Rhythm and blues singer Chuck Willis invited him to ... the Grateful Dead and many others. The studio saxophone player wasn’t working out, so Barge stepped in. “They did 27 takes and weren ...

One of the best known was sax player Grady Gaines ... observers as Roger Wood (author of "Down in Houston: Bayou City Blues" and "Texas Zydeco"), KPFT-FM host Nuri Nuri and Houston-born music ...

This past summer, I was having dinner at a local restaurant in Dallas that had beautiful guitar music playing. When I looked around the room, I noticed a guy playing the guitar flawlessly and I ...

Music students learned from the professionals by performing in a saxophone master class at El Camino College on Thursday, ...

And all those many friends and fans — all who will miss StingRay and those guitar riffs and, fondly, his endearing and “sometimes prickly attitude.” StingRay played the blues magnificently. And ...