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Sara Cress

Sara Cress

Music Critic at Chron.com

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Abra Moore's new disc doesn't capture spark of earlier work

Abra Moore found her voice as a solo artist on 1997’s Strangest Places, a joyful, eccentric folk-pop album that won the former Poi Dog Pondering member radio play and a Grammy nomination for its single Four Leaf Clover. Ah, but times change. Moore’s hippie playfulness soon became an anachronism in the face of the hundreds of pop starlets waiting in line to grab their 15 minutes. The Austin-based singer recorded an album for Clive Davis’ J Records that was never released, and another in 2004, Eve…
over 17 years ago
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Advent Scars looks for its big break at Warped Tour

Despite dire warnings about the death of the music industry, Cypress-area experimental rock band Advent Scars still believes in the power of being plucked out of obscurity by a record label.“Getting signed will always be the ultimate goal; that’s how you get your CDs distributed and get paid. We definitely need that,” says singer Guion Branche [/search/?action=search&channel=entertainment%2Fmusic&inlineLink=1&searchindex=property&query=%22Guion+Branche%22].The band members — all 17 and 18 years…
over 17 years ago
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Lower Life Form

Lower Life Form’s Phillip Vaughn grew up just blocks away from Gilley’s night club in Pasadena. His mom listened to Willie Nelson, Crystal Gayle and adored Kenny Rogers. So how did this kid from the land of oil refineries and urban cowboys get to a place in life where his hip-hop group is opening for Devin the Dude at South by Southwest? “Salt ‘n’ Pepa was on the radio, you know. Vanilla was on the radio,” Vaughn, aka PhD, joked, launching into Push It. In fact, the other members of Lower Life F…
over 17 years ago
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Hamilton Loomis

Visit any country or blues festival around the country and you’ll likely find at least one guitar, harmonica or accordion wunderkind ripping through impossible licks. It’s always amazing, sometimes cute, but you have to wonder where those kids end up, if they still like music after being introduced to performing it at such a young age.Galveston-born Hamilton Loomis [/search/?action=search&channel=entertainment%2Fmusic&inlineLink=1&searchindex=property&query=%22Hamilton+Loomis%22] grew up in a mu…
over 17 years ago
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The Blue Threads

Dalton Dunn is 17 years old. He’s in a band. He wants the band to be successful by the time he’s 25 because after that, you know, he “might not look good enough,” he says. Fortunately for Dunn, singer-guitarist for the Blue Threads, talent doesn’t require perspective. That will come in time. For now the senior at Foster High School in Richmond is a prodigious guitar player, a pretty strong singer, already has one album under his belt and has been sharing stages with adults for seven years. It wa…
over 17 years ago
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Katie Stuckey

Katie Stuckey has a plan for success in music, and it doesn’t involve getting “dolled up...
about 17 years ago
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Pamela York

An audience might not know it to see her perform now, but Canadian-born jazz pianist Pamela York found her inspiration to perform at age 10, when a country-rock family band moved into her neighborhood. Impressed by all of the musical equipment in their basement, and the sound of her own voice amplified, she sat in on piano during the band’s country jam sessions at a local inn. “It really got me playing by ear,” York says. “When you have to get up onstage and back some singer on a country tune yo…
about 17 years ago
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The Literary Greats - Music - Chron

“The Literary Greats” sounds like a band name conceived by obnoxious book twits. You know the type: people who boast about reading Proust while everyone else in the room is talking Stephen King. But it wasn’t. It was a phrase written into a song by a perfectly nice guy who doesn’t read all that much. “We are not avid readers, by any means,” singer Brandon Elam says with an easy laugh. “The other two guys in the band don’t read at all,” guitarist Taylor Lee says. Elam and Lee do admit to having a…
over 16 years ago
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Alice Cooper show filled with theatrics

Sunday night’s headlining Rock the Bayou set by Alice Cooper was a thrilling spectacle of...
over 16 years ago
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Ragged Hearts - Houston - Chron

Houston has been a hotbed of singer-songwriters, of country ramblers, of hip-hop trailblazers. But traditional rock ’n’ roll — the kind that borrows from the blues and sets your hair on end — isn’t one of this scene’s stronger points. The kids in garages aren’t aping the Rolling Stones; they’re still playing warmed-over alt-rock, (or, unfortunately, emo). “A lot of it has to do with our generation,” Ragged Hearts drummer and scene veteran Davey Jonez explains, “which was directly linked to the ’…
almost 16 years ago
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Spinal Tap sheds the metal and the wigs

Michael McKean has never performed in Houston. So perhaps we are lucky that the first time...
over 15 years ago