River Road Boys Schedule Update

Honoring the Crosby High School Graduating Class of 1961 Saturday, August 6, 2011 Crosby American Legion Hall Post 658 14890 FM 2100 Crosby, Texas 77532 6:00 pm – 8:00pm Social with Refreshments 8:00pm – 11:00pm Music by “The River Road Boys” Raffle ~ Auction ~ Music ~ Dancing All proceeds benefit the Crosby High School Alumni Scholarship Fund Contact: Patsy Spitzmiller for ticket information, Ph: 713-206-3422 For band info contact: Vivian Howser, 281-290-7255 or 281-989-0341 E-mail: RiverRoadBoys@sbcglobal.net Website: www.RiverRoadBoys.com Hey fans, Next Saturday night August 6, we will be playing for the 29th Annual Crosby High School Alumni Association Reunion, honoring the Class of 1961, at the Crosby American Legion Hall Post 658, 14890 FM 2100 in Crosby. Please open the attached flyer for general information about this worthy cause, benefitting the Crosby H.S. Alumni Association Scholarship Fund. We play from 8:00p.m.until 11:00p.m. with raffles and auctions during the breaks. Call Peggy Spitzmiller @ 713-206-3422 for more information. Sunday, August 7, we will be appearing at "The Fiddlin' Frenchie Burke Benefit," Billy's Hall, 4070 Wells Drive and Bailey Rd., just west of Hwy 35S. in Pearland. This benefit is helping this great country music legend recover from recent surgery on his hip. The fun starts at 2:00p.m. and runs continuously until 8:00p.m.. The River Road Boys are scheduled on between 3- 4p.m. This is a "don't miss," once-in-a-lifetime event, jam-packed with Texas music legends including Randy Cornor, Tony Booth, Amber Digby, Darrell and Mona McCall, Bobby Flores, Justin Trevino, Dottie Jack, Kelly Schoppa, Miss Leslie, Jeff Woolsey, Liz Talley, Paul Bennett, Kevin Robinson, Landon Dodd, Frankie Miller, Bad Bob Rohan,  and many more. Please come out and support this worthy cause for a music legend and great friend to all. Call 713-252-9773 for more info. See y'all there! The River Road Boys Vivian Howser Secretary H: 281-290-7255 C: 281-989-0341 C: 281-989-0308 22011 Rosewood Trail Tomball, Texas 77377-3505 website www.RiverRoadBoys.com email: riverroadboys@sbcglobal.net Don't forget to call or email us for your tickets for our 5th Annual Christmas Ball, Now available December 10, 2011 Navasota VFW Hall Check our website for more information on our Caribbean Cruise on Royal Caribbean's "Mariner of the Seas" Departing Galveston on March 4 thru March 11, 2012

Miss Leslie - The Arms of a Fool

Miss Leslie’s Honky Tonk Happy Hour: blog High-Tech Redneck

Miss Leslie’s Honky Tonk Happy Hour: High-Tech Redneck

via The 9513 by Miss Leslie 

I'm a honky tonk gal. I was raised on the sounds of Bill Monroe and Ray Price. But I'm a nerd. I graduated in the top 10% of my class. I read books for fun. I worked in the Information Technology Industry for 10 years. And I think it's important that musicians today realize that we're living in a different world from even 10 years ago–it's time for all of us to embrace the tech geek within us.
In 2000, SoundScan reported that 785.1 million albums were sold. In 2007, that number dropped to 279 million. I know that this isn't a revelation to you–selling CDs is NOT the future of the music business.
Then what is? Technology. Song downloads have gone from 143 million in 2004 to 844 million in 2007. And that's just the ones that were paid for.
Forget the record labels and the old guard. What's the business model for an artist today? Historically, what has made a musician successful? In any era, it has been connecting the fan with the music. The media changes from era to era. Whether it's fees paid for performances, sheet music, vinyl records, cassette tapes, CDs, digital song file downloads, the principle is the same. Somehow the music of the artist has to connect with the fan.
Acts like Radiohead, Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails and Coldplay have been revolutionizing the music industry with their business model experiments. They've offered free music downloads, "name your own price" for music, "optional" pay for music, free DVDs of the performance to concertgoers and free downloads of live music performances.
You can call these experiments gimmicks, but I notice that the common thread is not about making money, but that the acts are focused on connecting with the fans.
What I find curious is that the same thing is not happening in Country music. I don't see acts revolutionizing anything. Or are they? I decided to peruse some music websites to see how a random sample of us country folks are measuring up.
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