Archives for March 2016

Texas Standard: March 3, 2016

Lots of finger pointing as Donald Trump stampedes toward the GOP convention- but in 2016, does the buck stop with the press? That’s today on the Texas Standard.

He’s been called a bigger catch than Pablo Escobar. And now the cartel chief known as El Chapo wants to hand himself in to US authorities. What’s behind his change of heart?

Also, it started as an in-state rivalry—but its become a whole lot bigger, and uglier. It’s the Texas taco war of 2016.

And nearly 6 years after the BP oil disaster…a corner finally turned?

In the electoral wrecking ball of 2016, the Texas establishment emerges largely unscathed. But there’s more than meets the eye–we’ll explore. Happy Texas Independence Day! We’ll break apart the winners and losers all across the state, and what the outcomes tells us about who we are and where we’re headed politically. Also it could be one of the most significant abortion cases in years—a case from Texas–gets an audience before the 8 justices of the supreme court. In a post Scalia era…what happens if there’s a draw? Those stories and so much more, it’s a busy news day on the Texas Standard:

Texas Standard: March 1, 2016

In parts of the Lone Star State record turnout expected for a contest to pick a president and perhaps shake up a system. We’ll check in with reporters across the state as Texans go to the polls, and get a proper explanation of what’s actually at stake in the crown jewel of Super Tuesday. Also, which politicians are on the rocks? All of them? At least at one north Texas bar… Plus the official witness on Texas’s death row and his public change of heart. And is it really getting harder to find a doctor in Texas? Those stories and lots more on todays Texas Standard:

This Song: Delbert McClinton // Carrie Rodriguez

Delbert McClinton has spent his life in music paying homage to American blues music. In this episode of This Song he tells the story of the first time he heard Big Joe Turner’s “Honey Hush” wafting out of a window. As he tells Taylor Wallace “The pulse was right where my heart beat.” From that moment on, he was driven to give everything he had to the blues

Then Carrie Rodriguez tells the story of the first time she heard Bill Frisell while touring in Europe. His version of “Cluck Old Hen” opened her up to the idea that traditional music need not be played in a traditional way, and helped inform her latest record “Lola.”

Listen to Delbert McClinton’s Studio 1A Session

Listen to Carrie Rodriguez and the Sacred Hearts Studio 1A session

Listen to Carrie Rodriguez’s MyKUTX Guest DJ session

Watch Carrie Rodriguez perform “Frio en al Alma” on Vuhaus

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Listen to the songs featured in Episode 29 of This Song.