The School Night Sessions, a continuing series which I get to host at Threadgill’s WHQ in Austin, Texas, have been rocking this week. Last night, San Marcos’ Texas Renegade came by for a cool acoustic set with Jeff Whitehead opening for them. The night before, Lincoln Durham brought the stomp blues and wowed the crowd, as he opened for traditional Irish outfit Aidan. And Sunday night, Mike June & The Wilson Street Refugees kicked it out. They are Jersey boys, and they delivered a fine set of roots rock, with Jess Klein on hand for backup vocals. The opening set that night was K Phillips solo. He is such an interesting performer, any configuration you get to see him in is good.

K Phillips & The Concho Pearls' brand new album American Girls was just released, to glowing reviews from the folks at No Depression I might add. Take it from me, if you like your music soulful, with some dark, rich and mysterious overtones thrown in for good measure, this album is worthy of exploration. K brought the band when he came to play for the Music Fog Spring Marathon at Threadgill’s WHQ in Austin this past March, including Stephanie Macias on bass, Daniel Thomas Phipps on guitar, J King on lead guitar, and Drew D'Entremont: playing drums. So let’s rock a while with the Music Fog recording of “Rambler.” (Note: explicit lyrics)

- Jessie Scott