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Austin City Limits producer Terry Lickona will receive the Americana Music Association's Jack Emerson Lifetime Achievement Award for an Executive at the organization's seventh annual Honors and Awards ceremony Sept. 18 at Nashville's historic Ryman Auditorium. He's produced more than 800 episodes of the long-running, respected music series in a span of 30 years.

Congratulations, Terry!

Photo: Terry Lickona in 2004 (Taylor Jones).

Austin-based country-rocker Jack Ingram will sit in the judge's chair come September when he critiques and advises the six finalists on Great American Country's Next GAC Star talent competition. The show, which airs Sept. 10 at 8 p.m. central on GAC, gives the one time Dallas resident and veteran singer-songwriter a chance to share his personal experiences with a half-dozen musical novices. Mr. Ingram, an Academy of Country Music award winner earlier this year, performs July 18 at Superpages.com Center as one of two opening acts for headliner Martina McBride. His current CD, This Is It, proved his breakthrough last year.

Photo: Jack Ingram at Jo's Coffee Shop in Austin (Erich Schlegel/DMN).

When Brian Burns first put out his variation on Geoff Mack's song "I've Been Everywhere," I bought a copy for a guy I knew who rode a motorcycle and traveled around a bit. He was diggin' the song, but to my knowledge he never took it as far (or did anything as cool with it) as this guy did. And his bike wasn't as cool as this guy's either. The BMW rider who posted his video to Youtube apparently compiled a photo of every city limits sign in Texas he's visited and synchronized it to Brian Burns' "I've Been Everywhere" (in Texas, Man).
Good job, whoever you are.

Update to this post: The "whoever you are" guy turns out to be Scott, who has commented to this post. And he's more than a clever musical slideshow artist; he has a cool Web site about his hobby collecting and restoring a particular type of miliatry jeep, the M38A1.

Check out the review from last' nights show here, video of screaming fans before the show here and comments from last night's concert-goers here.

Quick music man Hunter Hauk breaks down different George Michael songs since his Wham! days and categorizes them into four distinct styles: Butt-shakers, boot-knockers, slow-burners and killer covers. Check them out. He's in concert Sunday at American Airlines Center.

(AP photo: George Michael in concert in Inglewood, Calif., last month)

This is the fourth installment of our new "We were there" category, featuring blog-only mini-reviews of shows we check out in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

The Unlimited Enthusiasm Tour 2008 came through Dallas last night and despite slight technical difficulties, gave fans at the Granada theater an awesome show.
The tour features Harry and the Potters, Math the Band and Uncle Monsterface. Denton-based Fishboy joined them for the night to round out a very entertaining night. Since the show was at the Granada, fans got a more intimate experience. Band members milled around before and during sets, handing out nametags, temporary tattoos and showing off the merchandise.

Before and after interview with concert-goers:

• Hayley Caldwell, 15


• Brennan Tapp, 16


• Wesley Hackett, 16


• Deanna Dove, Wesley's grandmother


• Joe DeGeorge, keyboardist for Harry and the Potters

Hear music from Harry and the Potters:

• www.myspace.com/harryandthepotters


• www.eskimolabs.com/hp/news.htm


• unlimitedenthusiasm.com

(Photo: Harry and the Potters)

This is the third installment of our new "We were there" category, featuring blog-only mini-reviews of shows we check out in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. To see today's newspaper review of this concert, click here.

For me, watching the band Earth, Wind & Fire is more than witnessing seasoned musician pros in action; it's traveling back in time to my childhood, reliving my very first concert ever (when I saw them with Maurice White at Reunion Arena in 1979) and hearing their music as one endless 8-track after another fueled family trips back and forth to my native Cleveland, OH. They are more than entertainers to me, they feel like family.

So it felt like a reunion (minus the cookout) as my father, 11-year-old son and I danced, sang and cheered through "Fantasy," "Beijo," "Shining Star" and "In The Stone."

(Photo: Earth Wind & Fire member David "Tigger" Whitworth at Nokia last night. By Brandon Thibodeaux / Special to DMN.)