The Drop - Greta Van Fleet, Cameron Winter and more

Welcome back, friends. Time for a brand new episode of The Drop. We are coming to you from Cactus Music World Headquarters here in Houston, Texas. I'm Ruben Dominguez. And I'm Quinn Bishop. All right, guys, as always, thank you so much for dialing in and checking us out right here on Fox Houston Plus. We couldn't do it without you. All the viewers, all the fans. All right, so here's the deal. If you want to watch us on the digital space, you can get the Fox Local app, new episodes drop six o'clock every saturday so you can watch us in the digital realm all right so we're going to do a whole bunch of cool stuff throughout the show if you guys if this is your first time we're going to do some segments a little something we call did you know after that a little drop karaoke we have a drop facts and then we we wrap the whole thing up with um what's going on but you got to stay with us till the end of the show because you get a chance to win some swag all right my man do you have the list we have a spectacular list please begin let's kick it off let's talk about the brand new album from greta van fleet this is the palace for the people uh fourth album from uh led zeppelin inspired yes uh rockers from frankenmuth michigan um you know and i want to this is a very divisive band we were having a little chat before this and going and you know it's always these the bands that really are so closely influenced by led zeppelin in every decade yeah have really had a problem like in the 70s there was Smokey in the 80s there was kingdom come yes rival sons most recently and it's just i think it's hard for people when you're basically kind of emulating to the degree that they are yeah the sound of a of a flagship heritage band uh it's just kind of a tough road to hoe but um uh this right new record's more depth to it i think they're trying to push it in some some new directions and say so that they can say there's more to their band than than Led Zeppelin but ultimately Robert Plant's a fan so yeah you know look man if that's if that's your wheelhouse they do that particular brand of rock and roll very well very well and then and there are the guys dude and the guitar tone is like spot on it's really good yeah and then you got some colored vinyl there we've got colored vinyl um and this if i can find it where is it and here it is all right look at this it doesn't tell us what it is no so this is we just use our own you know our own thing there you go all right Greta Van Fleet all right it is time for did you know this is how it works quinn is going to ask a trivia question about our first artist Greta Van Fleet we're looking for the first correct answer jump on that qr code send us an email the first correct answer is going to win something wonderful for two things that are going to trust me you're going to be blown away ask the question did you know in 2018 the band was invited to perform at a famous musician's legendary oscar party and charity event who was the musician and which of his songs did he perform with them wow yeah that's a good one you always ask the good ones all right guys remember first correct answer is going to be the winner, this is what you're going to win if you're wondering, you get your choice of any of the Killer Cactus music T-shirt, so it's your choice and you don't get a choice on this one we're giving you the Reuben Dominguez bobblehead sorry you got it, there you go, that's all we got all right, more music, brand new record from Cameron Winter this is live at Carnegie Hall, New York uh you know, i mean, this is the lead singer of Geese who had a huge breakthrough, probably the breakthrough band of 2025, this is a solo show he recorded in december of 2025 and uh speechless spare versions piano and voice only of his tracks from his debut solo album Heavy Metal, very unique voice, very unique voice, um not my cup of tea particularly this album, um but you know um they've been successful, he's been successful, just played ACL, just played ACL, huge huge fan base and you know congratulations Cameron, yeah not everybody gets to play Carnegie Hall absolutely and this really lays his style, yeah, so if you're very talented thing, yes you you if you thought you loved it or hate it, you're really gonna love it or hate it, very slide thing, well said my friend, brand new record from Harry Connick this is Babe, Ella Barrosio, a tribute to my mother, this has such an interesting story um Harry Connick Jr, this is this this is you know New Orleans legend this is 50 minutes of uh orchestral big band solo piano and it's all tribute to his mother who uh was diagnosed with cancer when he was 10 died when he was 13 and so 45 years later there's a love letter to his mom and you know you're starting to hear i mean this year all of a sudden i think the catalyst is the Anderson Cooper podcast which some people may have seen out there but there's all these records that are about grief and intimate and getting to know your grief the Sarah Bareilles records one of the best records of the year a good grief and this is really a fantastic statement from uh one of the most important piano players and artists from New New Orleans um i gave it a little you know i kind of sampled it um i enjoyed it's in three parts uh part three is uh titled New Orleans that was my favorite part of the of the album anyway good stuff from Harry yep important stuff uh brand new record from Remy Wolf i like this i love it too this is Mud and uh you know this is