South Texas Popular Culture Center
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And the TLMA Winners Are …
Sunday, September 4, 2011 at Floore's Country Store, the following people and bands were presented with framed certificates in honor of their contributions and achievements in San Antonio and South Texas music: Graphic and Visual Pioneer Sunken Gardens Concert Art M.D. “BOOGIE” WINANS Radio Pioneer KTSA LIZ HOUSTON Radio Pioneer KTSA BRUCE HATHAWAY Radio Pioneer KEDA Richard Davila “Guero Polkas” Television Pioneer Swingtime DON COUSER Music Venue Pusi-Kat Employees PUSI-KAT CLUB Most Valuable Player Drums GENE COLEMAN Most Valuable Player Guitar CHRIS HOLZHAUS Most Valuable Player Guitar GALEN NILES Most Valuable Player Guitar CURLEY MAYS Most Valuable Player Horns WESTSIDE HORNS Most Valuable Player Sax SPOT BARNETT Most Valuable Player Keyboards SAUCE GONZALEZ Hall of Fame Songwriter, “Treat Her Right” GENE KURTZ Hall of Fame Songwriter, “Live with the Moon” MYLES WELLS Hall of Fame San Antonio LORD AUGUST & THE VISIONS OF LITE Hall of Fame San Antonio THE OUTCASTS Hall of Fame San Antonio SWISS MOVEMENT Hall of Fame San Antonio THE LAUGHING KIND Hall of Fame Corpus Christi ZAKARY THAKS Hall of Fame San Antonio ULTRA Hall of Fame South Texas THE HEADSTONES Hall of Fame Gulf Coast THE CLIQUE Hall of Fame South Texas CHRISTOPHER & THE SOULS Hall of Fame San Antonio BUBBLE PUPPY
Muchos Gracias!
On behalf of co-producers Neka Scarbrough-Jenkins, Michael Ann Coker, and Margaret Moser, Texas Legacy Music Awards thanks all who came out and participated on Sunday September 4 at Floore’s. We had a crowd of about 500 (less than 50 were former LAUGHING KIND members, ha ha!) and exceeded all expectation for good times and good show!
First entry into the TLMA Hall of Fame was SWISS MOVEMENT, who pulled out a set of warm favorites, befitting the solid, progressive blues-rock sound that made them so popular at Austin’s Vulcan Gas Company and landed them that legendary spot opening for Jimi Hendrix’s first American tour. Seeing TLMA Most Valuable Player GENE COLEMAN’S mighty drum style in action again was itself a singular pleasure.
Blistering through their set was TLMA HoF awardees THE OUTCASTS, sounding as tight and well-rehearsed as if they’d never stopped playing together. Their set of largely original tunes such as “I’m in Pittsburgh and It’s Raining” and “1523 Blair” resonated with chunky rhythm and fuzz flair. This music could easily be released today by some young punk band, and considered totally modern.
STONE SOUL CLIQUE surprised everyone, not only with how contemporary their songs of 40+ years ago sound, but the seamless way the music of the members from ZAKARY THAKS, CHRISTOPHER & THE SOULS, THE HEADSTONES, and THE CLIQUE melded together in true supergroup style. CHRIS GERNIOTTIS’ miniset of ZAKARY THAKS songs set the first bar for the evening when they peeled off a rip-roaring version of their 1966 fuzzbuster ”Face To Face.” (TLMA Production Manager ROBIN OVERALL and producer MARGARET MOSER glued themselves to the side of the stage, singing along with every word like starstruck teenagers.)
TLMA Most Valuable Player CURLEY MAYS decided this was a good time to step up and show his stuff. He whipped into the righteous blues rock that made him the Eastwood Country Club guitar king, a stinging sound with elements of his Louisiana roots (he’s cousin to GATEMOUTH BROWN) and testimony to what landed him on tour with Etta James and playing the Apollo Theatre. Not to be outshone, San Antonio’s veteran sax master and TLMA MVP SPOT BARNETT took the stage, a historic moment since neither have shared the stage together in decades yet represent the last of S.A. black showmen. Not to be outdone, TLMA MVP SAUCE GONZALEZ and saxman HENRY RIVAS joined Barnett, thus creating a surprise appearance by TLMA MVPs THE WESTSIDE HORNS despite a previous cancellation. This magic moment stamped the Texas Legacy Music Awards as an event to reckon with, right out of the gate.
THE LAUGHING KIND came next, a turn in the evening’s music that spotlighted S.A. music in a whole different way. It brought together for the first time the many incarnations of the band, a feat that included as many of the 30+ members from 1966 to 1975 as could be gathered. It was the first time TOMMY SMITH played with the band since he left, and he performed with such members as ANDY SALMON, SOL CASSEB, ROY COX, and KEITH MILLER. “I’m Gonna Put Some Hurt On You” and “Something You Got.” This revue-type lineup allowed for a tribute to TLMA Hall of Fame Songwriter GENE KURTZ, for writing Roy Head’s “Treat Her Right,” performed by JOHN COCKERELL with SPOT BARNETT again guesting on sax. Barnett stayed up for Cockerell’s tribute to him, “Spot’s Blues.”
Not much could top those four sets, so it was time switch gears with TLMA Hall of Famers ULTRA, introduced appropriately by the man behind Stone City man JACK ORBIN. This quintet was solid San Antonio 70s hard rock, but its roots are deep in 60s with TLMA MVP guitarist GALEN NILES and a surprise appearance by VAN WILKS on “Morning Dew.” If anyone in South Texas is overdue for a record, it’s Galen Niles.
