Hey there, Everybody in Houston -- I just had the nicest afternoon, visiting and drinking coffee with Greg Henkel of the 2008 Houston Press Best Traditional Folk band, The Flying Fish Sailors, over at the GREAT little record store on Main Street @ Alabama -- Sig's Lagoon. Greg is the co-producer of the new t.v. show, Midtown Live, and he told me that my two-song set tonight at nine o'clock has been moved from The Big Top to Sig's, right next door to the Big Top and the Continental Club. I'll be kicking it off for a new Houston band, The Wild Moccasins, whom I've been hearing a lot about lately. You can check them out at http://www.myspace.com/thewildmoccasins. It will be a fun evening, no doubt, and I must say that I'm flattered by Greg's comment that he booked me because I am "weirdly good." I really am looking forward to this chance to play again at Sig's. (There'll be FREE Lonestar Beer -- can't beat that on a Monday night in Houston. Y'all come!) And I was just chatting with my friend, Texas History Lee Powell in Dallas, who reminded me to tune in online to http://www.knon.org from 5-5:20 p.m. today for his tale of Josiah Wildarger, an early Texas pioneer who was part of the Stephen F. Austin settlement and was eventually scalped on a surveying mission. Need I say more? Lee says it'll be "grisly" and "action-packed." Now, doesn't that beat t.v. these days?? (It's gotten so bad I cancelled my cable a few weeks ago. I feel so FREE again.) There's nothing like a good story told right, and Lee is the one to tell it, all right. And an extra bonus is that one of my songs is always the "outro" to Lee's ten enlightening and entertaining minutes of Lonestar lore. Rating: Highly Recommended. :-) Happy Trails . . .