Launch Music Lab

07/03/2024

Starting the tour off in my new hometown, Kerrville, Texas....Friday night, July 6th I sit in with the amazing Dickie Kaiser at the 5D Steakhouse Kerrville. Starts at 7 PM. Then the following Friday on 12 of July, I play for the first time in Comfort Texas at America Reclaimed, Longhorn lounge. 5 PM to 8 PM. I'm very excited to get to play that little spot. I love it. The next day, July 13, I will be doing a solo from 7 to 10 PM at 5D Steakhouse Kerrville Texas. Of course I always appreciate you guys turning out to hearing my songs. I know you have plenty to do. I also get to go see Elle Townley Music perform in Bandara AND we cut a new vocal at Anthem Studio on one of our new originals. The studio is always fun for me!

The Longhorn Lounge was founded in 2024 by owners, Brian & Sarah Kleinwachter.  They are the driving force and masterminds behind this amazing venue in the Texas Hill Country where rustic and modern styles create the perfect music venue.   The Longhorn Lounge is located in the heart of Comfort, T...

06/27/2024

Very proud of our friend, Ben McPeak and his new #1! Congrats to the team they got him there! More to come!!

06/01/2024

A little bit of rock history from my friend and co-writer Larry Weiss. Not everybody gets a song like this and becomes a piece of musical history. I'm very proud of him and have a ton of respect for Larry. Looking forward to seeing him in Nashville this month. Congrats Larry! Thanks Doak Turner
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On this day in 1975, the Glen Campbell single “Rhinestone Cowboy” debuted on the US Billboard Hot 100 at #81 (May 31)

"Rhinestone Cowboy" was written and originally recorded by Larry Weiss, a Brooklyn songwriter whose credits include "Bend Me, Shape Me" by The American Breed.
The song appeared on his album “Black and Blue Suite”.

It originated when Weiss overheard the phrase, "Rhinestone Cowboy" in a conversation. He told American Songwriter magazine September/October 1984: "I heard the phrase and thought, 'Boy, I like that title'. I put my own meaning to it and wrote the song.

I'll always be a kid at heart, and 'Rhinestone Cowboy' was sort of a summation of all my childhood cowboy movie heroes - particularly Hopalong Cassidy."

In late 1974, Campbell heard the song on the radio and, during a tour of Australia, decided to learn it.

After its release, the song became a huge hit around the world.

It went all the way to #1 in the US, Canada, Ireland, and Yugoslavia, #2 in New Zealand and South Africa, #3 in the Netherlands, #4 in the UK and Belgium, and #5 in Australia.

Campbell performed this song at the Grammy Awards ten years ago in 2012, where he received a Lifetime Achievement Award.

Click on the link below to watch:

https://youtu.be/8kAU3B9Pi_U

05/30/2024

My last morning in Texas for a bit and I relish every second. I had my 2nd cup of coffee, got my last pile of rocks from my neighbor Nick,, sitting here having some honey and gluten-free bread, honey furnished from the Phelan Family from South Dakota bees. Mickey Phelan
So good! Maybe I should get that sponsorship lol..
My lake is almost full again. I thought it would never come back, but God had a better plan. Thank you for the support and love you give me in my music...friends, family and God. I'm forever grateful.
See you July 12 at America Reclaimed in Comfort Texas and July 13 at 5D Steakhouse Kerrville. More to come!

05/10/2024

I'm pretty excited about heading back to Texas for a few weeks on Friday. I will be performing at the 5D Steakhouse Kerrville Texas, 7 PM to 9 PM on May 18th. I've got a small gang coming, but I could always use more. It's a good steakhouse, reasonably priced drinks, and easy location just off the I 10. I would think reservations would be a good idea on a Saturday night. Come on in and hear my brand of music. My beautiful sister, Donna McClintock, is in town too. Dan Kinney Cathy Kinney, Jerrie Greeley Hiltscher, Martin Burniston, Nick Frame, Kelly Garry, Kelly Downey Frame, Steve Garry, Dickie Kaiser
https://g.co/kgs/gkvjyE9 5D Steakhouse
(830) 315-5550

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04/03/2024

Scenes from last month in Austin at at Güero's Taco Bar.

