Great to be playing with the full Kaye Pasa Trio again, and yesterday was the first time all three of us had played the two-show gig at Watercrest in Bryan.

We opened the small room show with Kaye's new song "Build a Road." This was really our first time to perform it in public, and it should have been a good setting for a song's initial test drive; however, because played unplugged, we had a difficult time hearing each other's instruments, making it hard to keep a good rhythm. 

We did a lot of cover songs (about 2/3 of the set list) for the small room. We hadn't played a lot of these songs in a while, and it was good to dust them off.

At the happy hour show in the large room, we mixed more originals into the show, including "Trying to be a Hippie," which has been out of the rotation for too long. We also did one of the best live performances we've ever done of David Harbaugh's "When Willie Gets Behind the Beat." Lotsa fun. 

Lynette & Lefty played at last night's open mic at Rovers, along with surprise guest from California, Kevin Marin. Great fun!

Lynette & Lefty are staying a few days with me while they take care of some business with their old place (the fifth wheel) and do a few gigs around town, starting with tonight's gig at Twin Creeks Icehouse.

It was a good show, but the evening ended on an odd note because a guy crashed his car into the guardrail by the bar. We managed to push it back to the bar's parking area, but it was pretty messed up. Fortunately, the driver was okay.

Left Austin last Wednesday afternoon for my road trip to Illinois to visit Will and Kati. Only made it to Texarkana that evening, but my "problem knee" did okay.

Next day was rougher. It took me over 11 hours to make the 8-hour drive from Texarkana to Columbia, MO. I had planned to use Thursday evening to check out its burgeoning live music scene, but by the time I got to my hotel, my knee was killing me, and I spent the rest of the evening and night recuperating.

Friday was a relatively short (4-1/2 hours) drive across a chuck of Missouri and Illinois to get to Urbana, IL. Spent that weekend with the kids, and had a great time seeing them in their new apartment.

Made the return trip in two long days of driving. Urbana, IL to Little Rock, AR on Monday. Knee was feeling much better, despite the time spent folded up in the driver's seat.

On Tuesday, I decided to drive the four hours to Center, TX to visit Lynette and David at their new east Texas abode. Met David's folks and had a nice mid-day visit of four or five hours, but then decided I needed to get home that night, so I pushed onward to Austin.