It’s a rainy old day in Houston, and I’m busy getting everything squared away here at the house in preparation for next week when I’ll be having surgery on my sinuses at the Houston Medical Center on Monday. I’m not looking forward to it, but it will be a routine, outpatient procedure that will improve my quality of life. As I understand it, they take a drill and enlarge my nasal cavities, then put stints inside my nose, and pack it with gauze. I go back Tuesday for the “unpacking” when they will yank the packing from my nostrils, and then I go back again the following week so that they can jerk the stints out. I asked the ENT doctor if it’s going to hurt, and he said that I’ll only just experience some “discomfort.” That didn’t sound too bad, but when I picked up my post-surgery prescription at the pharmacy yesterday, I noticed that the medicine bottle says for “PAIN.” Hmmmmm . . . So, I’m just trying to focus my mind on positive thoughts this weekend. This morning I enjoyed playing some new guitar rifts that I’m learning from Craig Kinsey of The Sideshow Tramps for my dog, Lilly, who said I’m coming along pretty good. This afternoon, I’m listening online to the “Big Kev Country Revue” on WXLV in Pennsylvania at http://www.wxlv.org. Doug Sahm’s “Ballad of Davy Crocket,” Flatt and Scruggs’ “Ballad of Jed Clampett,” “The Ballad of Ira Hayes” by Johnny Cash, “The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde” by Ray Waters, Carl Perkins’ “This Old House,” Rodney Crowell’s “Old Pipeliner,” Merle Haggard’s “Honky Tonk Man” (which is GORGEOUS, by the way), George Strait, Bocephus, a good Brooks and Dunn song by request . . . There’s never a dull moment with Big Kev--it’s never predictable but always original, and one of my favorite Americana radio shows--well worth tuning in on a Saturday from 1-4 EST. When I was in Pennsylvania last weekend, I recorded some radio liners for XLV, which was a lot of fun, along with hanging out backstage at B.B. King’s in NYC, and riding the Himalaya! at the Easter carnival in the quaint little town of Kearny, New Jersey, where they filmed scenes from the Sopranos. It’s a far cry from Texas, but a real adventure to head East . . . I’m looking forward to playing some shows up there in May, and I’ll keep you posted on those and everything else, as always. In the meantime, I hope you have a really good weekend! Y’all come!!