The Drive, 5/12/06: 1971

[RGMike]

BOS3 Marvin, "Inner City Blues". How little has changed in 35 years.

[mshray]

BOS Ms. King's "Smackwater Jack". Another artist Dave skimps on in early '70s sets, considering how huge she was.

Every time I go to Austin on business (1-2 times/yr) I always start my pub crawl at the piano bar in the Driskill Hotel (the Texas equivalent of the St. Francis), and by now the piano player Keith, a huge fairy with a Georgia accent (I mean like 6' 3", close to 300 lbs) remembers me.  This last time nobody was requesting too many songs so I picked up his notebook of songs to choose, and when my eyes hit "Smackwater Jack", I said, "Can you really remember this?"  And he drawled, "Why shore honey!".  

Best $5 spent of the whole trip.

[RGMike]

BOS Ms. King's "Smackwater Jack". Another artist Dave skimps on in early '70s sets, considering how huge she was.

Every time I go to Austin on business (1-2 times/yr) I always start my pub crawl at the piano bar in the Driskill Hotel (the Texas equivalent of the St. Francis), and by now the piano player Keith, a huge fairy with a Georgia accent (I mean like 6' 3", close to 300 lbs) remembers me.  This last time nobody was requesting too many songs so I picked up his notebook of songs to choose, and when my eyes hit "Smackwater Jack", I said, "Can you really remember this?"  And he drawled, "Why shore honey!".  

Best $5 spent of the whole trip.

"You cain't talk to a may-un
With a tube o' KY in his hay-und!"

[princessofcairo]

BOS Ms. King's "Smackwater Jack". Another artist Dave skimps on in early '70s sets, considering how huge she was.

Every time I go to Austin on business (1-2 times/yr) I always start my pub crawl at the piano bar in the Driskill Hotel (the Texas equivalent of the St. Francis), and by now the piano player Keith, a huge fairy with a Georgia accent (I mean like 6' 3", close to 300 lbs) remembers me.  This last time nobody was requesting too many songs so I picked up his notebook of songs to choose, and when my eyes hit "Smackwater Jack", I said, "Can you really remember this?"  And he drawled, "Why shore honey!".  

Best $5 spent of the whole trip.

that image is at once heartwarming and disturbing.

[RGMike]

Five Man Electrical Band  -  Signs
Santana  -  No One to Depend On
Jethro Tull  -  Cross Eyed Mary
Carole King  -  Smackwater Jack
The Who  -  The Song is Over
Richie Havens  -  Here Comes the Sun
The Ides of March  -  L.A. Goodbye
Bill Withers  -  Ain't No Sunshine
Traffic  -  Rock 'n Roll Stew
Marvin Gaye  -  Inner City Blues