Jack Ingram at Floore’s, James McMurtry at Gruene, or Alejandro Escovedo w/ Mary Cutrefuelo at Casbeers?

OK, I’ve seen AE/MC before (saw her close down Naomi’s, in fact), never seen the other two. Gruene is a more comfortable place to see a show, with only a couple of uniformed deputies keeping a close eye, but otherwise fading into the woodwork. Floore’s is beset with coppers like a plague of locusts, who I think are mainly there to look at the high-school kids serving beer, but who are also an oppressive presence with their sheer numbers.

Bottom line, I think I’d get a bigger kick out of Ingram’s guitar-slinging, but the SA (they hate that here) shows I’ve seen have always been unenthusiastic, by both players and listeners. On top of that, Jack is being feted by the Academy of Country Music and the Country Music Teevee set. Those Brylcreemed Nashville knobs give me the heebie-jeebies, and that song playing on his website sucks ass, and I mean Kenny Chesney a-s-s.

So, probably pothead McMurtry. Or poker here in the TFG Command Center. One of those. A short drive down Blanco to see Escovedo and Cutruefuelo wouldn’t be out of the question, since they tend to wrap up before midnight, and I need my beauty sleep. Really, really need that.