Radio Free Texas Songwriter’s Showcase is proud to present: Tony Barker, Tuesday August 24th. @ 8:00 PM, Live from The Tin Roof 470 S Main St. Boerne, TX. 78006. Streaming Live on Radio Free Texas. If you are within driving distance come out for the (free) show and $2.50 Shiner Beer. If you can’t make it out, then listen in on Radio Free Texas. For more information on this and upcoming shows, check back here.

About Tony Barker:
Passionate. Energetic. Engaging. Tony is a rare treat – a writer that paints lasting, vivid pictures in your head, and an entertaining showman that takes live audiences on an Acoustic Vacation.
Nominated “Singer/Songwriter of The Year” by the Academy of Texas Music (2006), and voted “Entertainer of The Year” and “Musician of The Year” by the West Texas publication “Blues and Rock Gazette, Mr. Barker is an emerging talent on the Americana/Texas Music scene.

http://www.tonybarkermusic.com/

http://www.myspace.com/tonybarkermusic

SONGWRITER SHOWCASES SCHEDULE:
Aug 24 8:00PM Tony Barker
Aug 31 8:00PM Uncle Lucius
Sept 07 8:00PM Lincoln Durham
Sept 14 8:00PM Wes Nickson
Sept 21 8:00PM Ben Beckendorf
Sept 28 8:00PM StonehoneySee More

Radio Free Texas Songwriter’s Showcase is proud to present: Clay McClinton, Tuesday August 17th. @ 8:00 PM, Live from The Tin Roof 470 S Main St. Boerne, TX. 78006. Streaming Live on www.radiofreetexas.org. If you are within driving distance come out for the (free) show and $2.50 Shiner Beer. If you can’t make it out, then listen in on Radio Free Texas.

SONGWRITER SHOWCASES SCHEDULE:
Aug 17 8:00PM Clay McClinton
Aug 24 8:00PM Tony Barker
Aug 31 8:00PM Uncle Lucius
Sept 07 8:00PM Lincoln Durham
Sept 14 8:00PM Wes Nixon
Sept 21 8:00PM Ben Beckendorf
Sept 28 8:00PM Stonehoney

Radio Free Texas Songwriter’s Showcase is proud to present: Michael O’Connor, Tuesday July 27th. @ 8:00 PM, Live from The Tin Roof 470 S Main St. Boerne, TX. 78006. Streaming Live on www.radiofreetexas.org. If you are within driving distance come out for the (free) show and $2.50 Shiner Beer. If you can’t make it out, then listen in on Radio Free Texas.

 About Michael O’Connor:
O’Connor is no woulda-coulda-shoulda-been martyr. On the Texas songwriter scene, he’s held his own alongside some of the best of the best from the last quarter century — from Slaid Cleaves to Ray Wylie Hubbard to Adam Carroll to Susan Gibson to Terri Hendrix. Ask them to vouch for O’Connor’s merits as a songwriter or guitarist, and you’ll be answered with a chorus of praise and admiration. Cleaves, who recorded two of O’Connor’s songs on his excellent 2006 covers album, Unsung, says that O’Connor “is the first call I make when I need a true professional to take on the road to bring my songs to their full potential … He can do four sets a day without flagging or losing that lightning-quick Irish wit.” Hubbard, who not only gave O’Connor his first steady sideman gig but produced his debut album, 2000’s Green and Blue, approvingly notes that the Corpus Christi native “has the big four: tone, taste, groove and grit. He’s cool.” And Carroll, respects O’Connor so much, he just co-wrote and recorded an entire album with him, 2010’s Hard Times.  

www.michaeloconnormusic.com

http://www.myspace.com/michaeloconnormusic

SONGWRITER SHOWCASES SCHEDULE:
July 27 8:00PM Michael O’Connor
Aug 03 No Show (Rowdy Float Trip)
Aug 10 8:00PM Darryll Lee Rush
Aug 17 8:00PM Clay McClinton
Aug 24 8:00PM Tony Barker
Aug 31 8:00PM Uncle Lucius

Radio Free Texas Songwriter’s Showcase is proud to present: Courtney Patton, Tuesday July 20th. @ 8:00 PM, Live from The Tin Roof 470 S Main St. Boerne, TX. 78006. Streaming Live on www.radiofreetexas.org. If you are within driving distance come out for the (free) show and $2.50 Shiner Beer. If you can’t make it out, then listen in on Radio Free Texas.

