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post #1 of 21
5/8/09 at 11:31am
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Who misses Doug Sahm? I can't get this song out of my head. There is a new tribute out - anyone heard it?
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post #2 of 21
5/8/09 at 11:41am
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Who misses Doug Sahm? I can't get this song out of my head. There is a new tribute out - anyone heard it?

Sahm & Van Zandt.
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post #3 of 21
5/8/09 at 12:06pm
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Sahm & Van Zandt.

Funny you should say that - I just got an Amazon 'alert' giving me the opportunity to pre-order the new Steve Earle dics 'Townes'. It's apparently all covers - bonus disc has same tracks - trying to figure out what bonus is. Due out next week.
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post #4 of 21
5/8/09 at 12:17pm
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Funny you should say that - I just got an Amazon 'alert' giving me the opportunity to pre-order the new Steve Earle dics 'Townes'. It's apparently all covers - bonus disc has same tracks - trying to figure out what bonus is. Due out next week.

Oh yeh, I saw that on iTunes pre-release order. I bought his EP of new TVZ covers a couple of months ago and it's ..... ok. Nice versions of Pancho & Lefty and Lungs, I guess, but I would still prefer to hear some new material from him (Earle) .... I wonder in NYC & a happy marriage is stifling his creativity?

The best-ever TVZ cover I've heard is the Kelly Willis & Jay Farrar take on Rex's Blues.
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post #5 of 21
5/8/09 at 12:43pm
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Oh yeh, I saw that on iTunes pre-release order. I bought his EP of new TVZ covers a couple of months ago and it's ..... ok. Nice versions of Pancho & Lefty and Lungs, I guess, but I would still prefer to hear some new material from him (Earle) .... I wonder in NYC & a happy marriage is stifling his creativity?

The best-ever TVZ cover I've heard is the Kelly Willis & Jay Farrar take on Rex's Blues.

I sat at the bar next to Earle & his wife at Pearl Oyster a few months ago. He had a fish sandwich and talked on his phone the entire time (musicbiz stuff) - wife looked bored and poked at her salad until he finally hung up and started talking musicbiz stuff to her....

* you may be right. i found washingto sq. serenade ok, but nothing more...
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post #6 of 21
5/8/09 at 12:55pm
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I sat at the bar next to Earle & his wife at Pearl Oyster a few months ago. He had a fish sandwich and talked on his phone the entire time (musicbiz stuff) - wife looked bored and poked at her salad until he finally hung up and started talking musicbiz stuff to her.... * you may be right. i found washingto sq. serenade ok, but nothing more...
Hah! I did the total fanboy thing when I met him in Austin last year. He had an Australian godfather or something, so we got chatting about Australia and Texas and the death penalty and needle exchange until he got bored and wandered off. Got him to autograph my copy of Doghouse Roses, anyway. EDIT: He also told a story of how Al Gore always goes to great lengths to never be photographed near Earle if they ever both attend an event. Yeh, I wasn't that wowed by his last album - with the exception of the Oxycontin Blues, which I adore!
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post #7 of 21
5/8/09 at 3:01pm
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Funny you should say that - I just got an Amazon 'alert' giving me the opportunity to pre-order the new Steve Earle dics 'Townes'. It's apparently all covers - bonus disc has same tracks - trying to figure out what bonus is. Due out next week.
Steve Earle!
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post #8 of 21
5/8/09 at 3:09pm
Why on earth would anyone want to come to San Antone?
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post #9 of 21
5/8/09 at 3:12pm
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Why on earth would anyone want to come to San Antone?

Alamo epitaph
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post #10 of 21
5/8/09 at 3:57pm
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Why on earth would anyone want to come to San Antone?

Mexican food?
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post #11 of 21
5/8/09 at 3:59pm
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Why on earth would anyone want to come to San Antone?

Maybe you should ask ICE that one?
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post #12 of 21
5/8/09 at 6:46pm
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Alamo epitaph

I could high jump over the walls of the Alamo if I wasn't so fat.

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Mexican food?

All of it tastes the same. Except for Henry's Puffy Tacos. Taco Cabana isn't bad for fast food either...
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post #13 of 21
5/8/09 at 7:27pm
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Why on earth would anyone want to come to San Antone?

I actually spent about three months there, around 2001 or so. I thought it was a not bad city, and would be nearly perfect if it housed the U of T vs. Austin. I liked the River Walk (stayed in recently refurbed art deco place on the walk, very nice...company dime), like the feel of the place, this one older area getting gentrified but with a hispanic flair, and the hill country. All in all, I thought not a bad place.
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post #14 of 21
5/8/09 at 7:32pm
It's fucking 100°F outside. Ya.

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Why on earth would anyone want to come to San Antone?

+1

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I could high jump over the walls of the Alamo if I wasn't so fat.



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I actually spent about three months there, around 2001 or so. I thought it was a not bad city, and would be nearly perfect if it housed the U of T vs. Austin. I liked the River Walk (stayed in recently refurbed art deco place on the walk, very nice...company dime), like the feel of the place, this one older area getting gentrified but with a hispanic flair, and the hill country. All in all, I thought not a bad place.

Tourist trap FTW!





but the bars and the food aren't too bad.
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post #15 of 21
5/8/09 at 7:35pm
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I actually spent about three months there, around 2001 or so. I thought it was a not bad city, and would be nearly perfect if it housed the U of T vs. Austin. I liked the River Walk (stayed in recently refurbed art deco place on the walk, very nice...company dime), like the feel of the place, this one older area getting gentrified but with a hispanic flair, and the hill country. All in all, I thought not a bad place.

Do you remember a tall, overweight rent-a-cop pushing you around and bullying the yankee tourist while you tried to stagger out of that River Walk bar? That was my cousin! My other cousin is now in the ED at one of the hospitals down there - though he wasn't around to stitch you up back then.
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