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Steve Houk

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.

Articles By Steve Houk

The Stranger Hits the Yellow Brick Road to DC

Mar 10,2009

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.

Justin Townes Earle: Way More Than Just Good Genes

Feb 24,2009

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.

MIDLIFE ROCKER/One of Those Nights

Feb 20,2009

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.

The Legend of Buddy Guy: Where Credit is Due

Feb 18,2009

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.