Storytime With Texas Red

Paul Halperin
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Paul Halperin aka Texas Red, a successful, decades-long entertainment industry professional and blues musician, tells his hair-raising life stories followed by inspirational stories of recovery from addiction and mental illness.

Episodes

  1. 10/25/2025

    One Monday in Texas, February 21, 1983

    This is the true story of the most insane day of my entire life.

    28 min

  2. 06/20/2025

    Childhood Adventures

    This is a story about a kid from a middle class home in Texas, who sometimes played by the rules, and sometimes made his own rules, which often resulted in unintended consequences. Forty years later he revealed a dark personal secret.

    24 min

  3. 05/15/2025

    Scottsdale to Sunrise

    This is a story about my adventures as a solo resort musician and horse wrangler in the White Mountains of Arizona in 1975 and 1976.  The original title was "Mountain Madness," and that description still fits perfectly.

    22 min

  4. 04/30/2025

    Seymour to Scottsdale

    This is a story about alcohol and drug-fueled choices I made, that resulted in three cross-country moves in six years, a life-long nickname, a band that I'll never forget, a disturbing gig in Southern Indiana, and a series of abrupt and chaotic career changes.

    16 min

  5. 04/10/2025

    JFK and Abbott Vaughn Meader

    This is a story about two brief moments in my life, and the profoundly memorable events that occurred during each one.

    16 min

  6. 03/27/2025

    Palimony, 1983

    This is a true story about a drug, alcohol, and anger-fueled six-month marriage in crisis, a probable divorce, and a spontaneous side-trip to one of America's great party cities.

    13 min

  7. 03/13/2025

    Mental Health in Phoenix, Arizona - 1983

    This is a true story about mental health, alcoholism, addiction, a blues band, and my catastrophic attempts at sobriety and recovery in 1983.

    11 min

  8. 02/26/2025

    Angie & Chateau Vegas

    This is a story from 1983, about a hot Las Vegas blackjack dealer, an incident with a Porsche, an illegal cocktail, and a nightclub I haven't been able to find in decades.  It's another story I would pitch as "Leaving Las Vegas" meets "Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas."

    11 min

  9. 02/13/2025

    Sammie & The Maxim

    This is a story about two days in Las Vegas in 1983.  I would pitch it as "Leaving Las Vegas" meets "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas."

    8 min

  10. 02/01/2025

    A Brush with the Law in Macon

    A story about a blues band of young guys from Louisville, Kentucky, on the road to Macon, Georgia, to play their first high profile gig, not knowing what awaited them in that Southern town.

    5 min

  11. 10/31/2024

    Farquahrt's - Brandi Story

    An age-old story of what happens when a band blows into town for a gig, and meets up with a fan who wants to hang with the lead singer.

    3 min

  12. 10/19/2024

    Sunrise and the Bureau of Indian Affairs

    This is a story about a frightening incident that occurred in 1976, when I was doing a solo gig at Sunrise Ski Resort on the Fort Apache Reservation in northeastern Arizona.

    5 min
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About

Paul Halperin aka Texas Red, a successful, decades-long entertainment industry professional and blues musician, tells his hair-raising life stories followed by inspirational stories of recovery from addiction and mental illness.

Information

  • Creator
    Paul Halperin
  • Years Active
    2K
  • Episodes
    12
  • Rating
    Explicit
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  • Show Website
    Storytime With Texas Red