I had some friends in from out of town recently. Austin is a hard place to plan an evening's festivities, just because there are so many choices. So many different directions to go in. It's an embarrassment of riches, for sure. So we started at Gueros for some kickass Mexican food, with some New Bohemia Beer as a complement. Then a trip to The Broken Spoke, for some honest to goodness honky tonk, with an amazing amount of two steppin' audience participation. And then it was off to a place called Sam's Town Point. I had never been. We turned off the main drag onto a road that looked to be nothing but suburban houses. And then on the left, there was a parking lot, rag tag, with a couple of biker dudes just getting ready to leave. We walked in, and lo and behold, there was Ramsay Midwood on stage, accompanied by none other than Randy Weeks. And in the audience? BettySoo, Stoneyhoney, Jesse Dayton, and Jimmy Lafave. It felt like home. What can I say?
Several weeks back, Randy came onboard the Music Fog Bus from Celebrity Coaches, and played a classic that he wrote, and that Lucinda Williams included on her Grammy award winning CD Car Wheels...yes, of course, it's "Can't Let Go."
-Jessie Scott
