- Josh Weathers & The True Endeavors
(0) 05/10/2012Editor
I (Kim – the Editor) am a HUGE music junkie, HUGE. I listen to a little bit of everything, but mostly independent country or as most people call it Texas/Red Dirt Country. Don’t get me wrong Rhianna and Maroon 5 are on my iPod as well, but for the most part I stick to my roots. I also work with a lot of bands with my photography, so I see a substantial amount of live music. Every year for the past 24 years Larry Joe Taylor has held his Texas Music Festival around Stephenville, Texas, for a while it was in Meridian, but then got too big and was moved to just north of Stephenville. It is pretty much all Texas/Red Dirt Country, however this year the band that stole the show is no where near country. There really isn’t even a genre mold that they would fit in. My friends and I just call it the ‘Josh Weathers Genre”. He’s that good, they are that good. Amy Moorhouse is an even bigger fan of his than I am! She LOVES his music and no matter how long a day she has had, will stick it out until the end if he is playing. That is true dedication and he has earned it.
I was really excited when I saw that Josh and his Endeavors were booked for Friday on the acoustic stage. You see I don’t do the whole week of Larry Joe Taylor. I can’t hang, I go for Friday and sometimes Saturday and go for some of my clients to get some live performance pictures for their promo uses. So needless to say I was thrilled, he was set to play right after The Damn Quails. Now I am sure a lot of people saw this and thought poor Josh, playing after the one of the most talked about new Red Dirt Bands. I didn’t. I knew. Don’t get me wrong, I love the Quails, they are clients and very good friends of mine, but I know what kind of show Josh Weathers puts on and there is just no competition out there that can beat him. NO ONE! He is one of the most talented singers/musicians/entertainers in the world. I am not exaggerating, he is that good. The only thing that I hate about that, is that we (Texas, Fort Worth in particular) are bound to lose him to a national audience and soon. All those people who thought poor Josh, are now thinking poor Quails. (The Quails put on an amazing performance, they always do)
He is rockabilly soul made over into his own world of music. His album is on repeat on my iPod often, it is always a pick me up. His stage presence is phenomenal and filled with so much energy it’s tangible. Watching the crowd at LJT was almost as much fun as watching him. The acoustic stage is always a little more of a subdued – lawn chair sitting – enjoying the music type of crowd. So tell me why he got THREE standing ovations? Like I said he is that good. People were rocking in the seats, tapping their feet, waving their arms in the air, just having a good time. That is until he played all alone on stage by himself. This is a performance I hope I never get used to. Josh Weathers has been covering ‘I Will Always Love You’, originally by Dolly Parton and later sang by the late Whitney Houston, for a while now. I would hazard a guess and say it’s his most requested song. I know you think nobody does this song like Whitney, I hear you, but you are wrong. No disrespect to her at all, she did an amazing job with this song, but Josh does it better. Maybe its because he is a guy and it is so unexpected or maybe its just because he does it better. I don’t know, but I have the video to prove it! Brad Beheler from GalleyWinter.com took this video at LJT (you can read his re-cap of the festival here), now the camera moves around a lot, but you don’t need to see, you just need to hear.
What did I tell you? AMAZING! You can’t see it in this video, but as well as the standing ovation, you could look around and watch people lifting up their arms and looking at their goose bumps. SO SO COOL!
Check Josh Weathers & The True Endeavors out here and make sure and buy their album, you can thank me later!!
- Today We Make Our TV Debut!
(0) 05/05/2012Editor
Wow ~ today is the day, we have waited for since the day we were filmed so many weeks ago. I have mixed emotions about reality tv and my debut on it! Of course I am excited about it ~ who wouldn’t be? I think we had a fabulous shoot that day with lots of wonderful talent and help to pull it off. Am I anxious it will come out okay on TV? Of course I am. Will we be shown in a positive light and not the negative one we so often see on reality tv? Will I look fat (sorry guys that is a question we all have no matter our size or age!!!)? Will they catch me making one of my faces that I make without even realizing it and put it on national tv ~ possibly out of context? Will we get made fun of or talked about. Probably, but dressing like I have all these years hasn’t come without the occasional comment or look – ok more than occasional if the truth be known.
The film crew and producers were also great to work with – they weren’t scheming to create animosity among us and we told them when they filmed us they had better make us look skinny and smart (yea right). They said they would – time will tell. I was surprised at how much was set up and refilmed instead of it being just caught in the moment. When they filmed at the office & my house it was crazy how big their crew was – they had one guy specifically to go in and tape over or move anything that they didn’t have the permission or rights to us (pictures, magazines, coke cans etc). I am sure by all of the big trucks and moving vans that pulled up in my driveway that day the neighbors had to be convinced I was moving! It was a little awkward to think that your every word was being recorded and our every action was being filmed to be used you don’t know how. This was my first experience being recorded for that long in that way – was a little nervous!!!!
But my hope is that the world is going to see what an amazing group of women we had working TOGETHER that day. It was an amazing experience to have the talents of so many strong women being showcased that day ~ from the hair to the makeup, from the photography to the styling, from the models – both human and four legged, from the Gypsy Tails to the all the helpers.
