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Dallas Morning News – Jul 21, 2007
Hurricane Rita in September 2005 pummeled his home atop the pine-shaded lot off County Road 4147 to pieces but little shreds of rain-soaked hope survived. They were pages of handwritten lyrics the country music lover penned over the years that needed music. “Go get those songs save them” his wife Janice told him. Wallace dried and flattened the sheets and later showed them to former Texas Country Music Association President Larry Gibson of Deweyville.
Not singing the blues
Daily Citizen – Jul 21, 2007
comWhen business partners Rich Phillips and Deanna Morris decided to open a downtown blues club they didn’t look anywhere other than their hometown. “We thought it would be so neat to go back to downtown Dalton walk those streets again and remember the things from growing up here” Phillips said. “The history that goes with downtown Dalton the stories that we hear about. As a kid I used to eat here at the U… There have been very few that have been negative. ”But the Blues Train Cafe offers more than just blues music. Phillips said the cafe has a full line of gourmet sandwiches soup salads barbecue ribs side and desserts. ne of Phillips’ personal favorite dishes is B. ’s BBQ Nachos piled high with barbecue pork baked beans cheeses green onions and sour cream.
Iggy Pop: the New Weirdness
San Francisco Chronicle – Jul 21, 2007
Iggy Pop is an enigma wrapped in a riddle but the only universally accepted observation about his music is that its power lies in its simplicity. If you ran any of this by him he’d probably just laugh at you. “nce we decided that we were gonna make money dominating the world first thing we did was throw away the good American music the blues and hillbilly music” Pop says over the phone a few weeks after his show. We pitched it to the Europeans and they came back and totally destroyed our music industry with it. Even Elvis tried to make a last stand for it and they laughed at him. That was the big reaction in the urban community urban in the old sense — Madison Avenue Fifth Avenue — they laughed him off and basically since then it’s been trivialized and codified.