Well, sorta. Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard and Ray Price with opener Asleep at the Wheel will come to Radio City Music Hall for thier The Last of the Breed show on 3/22 the night before Lucinda Williams plays the same room the night after. This is going to be a great couple of days for country music fans in Gotham.

Just a quick note from my family’s home in Dallas wishing all my readers a great thanksgiving (yeah it’s late, but what else is new?). Go celibrate by heading to your local bar, tavern or honky-tonk and supporting the working musicians that are still sweating it out and bringing you the best damn music that the major lables try and make you forget about. Hoist a pint or shot for the passion, beauty and heartache that music can bring and flip a bird to the machine that trys to put out the flame. 

I’m about two weeks behind in the MySpace Showcase feature, yes I know..BAD BAD BAD BLOG MASTER…
but don’t worry your Stetson’s buckaroos I’ve got a couple of treats in store.

First up is O.C. California’s gritty chugg-chuggin “Ditch Diggers” on Sheephucker Records. Now
these songs do sound a bit alike and one is about a pig call, but that ain’t necessarily a bad thing as drunk crackers have trouble with changing up rhythm, and as everyone knows, we do love our swine.

And speaking of white folks, the next band up are homeboys from Austin Texas “Honky.” These boys
cook with Southern rock as hot as Lynard Skynard’s downed plane. A little ZZ Top, a dash of Sabbath, and bottle of something serious.

While visiting my folks in Dallas for the 4th of July I was lucky enough to see Eleven Hundred Springs play at the great local watering hole the Old Monk off Henderson Ave. There’s nothing better to celebrate what’s right with America is a cold beer and some hot honky tonk. And Eleven Hundred Springs was as right as they come.

EHS have been a Dallas institution since 1998 and lead vocalist/lead guitarist Matt Hillyer, bassist/backing vocalist Steve Berg
pedal steel player Aaron Wynne and percussionist Mark Reznicek (formerly of Fort Worth based rock band The Toadies ), and the newest member of the group, 2nd generation fiddler Jordan Hendrix, whose father Phillip W. Hendrix played alongside the likes of Webb Pierce, Farron Young, and Wynne Stewart in honkytonks across the world (and played a smoking version of the Orange Blossom Special on this night), all play old school country that would make Kenny Chesney crawl home to his mama in shame.

See these boys when they come to your town.