Playing music. Recording songs at home. Listening to music. I especially love to go to Recordtown in Ft. Worth and buy obscure old blues that I have never heard before! Pawn shopping and rummaging thru thrift stores. My friends call me the Pawn Shop King!
B.B. King, Jimmie Vaughan, , Kim Wilson, James Lee Burke. Check out this video of a very good up and comin' bluesman GARY CLARK JR. with the Honeydripper Allstars!!
Johnny "Guitar" Watson, Guitar Slim, R.L. Burnside(the pre-hip hop stuff!), Lightnin' Hopkins, Freddie King, Otis Rush,Gatemouth Brown,Slim Harpo, Otis Redding, Little Walter, Howlin' Wolf, Goree Carter, Kim Wilson, Rusty Zinn, Jimmie Vaughan, Johnny Moeller,Eric Lindell , Tab Benoit, The old T-Birds( with Jimmie Vaughan), Chris Whitley, Tiny Grimes, Wes Montgomery, Grant Green, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Jimmy Smith, Kenny Burrell, Darrell Nullisch, Gary Clark Jr., Mance Lipscomb, Jimi Hendrix, Paula Abdul, Barney, The Wiggles(just checking to see if you really give a crap if I bragg about my vast knowledge of various musicians!) ,Pearl Jam, Bob Dylan, Soundgarden, Doyle Bramhall I and II, Charlie Sexton, Charlie Terrell, Ian Moore, Coldplay, Wilco, The Pixies, Prince and The Revolution, Albert King, Albert Collins, James Brown, just to name a few.
The Jerk, The Unforgiven, Tom Horn, Lonesome Dove, Vanilla Sky, It's A Wonderful Life, Goodfella's, Great Balls Of Fire(It's got Jimmie Vaughan in it,ok!), Ray, Saving Private Ryan, Conspiracy Theory, Pulp Fiction, The Antones Documentary
The Documentary Channel(I'll watch a documentary on damn near anything!) Seinfeld re-runs(can't get enough of 'em). Dog The Bounty Hunter. Cops. Austin City Limits. DALLAS COWBOYS FOOTBALL!!!. Sometimes I watch IMF just to check in on the rotten state of music today.
Factotum(anything by Charles Bukowski), James Lee Burkes' Dave Robicheaux novels, recording mags and how-to books. Mooch and other Dan Fante novels
Otis Redding, Ray Charles, Lightnin' Hopkins, B.B. King, Thomas Edison, Wes Montgomery