March 15, 2012 Island Moon A 11

By Ronnie Narmour

ronnienarmour@gmail.com

Three Chords and the Truth

Live Music

Thursday, March 15th Cody Angel @ Back Porch Free Beer Band @ Tarpon Ice House American Aquarium @ Executive Surf Club John Cortez @ Doctor Rockits Local Licks @ House of Rock Jon Wolfe/ Rich O’Toole @ Brewster Street The Weak End Boys @ The Gaff Gary Moeller @ Coffee Waves

Friday, March 16th Carol Elliott (5-7) @ Tarpon Ice House The Kydells @ Tarpon Ice House Emory Quinn @ Back Porch Randy Rogers/ Kevin Fowler/ Kyle Park @ Concrete Street Cody Angel @ Scuttlebutt’s Scarecrow People @ Executive Surf Club Grant Ewing @ Doctor Rockits The Groove @ Brewster Street Hilda Lamas @ The Sea Wall Paulson & West @ The Gaff David Brown @ Coffee Waves

Saturday, March 17th ST. PATTY’S DAYThe Kydells @ Tarpon Ice House Cruise Control @ Back Porch Cheers!/ Fayuka/ Hybrid Roots/ Bad Chords/ Flatbroke @ House of Rock Tejas Brothers @ Third Coast Theater Rankin Twins @ Executive Surf Club Pride and Joy @ Doctor Rockits Metal Shop @ Brewster Street EMT @ The Sea Wall Aaron Neubauer @ Coffee Waves

Sunday, March 18th The Kydells @ Tarpon Ice House Stephen James & Shakedown @ Doctor Rockits

Monday, March 19th Open Jam w/ Antone Perez @ Doctor Rockits Chuck Ragan/ Tom Gabel/ Dan Andriano/ Cory Branan @ House of Rock

Tuesday, March 20th

Justin Estes Band @ Doctor Rockits Open Mic w/ Rev. Matt Martinez @ House of

Rock

Wednesday, March 21st Open Jam w/ Wolf Jaw @ Flats Lounge

Bad Chords @ Doctor Rockits

Flatbroke @ House of Rock

Thursday, March 22nd

Free Beer Band @ Tarpon Ice House

Antone & the All Stars @ Doctor Rockits

Wade Bowen/ Curtis Grimes @ Brewster

Street

Friday, March 23rd Carol Elliott (5-7) @ Tarpon Ice House

Terry Rasor @ Back Porch

Another Level @ Executive Surf Club

The Groove @ Doctor Rockits

Le Freak @ Brewster Street

Shattered Sun + 11 bands @ House of Rock

CC Live w/ Anna Watson @ Performing Arts Center

TAMUCC Hilda Lamas @ The Sea Wall

David Brown @ Coffee Waves

Saturday, March 24th Mike Milligan @ the Altar Boys @ Back Porch

Chris Watson Band @ Executive Surf Club Palacios Brothers @ Doctor Rockits

Out of Bounds @ Brewster Street 3rd Anniversary NetherMedia Show @ House of

Rock Profile @ The Sea Wall

Stuart Burns @ Coffee Waves

Sunday, March 25th Open Jam w/ Ricke

Burnet @ Tarpon Ice House

Bottom Dollar String Band @ Doctor Rockits

Ballabajoomba @ House of Rock

Mike Guerra & John Lopez @ The Sea Wall

Monday, March 26th Open Jam w/ Antone Perez @ Doctor Rockits

Acoustic Night w/ Art Barrera @ House of Rock

Tuesday, March 27th Justin Estes Band @ Doctor Rockits

Open Mic w/ Rev. Matt Martinez @ House of

Rock

Wednesday, March 28th

Open Jam w/ Wolf Jaw @ Flats Lounge

Mongo Stereo @ Doctor Rockits

HOBO @ House of Rock

Finally! Winter is over and we are officially in season. This is NOT a dress rehearsal. Woo Hoo!!! And just to state the obvious, we are smack dab in the middle of Spring Break and St. Patty’s Day is this Saturday. The St. Patty’s Pub Crawl in Port A starts out at the VFW at

noon, heads to the Gaff (12-12:50) then Lovett’s (1-1:50), Bernies (2-2:50),Wild Horse (3-3:50), Salty Dog (4-4:50) and ends back up at the V (5:00 ‘til the cows come home.) They have a couple of trailers they stick the pub crawlers on and I know at least one person, the driver, stays sober. It’s a hoot and anyone can jump in. Be sure to dress the part. Did I mention, there’s live music on every corner these days…at least in Port A. The Rockin’ Ricke jam at the Tarpon Ice House the other day was particularly happening. Dave “Bottlehead” Miller, freshly back from the jaws of death, showed up just to remind us that he’s to mean to die and can still carry one heck of a tune. Guitar picker extraordinaire, L. Leon Sands also showed up, along with a bunch of other great musicians (such as Chris Vandercoke on drums, Dan McLeod on guitar and Mr. Mo on everything else) and the show was on, baby! BTW, L. Leon told me about his new surf band, Aqua Vox, which is a sort of island super-group with Woody Ray Lawson and Carol Elliott. They have also enlisted a talented drummer from Aransas Pass, Andrew Blankenship. They’ll be doing stuff like Dick Dale, Safari’s, Ventures, Beach Boys and a bunch of 60’s Brit Pop (Kinks, Beatles, Hollies, T Rex). They’re rehearsing now and will bust out for the first time in May at the Rockport Food and Wine Festival. This sounds like one cool group to me. Also, I caught another great, young band at the Ice House last week, Reba’s Naked Sister (Austin, TX). These boys showed up out of nowhere and floored us. They were half a dozen strong with guitars and mandolins and had a jumping high energy. I don’t know anything about them, but they were good and a lot of fun. I hope they wander back in. Also, my wunderkind little brother, Cody Angel, has been in town for Spring Break and played at the Wild Horse last week with Mike Guerra. I feel like my boy is growing up. It seems that going to school in west Texas suits him…he

