1. ACL MUSIC FESTIVAL
2. Patty Griffin @ Stubb's
3. Lyle Lovett @ Stubb's
4. The Subdudes @ Antone's
5. ROAD TO AUSTIN Concert
1) Another year in love with my best friend The Fabulous Judy
2) Getting to know my brothers, again!
3) Daily fun on the Radio Austin airwaves! I love this town!
4) SXSW week and the ACL broadcast from the Four Seasons
5) Fridays at Billy's on Burnet
6) CDs from The Mother Truckers, Band of Heathens, The Gourds, Dino Lee, Seth Walker
7) Improving my interview skills...sorta :)
8) Happy grilling at the house and enjoying our new carpet
9) The Freescale Stephen Bruton concert at Aud.Shores
10) Two more vacations in Northen California
1) My amazing and talented husband
2) Our perfectly imperfect dogs and cats
3) Metalsgirl (
http://www.metalsgirl.com/)
4) "Pushing Daisies"
5) Dr. Biehle, Dr. Love, Lee Mannix
6) The beer garden at Gingerman Pub
7) "Raising Sand" - Plant and Krauss
8) Blue Dog Rescue (
http://www.bluedogrescue.com)
9) Saturday Morning Downtown Austin Farmer's Market (
http://www.austinfarmersmarket.org)
10) Paolo Nutini taping for Austin City Limits
1. My 81 year-old mother wearing a mylar hat that looked like a mini beer keg @ my sister Lisa's surprise 40th birthday party in May.
2. Taking Petunia and a few pals to see and meet Hannah Montana in San Antonio in November.
3. My friend Teresa finally getting to adopt her sweet, little Amy Lynn and the numerous celebrations.
4. Watching Petunia and her best friend Shelby perform their dance routine @ this year's Lake Travis Elementary talent show.
5. Andrew Bird's backstage performance @ Austin City Limits Music Festival and Friday morning @ the Four Season's with Ozomatli during SXSW. (broadcasts vol. 16, i hope)
6. KGSR's Blues On The Greens, Live @ The Lakes and Twin Liquors Wine Tastings @ The Harry Ransom Center.
7. Hosting The Subdudes and Angelique Kidjo in the KGSR Music Lounge and seeing Angelique that night @ Antone's.
8. Cubs vs. Brewers @ Wrigley Field in July.
9. Drinking too much beer and discussing guitarists @ New York City's Oldest Pub with these two darling musician guys who wrote a big pop hit that I still can't remember the name of.
10. Drinkin' pitchers & two-steppin' to Dale Watson @ The Broken Spoke with a long lost radio friend from Chicago and her sister. I forget how much I love that place.
1) Getting to sing onstage at the Austin Music Awards with Ian McLagan & The Bump Band - and Pete Townshend
2) Paul McCartney live at the Highline Ballroom in NYC (capacity 700)
3) Having an interview I did with Warren Zevon chosen by his son to be included on Warren's posthumous CD "Preludes"
4) Bob Dylan @ Stubb's
5) Sam Baker - "Pretty World"
6) Robert Plant/Alison Krauss - "Raising Sand"
7) Being backstage @ Antone's with Johnny Winter (who is legally blind), James Cotton (who can't speak from throat cancer) and Pinetop Perkins (who is hard of hearing). It was quiet but there was a lot of love in the room
8) Producing interview discs with Sinead O'Connor and Rickie Lee Jones - and seeing their Austin shows.
9) The motion picture musical "Once"
10) A live on-air phone call during SXSW from Yoko Ono (from Iceland) who chided me for missing the premiere of The Beatles' "Love" which she invited me to.
And, of course, all of the wonderful musical events with KGSR (Music Lounge performances, on-air interviews, broadcasts vol. 15, the 17th Anniversary Concert and too many to mention - or remember!). I am so blessed.
1) Roky Erickson taping Austin City Limits
2) Joe Ely, Johnny Bush and Miss Lavelle White at the State Capitol for the Texas Book Festival
3) 12 days in Belize (and seeing Andy Palacio and the Garifuna Collective at Hogg Auditorium a week before)
4) The Phenomenal Ruthie Foster
5) Lyle Lovett - It's Not Big, It's Large
6) Warren Hood and the Hoodlums at Momo's (Sunday nights)
7) Seeing the documentary You're Gonna Miss Me at Roky's birthday at the Paramount
8) KGSR's 17th Anniversary party - what a night!
