Cowboy Surfer - Memorial Location
May 17, 2026 - 7-9 PM
I have another live appearance booked at Cowboy Surfer here in Houston at their Memorial location and it's a song swap with singer-songwriters Jimmy Pizzitola and Tex Renner. Hope you can make it out if you're in the Houston area:
https://memorial.cowboysurferbar.com/houston-memorial-cowboy-surfer-events
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Happy New Year
january 15, 2026
Hey, Everybody! Happy New Year. I’ve been busy celebrating the holidays and getting a lot done this past year but wanted to take a minute to let you know I'm still enjoying hosting the Saturday morning music show, Three Chords and the Truth, from 8-10 CST on KPFT 90.1 FM in Houston.
You can listen on the dial at 90.1 FM KPFT Houston or listen live on the KPFT Website or at another time by going to the archives: kpft.org.
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I also have a live appearance booked at Cowboy Surfer here in Houston at their Memorial location and it's a song swap with singer-songwriters Jimmy Pizzitola and John Krajicek. Hope you can make it out if you're in the Houston area:
https://memorial.cowboysurferbar.com/houston-memorial-cowboy-surfer-events
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Happy New Year
January 4, 2025
Hey, Everybody! Happy New Year — I hope it’s been a good one for you so far. I’ve been celebrating the holidays and getting a lot done, and just wanted to take a minute to let you know that I’ll be hosting a special New Year’s 2025 episode this morning on Three Chords and The Truth, featuring all new releases from 2024!
Listen on the dial at 90.1 FM KPFT Houston in Houston, listen live on the KPFT Website or at another time by going to the archives at kpft.org.
I enjoyed putting this show together and I believe it attests to the variety of authentic music being produced and released currently, and many of the artists today hail from Houston and the state of Texas to boot. So I hope you’ll join me from 8-10 AM CST as we continue our pursuit of Three Chords and The Truth in a musical journey through the highlights of 2024.
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And please share this post to help build awareness of these artists who are out there on the road making music, touring and telling their stories. Thanks again, Everyone, and . . .
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Three Chords & The Truth: Special Episode w/ Guest Host Big Kev on KPFT 90.1 FM Houston, June 8, 2024
Hey, Everybody! I hope you’ll tune in to Three Chords and The Truth this morning from 8-10 AM on 90.1 FM in Houston or at https://kpft.org/listen-live-hd1/
I’ll be hosting the show live in the KPFT studios with Big Kev from the Monday evening Roots Rock Revolution show. This should be a lot of fun, Everyone!
Keep in mind you can also listen on the archive at any time: https://archive.kpft.org/
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March 16, 2024: Special “Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo Show” on Three Chords!
Hey, Everybody! Just a quick "heads up" to let you know I'm looking forward to hosting a special "Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Show" on Three Chords and The Truth, live in the KPFT 90.1 FM studios here in Houston this Saturday morning, March 16 from 8-10 AM. I hope you will join me for two hours of music by an array of entertainers who've performed at the rodeo since its inception in the 1930s. What fun! Tune in on the dial if you're in the Houston, Galveston, or Hunstville area – OR – go to https://kpft.org/ and listen live or on the archive after the program airs . . .
December 24, 2023: Merry Christmas . . .
Hey, Everybody! I'm enjoying Christmas Eve here at home this evening, listening to the Irish Aires Christmas Show hosted by Pete Little on KPFT 90.1 FM in Houston and it is a homey scene here by the tree. I wanted to take a minute to let you know I'm wishing you Happy Holidays and a pleasant and productive New Year ahead. Here's a link to listen to the Christmas episode of my new radio show, Three Chords and The Truth, which I co-hosted with Big Kev from the Monday evening Roots, Rock, Revolution program last Saturday morning from 8-10 AM live on the air at the KPFT 90. 1 FM studios. It was a lot of fun, and I hope you will enjoy this holiday "ear-wallpaper" . . .
Three Chords and The Truth Christmas 2023
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"Will you be my Valentine (on Christmas)? Will you say that you're all mine for Christmas?"
1,275,319 on Spotify and climbing . . .
Starring the adorable Baby Kit . . .
on Youtube!
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December 8, 2023
Happy Holidays, Everybody! I wanted to take a minute today to remind everyone that I'm hosting an exciting new radio show on KPFT 90.1 FM in Houston, Texas on Saturday mornings from 8-10 AM CST. Three Chords and The Truth will present a musical journey through the diverse songs of the 19th and 20th century folk canon to Tin Pan Alley, Music Row, the Texas singer-songwriter scene and beyond, the Chitlin’ Circuit, Blues and the road to rock ’n’ roll. Tune in at https://kpft.org/listen-live-hd1/ to get your weekends off to a great beginning or listen at another time by going to https://archive.kpft.org/ . . .
