Steve Houk is loving life and rocking out as a weekend musician. He has interviewed just about every pop musician imaginable to show up at the Birchmere, from Buddy Guy to Robin Trower. Houk lives in Annandale with his wife and kids. For his day job, Steve is Marketing Director of WUSA 9.
My passionate lifelong love of music first got a jump start by a trip down the Yellow Brick Road.
Not the Yellow Brick Road with Dorothy. The one with Alice the lesbian and the Sweet Painted Lady.
Not the Yellow Brick Road with the Munchkins. The one with Bennie and The Jets.
Sometimes, the offspring of talented people don’t come close to living up to their genes. In fact, more often than not, they fall way short, and spend the bulk of their life fruitlessly trying to live up to the hype.
Our band Second Wind has been together three years this month. Three years!
John Lennon said back in 1962 that he didn’t know if the Beatles would last ten years or two weeks.
Sometimes people get credit where credit is due. Sometimes.
Take the birth of rock and roll for instance: black American bluesmen head overseas in the late 50's-early 60's and introduce the blues to an adoring throng of awestruck young European rockers, including members of the Rolling Stones, The Beatles and Led Zeppelin, as well as Eric Clapton, fellow American Jimi Hendrix and other future rock icons.
World fusion, industrial metal, the sounds of Gnawa, legendary Grammy winners, and even two ultimate blues legends on one stage - these and more are all some of Houk's Happenings for the next few weeks.
From the pen of Thomas Hardy 109 years ago today, and by way of my dear friend John Malone, here is a beautiful piece of moving prose to usher in your new year.
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