Danny Barnes and Honky from Emo’s 1/20/2010

The Surly Joe and Girlie Holiday Show from Stubb’s

Honky from Trophy’s Bar and Grill
1 trespassin’

2 balls out inn

3 sancha

4 what she needs

5 house of seven

Honky

Surly Joe from La Zona Rosa

Pinetop Perkins from Sam’s Town Point.
Pinetop Perkins is one of the last great Mississippi bluesmen still performing. He began playing blues around 1927 and is widely regarded as one of the best blues pianists. He’s created a style of playing that has influenced three generations of piano players and will continue to be the yardstick by which great blues pianists are measured.



Born Willie Perkins, in Belzoni, MS, in 1913, Pinetop started out playing guitar and piano at house parties and honky-tonks but dropped the guitar in the 1940s after sustaining a serious injury in his left arm. Perkins worked primarily in the Mississippi Delta throughout the thirties and forties, spending three years with Sonny Boy Williamson on the King Biscuit Time radio show on KFFA, Helena, Arkansas. Pinetop also toured extensively with slide guitar player Robert Nighthawk and backed him on an early Chess session. After briefly working with B.B. King in Memphis, Perkins barnstormed the South with Earl Hooker during the early fifties. The pair completed a session for Sam Phillips’ famous Sun Records in 1953. It was at this session that he recorded his version of Pinetop Smith’s Boogie Woogie.

Still, with recent successes the exception, Pinetop is best known for holding down the piano chair in the great Muddy Waters Band for twelve years during the highest point of Muddy’s career. Replacing the late, great Otis Spann in 1969, Pinetop helped shape the Waters sound and anchored Muddy’s memorable combo throughout the seventies with his brilliant piano solos. In 1980, Pinetop and other Waters alumni decided to go out on their own and formed the Legendary Blues Band. Legendary recorded two records for Rounder and toured extensively.

Pinetop, who had been labeled a sideman throughout most of his career, eventually left Legendary to concentrate on a solo career. Within two years, he had his first domestic record as a frontman and had a most impressive touring schedule. Since going solo, Pinetop has been featured on many nationally syndicated news and music shows, and appeared in numerous movie productions, as well as television and radio ads. He has also headlined nearly every major showcase room in North America and most of the major festivals around the world.

It’s certainly ironic that Pinetop waited for his eighth decade to blossom as a headliner releasing 15 solo records in 15 years beginning in 1992. Born In the Delta (a multimedia enhanced CD), his Telarc debut, documented an amazing historical figure and had an abundance of entertainment value for a contemporary audience. On his 1998 release, Legends, Pinetop collaborated with master blues guitarist Hubert Sumlin. Together, they blended the traditional delta blues sound with modern electric blues rock, showcasing the spirit and energy of the music. Both CDs were nominated for Grammy’s –in 1997 and 2000 respectively. This was followed by a 2005 Grammy nomination for Ladies Man released by MC Records.

In 2005 he was also presented with a lifetime achievement award at the Grammy’s. In 2000 he received a National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts. He has been featured in the documentary Piano Blues directed by Clint Eastwood for the Martin Scorsese PBS series, The Blues. In addition, he continued to win the Blues Music Award for best blues piano every year until 2003 when he was retired from that award, which now bears his name–the Pinetop Perkins Piano Player of the Year.

In 2007, still on the road in his 94th year, Pinetop Perkins’ unique life was chronicled in Peter Carlson’s biographical documentary DVD, Born In The Honey, which includes a live CD with a rare studio outtake track.

Beyond his musical accomplishments Pinetop is a friendly, charming, and gentle man. He says yes to everything and goes where he’s taken, but somehow, life turns out well for him. He’s quick to joke and play with words and he still goes out every night. He loves people and makes everyone around him feel good. Then he plays the piano and sings his blues and brings us his special gift.

Gurf Morlix from Jovita’s
SEPTEMBER 17, 2009: GURF MORLIX WINS!
Gurf was named Instrumentalist of The Year for 2009 at The Americana Music Awards at the legendary Ryman Auditorium, in Nashville, Tennessee!
Gurf has been playing lots of shows and spending lots of time in the studio as well, producing forthcoming albums for Slaid Cleaves, Romi Mayes, BettySoo, and Porter Davis.
Gurf’s new album, “Last Exit To Happyland”, is finally here. A great collection of new songs.

