Last night we passed along news that KXT 91.7 FM has hired a new programming director, Mark Abuzzahab, and we promised to have a little Q&A with him in the morning. And we keep our promises:

After an extensive search, our friends upstairs at KXT 91.7 FM have hired Mark Abuzzahab as the station’s new Program Director. Mark comes to us from KGSR in Austin, where he served as Music Director.

Today in the roundup: Getting to know Gini, a cop on Theatre Arlington’s stage and the death of film.

This time, Paul walks through “You Know Who You Are,” the latest release from Dallas artist Tiger Darrow.

This Week in Texas Music History, we’ll celebrate a Texas singer who is as popular abroad as he is here at home.

What a beautiful day, muggy to be sure, but quite lovely, and we can always use the rain. In any case, glad to have you along – I’ve got some interesting music for us to check out this week.

This Week in Texas Music History, we’ll learn about a pioneering artist who blended Native-American music with pop, blues, country, and jazz.

The KXT On the Road crew met up with the great Brett Dennen a few hours before his show at the Granada Theater earlier this month. Dennen played the song “Make You Fall in Love with Me” from his latest album, Loverboy, in the alleyway to the side of the theater.

As always I try to play as many suggestions from the blog as possible. Leave your suggestions here, leave a link if you can to where the music can be purchased.

This Week in Texas Music History, we’ll meet a singer who managed to turn lemons into lemonade.