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Rockport Music Festival features Texas legends

Thursday’s “members only” party will be rocked by Delbert McClinton, a Fort Worth native, and Malford Milligan, who will deliver his special brand of blues/rock. Friday night showcases the Casey Donahew Band and Cory Morrow. Jerry Jeff Walker, Gary P. Nunn, Guy Clark, Ray Wylie Hubbard and Willis Alan Ramsey will perform Saturday. General admission tickets (pre-sale) are $40 for two days and $25 for one. Lifetime VIP memberships (standard, silver, and gold) range from $300 to $1,000 with many special benefits making the festival more comfortable and enjoyable including three days of music, upfront VIP seating, beverage and restroom facilities, and an air-conditioned hospitality area. In addition, Gold VIP members will have reserved table seating, preferred parking, and the opportunity to purchase three member guest passes. Silver VIP members will also have the opportunity to purchase one member guest pass. Jerry Jeff, “Mr. Bo Jangles,” is known for being the party. Guy Clark is a major source of great songs in Texas music.  Gary P. Nunn wrote, “That’s What I Like About Texas,” as well as the theme song for Austin City Limits.  Ray Wylie Hubbard, once known for “Redneck Mother,” now has a long string of hits and great songs to his credit. Willis Alan Ramsey is a “best-kept” secret in the Texas music scene, known well to all the aficionados. Casey Donahew has a new young following, and Cory Morrow has been leading the pack of “young guns” writing and singing about Texas with his first support coming at a Willie Nelson picnic. " Hopefully another article will be published that mentions that Guy Clark was from Rockport. As more and more residents are new to the Rockport area and are not aware of its past, it is still important to recognize people who did grow up here. During the late1950s and 1960, Guy provided much entertainment not only in music on our beach outings, but also in sports. I do hope he is recognized in The Pilot. " " To latina girl. You may be too young to remember but Rockport used to hold a festival called Fiesta En La Playa. It was completly organized by volunteers and the proceeds when to a scholorship fund, Had some great Tejano groups play here. Unfortunately the volunteer participation dwindled and the festival was no longer able to be held.

The Shack: Willis Alan Ramsey - Willis Alan Ramsey (1972)

It's always been a little fantasy of mine to discover some obscure album in a record store that few people have heard of, but that was far ahead of its day. Timeless, even. The kind of album that contemporary artists refer to as a seminal influence on their work. Willis Alan Ramsey's record is just such an album. Recorded in 1971, with acknowledgements to Leon Russell, JJ. Cale, Russ Kunkel, Elliot Mazer, and Greg Allman in the liner notes, the list of artists Ramsey and his album have influenced is fairly impressive. Along with Lyle Lovett and the Allman Brothers, there's Shawn Colvin (who sings "Satin Sheets" on her album Cover Girl), Jimmy Buffett, America, Waylon Jennings, Jerry Jeff Walker, Leo Kottke, Rickie Lee Jones, and John Prine. And let's not forget Captain & Tennille (more about them later). I also have a soft spot for singer-songwriter-musicians who take full artistic responsibility for the work they put out. I'm the kind of guy that would rather hear Kris Kristofferson sing "Me and Bobby McGee" than Janis Joplin. She may've been a better performer and vocalist than ol' Kris, but it's his damned song. Here again, Willis Alan Ramsey is my kind of guy. He wrote all the songs on this album, plays guitar, bass, and harmonica, co-produces, and, of course, sings. With all due respect to Kris Kristofferson, Ramsey is one songwriter who can sing. He possesses a pliant and expressive voice that seems to wrap itself differently around each song. At times he sounds a bit like James Taylor, and in my opinion he outsings all of the guys with whom he's commonly compared. The song most people will recognize from this album is "Muskrat Candlelight," which was immortalized by Captain and Tennille as "Muskrat Love." Ramsey's original version sounds a whole lot better. For one thing, it doesn't seem the slightest bit corny (a quality I formerly ascribed in part to the lyrics, but now know was fully due to the Captain). For another, like the other songs on this album, Ramsey somehow manages to combine the best elements of folk, country, rock, jazz and blues to produce a sound that's infinitely listenable. It kinda reminds me of Brewer and Shipley's Tarkio Road in the way it makes me want to sit on a porch on a shady afternoon and contemplate smoking something. Not that you'd need to smoke anything, because the music has already provided a relaxed, happy, almost spiritual mood.

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