Betty Soo at Jovita’s

Sick’s Pack from Trophy’s Bar and Grill
Lead man Sick told us, “Film everything, I don’t ever do anything on stage I don’t like.” Watch any of these videos to find out why.
Austin based band with more than a half dozen multi-instrumentalists, SICK’S PACK combines sounds akin to Danny Elfman’s haunting melodies applied to speedy bluegrass. Or sometimes, gypsy-jazz swing applied to Louis Armstrong/Frank Sinatra/Tom Waits vocal styles, infused with black metal rhythm guitar. Led by Sick, a local songwriter and fiddler, this absurd octet is as diverse as Ween, as catchy as Cake, and as raunchy as Tenacious D. To describe their sound, you must list some of the instruments: fiddle, banjo, cello, mandolin, drums, kazoo, tuba, accordian, trumpet, clarinet, harmonica, amd the occasional stand up bass.

Cornell Hurd 9/24/2009 Jovita’s

Exile To Naples From Krush Lounge

School of Liars

Pinetop Perkins jamming at the Sam’s Town Point Stormy Monday Blues Jam celebrating their two year anniversary.
Perkins is a certified blues piano playing legend. He can safely be grouped with B.B. King, the late Willie Dixon and John Lee Hooker as one of the true pioneers of the Delta-to-Chicago blues form. Perkins was born into a plantation family on July 7, 1913 in Belzoni, Miss., and began to teach himself guitar while still in grade school. He never completed more than a 3rd grade education, he readily admits in interviews.

Blind Pets live from Trophy’s Bar and Grill in Austin, Texas

White Rhino from Trophy’s Bar and Grill in Austin, TX
“Rock & roll animals (Recommended show)”
-The Austin Chronicle




About WHITE RHINO

“Rock & roll animals (Recommended show)”
-The Austin Chronicle

“Up-and-comers White Rhino throw down rough and tumble r’n'r”
-The A-List on Austin360

“Strangest vocalist in Austin (Lemmy meets Ian Astbury?). Either a monster waiting to happen or a genuine Austin curiosity, take your pick.”
-Spiderhouse Cafe SXSW

“They look and sound like they came from that side of your Dad’s record collection that he only drags out when your Mom hassles him or his boss is giving him shit.”
- Craig Hlavaty HOUSTON PRESS

“White Rhino can veer off into spacier, proggier territory a la Hawkwind, thrash it out like Master of Puppets-era Metallica or turn on the bluesy afterburners like some anabolic descendent of ZZ Top. A power trio in the truest sense of the term.”
- Chris Gray HOUSTON PRESS

“Austin’s White Rhino, one of the bands to look out for this year. I think you guys have a lot of steam built up and I think you’re gonna run over a lot of people, man.”
- Zakk United 94.5 The Buzz Houston

“Get your rock on with White Rhino, one of the newest, baddest, loudest bands in town.”
- The Mohawk Austin TX

“Their lyric’s topics and raw sound stands out among the deep pool of Red River bands.”
- The Accent

“A much younger Motorhead… with an abundance of musical talent and dexterity. There’s a craving for uniqueness among the newer, lesser-known acts these days, and White Rhino’s got it in Spades.”
- Mac Cooper (Photographer)

“White Rhino plays salt-of-the-earth working man hard rock mixed with good ol’ early ’80s riff metal and Motorhead jackhammer rock. Like a less-weird Queens of the Stone Age, or a less ironic Eagles of Death Metal.”
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“Best Dance Moves of the Day (B/CS Loud!Fest)”
- 979Represent

California’s Rockabilly trio Chop Tops rock Trophy’s Bar and Grill






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Filmed at Sam’s Town Point on 7/11/2009

Jeff and the Jumptones CD Release Party filmed live at Sam’s Town Point 7/11/2009

Punk country band Convoi live from Trophy’s Bar and Grill 6/25/2009

Convoi First from Austin Network on Vimeo.

Untitled from Austin Network on Vimeo.

Convoi last from Austin Network on Vimeo.

Porn Stash 6/6/09 Live from the Casbah
The 80’s will live forever.  Long live Cyndi Lauper!

Classic two piece duo from Austin, Texas

Chanterelle Duo from Austin Network on Vimeo.

Untitled from Austin Network on Vimeo.

Kevin “Shiny Ribs” Russell of The Gourds rocks Sam’s Town Point’s socks off 5/23/2009.

Jason Horne from Dallas, Texas brought his smooth sound to Sam’s Town Point 5/23/2009

Robert Banta puts on show for Crawfish Jamboree 5/23/2009 filmed and broadcast live from Sam’s Town Point.

Check out the Doolins here filmed 5/23/2009 from Sam’s Town Point deep in the heart of South Austin, Texas.

Ramsay Midwood and Friends filmed live at Sam’s Town Point 5/23/2009.

Young Brothers footage from Sam’s Town Point’s Crawfish Jamboree.