{"id":542,"date":"2013-05-09T20:00:41","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T20:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/216.71.127.204\/wordpress\/?p=542"},"modified":"2015-10-08T18:27:06","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T18:27:06","slug":"texas-guitar-women-w-herb-remington-discovery-green-houston-tx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/houstonmusicreview.com\/wordpress\/2013\/05\/09\/texas-guitar-women-w-herb-remington-discovery-green-houston-tx\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Guitar Women w\/ Herb Remington – Discovery Green – Houston, TX"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n
Written by James Killen <\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
May 09, 2013 at 07:00 PM<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"Image\"With storm clouds threatening, Eddie and I took our chances venturing out to Discovery Green for a performance by the current version of the Texas Guitar Women, featuring Carolyn Wonderland, Shelley King, Cindy Cashdollar, Sarah Brown and Lisa Pankratz.<\/p>\n

The ladies hit the stage with Shelley King\u2019s \u201cHow You Make Me Feel\u201d and Carolyn Wonderland adding some tasty chops. Carolyn and Shelley have been touring together as a duet for several years and have developed a real rapport with each other on stage. Cindy Cashdollar, Sarah Brown and Lisa Pankratz formed Dave Alvin\u2019s back-up band, \u201cThe Guilty Women\u201d several years back and have a similar rapport.<\/p>\n

Sarah took the lead vocal spot on \u201cBad Things\u201d with Carolyn rocking the guitar lead. Carolyn was up next with the Gospel\/ Blues \u201cAin\u2019t Nobody\u2019s Fault but Mine\u201d with Sarah and Shelley singing backup to her lead vocals and guitar. Lisa sang lead on a country blues rendition of Barbara Lynn\u2019s \u201cOh Baby! (We Got a Good Thing Going)\u201d. This was followed by an instrumental featuring Cindy\u2019s lap steel leads.<\/p>\n

The real chemistry on stage this evening was the way in which each artist took the lead on her song and the rest of the band pulled together behind her. The evening continued with stellar performance after stellar performance of original tunes and revisited standards. \u201cLonesome Hollow Blues\u201d featured solos by Cashdollar, Brown and Pankratz with Sarah Brown taking the lead vocals. \u201cWhat Good Can Drinking Do?\u201d featured Carolyn on lead vocals and guitar with some pretty poignant fill from Cindy.<\/p>\n

The band put together another jam behind Sarah singing \u201cPretty Little Poison\u201d, that featured an amazing Wonderland lead guitar and bass and drum solos. Then Herb Remington returned to the stage for a little romp with the girls on his pedal steel. That led easily into Lisa singing Mickey Newbury\u2019s \u201cTell Me Baby, Why You Been Gone So Long\u201d with Cindy\u2019s lap steel solo.<\/p>\n

\"Image\"The show began winding down for the evening with Carolyn doing \u201cI Ain\u2019t Got Long for This World\u201d that featured her and Cindy on dual lap steels. Sarah Brown did lead vocals on \u201cIf I Ever Get Right\u201d with Shelley, Lisa and Carolyn backing vocals from the chorus. The main set ended with Shelley King\u2019s acoustic gospel number, \u201cWelcome Home\u201d that really topped off the show with a whole band crescendo. For the encore Carolyn Wonderland led the band in a ripping version of \u201cJudgment Day Blues\u201d.<\/p>\n

This was one of those shows that just left me drained after watching highlight after highlight. This band could fill and satisfy any venue in the world if this performance had been filmed and spread out through social media the way things move today. Not one of the band\u2019s members could be replaced by someone else and carry the same effect. I only regret that there hadn\u2019t been a few more folks out on the \u201cGreen\u201d Thursday night to catch it for free. Austin\u2019s Mingo Fishtrap is next Thursday\u2019s fare. Get yourself out for a good time.<\/p>\n

Opening up for the ladies was current Houston resident and western swing legend, Herb Remington.<\/p>\n

Herb Remington was already on stage and dishing out the pedal steel classics from the Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys era. He played \u201cSugar Moon\u201d, what the Edge and Rose call a real smoochin\u2019 song, and \u201cBlues for Dixie\u201d before inviting Cindy Cashdollar to sit in. Cindy sat in with her lap steel slide for the blues standard turned western swing standard, \u201cMilk Cow Blues\u201c and stayed in the line-up for \u201cTime Changes Everything\u201d.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Written by James Killen May 09, 2013 at 07:00 PM With storm clouds threatening, Eddie and I took our chances venturing out to Discovery Green for a performance by the current version of the Texas Guitar Women, featuring Carolyn Wonderland, Shelley King, Cindy Cashdollar, Sarah Brown and Lisa Pankratz. The ladies hit the stage with… <\/p>\n

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