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My Friend Doug Bryan Releases His First Solo CD!
| 3 Comments on My Friend Doug Bryan Releases His First Solo CD!My friend, Doug Bryan, who played electric guitar on “Big Rain” and is in that video, too, has his first solo CD release party this Fri. Oct. 19th in Dallas, […]
Read more »My Song on American Idol Chart
Congratulations Sara Hickman! Listeners on American Idol Underground have rated your song among the top 50 tracks in the Folk genre during the previous week. You are at #33. See […]
Read more »October 16…Travels, Thoughts, and a Test of Wonder
Saturday, Oct 13 Drove to Big D for my Poor David’s gigs. Wore my Carmen Miranda overalls that Linda Holt made for me…I love to swirl the bottoms of the […]
Read more »Feedback from A Listener About “The One”
| 1 Comment on Feedback from A Listener About “The One”hey! i was at bruce’s house concert (we talked about scary hayrides)…anyway. YOU ARE GREAT!! I was most pleasantly surprised. I hadn’t seen your show before, but had heard good […]
Read more »UPDATE FROM LITTLE OL’ ME
| 2 Comments on UPDATE FROM LITTLE OL’ MEFIRST, MY THOUGHTS ON TEXAMERICANA.org: texamericana puts the music of the people into the hands of the people while supporting radio for the people…all to say, the circle cannot be […]
Read more »Look! An Ad for the Long Center, Austin, TX
Click here for the PDF: Long_Center_photo.pdf
Read more »My Mom Remembers…
Your words about going back to our old neighborhood made me cry. Things and places are never as we remember them, especially after many years of being away. Oddly, our […]
Read more »Drop a Grudge in Honor of the Amish Girls
This is a letter from my friend/writer, Spike Gillespie, that I wanted to share with you all: Second Annual International Drop a Grudge Day Today is the very sad first […]
Read more »Bruce’s Loft House Concert, Houston, TX
| 1 Comment on Bruce’s Loft House Concert, Houston, TXyou know when you are at the bottom of a well, you can only look up and think, “someday, i’ll be sitting up in the clouds!” well, that is what […]
Read more »A Return After A 20 Year Absence From My Childhood Stomping Grounds
| 11 Comments on A Return After A 20 Year Absence From My Childhood Stomping GroundsI grew up in a moss green house with a smooth concrete porch, my father’s handmade, oversized wooden mailbox affixed to the brick outside the matching clay orange front door. […]
Read more »JAMAICAN DISCO PARTY DRUNK JAMARAMA DING-A-LINGA DING DONG!
| 5 Comments on JAMAICAN DISCO PARTY DRUNK JAMARAMA DING-A-LINGA DING DONG!you know, just when i think things are ridiculous in the world of show business, they get so abstract and completely insane, i have to hang on to the mic […]
Read more »my brain, roger, says:
| 7 Comments on my brain, roger, says:who, so far, i’m liking for president:after watching a repeat of CNN or ESPN or whatever heck ACRONYM the event was on….a presidential debate…. i liked these gentleman: richardson kucinich […]
Read more »Ricky on “Good Morning America!”
Hey All One of my best friends forever, Julie, sent me this link because her husband, Ricky, was on “Good Morning America” this morning! History Pop Quiz http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=3664047 Check it […]
Read more »a morning poem
blessings are the quiet surprises that greet your eyes: like zipper spiders through a morning’s window silently gliding on silk love, sara
Read more »Dear Sara
Dear Sara, I’ve been meaning to write you for quite a while, ever since we saw you perform at the Unitunes show in Houston this past January. You might remember […]
Read more »Humanity and Humility
| 1 Comment on Humanity and HumilityHOMELESS MAN, CAREGIVERS FIND LESSONS IN HUMANITY By JOSEPH P. KAHN Boston Globe On Aug. 5, Patrick Conway was admitted to Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in acute pain. […]
Read more »let me know where you want me
hey, y’all! you can go to my http://www.myspace.com/sarahick site and click on the “eventful” link and you can tell me if you want me to come to your town! we […]
Read more »Stop This Madness!
Hey, Y’all…. Imagine walking into your local library, planning to read a theologian such as Reinhold Niebuhr or Karl Barth, or a popular inspirational work, such as Rick Warren’s “Purpose-Driven […]
Read more »Dallas Morning News About Sara’s Performance at ACL Fest
Sara, You had a favorable mention in the Dallas paper’s review of the ACL festival: http://www.guidelive.com/sharedcontent/dws/ent/stories/DN-aclwrapup_0918gl.ART.State.Edition1.41f2ce7.html If the link doesn’t work: “And Sara Hickman blasted folks with one bluesy vocal […]
Read more »LETTER TO MY MOM ABOUT AUSTIN CITY LIMITS Festival: Second Stage, Day Two!!!
| 1 Comment on LETTER TO MY MOM ABOUT AUSTIN CITY LIMITS Festival: Second Stage, Day Two!!!Ok, I’ve told my mom I was going to copy exactly what I wrote to her about yesterday’s show so here’s the scoop! Thanks to everyone who I’ve forgotten to […]
Read more »AUSTIN CITY LIMITS Festival: Update from Today’s Performance!
| 1 Comment on AUSTIN CITY LIMITS Festival: Update from Today’s Performance!Got to the stage at 9:00 am…parking was a breeze with the artist’s pass. Everyone so together. Soundchecked and the kids were looking snazzy…Erin made their clothes and they were […]
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