Launch Music Lab featured artists Elle Townley Music Craig Bowen Music Dickie Kaiser Steven McClintock and Matt Sebastian Band!

03/18/2024

Congrats to Payton Riley, for getting to the American Idol 2024 auditions. So brave. We interviewed her at Texas Country Music Awards in November. Wonderful young lady with a big future.

03/17/2024

03/09/2024

Makin music in ! Cool things in the works for Launch Music Lab Lucky Run Studio HoustonLive 37 Records

02/28/2024

A few days ago, we lost a pioneer on the banjo. Roni Stoneman. I got to meet this lady once and really didn't know her history. But she had to be the nicest person in Nashville I thought. I wish I had been slightly more present at the time.
"Rest in peace Roni Stoneman... you were a super talented trailblazer and a cool, funny lady." See ya up there!
Here’s a great story on her and her amazing family. https://www.washingtonian.com/2018/12/16/these-badass-bluegrass-sisters-ruled-dc-honky-tonk-bars/

In the early 1960s, long before bluegrass was streamed into the living rooms of genteel NPR listeners or championed by retro-craving hipsters, the place to hear the best hillbilly music around was the District of Columbia, and the people to see were the Stonemans. The band was five siblings, all in....

02/22/2024

02/16/2024

Flew back to LA from Texas on the 13th. Picked up my car and drove to Phoenix to visit my daughter and help her set up a bunch of stuff. She's brand newly now living in the old part of Phoenix and really seems to like it. I'm very very pleased with that. Neighborhood's little funky, but she likes that stuff. I was there a day and a half and headed off to Austin Texas again this morning. Saturday and Sunday I'm doing the AmeriPolitan Music Awards with one of my favorite all-time artist and guys, Dale Watson Celine Lee. Very excited about the possibilities there. I am there with Launch Music Lab and interviewing all the nominees. Ameripolitan Awards 2024 yes, it's a lot of hours and miles, but worth every minute of it! I am blessed to be healthy enough to do it!

02/09/2024

This is gonna be special! Music lovers unite! Rat Lab.

02/08/2024

One week in Texas and I get to celebrate a #1️
Song on Texas Regional Radio by Case Hardin!
23 weeks on the charts and "Been There" is at #1 !!
Congratulations to the writers Dickie Kaiser Les Rawlins and Trent Willmon.
Launch Music Lab had the good sense to sign Dickie's share of the song from our Songcamp 2023 to a publishing deal. So proud of everyone for their efforts and excited to have our first number #1! Tracy DeJarnett Michael Mikulka

11/30/2023

Shane MacGowen from the Pogues has passed away. Unique, powerful, controversial, and wrote one of the coolest seasonal songs ever called “Fairytale of New York”. Sadly, he had not had a beautiful quality of life in the last 10 years, but he was very loved, and most certainly appreciated by musicians and the like. If you haven’t ever listened to the Pogues, this would be a good place to start. Rest in peace, Shane,,,,you made a difference.

Official video for Fairytale Of New York by The Pogues featuring Kirsty MacCollStream The Pogues greatest hits here ▶ https://RhinoUK.lnk.to/ThePoguesSubscri...

11/08/2023

Look what we are giving away at the Texas Country Music awards on November 12? I can’t wait to be there.

11/02/2023

Launch Music Lab is proud to see our first published song hit the Texas charts! Big congratulations to Texas artist Case Hardin on hitting the top 10 on the Texas Regional Radio charts! #10! The song, “Been There” co-written by Dickie Kaiser…great track…great song!Congrats to all.

09/28/2023

Super excited about the rise up the charts for Texas country artist Case Hardin with our song from writer Dickie Kaiser, “Been There”. #26 this week!