Hey y'all, here's what we have going on this week...we'll be watching the Rangers game tonight around 7pm, Slavens & friends play tomorrow and there will be Bug Fight! on Wednesday (improv comedy).

Also, Blue Blood will make their Denton debut this Friday. Blueblood features guys who have collectively played extensively with Albert Collins, Edgar Winter's White Trash, Johnny Winter, Johnny Taylor, Buddy Miles and the Forever Fabulous Chicken Hawks. This will be a GREAT show! Not to be missed.

Thanks, Dan

J. Paul Slavens is host of The Paul Slavens Show, which airs Sundays from 8 to 10 p.m. on KXT 91.7. Paul is also well known in the North Texas area for his work as a multi-instrumentalist with bands like Ten Hands, the Baptist Generals and Robert Gomez. Currently, he has a Tuesday night residency at Dan's Silverleaf where he is joined by an ever-changing array of luminaries such as Jeff Barnes of Brave Combo.  Paul takes suggestions from the audience and the band creates full-blown songs on the spot.   

DATES: 5/15, 5/22, 5/29 / SHOW: 10PM / NO COVER

For over 50 years, the unique and powerful sound of Jon Smith's saxophone has been sought out by some of the biggest names in the music industry, including Edgar Winter's White Trash band, Albert Collins, the Grammy Award-winning group Toto, Boz Scaggs, Philip Glass, Dr. John, Randy Newman, The Rascals, Sarah Vaughan, Johnny Winter, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, Doobie Brothers, and European superstar Peter Maffay, just to name a few.

"When it comes to heart-pounding, foot-stomping, shake-the-rafters Gulf Coast soul, nobody does it like Jon Smith."

AUSTIN CHRONICLE

"The Rock & Roll road is littered with acts Smith had a hand in forming...[he's] been a helluva sideman in some big-ass bands."

DALLAS OBSERVER

SHOW: 9PM / $10

MilkDrive, the Austin alt-folk-progressive acoustic string band, released its debut studio album in April 2011, ROAD FROM HOME, produced in Nashville by Bil VornDick (Alison Krauss, Bela Fleck, Bob Dylan, Ralph Stanley). It actually got its start in the northern climes of Idaho, where principal songwriter-multi-instrumentalist Noah Jeffries grew up playing bluegrass and gospel in his family's band and started writing amazing tunes at age 14. The first band he put together, 36 String Swing, toured the state as Jeffries studied jazz performance at Boise State University. He also played with Jason Boland and the Stragglers for seven years.

The following is a brief summation of the sounds and spirit of The Spring Standards. Born and bred in the Delaware Valley, this trio of songsters now call Brooklyn, New York their home, like much of their musical brethren. Comprised of a lass named Heather and two boys named James, the songs they Smith will Robb your heart, that much is Cleare. Brought up on the music of their elders, they drew much of their inspiration from those times, learning the power of song from artists you all know, The Beatles, James Taylor, Crosby, Stills and the other one. Longtime friends and cohorts, by the time any of us had heard of them, they'd been working on their craft and crafting their works for many years under many names, with their passion for vocal harmony always in their foremost thoughtsfor seven years.

TV Girl is an indie-pop band made up of Trung Ngo and Brad Petering. In late 2010, their Todd Rundgren sampling song "If You Want It" gained traction on the internet and became popular enough for Warner Music Group to take notice and take it down. Their second EP, Benny and the Jetts, is available for free through their facebook

Possessed By Paul James is the stage name of multi-instrumentalist Konrad Wert. He was raised Mennonite with Amish roots in the swamps of Immokalee, Florida and presently resides with his wife and two sons in the Hill Country of Texas.  Wert's performances are so energetic that he could easily be mistaken for a small crowd. His songs are very honest. Not only are they completely personal and sincere, but they transcend identity and touch on the human condition.  "Possessed is just... possessed by experiences and family (Paul and Melvin James)," Wert says. "...I connect with that, with the beauty of the brokenness, innocence and/or ugliness." PPJ has been around now since 2006 touring domestically and internationally.

The son of acclaimed author Larry McMurtry (Lonesome Dove, Terms of Endearment), James grew up on a steady diet of Johnny Cash and Roy Acuff records. His first album, Too Long in the Wasteland (released in 1989), was produced by John Mellencamp and marked the beginning of a series of acclaimed projects for Columbia and Sugar Hill. In 1996, McMurtry received a Grammy nomination for his Longform Music Video of Where'd You Hide The Body. 1997's It Had To Happen received the American Indie Award for Best Americana Album. 

FAUN FABLES / Le Leek Electrique / Daniel Markham - FRI SEPT 7

FAUN FABLES is made to explore human pathos amid an animate earth with musical & physical storytelling forms. It has been attracting a devoted and eclectic following since 1997 with numerous performances throughout North America, Europe, Israel, Australia, New Zealand, Iceland and four record releases distributed worldwide on Drag City Records: EARLY SONG, MOTHER TWILIGHT, FAMILY ALBUM and THE TRANSIT RIDER. Dawn McCarthy is a writer, singer and theater artist whose work is a sea of gorgeous elemental nitty gritty; haunting melodies, breath, stomping, and natural theatricality led by the voice, rooted in the physical body. It is a crossroads where ancient ballad, art song, physical theater and rock music meet. Her lyrics speak to people of all ages about things like rugged housekeeping, street kids, growing old, sleepwalking and exiled travelers returning home.

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