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Robert Earl Keen Taps Tyler Childers, Miranda Lambert for Massive Texas Flood Benefit
Robert Earl Keen has revealed a heavy-hitting lineup for his Aug. 28 benefit for central Texas flood relief. Tyler Childers will join Keen and his band to cap a day-long bill of artists including Miranda Lambert, Jon Randall, Jack Ingram, Cross Canadian Ragweed, Cody Jinks, Ryan Bingham, and Randy Rogers for the show at Whitewater Amphitheater in New Braunfels, Texas, dubbed 'REK and Friends: Applause for the Cause.' Keen told Rolling Stone last week when he announced the benefit that he prioritized 'ensuring the musical intent was solid.' Keen's home of Kerrville was in the center of the hardest hit areas of the floods that began on July 4 and have so claimed more than 130 lives. In discussing the impact on Kerrville and the surrounding Hill Country, as well as the daunting recovery and relief efforts that lie ahead, he said, 'Do as much as you can, for as long as you can.' More from Rolling Stone Documents Show FEMA Calls Went Unanswered. Kristi Noem Claims It's Fake News George Strait Announces Texas Flood Benefit Concert Miranda Lambert and Chris Stapleton Deliver a Lovestruck Disco Duet on 'A Song to Sing' Tickets will go on sale Friday at noon/CT at General admission starts at $99, and attendees have the option to purchase tickets for local first responders to attend; all proceeds will benefit the Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country. The event will also offer both live and recorded streaming options for fans unable to make it to the 5,600-capacity venue. An ongoing series of benefit shows, house concerts and donations from concert tickets and merchandise sales started soon after the flooding. Keen's festival is the third to bring major country artists into the fold. George Strait is hosting Strait to the Heart on July 27 in Boerne, Texas. The King of Country will be joined by William Beckmann, Ray Benson, Wade Bowen, Jamey Johnson, and Riley Green for the exclusive, intimate dinner-and-concert event. Meanwhile, Pat Green — who lost family members in the flood — will host a flood relief livestream on Wednesday night at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas. Lambert and Ragweed will join Green, along with Dierks Bentley, Flatland Cavalry, Kaitlin, Butts, Ty Myers and others. Here's the full confirmed lineup for 'Robert Earl Keen and Friends: Applause for the Cause' — presented by Buc-ee's: Keen with special guest Tyler Childers; Miranda Lambert, Jon Randall, and Jack Ingram (performing together); Cross Canadian Ragweed; Aaron Watson; Catie Offerman; Cleto Cordero of Flatland Cavalry; Cody Jinks; Hayes Carll; Jamestown Revival; Jamey Johnson; Jason Boland; Josh Abbott ; KAZIMI; Kelsey Waldon; Kolton Moore; Pug Johnson; Radney Foster; Randy Rogers; Ray Wylie Hubbard; Ryan Bingham; Sarah Jarosz; Terry Allen; Vincent Neil Emerson; William Clark Green; Josh Weathers; Kyle Park; Rob Baird; The Texas Trio. Best of Rolling Stone Sly and the Family Stone: 20 Essential Songs The 50 Greatest Eminem Songs All 274 of Taylor Swift's Songs, Ranked
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10-06-2025
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Billy Jones, Baby's All Right Owner and Key Player in New York Music Scene, Dead at 45
Anyone who frequented the live music scene in New York over the last decade has a favorite story about Baby's All Right, the 280-seat club in Brooklyn's Williamsburg neighborhood. There was the night Billie Eilish, then 15, played songs from her first EP and a cover of Drake's 'Hotline Bling.' The time Mac DeMarco, with the help of some wine, wrote a 'theme song' for the club. Or the night Zoë Kravitz's band Lolawolf played a set to an audience that included her dad Lenny and Anne Hathaway. All those memories, and many more, are the legacy of Billy Jones, the club co-owner who died Saturday of what a spokesperson for the venue called 'a highly aggressive case of glioblastoma,' a malignant brain tumor. Jones was 45. More from Rolling Stone Wayne Lewis, Founding Member of Atlantic Starr, Dead at 68 George Wendt's Cause of Death Revealed Jonathan Joss, 'King of the Hill' Voice Actor, Fatally Shot at 59 Jones arrived in New York in 2002 after earning a degree in media arts at Salisbury University in Maryland. As Jones and others saw, a new generation of indie and dance artists was rising up and hungry for places to play. 'Chris from Grizzly Bear worked at a cafe on Bedford, and so did Kyp from TV on the Radio,' Jones said in an interview in 2023. 'It would be like, 'Maybe that was Karen O that walked by? I'm not quite sure.' … Whatever band would come out that week was like the best band ever.' Jones himself was lead singer in his own band, Other Passengers, in the 2000s and was a DJ. Looking back at those years, and the burgeoning Brooklyn music scene, he said in the same interview, 'There was a feeling of calm before the storm.' Jones established himself as a booker at city clubs like Pianos NYC, the Dance, and Sin-é (which, in an earlier incarnation, had fostered Jeff Buckley). In 2013, he and a business partner, Zachary Mexico, opened Baby's All Right, a combination bar, dining room, and performance space. With its astrology charts and shiny lighting, the club always felt a little otherworldly but quickly became a gathering spot for the Brooklyn and New York music community. Dev Hynes played a New Year's Eve party there, and the club also hosted early shows by SZA, Beach House, and Ariel Pink. Jones himself looked the part of an indie entrepreneur; one report described him as wearing 'denim bell bottoms with the messy haircut of a 20-something.' But he was also admirably ambitious. Just before the pandemic, he was hoping to open a Los Angeles version of Baby's All Right and also owned the recently closed Billy's Record Salon, a record store near the Brooklyn space. He also recently opened two new clubs in the city's East Village neighborhood: Night Club 101 and the jazz-leaning Funny Bar. As he told Rolling Stone in 2020 as the lockdown began, ''Everyone throws around the word 'resilient' right now. But there's got to be a way to do it.' Best of Rolling Stone Sly and the Family Stone: 20 Essential Songs The 50 Greatest Eminem Songs All 274 of Taylor Swift's Songs, Ranked