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What they are saying about Dance Halls & Dreamers: “It's AWESOME! Good job. My band loves it. They are fighting over them.” -- Kevin Fowler “[Pat Green] pays written and photographed tribute to those and seven others in Pat Green's Dance Halls & Dreamers, a handsome, coffee-table-sized book that's essentially a big old love letter to the smoky music rooms.” -- Dallas Morning News “The finished product is a handsome, hardcover volume, lavishly illustrated with more than 200 of Rogers' evocative photographs and filled with Gilliam's perceptive prose framing these venerable venues in the proper context. The book educates and celebrates the dance halls and the communities that spring up in and around them.” -- Fort Worth Star-Telegram “Gilliam manages some nice colloquial turns of phrase. As expected of a work by Texans for Texans, there's also a good bit of hyperbolic mythologizing, but never so much as to detract from the real people and places behind the stories. If the writing is good, the photography is great. Rogers's work is simply captivating. In all, 208 color and 28 black & white photos are packed into 184 oversized pages. A good number of those are full-page shots with layered text, or full-page montages that lend a scrapbook-type, you-were-there vibe. Words can't do justice to the photographs and the overall book design. It's a wonderfully styled, award-worthy package.” |
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The Line-up:
Kevin Fowler at The Coupland Inn & Dancehall Cory Morrow at Luckenbach Dancehall Randy Rogers Band at Schroeder Hall Pat Green at Gruene Hall Cross Canadian Ragweed at Stubb’s Bar-B-Q Willie Nelson at Billy Bob’s Texas Robert Earl Keen at John T. Floore’s Country Store Ray Wylie Hubbard at Sons of Hermann Hall Wade Bowen at Saengerhalle |
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THE BOOK: Texas icon and three-time Grammy nominee Pat Green shares his memories and favorite stories of each venue. He also gives fans a backstage pass into his world with a performance at his favorite dance hall, Gruene Hall. A unique assemblage of Texas musicians share their stories about dance halls that have served as landmarks on their rise to fame. Hear from honky-tonk heroes Willie Nelson, Ray Wylie Hubbard, and Robert Earl Keen, as well as established stars Jack Ingram, Cross Canadian Ragweed, Cory Morrow, and Kevin Fowler, and up-and-comers Randy Rogers and Wade Bowen. Each performer offers a firsthand perspective on his career. The venues are equally diverse, from the big city lights of Billy Bob’s Texas in Fort Worth and Stubb's BBQ in Austin to road-trip outposts in Luckenbach and Schroeder Hall. But the Texas music scene's true essence is painted by the dance hall owners, bartenders, bouncers, and fans, who commingle at these halls on a nightly basis. Colorful sidebars delve into the unique characteristics of each hall as well as its founding fathers. |
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