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May is here and that means hot weather and time for summer in Texas and beyond. This month also brings us new records from some great artists including Mike McClure and Cory Morrow.
The summer of 2008 will be even better than 2007 as we will get new music from Reckless Kelly, Wade Bowen, Jason Boland & The Stragglers, and Pat Green as well as new singles from Randy Rogers Band and more.
The summer of 2008 will be even better than 2007 as we will get new music from Reckless Kelly, Wade Bowen, Jason Boland & The Stragglers, and Pat Green as well as new singles from Randy Rogers Band and more.
Keep checking back and listening to GWE Radio for your chance to hear all the new stuff.
GWE TOP TEN
Hayes Carll - "Trouble In Mind"
Mike McClure - "did 7"
Cory Morrow - "Vagrants & Kings"
No Justice - "Live At Billy Bob's"
Bleu Edmondson - “Lost Boy”
Bleu Edmondson - “Lost Boy”
Ryan Bingham - “Mescalito”
Aaron Watson - "Angels And Outlaws"
South Austin Jug Band - "Strange Invitation"
Cross Canadian Ragweed - “Mission California”
Austin Collins - "Roses Are Black"
Cross Canadian Ragweed - “Mission California”
Austin Collins - "Roses Are Black"
FEATURED EVENTS:
FEATURED ARTIST:
It is fitting that a south of the border gamble nearly two decades ago would ultimately yield an acclaimed Texas troubadour. Cory Morrow’s humble artistic beginnings read like the gritty lyric of an unwritten Townes Van Zandt song. This straight-shooting musician, who
CORY MORROW
drops his ninth solo release Vagrants And Kings on May 20th through Sustain Records, a branch of Universal Music, started strumming at the age of 15.
"My stepfather Joe brought home my first guitar after visiting a little Mexican border town," Morrow remembers. After quibbling with the shop owner over the price of the guitar, Morrow says Joe laid down $80 on the table, twice what the guitar was worth. "He took out a quarter and asked the shopkeeper, ‘Are you a gambling man?’ The guy said, ‘Yes.’ Joe said, ‘Call it. If it lands on what you call, then you take the money and keep the guitar. If it’s the opposite of what you call, I take the money and the guitar,’" Morrow recalls.