a less production no synth no drum machines or previous records were these like soul pop party albums right yep um uh funky pop she's she's overcome some personal issues and and this is thoughtful grounded organic record i i think this is her first great album and i've liked the others too agreed yeah you got some colored vinyl i enjoyed this i do have colored vinyl it takes me a minute to get to it man this is this is a pattern is showing with this gray right it's like the last one yeah it's kind of smoky and gray and her voice reminds me a lot of Lola Young all right there we go moving through it all right guys it is time for drop karaoke feast your eyes on this gentleman who is doing a very passionate cover of what is love by Haddaway now i i couldn't tell because you know i grabbed it from tiktok uh i think this person goes by Bryce Green Reaper uh i'm not sure where this takes place because it was not immediately available but uh you know kudos for getting up there the rest of the video he actually adds choreography so yeah yes yeah there's like a almost James Brown kind of split at the end we're showing you this because we want you to send your karaoke video you could be dancing you could be singing you could be playing the guitar you could be driving in your car send it to us and we'll put you on the screen and talk about you how about that and the list goes on and on and on with all the groovy music today yeah we're carrying on this is the brand new record from Toby Wigway this is the bridge uh grammy nominated uh actor director musician proud a leaf native this is houston texas crashing right into uh west african sounds uh very very houston very very uh uh you know culture clash on this record um a lot of james brown going on and of course you know him if you watch uh the show Mo Mo America he's his best buddy yep best best buddy on that show and uh this is a very very cool record i like i like the whole thing it's it's very very song oriented um gets in a great groove again a lot of james brown uh he really vault vaulted to prominence in 2018, he had a cut on Dope that was on Michelle Obama's workout playlist. Everybody's like, who's this guy? And they had to figure it out quick. But Houston guy, we're very proud of him. And this record's going to go into big things. It really is a strong, strong record. Nice. And you got colored vinyl? What? Yeah. We're on a run. We're on a run. And it's not gray. It's not smoky or gray. That's what they call the Coke bottle clear. oh yeah 100 i was about to say all right brandy record from shiny ribs um this is i love the title real alligator and that kind of makes sense because he does a whole lot of swamp pop and country and soul and everything kind of mixed together a little bit of blues so is he the real alligator he might be the real alligator um and uh you know this was written in a kev wrote this as a solo record uh kevin russell uh known for the gourds and uh Shiny Ribs but then uh you know kind of worked it in with the band so it's got kind of a more personal there's always a lot of humor he's a great showman great singer he's going to be at the Duck on the 27th so go see him at the Monkey always a really really fun show and uh another great record from him love it all right we uh we're keeping it very Texas in this in this segment that's how it should be Texas and the Moon Rocks friends that i don't like and you know there's been uh of in recent years all this cross-pollination of like rock rock rock music and country music that's what these guys are doing they claim to play western space grunge and i think that's a pretty good description of it because it is definitely country and it sounds a lot like Nirvana at times if i know that's it's odd tried to get that i tried to get tickets uh from for them for my daughter and like we looked at nearby cities to to go to everything is sold yeah out yeah they're from Dallas they're from Throckmorton County i don't think there's really even a real city or town i don't even know where that is yeah yeah i don't i don't need i think it's up near Dallas uh they had a huge hit freaking out with a huge international hit that really kind of blew blew them out and uh they really like Cheez-Its you can Cheez-Its are pretty good they're terrible for you but you can read it you can read more about them online and and their Cheez-It fascination um ready record from Slow Pulp this is the third album from one of the uh most important shoegazy bands we've talked about shoegaze long on the drop quite a bit you know it's really kind of a re-emerging music trend with the uh young folks this is a very different record um in in that it's produced by Elliott Kozol, who produced Lizzo and RZA and Rosalia. Their album from 2023 was like on everyone's top 10 list from the year. Rolling Stone, New York Times, Stereo Gum, Pitchfork, Fader. And they're going to be at White Oak Music Hall on November 4th. I think I'm going to try to go catch it. This is shoegaze elements, but it's really pop, very song oriented. it doesn't kind of drone on right for too long uh great singer this is a cool band i might have to go with you oh colored vinyl guys that is very blue limited edition colored vinyl is all they tell us but that is blue rich deep blue all right time to mosey on over to the drop facts and we have been featuring on this segment the art of the album and what do you have there and cactus staff talking about the art of them well i'm taking a shot this time and i'm going to talk about the Bee Gees Odessa