Having seen four bands in two nights here in Austin, Texas our country-style foot-tappin' toes are plumb tuckered out, folks. When I complained to Pammy yesterday of feeling not quite 100% she said "it's called a hangover, Jamie." She's right, too, but it was all in a good cause, if not quite in moderation. So let's start off with the gig we enjoyed the most, and we'll tell you about the others, too, because they were great fun as well.




Here's the Swing Kings in action, at a music festival in France, giving you a pretty good sample of the easy-going silky smooth sound they played last Sunday night.







We ended up having a ball here in Austin, musically, even if the truth behind the scenes is that all the bands we had hoped to see here were out of town! We've looked up their itineraries and it seems that they all knew we were coming, because all our favourite singers and bands will be back here in Austin later on in October, but by then we'll either be in New Orleans or maybe even New York.Next stop for us is Galveston, Texas, on the way over to Louisiana. We've been inland for the last few weeks and we want to see the coast, and the way the drive to Louisiana works out, Galveston Island is a reasonable half-way point. They have some great seafood in Galveston, and so I'm hoping to be able to post Tummy Time IV from there.