About Courtney Patton:
Courtney Patton, a singer-songwriter originally from Weatherford, has been writing, singing and playing her music here in Erath County for over ten years. Courtney, a self-taught strummer, really embraced the sound and feel of Texas Country while attending Tarleton State University. Over the years, her writing progressed, giving her music more of an Americana feel. Ken Churilla of American Country Magazine describes her as having “a voice drenched in femininity but laced by an equal ring of wine, whiskey and real world lessons. When someone can move you this much with nothing more than a voice and an acoustic guitar, that’s something special.” After opening for Ray Benson at a Nike Golf function, the Asleep at the Wheel front man tried to work her a deal: “You sponsor all these great athletes. Why not sponsor a musician? This girl can sing!”

http://www.myspace.com/courtneypattonmusic

SONGWRITER SHOWCASES SCHEDULE:
July 20 8:00PM Courtney Patton
July 27 8:00PM Michael O’Connor
Aug 03 No Show (Rowdy Float Trip)
Aug 10 8:00PM Darryll Lee Rush
Aug 17 8:00PM Clay McClinton

Radio Free Texas Songwriter’s Showcase is proud to present: James Dunning from The Lost Immigrants, Tuesday July 13th. @ 8:00 PM, Live from The Tin Roof 470 S Main St. Boerne, TX. 78006. Streaming Live on www.radiofreetexas.org. If you are within driving distance come out for the (free) show and $2.50 Shiner Beer. If you can’t make it out, then listen in on Radio Free Texas. 

About James Dunning:

For years, James toiled away in his bedroom, practicing the air guitar and working out his best shred-face in the mirror. At 17, he picked up the guitar for real and took lessons from anyone willing to sit down with him for more than five minutes. The love of music drove him to a handful of bands in college, a brief solo career in the Pacific Northwest and a stint in a variety of bands in Texas. Making his home in the Lone Star State, James fronts Lost Immigrants, an Americana/Texas country group with a long list of tunes and shows to their credit. Occasionally, James ventures out on his own.

http://www.lostimmigrants.com/

http://www.myspace.com/jamesdunningmusic

SONGWRITER SHOWCASES SCHEDULE:
July 13 8:00PM James Dunning (Lost Immigrants)
July 20 8:00PM Courtney Patton
July 27 8:00PM Michael O’Connor
Aug 03 No Show (Rowdy Float Trip)
Aug 10 8:00PM Darryll Lee Rush
Aug 17 8:00PM Clay McClinton

Radio Free Texas Songwriter’s Showcase is proud to present:Pug Johnson form The Slow Rollin Lows, Tuesday July 6th. @ 8:00 PM, Live from The Tin Roof 470 S Main St. Boerne, TX. 78006. Streaming Live on www.radiofreetexas.org. If you are within driving distance come out for the (free) show and $2.50 Shiner Beer. If you can’t make it out, then listen in on Radio Free Texas.

SONGWRITER SHOWCASES SCHEDULE:
July 06 8:00PM Pug Johnson (Slow Rollin Lows)
July 13 8:00PM James Dunning (Lost Immigrants)
July 20 8:00PM Courtney Patton
July 27 8:00PM Michael O’Connor
Aug 03 No Show (Rowdy Float Trip)
Aug 10 8:00PM Darryll Lee Rush
Aug 17 8:00PM Clay McClinton

Radio Free Texas Songwriter’s Showcase is proud to present: Bonnie Bishop, Tuesday June 29th. @ 8:00 PM, Live from The Tin Roof 470 S Main St. Boerne, TX. 78006. Streaming Live on www.radiofreetexas.org. If you are within driving distance come out for the (free) show and $2.50 Shiner Beer. If you can’t make it out, then listen in on Radio Free Texas.

About Bonnie Bishop:
Bonnie Bishop is a singer and a Texan…and, yes, all that insinuates. Brassy, original, soulful, with a whole lot of attitude, her music and her personality are one in the same. But your stereotypical chick singer she is NOT. She sings with the confidence of a woman who understands that the power of her voice lies in her ability to make the audience want more, not want less. She wails effortlessly and with style, free from the shrillness of a woman who is straining to find her notes in the stratosphere, and then just as easily, she swoops down into the depths of her range with a softness that is rich and full of emotion. Walt Wilkins once said, “Her voice can be a tornado through your trailer park or a warm summer breeze across your skin.” Ray Wylie Hubbard also commented “Bonnie reminds me of Marianne Faithful…before she was ravaged by heroine and time.” With her trademark rasp, it is a voice that is both spiritual and sensual, both exhilarating and painful. Coupled with a poignant writing style, this young artist has found a niche that is truly her own, and if talent still has a place in the world of commercial music, in the future we will see Bonnie Bishop sitting at the top of the list as one of the most successful artists of her generation.

http://www.myspace.com/bonniebishopband

SONGWRITER SHOWCASES SCHEDULE:
June 29 8:00PM Bonnie Bishop
July 06 8:00PM Pug Johnson (Slow Rolling Lows)
July 13 8:00PM James Dunning (Lost Immigrants)
July 20 8:00PM Courtney Patten
July 27 8:00PM Michael O’Connor