this is their concept album uh from 1969 of which i i dare you to determine what the concept of this album is because lyrically it is so it is so uh kooky and so is this like how they it released it as far as i know i wanted to pick this because it's velvet yes this is as far as i one of the only flocked album covers that was ever released at the time. It was like people were flipping out by it. It's a 50-year-old album, and this is flocking still intact. And from back in the day, that's how they made Black Light posters. Yes, you had much better quality of flock. Yeah. I think now the flock is not as good. There's a joke there somewhere. I don't know what it is. But anyway. so if you just had to like loosely take a guess at what the concept is about the Crimean War it's it's in there somewhere but check it out this is actually this is actually one of their best records but i just want to show you the cover because it's so odd that it's a flocked like a black held up pretty yeah 50 years old good lord 50 plus the brother's good oh yeah okay let's go back to back to music let's talk about Texas Headhunters i wasn't using it was it was a flocked album cover uh you know these guys Texas Texas Headhunters this is uh uh Jesse Mauler Ian Moore and and our friend Jesse Dayton they're actually all our pals here at Cactus second album of hot shot guitar blues roots rock um good stuff uh from them they had a record two years ago and it was such a big hit i mean they had to make another one I would like to see them live. I missed them the last time they did a Houston set. My son, Graham Bishop, saw them and said they were remarkably good. I bet they are. And I think my favorite track on here, that Rise and Shine song, I think you're going to be hearing more of that song. It is a good one. Hopefully we get a tour date soon. Let's go. We have a brand new record from Wade Bowen. This is the version of Me You Get, which I like the title a lot. um Wade Waco native Red Dirt singer songwriter country artist uh you know he's in kind of a tough spot because there's a whole pack of these Texas Oklahoma country Red Dirt guys they're not the elder statesman's like like Robert Earl Keen or like Joe Ely was and they're not like the young guys they're kind of the dudes in the middle that are just carving out and making you know really solid records on the road probably 200 days a year um but he's this is a very gritty and rough hewn record i think it's he's he always comes with a strong record this this is no um no no difference you get a good quote from uh who says that uh this is from the Alt Country News quote uh Bowen doesn't just sing about pain he documents survival oh wow that's that's heavy so top record from a great record from the top go get it guy on the scene or come here and buy it how about that and we always close the new release program with it with the story record and I think this is a great story this is Israel Nash who's a Texas singer-songwriter really producer he does a ton of production work and he really is part of this like spacey cosmic cowboy kind of thing and he covers the Birds 1968 album Sweetheart of the Rodeo which if you're familiar with is probably the most important uh country rock record ever released it uh that's the emergence of Gram Parsons um with the Birds and it's just stacked and it was like the the moment the tipping point moment for for country rock so uh he does this but he radically reinterprets everything to where it's like the spacey pop he's got this hypnotic voice uh um um does just really in interesting versions of these tunes and he's got who's on 100 years from now um does it say oh boy and i can't remember anyways uh look it up yeah check it out great reinterpretation of a classic album there we go it's time for reissues yeah people love reissues and archival music and this is john prine's lost dogs and mixed blessings uh this is called found dogs as opposed to lost dogs and what this is this is his uh some previously unreleased music some covers but demos and working versions of the songs that 30 years ago made up his lost dogs album and um you know really gives an insight to the process writing process of one of the great american songwriters and this is first available as a record store day edition which sold out immediately so it's good that it's back as a standard black vinyl which which actually sounds better by the way funny thing about this record so it's 30 years down the line yeah they say that's 231 years in dog years there you go i like it for you dog fans out there they got you they got you good uh okay ella langley you know has had this monster she's one of the biggest artists to emerge breaking records yeah breaking records chart topping that choosing Texas song is the longest running number one track on the billboard hot 100 ever it's really she's smashing boundaries stylistically and with her album Dandelion and this is the reissue of her first album Hungover 15 tracks and I don't know that this has ever really been physically available maybe it was available on CD somewhere but certainly not on LP and uh it is just amazing how it's wild how popular she is and how she is connected with people who aren't even uh country fans but that Choosing Texas song I guarantee you wherever you go today you'll probably hear it here at once and you got some colored vinyl there from Ella on plum let's see it is that plum it's kind of rouge I don't know what it is yeah plum crazy coming with that right there uh okay there's another archival