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June 1, 2023
Hey, Everybody! I wanted to take a minute today to let you know that I'll be hosting an exciting new radio show on KPFT 90.1 FM in Houston, Texas on Saturday mornings from 8-10 AM CST beginning on July 15. Three Chords and The Truth will present a musical journey through the diverse songs of the 19th and 20th century folk canon to Tin Pan Alley, Music Row, the Texas singer-songwriter scene and beyond, the Chitlin’ Circuit, Blues and the road to rock ’n’ roll. Tune in at https://kpft.org/listen-live-hd1/ to get your weekends off to a great beginning or listen at another time by going to https://archive.kpft.org/ . . .
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January 1, 2023
Happy New Year, Everybody! Wishing you all the best in 2023.
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December 21, 2022
1,271,912 Spotify Streams:
Be My Valentine (On Christmas)
Hey, Everybody! As we’re bracing for the big freeze here in Houston, I’m passing along a charming little video that warms my heart and reminds me that necessity really does breed creativity—what a delightful approach to the storyboarding by director and videographer, Stephen Ramos, who brilliantly captured the song’s conflict with unexpected humor and wit. I’m pleased to say “Be My Valentine (On Christmas)” has 1,271,912 streams on Spotify with 980 monthly listeners today:
Happy Holidays to you and yours wherever you may be and best wishes for a wonderful new year in 2023.
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Hear Glenna Bell on PURE, WPKN-FM in Bridgeport, CT (through October 21, 2022)
The New Yorker:
“WPKN-FM is a free-form radio station in Bridgeport, Connecticut; it is, to be honest, the greatest radio station in the world.”
Hey, Everybody! I wanted to take a minute today to send you a link (below) to one of my favorite radio shows, PURE, hosted by the inimitable Howard Thompson on WPKN in Bridgeport, CT. I’ve been a fan of Howard’s since we discovered one another when I released my album, Perfectly Legal: Songs of Sex, Love and Murder, a few years ago and got to meet him at one of my appearances in NYC. Needless to say, I was quite flattered when Perfectly Legal made his “top ten” list that year, for as they say of the English, he has exquisite taste and he also has an incredible background in the commercial music industry, which makes his programming not only entertaining but enlightening too.
It is always a pleasure to listen and especially to be reminded that my music continues to find a place on such a great radio show. Here’s a link that will be good for two weeks:
And here’s the announcement that went out yesterday when the program aired live:
FRIDAY October 7th, 1pm (Eastern)
PURE "North South East West"
WPKN, Bridgeport 89.5fm on your radio and wpkn.org on the web
featuring: Allen Toussaint, Andre Williams, Angel Corpus Christi, Big George Brock, Bill Frisell, Billy Bragg, Bob Dylan, Chris Farlowe, Chumbawamba, Clive Palmer, Dennis Linde, Dire Straits, Don Drummond & the Skatalites, Durwood Daily, Eddy Lawrence, Geraint Watkins, Glenna Bell, Hank Jacobs, J. Geils Band, JD McPherson, Jesse James, Johnnie Allan, Johnny Cash, Johnny Horton, Julian Cope, k.d. lang, LCD Soundsystem, Los Lobos, Matt and Kim, Monica Heldal, Mose Allison, the Mountain Goats, Neil Young, Nick Drake, Peter Stampfel, Ray Wylie Hubbard, the Rolling Stones, Solid Jackson, the Stanley Brothers, Willis Alan Ramsey ... and a WHOLE LOT MORE!!!
chat window open 'live' during the show: https://spinitron.com/WPKN/ ("refresh" periodically to stay current)
click: WPKN to listen live. Or find us in the Radio Garden
click: Archive to listen up to 2 weeks later
tweet: @howardwpkn
write: howardthompson@optonline.net
'PURE' - 1st & 3rd Fridays, 1pm eastern
Feel free to forward, tell a friend...
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HCCTV Appearance on Up to the Minute
September 2, 2022
Hey, Everybody! The Labor Day holiday weekend is off to an exciting start with an appearance that I made this morning on HCCTV's Up to the Minute show. I do a brief introduction at about 1:40 and my interview begins at about 9:45, just after Dr. Zachary Hodges who is the president of Houston Community College's Northwest Campus in Katy:
I must say I am quite impressed with the production!
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In Memory of My Dear Friend, Greg Henkel
Friday August 12, 2022
Dear Everyone,
I just posted this on FB and am not up to writing more today. I got this news a couple of hours ago:
Dearest Greg—I am heartbroken. You are my close companion, collaborator, and confidant. Life will not be the same without you. I was blessed to know you. I'll see you "just over that hill," my wonderful, talented friend. "Love you. Miss you." Always. — Glenna
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHw1LVAUcpw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh3W63GOwLM
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