Aaron Watson has a little problem. You see, the “Honky Tonk Kid” has turned 30.
“The ‘Honky Tonk Adult’ doesn’t sound quite as good,” he said with a laugh Thursday. “I’ve tried to work on the song, but nothing really rhymes with adult.”
Aaron and his band, the Orphans of the Brazos, will perform tonight at Wild Bill’s in Harlingen. Tickets cost $15 at the door.
“I’m having the greatest time of my life right now,” Aaron said by phone from San Antonio. “We’re in the middle of this never-ending tour and we’ve got a new album coming out April 1 called ‘Angels and Outlaws.’”
Like his other albums, this one will be produced by Ray Benson of Asleep at the Wheel. Aaron said it features several surprise guest vocalists.
Plans are under way for a big tour to accompany the album’s release. It should take Aaron and company to the Midwest, previously unexplored territory for the Orphans of the Brazos.
“When they start calling and booking shows, I guess that means your music is getting out there,” he said. “It’s kind of neat to see the way the music spreads.”
Keeping Aaron and his wife Kimberly busy at home are their sons: Jacob, who is 22 months old, and 2-month-old Jack.
“I’m playing a lot with our killer Thomas the Train set,” he said, chuckling. “We always thank our fans for keeping diesel in the bus and diapers on the babies.”
Just when you thought your Beatles collection was complete …
Fuego Entertainment of Miami announced Thursday it had acquired 15 tracks of previously unreleased music by John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.
The recordings were made in 1962 during the Fab Four’s first appearance with Ringo at the Star Club in Hamburg, Germany.
The company cautions that these shouldn’t be confused with other tapes made at the same venue by Ted Taylor. Those have been released in various configurations for the past 30 years.
A news release from Fuego said the original tape of this live recording was “lost” for more than 33 years in the record and tape collection of music producer and promoter Jeffrey Collins. Where it has been since it was found in 1995 they don’t say.
They claim that what makes this album unique are eight previously unreleased songs.
These include Paul singing Hank Williams’ “Lovesick Blues” and George doing Maurice Williams’ “Do You Believe.”
The complete list of all the tracks, the story of how this “lost” tape from The Beatles came into the possession of Collins, and sound clips from several of the tracks will be available soon on Fuego’s web site, www.FuegoEntertainment.net. When you enter the site, click on the “Fuego Plus” menu button.
Every time I hear this “lost” term thrown about, it gives me a pain. It usually means somebody at one those hack entertainment shows finds out that John Travolta did a Band-Aid commercial before he was famous.
In this case, it might be interesting to hear what the Beatles sounded like in their raw form before 20 or 30 people. On the other hand, it is rather sad to think about the Beatlemaniacs out there desperate to hear any utterance from the Mop Tops.
Some friends of mine recently found themselves in the emergency room. Their daughter had gotten a cotton swab stuck in her ear.
The wife said, “You know she’s 15 now. We really need to start thinking about driver’s ed.”
The husband looked at her and said, “She can’t even handle a Q-Tip and you want to give her a car?”
