Austin 2018

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This photo album is a bit of a summary of our winter stay in Austin.

There's some pictures of our "Hill House" from "Under a Texan Sun". We like being a short walk from the El Mercado where we saw all sorts of music (Purgatory Players, Mystery Mondays and special concerts). There's even a picture of a "horny toad" we found in our house one moring -- I wondered why all the noises in the night.

Our friends Deborah and Jerry came to visit, as did our sister-in-law Judy. We enjoyed showing them the sights.

There were many music events, after all  that's why we go to Austin. We were lucky to see Chris Wall (in Gruene), Mike and the Moonpies (at Waterloo Records),  the Austin Lounge Lizards (at the Cactus Club), Folk Uke (at the Saxon Pub), Los Pinkys (at Little Mexico), Mike Stinson (at the Broken Spoke), Kimmie Rhodes (with the Purgatory Players), Sue Foley (at Waterloo Records) and much, much more.

We had fun and we'll be back.

Charlie Faye

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A fitting end to our winter stay in Austin -- we see Charlie Faye at Mystery Mondays, the El Mercado on S 1st.

Charlie Faye has an album "Charlie Faye and the Fayettes" with Betty Soo as one of her back up singers. She's a bit of a rocker.

Bill Kirchen, as cohost, is rockin' as usual. We are surprised to have him come into the audience playing a purple trombone! Trombone? Who would have guessed that?

Jimmie Dale Gilmore comes up from the audience to sing some tunes. How nice is that!

We've been in Austin for the last 6 weeks or so, time to head home.