Hayes Carll News

Speaking of Seth James, he's part of a cool lineup tonight at John T. Floore Country Store.

Those with a little time on their hands tonight--y'know, those who aren't already planning on attending either Blink-182 at Superpages.com Center, Pink at the American Airlines Center, Ra Ra Riot at the Granada, Nobunny up at Mable Peabody's in Denton, Every Time I Die at the House of Blues, our own Best of Dallas party at Trees, or even our weekly ...

Judging by the e-mail, some country fans don't cotton to my failure to cotton to everything on country radio.

Saturday marks the fourth time Hayes Carll has traveled up from Texas to participate in The Roots on The River Festival, and since his last appearance in 2005, he has grown from obscure troubadour to popular performer heading toward headliner status.

To say Hayes Carll is really cooking is an understatement. Since the release of "Trouble the Mind" in early 2008, Carll has seen the album cited on numerous year-end "best of" lists.

In the end, all you're left with is the numbers. Sifting through and counting up the nomination ballots for this year's Houston Press Music Awards, the raw material for the ballot you see below and may begin voting on in July, the bottom line is that somewhere around 3,400 people bothered to fill one out - many of them partially - at all.

There are so many options for music lovers this weekend that it's almost overwhelming.

We'll miss alt-country singer-songwriter Rob Baird , who's relocating to Austin soon and has just signed with a big indie label in Nashville .

Old Settler's Music Festival is Central Texas' signature music event featuring Grammy winning Americana, arts & crafts, camping, food & libations.