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Music Video Friday-117

March 22, 2013

He’s a honky tonk man Dwight Yoakam sings a few of his best songs during a performance at the Grand Ole Opry….

16th Avenue Lacy J. Dalton sings one of her signature songs to an audience of a bunch of familiar faces. You will see a few you know… By the way, 16th Avenue is a street or maybe more of an alley in Nashville.

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Music Video Friday-115

March 8, 2013

George Jones to retire Since George Jones has announced he will be retiring in November, we need to play a couple of his videos between now and then. He is best known for drinking, so here is one of his drinking songs….

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Music Video Friday-114

March 1, 2013

Hot Rod Lincoln A catchy tune indeed…Bill Kirchen of Commander Cody fame. In 2005 he moved to the West Coast and then to Manchaca, Texas. In early 2007 he returned to Maryland, then subsequently moved to Austin, Texas in 2011.

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Real Texas Crawfish Étouffée

February 27, 2013

It’s Crawfish season!!! From February through June, you can get your Louisiana Crawfish from Groomer Seafood. Just call and ask for Blake, he’ll set you up and they can deliver right to your door step! Note: Groomer’s gets their crawfish on Friday, so they can’t ship it out immediately. However, you can go by and […]

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Music Video Friday-113

February 22, 2013

Buddy Holly from Lubbock, Texas

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A big gobsmackin’ oil boom

February 19, 2013

Is the Cline Shale 10X bigger than Eagle Ford? That statement above is just one headline I have read lately speculating on how big the current boom in West Texas is. If the Cline Shale play is indeed 10 times bigger than Eagle Ford Shale play, then it is just huge. Bigger than I can […]

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Music Video Friday-112

February 15, 2013

She’s a redneck woman Gretchen Wilson may not be my kind of girl, but somehow I don’t think she really cares.

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Real Texas Yoga

February 12, 2013

Yoga is good for what ails you… Guest post by Nathan Beddome For many Texans who are not too familiar to the practice, yoga just seems like an eastern stretching class that your local gym offers. And as a skeptic at heart, that’s what I was inclined to believe at first. However when I was […]

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