The Live Oak Coffeehouse Presents
The King of Hillbilly Rock

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
For more information, contact:
Jeff Dorsch, Concert Publicity: 925-7874
Concert Line: 219-9008
Coffeehouse Web Site: www.liveoakuu.org/coffee


AUGUST 2004 (Austin, Texas) – Kicking off the Fall 2004 season at the Live Oak
Coffeehouse this month is the Jon Emery Band, which will play on Friday, August
20, in a benefit for the Texas Unit of Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic.
Opening the show will be Cowboy Johnson of Austin.

Admission is $10 or a season pass at the door. Gourmet coffee and pastries are
included in the price of admission.

As always, the concert will be smoke-free and alcohol-free, putting the emphasis
on the music and the musicians. Three-quarters of the gate goes to the
performers, and one-quarter to the selected charity. Since the coffeehouse is an
all-volunteer, not-for-profit organization, all of the money from admissions
paid at the door and season passes goes to the performers and the charity.

Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic (RFB&D) is a national organization based in
Princeton, New Jersey. The group was organized in 1948 by the New York Public
Library’s Women’s Auxiliary in response to requests from blind veterans of
the Second World War for sound recordings of college textbooks, so they could
continue their education under the GI Bill of Rights. From the original sound
recording studio in the attic of the New York Public Library, RFB&D now has 29
recording studios across the nation, in addition to its national headquarters.
The organization distributed 236,655 titles in 2003. For more information on
RFB&D’s Austin-based Texas Unit, see the organization’s Web site at
www.rfbd.org/Units/Texas_Unit.htm.

Jon Emery's Austin roots go back to the mid-1970s when his Missouri Valley Boys
Band settled here and became regulars at the Broken Spoke and at other country
music clubs of that era. Since then, in addition to fronting his own bands, he
has backed up a wide variety of local and national acts. Upon first hearing in
1976, Townsend Miller wrote, “In my opinion, Jon Emery is the finest country
singer to hit Austin since Willie Nelson.” Emery's singing and songwriting
transcend any easy classification. His material is drawn as much from rockabilly
and blues styles as from country, and he is widely recognized for branching out
in different directions and taking risks. More recently, he has turned his
attention to a unique project for children of all ages. His newest album, “A
Child's Garden of Music,” creates songs out of the 58 poems that make up
Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses. He has performed this work
in many schools and continues to devote himself to entertaining and educating.

Doors open at 7 p.m. on Friday, August 20, at the Live Oak Unitarian
Universalist Church, located at 3315 El Salido Parkway, Cedar Park. For driving
directions, visit the church’s Web site at www.liveoakuu.org or call 219-9008.


THE LIVE OAK COFFEEHOUSE – GREAT MUSIC FOR GOOD CAUSES.
NOW IN OUR SEVENTH YEAR.