from Bakersfield Californian on bakersfield.com

Hang around Austin for a week or two and you're bound to hear legendary Texas artist Rosie Flores.  Somebody asked me the other day how I would describe her music, and I told them how I heard Rosie describe it in an interview a few years back: "Hard rocking country/rockabilly."  I don't think I could possible say it any better.

This lady has honed her craft since she first picked up a guitar in San Antonio some 50 years ago (I don't want to divulge her age here, but suffice it to say that during her youth, cars still had tailfins).  She's released a ton of great albums, including one of my all-time favorite Christmas albums, "Christmasville."  She's in the rockabilly hall of fame, and has been named one of the top 50 female guitarists of all time.  In other words, she's one of those artists that you've never heard of despite the fact that she's worlds better than most of the artists that you hear about all the time.  And that's too bad.

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