Time to face facts
Posted by TFG on 7th October 2007
And those cold hard facts boil down to this - I can’t hang no more. I went to see Hayes Carll last night, I was in bed by midnight-thirty, and I feel like total crap today. I think the live music thing is going to have to change from a weekly or bi-weekly event into something more monthly or bi-monthly. Maybe even quarterly.
Hayes and the band put on a pretty good show. It was, as I’ve come to expect for a Floore’s show, lightly attended, and I think most of them were road-tripping Austinites. SATX doesn’t support Texas Music so well. They’ll come see the Willie Nelsons, etc., but not the next generation. It’s a shame, because Hayes has the chops to pull off the big time, and I hope he does.
As I say, the show itself was pretty good, if overloaded with ballads and slow songs. Rather than a honky-tonking atmosphere, it was more of a sit-back-and-listen show. Carll is a fine songwriter, so that’s not so bad, but it was not what I’d hoped for. But I’m not calling the shots. The end result, though, was that the faster favorite ravers seemed perfunctory and forced. The bottom line, though, is that for $10, I got my money’s worth, and you can’t complain about that.
One side benefit from last night was finally hearing the McKay Brothers live. Very South Texas…lots of Mexican influence in the music, and that’s a nice change of pace. Inexplicably, I couldn’t find a merchandise table to buy a CD, so I’m going to have to find it online. I’d always rather buy at the show, since the band gets to keep most of the money that way. Regardless, I wouldn’t mind seeing these guys in a more honky-tonkish atmosphere than the inside room at Floore’s.
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