul-wrenching [...]

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