Yup, I'm heading out this morning for cooler parts, though my first
stop tonight is a hotter part - Terlingua, where the West is still
wild. I feel like Dante the folksinger.
Here's a schedule of the places I'm playing - if you have friends who
dig Texas songwriters in Alamogordo, Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Taos, Las
Cruces, Silver City, Denver, Boulder or Fort Collins, feel free to pass
this along to them. At the bottom is a blurb to tell them a bit about
me and my music.
Word-of-mouth marketing is more effective than any radio or newspaper
publicity. Thanks for your support, and I'll see you in August.

Peeps,
Steve

STEVE BROOKS
SUMMER SOUTHWEST TOUR 2003

7/25 - La Kiva, Terlingua TX, 8 PM.
7/26 - Alamagordo House Concerts, Alamagordo, NM.
Alamohouseconcert@...
7/27 - Cowgirl Hall of Fame, 319 Guadalupe South, Santa Fe NM. (505)
982-2565. 8:30 p.m.
7/28 - Eskes Brew Pub, 106 De Georges Ln., Taos, NM. (505) 758-1517. 7
p.m.
7/29 - Avogadros Number, 605 S. Mason, Fort Collins CO. (970) 493-5555.
8 p.m.
7/31 - Out To Lunch concert series, 1100 Block Downtown Boulder Mall,
Boulder CO. Noon, outdoors.
8/1 - Common Ground Coffee House, 3404 W. 32nd Ave., Denver CO. (303)
458-5248. 8 p.m.
8/2 - Caffe Sole, 637 Unit R, South Broadway, Boulder, CO. (303)
499-2985. 7 p.m.
8/3 - Blue Dragon Coffee House, 1517 Girard NE, Albuquerque, NM, (505)
268-5159. 9:30 p.m.
8/6 - Buckhorn Tavern & Opera House, 32 Main St, Pinos Altos, NM. (505)
538-9911. 7 p.m.
8/8 - Milagro Coffee y Espresso, 1733 E. University, Las Cruces NM.
(505)532-1042). 7 p.m.

STEVE BROOKS
TEXAS FOLKSINGER

They grow things a little bigger down in Texas. Cattle. Music.
Lives. Being an outlaw is still an honorable trade, and the main rule
is to make your own.
So the only probable thing about Steve Brooks' life and music is
that he ended up a Texas folksinger. To begin to describe him takes a
whole lot of commas. Says Songwriter's Circle magazine: "The man is
Steve Brooks and his mission most of the time: to be the poet,
protester, songwriter, activist, political satirist, humorist that he
is.
"No doubt Brooks is one of the most authentically colorful
characters in the Kerrville gathering of colorful characters?His color
comes out in what he says and what he does - his talk and his walk."
His offbeat lyrics and country-folk flavored tunes are tickling
crowds from Texas honky-tonks to Cambridge coffeehouses. Like
troubadours of old, he?ll write a song about any story that comes his
way. From love songs to politics, from tear-jerkers to thigh-slappers,
from pop to honky-tonk, he covers the range of human experience. Who
else could write a new song every week for Austin?s Hightower Radio,
heard on over 100 stations coast-to-coast?
His fourth CD, "Fever," released January 10, is a timely
collection of Texas peace songs. It's an inspiring sequel to 1999's
"Sex, Lies and Videotape," the best of his Hightower songs. It follows
up 1995?s country-flavored "Purgatory Road" and 1998?s intimate,
acoustic "Bulletproof."
Steve's a master of words as well as music. He's six-time world
pun champion, a feat which landed him on TV's "I've Got A Secret." He
spices his concerts with recitations of epic puns, like his reworking
of the Gettysburg Address with the names of Texas towns, or his
philosophy of food entitled ?Tex-Mexistentialism.?
His awards include the Texas Songwriting Contest, finalist in the
B.W. Stephenson Memorial Songwriting contest, KRCL Performing
Songwriter Showcase, the Napa Valley Folk Festival and the Austin
Songwriters Group.
Give Steve a listen, or check out his website at
www.stevebrooks.net. You?ll hear echoes of those other famous Brookses
- Garth and Mel - but a voice that?s all his own. If there's a common
thread, it's about looking at the world from a slightly different angle
than the one you're used to - or from several angles at once. As Steve
puts it - a bit more poetically - "A single new star rearranges a whole
constellation."

"A wordsmith of the first order."
- Jimmy Lafave, Bohemia Beat recording artist, Austin

?Great unsung songwriter of Austin. And the quickest pun in town.?
-Slaid Cleaves, Rounder recording artist, Austin

"Steve Brooks writes with the kind of dry wit that makes you chuckle
and spit sand, yet he has the same sense of commentary and observation
that made the likes of Woody Guthrie a national hero."
- Ellis Paul, Rounder recording artist, Boston




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