Butch Hancock at Strange Brew

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Kate, Sam and I had a pleasant evening at Strange Brew and caught three different acts. Here's some photos of Butch Hancock's set with Bob Livingston on bass. The set started with "Spanish is the Loving Tongue" which made our day. Lots of tunes we know and love and some we'd never heard before even though they were written back in the 1970's.

Butch told a funny story about his university days in Lubbock with Joe Ely and Jimmie Dale Gilmore. They had a table made out of a door balanced on a couple of cinder blocks. With only two legs (the cinder blocks) it wasn't very stable. An engineering friend pointed out that it would be stable if only they had a third leg .... stunned silence, why hadn't we thought of that! So they saved up for a week and Joe brought one home on the back of his bicycle. Problem solved. Of course it's still a table only about a foot of the floor! 

I asked and Butch announced that there will be a Townes Van Zandt birthday party bash at the Cactus Café on March 7. Cindy will be here visiting at that time so we've got to get tickets for that event!