Music Video Friday XI

September 10, 2010

Hayes Carll is another one of those guys with a unique Texas sound. You either like him or you don’t.   As I explained last week, I’m a lyrics guy and just because Dylan can’t sing like Merle, doesn’t mean he can’t write a great song.  I first heard Hayes Carll on Imus In The […]

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Real Texas Cookies

September 7, 2010

It’s raining out here in Real Texas so before we get cooled off too much and forget that we just came through a couple of months of triple digit heat, I better show you this video I shot a while back.  I think the temperature was 105 that day and it was a scorcher.  Today, […]

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Music Video Friday X

September 3, 2010

Blaze Foley – his songs won’t die There are a lot of folks in the music business who hit it big and you know the names, Kris, Robert Earl, Willie, Waylon. And with a lot of the bigger names, you don’t even have to say the last name to know who I’m talking about.   […]

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Hatch Chile time

August 30, 2010

We made a two day trip to the Dallas area last weekend for a business trip to look  at some equipment.  As usual when we go to any major city in Texas, I have to load up the ice chests in the pickup or the car in anticipation of a trip to Central Market. Central […]

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Music Video Friday IX

August 27, 2010

Bobby Bare’s music career almost never got started at all. Let me explain.  He didn’t have much success in his early songwriting and song selling endeavors early on so he brought a new meaning to the term ‘starving artist.’  Then, when he did get a break, he wrote a song called All American Boy for […]

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No egg scare here

August 25, 2010

We aren’t too scared of eggs out here in Real Texas. Here is a photo of three eggs I gathered today.  One is brown, another is a darker brown, and one is pure white.  I gathered them right out of the nest and they are clean and spotless. I have watched the news with interest […]

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Back to school

August 23, 2010

It’s back to school time in Real Texas. A lot of schools will be getting started today and I have to say, a lot has changed in Real Texas since I started out on the first day of my education in a formal school setting.   Here are a few remembrances, and then I’ll tell you […]

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Music Video VIII

August 20, 2010

This week I’m going to introduce a couple of different performers here on Real Texas Blog music video Friday.  They are famous, but not exactly mainstream famous. These performers are Chip Taylor and Carrie Rodriguez and Chris Rea. One night I was with a special someone in a special place and the song Wild Thing […]

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Political statement?

August 18, 2010

This ‘jalapenos’ video has been making the rounds and I didn’t listen to it at first because there were warnings that “they” might try to ‘take it down’ because….of something I just can’t figure out. I just wrongly assumed it was some sort of political propaganda from either the right or the left and sometimes […]

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Real Hot in Real Texas

August 16, 2010

It’s been 17 consecutive days here with the heat in triple digits. I heard a big guy with a big fat belly remark that he was “Sweating like a virgin at a prison rodeo.”  I just had to laugh. So are we all commenting on how hot it is?   Not really,  it’s just normal […]

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