The end of the evening came in the midst of sassafras as many things came to pass and the smoke rose again as BUBBLE PUPPY played in front of some of its longest-running fans and friends. San Antonio is where Bubble Puppy formed and the PusiKat was their homebase, so their closing set was both appropriate and electric. ROD PRINCE, DAVID FORE, and TODD POTTER with JIMMY UMSTATTD and MARK MILLER closed the Texas Legacy Music Awards with Lone Star panache and psychedelic style.
TICKET UPDATE
Tickets are now on sale ONLY at San Antonio Planet K Stores today or online at LIVEATFLOORES.COM. Sales in Austin and San Marcos are closed.
TLMA SCHEDULE AND UPDATE
Though the Westside Horns will not be playing a full set, Sauce and Spot will be in attendance. Also, the Laughing Kind extended their set to include a few surprises, so …. 
TEXAS LEGACY MUSIC AWARDS
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 4pm
FLOORE’S COUNTRY STORE
3pm DOORS OPEN
4pm HONORS
5 pm SWISS MOVEMENT
5:40 pm THE OUTCASTS
6:20 pm STONE SOUL CLIQUE w/ Zakary Thaks, Headstones, the Souls, The Clique
7pm LAUGHING KIND
8:15pm ULTRA
9pm BUBBLE PUPPY
Texas Legacy Lives Up to Name: Music, Media, Art, and Memories
TEXAS LEGACY LIVES UP TO NAME
Jerry Clayworth's limited edition collectible show poster will be available signed and numbered at TLMA
[September 1, 2011--San Antonio] Hailed by Austin NPR station KUT-FM as “this incredible overlooked chapter in the story of Texas music,” the program presented Sunday, September 4 at Floore’s Country Store is a receiving attention unprecedented in San Antonio rock history.
“When we were kings,” brags the SACurrent about this golden age of San Antonio rock, so rarely considered in the Texas music pantheon, in the story now on the stands, “Returning to When San Antonio ruled South Texas.” The story features the Laughing Kind, one of San Antonio’s premiere rock bands 1966-75. “If I could, I’d pack up the car and head to San Antonio,” opined the Houston Chronicle about the Sunday show. Even Action Magazine joined the chorus, featuring TLMA co-producer Neka Scarbrough Jenkins on the September issue.
Part reunion show, part awards ceremony, TLMA celebrates San Antonio and South Texas’s vast contribution to the Texas music pantheon. With the Teen Canteen club as a constant thread and proving ground for young bands, San Antonio rock & roll in the 60s boasted a remarkably diverse and largely unsung music community that spread to clubs all across the city and exploded in 1969, when the Sunday Sunken Garden shows attracted thousands of young people to Brackenridge Park.
Featured acts at this year’s Labor Day weekend event include legendary 60s acts The Bubble Puppy, Ultra, The Outcasts, Swiss Movement, Laughing Kind, and South Texas supergroup Stone Soul Clique (including Chris Gerniottis of Zakary Thaks). Honorees include bands and musicians including Augie Meyer, Harvey Kagan, and Publio Casillas for Lord August & the Vision of Lite; the late Chris Holzhaus; PusiKat singer Joe Thomas, and Gene Kurtz, composer of “Treat Her Right;” plus counterculture artist M.D. “Boogie” Winans and various KTSA and KONO personalities.
“I am especially proud that lost soul legend Joe Thomas and Augie Meyer’s Lord August band is being honored,” declares TLMA founder Margaret Moser. ” This is the essence of San Antonio’s under-appreciated rock scene of the 60s.”
Moser also stresses the importance of San Antonio’s graphic and visual artists in recording the history of the 1960s. “Otherwise, we have no record of these concerts happening, only memories. And this was a groundbreaking era of music for Texas. So we enlisted the help of the South Austin Popular Culture Center to assist us in an exhibit that reflects those times. Among other works, we have collected artwork from M.D. “Boogie” Winans not seen since the 60s and 70s and are putting it in its proper musical context at the Sept. 4 show.”
M.D. “Boogie” Winans will be one of several artists with works on exhibit and for sale at TLMA, including Jerry Clayworth’s show poster collectible and a special commemorative art print and t-shirts from watercolor artist Carl Scarbrough. Limited edition CDs from many of the bands will also be for sale including the Outcasts, Zakary Thaks, the Headstones, Christopher & the Souls, and Ultra.
Tickets at $17.50 advance, $20 at door; online at liveatfloores.com or at all Planet K Texas stores.The Texas Legacy Music Awards is sponsored by Planet K Texas.
When We Were Kings: The Sound of the 60s
This week’s issue of the San Antonio Current, Margaret Moser reminds us that in the 1960s, South Texas and San Antonio were a mighty force in Texas rock & roll. Grab a copy and get ready to rock
When We Were Kings: Tommy Smith & the Laughing Kind in San Antonio 1967
all over again on Sunday!
Where the ACTION is!
TLMA co-producer and all-round San Antonio jewel NEKA SCARBROUGH-JENKINS is featured on the cover of Action Magazine for the month of September! Inside, Neka discusses her life in San Antonio along with her deep and abiding interest in art and music (and shows a few fun photos!). Also inside Action this month, a short piece by Margaret Moser about the origin of Texas Legacy Music Awards. Sunday is coming faaaaaaaaaaast!
“I’d pack up the car and head to San Antonio”
Rick Campbell blogs about Texas Legacy for the Houston Chronicle, saying: “If I could see just one of these shows, I’d pack up the car and head to San Antonio.” Gracias!
