1.800.TXMUSIC March 2008 Issue 79 LoneStarMusic.com 800.TXMUSIC LIVE! IN THE STORE TUE *3/4 * 6PM Bart Crow Band ------------- WED *3/26 * 7PM Trent Willmon ------------- listen live via RadioFreeTexas [Gruene Store Info] ----------- visit LSM on myspace Congratulations to Wade McKinney of Eustace, TX for winning the $100 gift certificate from Lonestarmusic.com Anyone who is signed up for the newsletter is eligible to win the monthly drawing through the end of 2008 Congratulations to Adolf Rodriguez of Poteet, TX for winning the Ryan Bingham autographed guitar! --------- Ryan Bingham Mescalito (buy) - $14.99 WHAT: Texas Music Magazine Readers Appreciation Party --------- Subscribe to Texas Music Magazine today and get into an amazing show for free! Click here to subscribe WHEN: 3/14 WHERE: Scholz Garten Austin , TX WHO: Randy Rogers Band Billy Joe Shaver Walt Wilkins & the Mystiqueros Guy Forsyth Gary Clark Jr. Have a current subscription (as of March 10th ) and bring your ID. You get in free! Click here to subscribe Aaron Watson Q&A By Lynne Margolis March 2008 Aaron Watson's a talker. During a 40-minute interview, he went pretty much a mile a minute the whole time in his charming Amarillo-honed accent, with which he declared straight out that he's a good ol' boy and likes hangin' out with other good ol' boys. In the best Texas tradition, of course. Whether it's hip or not to admit that anymore, he doesn't care. To him, it merely means friendly people who take care of their own. It's the way he feels about his fans, too. He wants them as friends - as people who like him enough to come to his shows and chat awhile afterward, too. Who look forward to seeing him when he shows up, and vice versa - and who will understand when he steers the bus off the road semi-frequently to spend time with his wife and future baseball-star sons, Jake, 23 months, and Jack, 4 months. Our interview tallied up at an incredible 4,700 words - one of my longest ever - and I asked about six questions the whole time. It's great when an artist has lots to say and knows what it is (except when your fingers start to hurt from all that typing!). Then again, I've noticed talkin' a lot is a Texas good ol' boy thing. We started out discussing an itinerary that included six upcoming nights off, about which he declares, "I'm pretty excited. I'm goin' home to see my baby boys." His accent is on "baby" - the first syllable. It's a colorful, musical way of talking. Just like Aaron, himself. I didn't even need to wind him up. He just jumped in and, like the Energizer Bunny, kept on going and going. Read Lynne Margolis' full interview with Aaron Watson Autographed Bookets For Pre-orders Aaron Watson Angels & Outlaws *Ships 4/1* (buy) - $14.99 ------------------------------- All pre-orders entered into drawing to win an Aaron Watson autographed guitar South Austin Jug Band Strange Invitation *ship 4/1* (buy) - $13.99 Rodney Parker & 50 Peso Reward The Lonesome Dirge *ships 3/28* (buy) - $14.99 Darryl Lee Rush Live From The River Road Icehouse *ships 3/18* (buy) - $14.99 Caroline Herring Lantana (buy) - $15.99 George Strait Troubadour *ships 4/1* (buy) - $14.99 James McMurtry Just Us Kids *ships 4/15* (buy) - $14.99 New Merchandise. . . Waylon Jennings Silver Flying Waylon Tee $20.00 (more) Waylon Jennings Waylon Logo Dog Tag $15.00 (more) Stoney Larue Pink Angel Girls Tee $25.00 (more) --view all merch items-- Mando Saenz Bucket (buy) - $13.99 --------- Autographed Bookets -while supplies last- Mando Saenz Wandering the streets of Houston, playing regular gigs at bars like the Continental Club, or settling down for drinks with the kinds of characters that populate poetry (but rarely read it), Mando Saenz wrote it all down – in melody, on little scraps of paper, or in his head. Like the gloriously disorganized life he observed in his former neighborhood, his songs usually aren’t about linear expectations or predictable narratives, they are flashes of emotion, snapshots of time reassembled in his songs with rhyme and melody to make uncommon, musical sense. He carried most of the songs from Houston to his new home in Nashville, finishing out a few of them with co-writers like Will Kimbrough, Kim Richey and R.S Field, a first for the previously lone writer. The songs on his new album Bucket, are still populated with life’s losers, soul-searchers, and dreamers - the kind songwriting that won him praise for his more acoustic-tinged debut, Watertown. But this time, he leaves the Texas imagery behind. . .more How are we doing? Send your suggestions or comments to feedback@lonestarmusic.com