9) Hosting Lone Star State of Mind on Friday nights
10) Spending another great year with Cash (wife) and Banjo (dog)
10. my grandparents 50th wedding anniversary
9. Ron Sexsmith @ SXSW
8. Amy Winehouse @ Coachella Valley Music Fest.
7. Gogol Bordello @ Emo’s
6. Superbad!
5. Spoon’s “secret show” @ Mohawk
4. Wilco’s “Sky Blue Sky”
3. MUSE @ ACL Festival
2. Iron & Wine’s “The Shepherds Dog”
1. meeting Ryan Adams
1. Flaming Lips Show at La Zona Rosa
2. Ween Show at Stubbs
3. Release of Shelly Knight & The Livin' Dead II CD
4. My son Antone starting kindergarten and being featured in the HAAM Day Commercial
5. KGSR 17th Anniversary Show
6. Being single again and LOVING it
7. Premiere of Maria Corbalon's Movie "Last Call For Tacos"
8. Getting a royalty check (however small) for my book Soul Blurts (now available from xlibris.com)
9. Launch of Fox 7's Good Day Austin (and playing live the week of the debut, clip on myfoxaustin.com)
10. Getting my new place in South Austin
1. Last of the Breed Show at the Backyard - Willie Nelson, Ray Price
Merle Haggard, Asleep at the Wheel, Paula Nelson.
Like many others I was in the audience crying when Ray Price sang "For the Good Times."
2. Jimmy Reed Highway - Omar & the Howlers, Jimmy Vaughan, Lou Ann
Barton and Kim Wilson in the KGSR Music Lounge for WW4L , and at Blues
on the Green.
3. Wilco at the Austin City Limits Music Festival.
4. Unplugged at the Grove, the music, the food. the wait people, the
vibe.
5. CD's:
Going Home - A Tribute to Fats Domino - Various artists
Raising Sand - Robert Plant & Allison Krauss
6. All my musical friends on the phone, email, sometimes in person!
(Steve, Bobby , Ron, Peter, Priscilla, Cheryl, Jack, Jay, Ed,
Lori, Albert,
Cindee, Laura, Guy, etc) And my friends who make music: Natalie Zoe, Bruce Smith, Jim
Stricklan
7. Austin Blues Society
8. Everyone who I was an extra with this year with Friday Night Lights.
(I'm not really a teacher!)
9. The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation ( and Mark Murray). The Alzheimers
Association, Animal Trustees of Austin, Douglas and all the volunteer
readers at Austin Information Radio for the Visually Impaired. Texas
Motorcycle Rights Assoc. (Sputnik & Terri)
10. La familia: Dante, Mike & Christina, Rhys & Cole, Putter & Mandy.
Bob Dylan and anyone else whoever lived in Minnesota.
1. Another fun-filled, crazy year with my incredible wife, Pam, and the
wild boys - Liam, Evan & Rowan.
2. Good times with our dear Austin
friends--there're never enough chances to get together, but when we do
it's pure joy (and often times escalated insanity as their children mix
with ours).
3. The Avett Brothers "Emotionalism" album and their show in
Nov. @ La Zona Rosa
4. Walking the National Mall in D.C. during a
national college media convention in October, my first time to do so; a
humbling and soul-stirring experience.
5. The Schumacher family's first
protest march! Protesting against the war!! 'Bout time! Now if we can
just get out leaders to change course...
6. Our backyard sanctuary gets
a little closer to being finished! (A work in progress, 8 years and
running...) This year' additions: a red stone patio, meditation garden,
a vegetable garden, new bushes & plants.
7. Rowan turns 2, and delivers
his first actual words, "oh" and "wow," that remind us of the wonder of
discovering the simple things in this world like dump trucks and the
moon.
8. Our little brainiac, Liam, is "certified" as gifted and
talented by AISD; will he build robots shen he grows up, as he talks
about so often?
9. The Norton Records showcase during SXSW, and getting to meet Billy
Miller & Miriam Linna and the rest of the A-Bones at the Ponderosa Stomp
showcase - a few great stories, and Miriam gives great autographs!
10. Starting out anew with my older brother, Dave, the black sheep of the
family, with whom I've had a tense relationship for many years.