record or reissue The Go-Betweens a wonderful Australian uh whatever you want to call it alternative college rock that that 80s 90s era stuff that wasn't big on the radio uh this is Fountains of Youth live at Town and Country Club London uh 10th of May 1987 and it's really great uh has all their best songs on it career retrospective this was part of a box set that sold out long time ago I think we only ever got one copy of it sold immediately and now those box sets are thousands of dollars online so they're breaking out some of the music so you can get it and this is they've never had a uh in the run of the band they never had a proper live album so you get it here this is it it's great it's very well recorded it's very fun it's very very uh upbeat and lively um their records had tended to be a little bit of like a studio creation so you get you get that where it's coming as a uh kind of a little rocked up a little bit i love it cool good job all right guys we're gonna open the doors now to the classics vault this is where we go way back and i have selected Bossa Nova by the Pixies uh so it kind of a odd album compared to what they'd done to this point a little bit so maybe trying to stretch out a little bit or do something a little different by choice uh still some really really really good songs on here um i love Dig for Fire i love Velouria um and you know i was i had the i bought i remember going to the store when this came out and i bought it on cd sure and got it home threw it in the cd player and i immediately didn't hear a what i thought Pixies' favorite song was for me yeah if that makes sense but this is this album over the years has grown on me because i'll forget about it for 10 years and then i'll hear a song and then i'll go back and listen to it and i just listened to it the other day and i was like man i really like that album i think it's kind of a fan favorite like the obvious like go-to's or that people do historically yeah no but this this is definitely a cool record um and um i can't ever say the word Pixies or hear the word Pixies without remembering uh several years ago where where it was Sting, not Sting, Spin or Pitchfork or Rolling Stone, somebody did a list of the top 50 most important, I don't know if they called it alternative guitarists or, you know, whatever. But, and it had all the people you would expect that were very creative. This is non like hard rock guitarists, right? Yeah, yeah. And Joey Santiago was not on the list. and I just thought that was a crime. Anyway, go check this album out if you've never heard it. What do you think about that? I think it's awesome. All right. How are we doing on time? What's going on, guys? It's a little segment we do. We kind of catch up over the week to see what this dude's been doing and what I've been doing. You're first, my friend. We're still reeling from the fact that we talked about Toby Wiges' album earlier, and just to you know keep it fresh here on the drop, we had we hosted his first ever fan event in store of course in his hometown record store Houston Texas and they brought out let me guess cool cars they brought out like a photo booth it was a whole scene man and people were uh it's a power TV being on a television show people people felt really connected to him and he's very sweet guy family here and everything it was it was just a superb that was fantastic man you guys always host the the best events so what were you guys charging at the door for this event that'd be zero zero yeah yeah to meet to meet a recording artist hang out the in stores at Cactus if you have not attended i say it all the time you need to show up for one that sounds that's pretty good yeah yeah that's that's pretty good i worked briefly with his cousin oh is that right yep oh neat and there you go he said she said he was a wonderful dude never met all right so for me uh you know man last week was filled with all sorts of stuff man it was kind of crazy um went to went to a couple of you know like restaurant opening things and and um a buddy of mine used to have a lovely bar down the street from my house called the Corkscrew my buddy andy yeah my buddy andy uh he's had a couple of different bars since then he's currently in the Heights he's got a little bar called Cafe Vino so it's a coffee shop in the morning and then it gradually switches over to wine and beers and it's a good model it's an old house right there on i think he's on Heights or Yale i can't remember anyway uh so this weekend was i can't remember the name he had for it WinePalooza or something or the great wine festival tasting and so they had you know you walk in you paid but whatever the little fee at the door was you get your little your little glass and you go and they had the different people taste taste taste taste taste you know they had they had uh they had like street tacos in in the back they had a live band on the uh on the porch there saw a bunch of folks and the weather was fantastic remember what we talked about earlier send us your video for uh drop karaoke we want to put you guys on there and follow at Cactus Music on Instagram because that's how you find out about the in-stores all the cool stuff that happens here and if there's something happening and you attend guess what you might get some star pizza and you'll probably get some cold Saint Arnold yeah adult bevs we want to hook you up who doesn't who doesn't love adult bevs all right guys next week guess what another brand new episode of the drop have a great week we'll see you then