I'm still looking for a few more good weeks at the Deli (I'm shooting for One Good Year, but I've got to start somewhere). This week, my guest is contemporary cowboy singer and former Austinite Kerry Grombacher.
Back in the Nineties, Kerry and I traded cities. I moved here from New Orleans, while he married a New Orleans girl and moved to the Crescent City. Now he mixes cowpoke and Creole with songs like "Wild West Mambo," about the year Buffalo Bill brought his Wild West Show to New Orleans. And he's a master lyricist, evoking a classic Ansel Adams photo in "Moonrise, Hernandez, NM." Check him out at www.kgrombacher.com.
If you live up north, you can also hear me this Saturday at B.B. Rover's, the house of a hundred beers. You can listen to my latest, "Austin Outlaw," a heartfelt tribute to local noise ordinances.
FRIDAY, JULY 24, 7 to 10 p.m.
HYDE PARK FRIDAYS
STEVE BROOKS with KERRY GROMBACHER
NEW WORLD DELI
4101 Guadalupe (Corner of 41st of Guadalupe), 451-7170
Coming Up:
August 7: Patterson Barrett
SATURDAY, JULY 25, 9 to 11:30
STEVE BROOKS
B.B. ROVER'S PUB
12636 Research Blvd., 335-9504
Don't let the address fool you. Rover's faces Jollyville Rd., just north of Kerbey Lane Cafe and Krispy Kreme, next to the Mongolian BBQ
No cover. Tips gratefully accepted. Or just buy us a beer.