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I’ve been very fortunate to be able to attend each Lone Star Luau since the first one in 2017. Thom Shepherd and Coley McCabe have been extremely successful in bringing artists into small Marble Falls, Texas and many times the most awe-inspiring talent isn’t from the day-to-day Trop Rock music world. This year’s Lone Star …
2019 Trop Rockin’ Magazine People’s Choice Award Winners – SINGER / SONGWRITER – Thom Shepherd Sponsored by Free Range Parrots – ENTERTAINER – Donny Brewer Sponsored by Author, Chip Bell – TROP ROCK BAND – The Boat Drunks Sponsored by Diablo Creek Music – TROP ROCK DUO / TRIO – Thom …
Jesse Rice is an award winning singer and songwriter from Nashville. If you’ve heard his Pirate Sessions recordings, you’ve most likely heard “Too Drunk to Meet Jimmy Buffett.” Did you wonder about the background that inspired the song? Jesse took the time to explain who had a little too much to drink and how it …
Donny Brewer Sweeps the Awards The 2017 Trop Rock Music Association (TRMA) Awards were dominated by the very talented singer/songwriter Donny Brewer. Six awards. Count them: Male Vocalist, Entertainer, Songwriter, Album, Song of the Year (with Reggie Starrett) and the I Can award. Donny graciously accepted his first award trying hard to hold back his …
Back before the Meeting of the Minds / Parrot Head convention in 2015, I enjoyed several great songs on the Don Middlebrook Pandora station by someone I’d never heard of –Jesse Rice. When I found out Jesse was performing in Key West during the 2015 convention week, I contacted him for an interview. We had …
Dorothy Bedlin and her Tampa Bay Parrot Head Club (TBPHC) Phlock succeed in delivering phrases like “Party with a Purpose,” “Parrot Heads have Heart” and “ Music feeds the Soul.” Every year the TBPHC and their Music on the Bay (MOTB) Attendees have raised more then the previous year for the Shriner’s Hospital for Children. …
Our Trop Rock Rum Songs Playlist is all about that sweet intoxicating liquor which occasionally is the subject matter of a Trop Rock song. Songs that more than mention rum, these celebrate how rum is intertwined in our lives (if you’re a rum drinker that is). It heals, it hurts and it can make last …