Tuesday night song swap w/ Hayes and more
I had planned to go see Steve Young play on this night. But then i heard Hayes Carll was playing at the Cheatham Street Warehouse in San Marcos--just down the road. Steve Young was $10 and in Austin. Hayes was $10 but much closer. And just that day, i met w/ Hayes' manager to try to get a job, and he put me on the guest list. since i have no $$, i of course decided to go see that one.
a song swap is when you have at least 2 guys with guitars, and they take turns singing songs. it's usually a pretty 'intimate' affair. tonight it was 4 guys: Hayes, Stoney Larue, Walt Wilkins, and Kent Finlay--the owner of Cheatham St. Warehouse. now, i'd never heard of any of the other guys except Kent, and had never heard Kent sing. so i didn't know what to expect.
i wasn't too impressed w/ Stoney. he was like the obnoxious new kid trying to hard. constantly talking in between songs, saying obnoxious things. not my bag. song swaps are supposed to be quiet. he talked to much.
i wasn't impressed too much w/ Walt Wilkins either, but Hayes apparently likes him, so that gives him a little cred in my book. i found out that Walt Wilkins and Pat Green are chums, and write lots of songs together. no wonder i wasn't impressed. I'm not much of a Pat Green fan either.
Walt did have a couple songs that i really liked though. on the whole though, both walt and stoney sang way too many songs about babies and how beautiful they are, and cheesy romantic love songs about their wives. blech. i've got no need for songs about babies, and literal or cliched love songs. Hayes sang exactly 1 song about his wife. he said it's the only song he wrote about her, and that he wrote it before they got married. that song was called naked checkers.
it's a good song.
kent is a TX character. he reminds me a bit of Kinky Friedman. he owns the joint, and can do whatever he wants.
the night was interesting, but fun. it was strange---in my opinion, Hayes was head and shoulders above the other performers. no contest. but Walt and Stoney seemed to get the biggest applause. people are silly sometimes.
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