Just Country: Palace's series showcasing veteran country acts

Veteran country stars Doug Stone and Rick Treviño will be next up in Blue Bonnet Palace's The Country Rewind Series at 8 p.m. Saturday.

The opening act will be the Nick Lawrence Band, which plays a lively mix of Texas Music, country hits and Southern rock originals and covers.

Stone, known for hits such as “I'd Be Better Off (In a Pine Box),” “More Love” and “A Jukebox With a Country Song,” established himself as one of country's top ballad singers in the early 1990s.

While he sings about heartache, he's had some big ones of his own. He underwent a quadruple bypass at age 35 in 1992, had a heart attack in 1995 and a stroke in 1996.

After the bypass, Stone recorded the album “From the Heart,” which gave special meaning to all the heartache references.

Stone, 56, also will appear in two movies. In April, filming of “When the Storm God Rides” will conclude. He also is scheduled to play a role in “The Story of Bonnie and Clyde” with Lindsay Pulsipher as Bonnie Parker.

Treviño, whose father was a member of a Tejano band, adds a little Latin flavor to his country music.

One of the first popular Hispanic country singers since Johnny Rodriguez and Freddy Fender in the 1970s, Trevino scored hits through the 1990s such as “Bobbie Ann Mason,” “Doctor Time,” “Running Out of Reasons to Run” and “She Can't Say I Didn't Cry.”

Designed to showcase great country artists of the past, Blue Bonnet Palace's The Country Rewind Series will take place the first Saturday of the month through April. Lawrence will kick off each show. Tickets cost $12.

The rest of the artists are yet to be announced. Click on www.bluebonnetpalace.com for updates.

The series began in November with Sammy Kershaw and featured Diamond Rio in December.

Shot of Moonshine

JB & The Moonshine Band, whose sophomore CD “Beer for Breakfast” was ranked as one of the Top 5 best country albums of 2012 by Rolling Stone, will return to Cowboys Dancehall on Friday.

Here is what the magazine said about the Tyler quartet: “These East Texas country rockers are like a thousand other bar bands, with a crucial difference: Front man JB Patterson can really write songs — balancing sentiment with low-key Music Row wit and driven home with Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers-like chime and crunch.”

John Goodspeed, whose column appears Thursdays in Weekender, is a communications consultant. Email john@johngoodspeed.com.