Jess Klein - Backstage

I don’t even know where to begin about how great this town is.  I’m kind of waiting for someone to pinch me - it’s like New York without the parking hassle, without the attitude…with sunshine…and, lots of cowboy boots.   

 This’ll be a quick one since I’m about to run out to see The Resentments at the Saxon.

Climbed around the Green Belt today, the series of parks/trails/dry riverbed around and through Austin.  Every night we (my tourmate Jonathan Byrd and I) go out (we have almost a week off here total, god bless our booking agent) we find great music and just enough trouble…I took some girlfriends to see Bruce Robison at the Broken Spoke Friday night.  Bruce just wrote a number one for George Strait and wrote Travelin Soldier which the Dixie Chicks sing, but at the Spoke, he was playing swing, two step, etc. My friend Eleanor Whitmore was playing fiddle with him.

So at first the three of us gals sat there admiring the display of boots and various dance styles, half judgmental, half in awe…then we got scooped up by some cowboy-businessmen, who could actually dance - I didn’t know 1) how easy it is to dance with a man who knows how to dance or 2) how cowboy boots are actually good for dancing (did you?)

Luckily, I knew enough to walk away when my partner leaned in to say with a drawl, “You’re starting to get the hang of this….”

 More soon…