sounded better (well rounded and confident) than I’ve ever heard him. He’ll be playing a couple more gigs (Back Porch on the 15th and Scuttlebutt’s on the 16th) before heading back to South Plains College in Levelland. The Ruben V show at the Porch last Saturday was

killer. Ruben has been recording recently with producer, Jim Gaines (Santana) and it shows. He’s definitely getting more in touch with his Latin roots. Ruben put on one scalding show! And finally, don’t forget about the Kydell’s this weekend at the Ice House. They’ll be playing all three nights. This band will absolutely floor you if you’re the kind of music fan that digs the Shoemaker Brothers. I guarantee it will be GREAT! But right now, time’s a wasting. Let’s roll…

Ray T Benefit March 24th…Lynda Coward, owner of the Flats Lounge,

has announced Saturday, March 24th as the date for the Ray T benefit. In case you didn’t know, Ray Tijerina was in one bad motorcycle accident with a drunk driver a few weeks ago and has been in the hospital ever since. They will have an auction and a fish fry. J.T. Coldfire, John Cortez and all of the City Crew band will be performing. I asked Ray to give me an update and he told me, “The last two weeks I have been getting a lot of mobility back to my body, but there have been some complications, the bone that protruded through my leg has been put back together but the skin is not healing right, where the bone moved round and is requiring more surgery to remove dead tissue. The broken ribs and punctured lungs are getting better but required another small surgery. I plan and hope to be out (of the hospital) by the benefit but God only knows.” I really want to encourage EVERYBODY to attend this benefit and help our brother out.

DO NOT MISS LIST

Emory QuinnEmory Quinn (San Antonio, TX) will play the

Back Porch tomorrow night, March 16th. This is the review I wrote on them around this time

last year. It should give you some insight into this band. They used it in their press kit, so I’m guessing I hit the nail on the head.

3C&T (3-31-2011): I walked into this show thinking this band was another cookie cutter version of the redundant “Texas Country” format that’s dominating the airwaves and young girl’s hearts these days. What I saw were some exceptionally talented young men with an endearing stage presence. The band consists of Nathan Emory Rigney on vocals, guitar, mandolin and fiddle, Clint Quinn Bracher on acoustic guitar and lead vocals, Case Bell on bass and vocals and Erik Frankson on drums. These guys are frat brothers from A&M that started making music together around 2007. They still have young shiny faces and a refreshing child like enthusiasm for playing music.

Although I was deeply impressed with the smooth yet passionate vocals of Clint Bracher, I felt the standout in this band was with the multi-instrumentation of Nathan Rigney. This young man was a monster. He flat roared on the many

stringed instruments that he played adding sweet leads on fiddle, mandolin and guitar. I’ve seldom heard such clean and tasty passages. Combined with the three part harmonies and “extra effort” bass lines of Case Bell, this band was a pleasure to watch.

Scott H. BiramScott H. Biram (Austin, TX)

will play the House of Rock on March 31. I want to recycle the review I did on him in 2010. I think it’s good and really gets to the core of this man. Enjoy!

3C&T (3-31-2010): I walked into this show knowing nothing of the man or his music. He was good enough to make it on to the HOR’s Songwriter Series and that was good enough for me. In a word: OH MY GOD! (OK, 3 words). If I hadn’t gone, I’d have missed one of the best shows I’ve ever seen. I can’t help but gush here, Scott H. Biram isn’t just an act, he’s a crazed stream of pure energy whose guitar plays him. To steal a quote, “Biram is the kind of guy you don’t laugh

at all the way just in case he really is crazy. We all wanna be entertained, but nobody wants to get stabbed in the head with a screwdriver.” I can’t say when I’ve been more entertained at a show....or more nervous.

Biram is lucky to be alive, or at least he won’t seem to die. He had a head-on collision with an 18 wheeler going 75 miles per hour, and, in his own words, “broke every bone in his body”. Shortly after his accident, he took the stage at The Continental Club in Austin, in a wheel chair – I.V. still dangling from his arm and 2 broken legs, a broken foot, a broken arm and 1 foot less of his lower intestine. I guess that explains a lot.

His delivery at the HOR was anything but pretty. Biram came out spitting and snarling as he attacked his 1959 Gibson and stomped on his floor mic, at times singing, at times yodeling, at time just gurgling with eyes rolled back and venom spewing. You get the feeling

that Scott H. Biram has made a pact with the devil and the devil put him on retainer. He faced his demons, though, with songs such as Been Down Too Long, Blood Sweat and Murder, Wreck My Car and Truck Driver. His style is something like a Mississippi juke shouter at a punk rock party...it’s a hillbilly country slant with a hard rock attitude. He goes to the place where natural talent and genius start wagging the dog. When you go see this guy, don’t get to close and try to avoid eye contact...a

pillar of salt comes to mind. Scott H. Biram is an amazing artist and I highly recommend seeing him (at a safe distance). I guarantee you won’t forget it.

And that’s the truth!

Tonight

132 Cotter Port A

The Back Porch March 16 EMORY QUINN March 17 Cruise Control March 23 Terry Rasor March 24 Mike Milligan & the Altar Boys

Emory Quinn will play the Back Porch on March 16th.

L. Leon Sands, Chris Vandercoke, Dave Miller and Ricke Burnett play the open

jam at the Tarpon Ice House

Scott H. Biram will play the House of Rock on March 31st

The benefit for Ray Tijerina will be at the Flats Lounge

on March 24th

Reba’s Naked Sister played the Tarpon Ice House on March 10th

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