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I'm home from the Kerrville Folk Festival, bleary-eyed and happy. And I'm happy about the Hyde Park Fridays I have coming up this month at the New World Deli. Each Friday, I get to swap songs for three hours with one of my favorite musicians. My guests this month will be especially fun, starting with this Friday, June 12.
Marilyn Rucker is a female version of Tom Lehrer or Mark Russell, a comic songstress who tickles the ivories and your funnybone. She honed her chops as a member of The Therapy Sisters, She and I have written a lot together in years past, from songs like "Let the Men Buy the Beer" to skits for Esther's Follies. Oh, and then there's the song we concocted for Emily Kaitz' 40th birthday party, where everybody wore pajamas. I'm looking forward to swapping our old songs and hearing her latest. You can hear her at http://www.myspace.com/marilynrucker.
Coming up as my guests later this month will be The Therapy Sisters themselves, and the country-rock sounds of The Flyin' A's.
I also want to put in a plug for a friend's show - which is where I'll be going to listen and heckle this Saturday night, June 13 . Todd Hoke was one of my Austin co-conspirators before he moved off to North Carolina four years ago and went to nursing school. His songs are plain-spoken, gritty and direct, which is why he can also pull off some mean Townes Van Zandt covers. And why he's done two albums with producers Ray Wylie Hubbard and Chris Gage. Todd's wife Meg and I have a long-running domino grudge match that stretches back to the Kerry-Bush debates of 2004. Todd's been back in Texas this month for Kerrville, and before he heads home, he's playing a house concert for two of my Kerrville kampmates, Austin Kessler and Connie Gray. To double your pleasure, George Ensle is opening. Hear Todd at http://www.myspace.com/hoketodd, where you can also watch his video for "Daddy Drove a Poop Truck."
Peace through Music,
Steve
FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 7 to 10 p.m.
STEVE BROOKS with MARILYN RUCKER
NEW WORLD DELI
4101 Guadalupe (Corner of 41st of Guadalupe), 451-7170
Coming Up:
June 19: Therapy Sisters
June 26: The Flyin' A's
SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 7:30 p.m. (potluck dinner at 6)
TODD HOKE with GEORGE ENSLE opening
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