Kevin McKinney Music

Thanks to all for such a great event last Friday. We appreciate you guys coming out fora great reason–in support of Austin Pets Alive. Unfortunately everyone in the Smoke Machine has had their fair share of personal animal trauma this year, and it gives us great pride to support the animals who are not fortunate enough to have good homes.

As usual the music was great. White Leaf, C-Tez AllStars, Gary Newcomb Trio, L’il Cap’n Travis, English Teeth, John Branch, P.E.R.M., and Jake Scarborough: thank you all. We’re lucky to have such friends.

Until next year, eh?
-JD

Hello there. We’ve booked a venue for McKinney’s Fall Jam, Part Deaux. Date is December 3rd. The Belmont will host this year. Old favorites Li’l Cap’n Travis will be back plus many more (a/k/a we’re starting to book now). The idea is to begin the jam at 6 and not stop until 12. After 12 there’ll be a DJ to make the roof raise etc.

The show will be in their courtyard, so it should be pretty spectacular. This also means a weather wild-card, so there’s that added excitement leading up to the Jam.

Stay tuned for updates.

-JD

Thanks to Kerri at Harley K Photography for the great new pictures. The word hot comes to mind–possibly because the A/C was out. Kevin still braved woven his beanie. That’s commitment. He and Reverend Gibbons should never be pictured without theirs.

It’s odd to play and ‘be shot at.’ Hard for me. Kevin–old pro that he is–had no issues.

Which reminds me: when I started playing with Kevin one of the first things that occurred to me was that nobody (almost ever) really cared what it was that I was doing–so long as I was doing what it was that I was supposed to be doing correctly. All eyes on Kevin all the time. Bruised ego aside, this is really a bass player’s dream. From an audience perspective, I’ve seen Kevin countless times, and I always payed attention to the bass solely out of cattiness.

Anyway, thanks again to Kerri for the pictures.

The Lucky Lounge shows are really coming along. It’s great to have a place to really hone in on what we’re trying to do. The staff is great and super accommodating–and friendly. They care about their jobs, and they seem to really like what they do. That’s pretty rare. Free Pizza Rolls don’t hurt either.

Next show is on the 16th. We hope to see a bunch of you out. And as an added incentive, it’s bring a friend night. Every new person get’s a free CD. So bring all of your friends. We like new folks.

You know they’ll like us.

-JD