ALL ROADS LEAD TO TOWNES - "If I Needed You"

There's a moment in every live show when the band and the audience know it's going to be a good night.

A big time publicist, who will remain nameless, sent me an advance reading copy of a novel due out this fall. I didn't ask for it, but I like this press rep, and she's been really nice to a small market reviewer like me, so I gave the book a whirl.

Count me as a new convert to the increasing number of people who think Madeleine Peyrox (Pey - roux) is one of the great talents on the jazz scene. Have enjoyed her records for several years, but gained a whole new appreciation for her gifts after seeing her perform at the AT&T's Wyly Theatre Thursday night.

My first trip to the Screen Door in Dallas' bustling arts district was so much fun I decided to try it again. Pat Lawrence and I dined there before the Madeleine Peyrox show at the Wyly Theatre Thursday night.

April 22, 2012 - It was a hell of a show on Sunday at FC Dallas Stadium in Frisco for Edgefest 22, the mostly-annual alternative-rock music festival hosted by KDGE 102.1 The Edge. Close to 20,000 fans came out to see such bands as the Black Keys, Garbage, Cake, Evanescence, Blue October and Cage the Elephant. Despite the very talented, but much ballyhooed, headliner band, the Black Keys, rocking the house in a big way, without doubt Garbage and Evanescence stole the show.

Went to Ocean Prime, at the corner of Cedar Springs and Pearl, Friday night for dinner with a friend from Virginia.

When Jimmy Buffett performed "Coconut Telegraph" at the Gexa Pavilion in Dallas Thursday night, he changed up the lyrics to give our fair city a shout out. At 2:53 into the number, he sings:

From THE FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM

By Tim Madigan

For the last six years, Ron Hall and Denver Moore traveled the nation with the story of their unlikely and transformative relationship.