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I'll be taking a weekend off from the Fox & Hound and heading up to the Llano Uplift to play uplifting music underground. Saturday night, I'm returning to Longhorn Caverns State Park in Burnet. If you haven't heard about the cave concerts, it's one of the most unique music rooms in Texas. I'll be playing in a chamber 1/4 mile into the cave with the best acoustics I've heard anywhere. Bring a jacket, because the temperature underground is in the '60s year-round (this weekend, it might be warmer underground than above). The park folks like it if you call ahead and make reservations, so they know how many chairs to lug into the chamber. The number's below.
If you're staying in town, you can catch my friend and vato Danny Santos at the Fox & Hound, filling in for me from 6 to 8 p.m. this Friday. I'll be back onstage next week, same time and place.
If you have Hill Country friends who might enjoy one of these unique shows, feel free to pass this along to them through the magic of email. A blurb about me is below.
Steve
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 6 p.m.
STEVE BROOKS
LONGHORN CAVERN STATE PARK, Burnet
Check in about 5:45. Then they lead you on a short tour into the bowels of the earth, ending in a chamber with stunning acoustics. I play unplugged on a small stage at one end of the chamber. Reservations encouraged, (830)598-CAVE // 877-441-CAVE. $12 admission adults.
Directions: Longhorn Cavern State Park is located on Park Road 4 in Burnet, Texas. You can access Park Road 4 by two different routes. You can take HWY 29 between Llano and Burnet & exit south on Park Road 4. The park will be 10 miles on your right. Or you can take HWY 281 between Burnet & Marble Falls, Texas and exit west on Park Road 4. The park's about five miles in on your left.
Cross two famous guys named Brooks - Garth and Mel - and you get Austin
folksinger Steve Brooks. He's got a song for every occasion, from the
sublime to the ridiculous and back. His tunes range from comic commentary
and crackerbarrel philosophy to lyrical love ballads and sharp-edged
snapshots of Texas and the world.
"Steve is an extraordinary Austin songwriter," says Cyd Wright of
Quillen's Coffeehouse. "His songs can be hysterically funny or tearfully
sad."
Best-known for writing a song-a-week for Jim Hightower's radio show, his
work has been recorded by artists like Kevin So, Emily Kaitz and Slaid
Cleaves, who calls him, "A great unsung songwriter of Austin." He's had
music in two films and appeared in two more, including the 2004 release
"Barbecue: A Texas Love Story."
A master of words as well as music, he was featured on TV's "I've Got a
Secret" as six-time World Pun Champion. When he's not in a coffeehouse or a
beer joint, you can catch him behind a pulpit, guest-preaching on topics
like songwriting and spirituality.
If there's a common thread to Steve's songs, it's that we can change the
world when we look at it from a different angle - or from several angles at
once. As Steve puts it - a bit more poetically - "A single new star
rearranges a whole constellation."
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