Racket Redux: Greatest Hits from the Column Almost Named Ruckus
Racket debuted at the end of May, 2001, bringing Houston the sad news of the end of a Sunnyside blues and barbecue institution.
As the long tables filled in C. Davis Bar-B-Q's always cramped back room, it was plain that this was not going to be just another of I.J. Gosey's Sunday matinees. There was a little extra Seagram's sloshed in the to-go cups with the ice and 7Up. To paraphrase the old song played later that day: The drinks went around a little stiffer than usual; more th…
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