Bullet the Blue Sky
• Los Lonely Boys‘ Fillmore meeting with Carlos Santana was well documented in our “Live Shot” and a lengthy “Random Note” in Rolling Stone (D-12 cover), but Santana took such a shine to the San Angelo trio that after the show he invited them back to his house. The party lasted until 3am and ended with an invitation for LLB to lay down some licks on Santana’s next album come September.
• Tia Carrera also found themselves on the receiving end of some RS love, but not as much as they hoped. In his “Out There” column, Senior Writer David Fricke lauded the “A-bomb quality” of the local threesome’s The November Session LP in the Prince issue, but the text is cut off midsentence. The missing words are … still missing.
• While driving through West Texas, noted songwriter Lee Hazlewood and his wife were enraptured by Shelley King‘s “Texas Blue Moon.” Mrs. Hazlewood suggested it would make a fine duet with Lee’s longtime muse Nancy Sinatra, who evidently agreed, because the song appears on the duo’s new Warner album, Nancy & Lee 3.
• Flutes Are Busting Out All Over: The normally demure woodwind is suddenly the hottest instrument in pop, appearing on recent hits by Usher, Petey Pablo, R. Kelly & Nick Cannon, and even the new Morrissey record. Flautists everywhere enjoy a level of street cred not seen since the heyday of Jethro Tull – or at least En Vogue.
This article appears in June 4 • 2004.