Blog: A Fifty Cent Lighter & A Whiskey Buzz

***The above image was taken backstage at last month's Tennessee Shines and features the show's host Jim Lauderdale with blues legend Pinetop Perkins. Perkins is just one of the amazing artists who has graced the stage of The Bijou Theatre for a Tennessee Shines performance. I've written about most of them here, but I haven't come anywhere close to giving you the full lowdown on the still-new monthly concert series. The cover story of this week's Metro Pulse goes in [...]

• John Paul Keith and the One Four Fives - The SXSW Song (Everybody's in Austin)