I want that to be the message that the viewers take away – that women can work together and support each other with a positive outcome. It really was a good day and a good experience for all.
Don’t forget we have FOUR contest going, you win one of three $500 Gypsy Soule Shopping Sprees or one of our new fabulous Soule Covers for your phone! Go HERE to find out how!
- Amy & Lo Make Their Television Debut
(0) 05/03/2012Editor
Okay Gypsy Sisters, get ready….are you ready? Amy and Lo will be making their television debut this Saturday at 8:00 p.m. CT on CMT’s Texas Women. That’s right, our favorite Gypsy Sisters will be rockin’ a photo-shoot for Gypsy Soule on the show! Anna Hunt & Hannah Helvey both model for Gypsy Soule in this episode and they got the whole thing on film for the show. It was awesome! I don’t want to give to much away you will have to watch the episode to see what all goes down, but it was an experience I will not soon forget. It was by-far the biggest photo-shoot we have EVER done. Clothes, make-up, hair products, shoes, jewelry, cameras and even a buffalo!?!?! Seriously you HAVE TO WATCH on Saturday. You will get an amazing look at the behind the scenes of one of our photo-shoots and see what it is really like! CRAZY BUSY, is what it is, but CRAZY FUN too. Now in honor of Amy & Lo’s TV appearance, Gypsy Soule is giving away 3, yes count them 3! $500 shopping sprees!!! Go on over to the Gypsy Soule Blog to find out more about how you can win!!
This is going to be EPIC!
- Good Christian Bit$hes!
(0) 03/06/2012Editor
I just got done watching the new show on ABC, GCB and it’s pretty funny for a Girls ONLY show. Joel never came in the living room when I had it on tonight!
It’s a great show that has the ‘pretty mean girl leaves and comes back still is pretty and everyone loves her but the girls she was mean to in high school blah blah blah’ story line but I still like it. The show gives me some great laughs and seriously who has the right to judge anyone? WOMEN Need to SUPPORT Each other and not be MEAN!
My favorite part of the show is the hair, make-up and the clothes. I would wear just about everything on the show. If you see all of the pictures of me & Amy from NFR, Markets, shows etc., you might even think they got the shows costumes from our closets! LOL
All my friends on the West Coast will be laughing for sure thinking of me when they see it. Since I am a born Cali girl who was SO meant to be in TEXAS all my life. I do love all the over dressed women and dressing to the 9′s every chance I get. I think my mom is really a Texas girl in hiding. She ALWAYS told us “it’s better to be over dressed than under dressed” or maybe the other saying she told us “God made people to make, make-up so more is better!”, it was something like that! It’s crazy the older I get the things I have started to remember that my mom always told us as kids. Now I have started saying it to my kids. Yes, I am turning into my mother and I am just fine with that!
If you get the chance check out the show it’s cute, funny, silly and does make fun of us TEXAS WOMEN, but I am just fine with that. I am proud to be one! Its a great show for a Sunday night
XOXO Love this Tex-a-fornia gal! LO
- The Hunger Games: A Review
(0) 02/14/2012Editor
I like to rebel against anything everyone likes. When everyone else is reading a book and raving about it, I ignorantly convince myself that I wouldn’t like it, it’s not my thing, not for me. However after getting sucked into The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo series, I am starting to jump on bandwagons on a regular basis. The Hunger Games being one. I will say the deciding factor in reading this book was seeing the movie trailer and being extremely intrigued. If you haven’t seen it Click Here to watch it. I started reading this book at ten o’clock last night….I finished at 4:56 this morning. Now I am typically a fast reader, but I normally don’t stay up that late to finish a book. (and yes I am silently hating myself for it, because I really want to go back to bed right now)
Once you get out of high school or college, you just get to read for fun, which was a completely new idea to me. I like to read chick lit, nothing too heavy, just good old fashioned fun. So needless to say The Hunger Games is a departure for me, as was The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (which I also suggest reading) After reading the book jacket, I thought – “wow every english teachers’ dream”. It’s a complex story of survival, love, out of control government, morality and a scary glimpse into a very scary future.
I could probably write about it for days and summing it up here seems almost impossible.
The story follows one girl in a quest for survival, during her country’s “Hunger Games”. Panem, which used to be North America is ruled by The Capital and has 12 districts. Every year, one boy and one girl are chosen from each district to fight to the death in the Hunger Games. Katniss, the heroine volunteers in place of her younger sister with no realistic hope of survival. She doesn’t think much of herself at all, but has promised her sister that she will try her best to come back to her. Thus begins her journey. I won’t go into detail about what happens, because you need to read the book yourself. I will tell you that there is a love triangle of sorts, some great action scenes and it is a page turner. You won’t be bored.
The underlying themes of corrupt and overpowering government are reminiscent of George Orwell’s 1984, albeit in a more savage setting. This book makes you think. It makes you think about the choices you would make and just how far things can go when a cruel and totalitarian regime takes over a government. I can’t wait to watch the movie and I really hope they do a good job with it. I also can’t wait to read the next book in the series, although I think I am going to get some sleep first. Read the book. Just trust me on this one and read it today!
