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Texas comes to New York in this bill of roadhouse rock and rangy west Texas songwriting.

The show, titled modestly without an exclamation point, "Betty Rules," is an odd grab bag of cabaret act, stand-up and sketch comedy, roadhouse rock and Broadway savvy.

This odd grab bag of cabaret act, stand-up and sketch comedy, roadhouse rock and Broadway savvy is fine featherweight entertainment (1:30).

The harsher critics call it "iffy ballads and lame roadhouse rock" (Jeff Giles, Newsweek ).

Mark Knopfler The Beacon Mark Knopfler has spent his career playing a strange, latter-day variation of classic rock; first with the British band Dire Straits and now on his own, as he has slowly been refining and stretching out an opiated, America-obsessed, high-end roadhouse rock.

Mr. Mellencamp in Bloomington, Steve Earle in Nashville and such groups as the Beat Farmers in Los Angeles all share a basic stomp that connotes good old roadhouse rock.

But with the Goners behind them, they became heartfelt and rowdy: roadhouse rock for a restless traveler.

The band's two guitarists, Jerry Raney and Joey Harris, sang less jokey material, including Neil Young's "Powderfinger," which the band turned into jaunty roadhouse rock: good-time music that once in a while recognizes a world outside the barroom.

Attempts to classify Mack's music proved challenging, but the common thread in Mack's best-known music is a unique mix of black and white musical roots, later dubbed "roadhouse rock".

Now that Roy Buchanan is recording for Alligator, the Chicago blues label, and making tough, funky albums of roadhouse rock the way he hears it, he's no longer reclusive, and a revelation for any listener who thinks the Yardbirds and Led Zeppelin invented heavy-blues flash.