Chase Hamblin is a Houston singer-songwriter whose sixties-inflected pop was a recurring subject for Free Press Houston, which called him “Houston’s best kept secret” and, more than once, one of the city’s best songwriters. The paper’s blog announced a 2009 in-store at Cactus Music for his EP A Fine Time, and he later recorded the full-length VAUdeVILLE as Chase Hamblin & The Roustabouts, the band billing under which he often appeared. The archive holds his sets at Westheimer Block Party in 2009 and Free Press Summer Fest in 2009 and 2010, and its coverage follows later singles such as “Fools” in 2016, solo acoustic openings and ensemble projects around the city.
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Held artifact from Free Press Summer Fest 2010, an edition the act played. Free Press Summer Fest 2010 lineup poster. Printed copy reads FREE PRESS HOUSTON AND PEGSTAR.NET CONCERTS PRESENT × JUNE 5 – 6, 2010 × ELEANOR TINSLEY PARK, HOUSTON, TX, with The Flaming Lips, Girl Talk, Slim Thug, Stars, Mix Master Mike, Medeski Martin and Wood, Municipal Waste and Ra Ra Riot at the head of the list. Colophon reads ARTWORK BY SHANE HILLMAN. Artwork: Shane Hillman. Free Press Houston Archive holding.
3 appearances documented on Free Press Houston bills. Records are kept to the lineup sources the archive holds; nothing beyond them is stated.
Lineup row held for Free Press Summer Fest 2010, source fpsf-dev-2014-previous-lineups.
Documentary evidence
Portrait — not event-specific. Chase Hamblin, from the Free Press Houston article “Way Back: Chase Hamblin Shines on New Track”. Free Press Houston archive image (photographer not stated), 2015. Archive-held image; rights status not separately stated.. Free Press Houston Archive. Sourced from an existing Free Press Houston archive article; not asserted as event-specific evidence.
Free Press Summer Fest 2009Lineup row held for Free Press Summer Fest 2009, source fpsf-dev-2014-previous-lineups.
Westheimer Block Party, fall 2009Lineup row held for Westheimer Block Party, fall 2009, source wbp-2009-lineup-page.
Free Press Summer Fest 2010Lineup row held for Free Press Summer Fest 2010, source fpsf-dev-2014-previous-lineups.
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Related Free Press Houston coverage
Archive articles that name Chase Hamblin. A mention is a sighting in the paper’s own pages, not a statement that the piece is about this performer.
