1. Broke Again
2. Curb Your Dog
3. Visitor in My Dreams
4. Too Many Bad Habits
5. Terminal Love 
6. Ride Your Train
7. My Rice Ain't Go No Gravy
8. Prodigal Son's Waltz
9. Glad To Get To Hell 
10. Thick and Thin 
11. Lonesome Traveler 

1. "Rockin' My Blues to Sleep"
2. Rain Down Tears
3. The Last Meal 
4. I'm A Fool To Care
5. Where You At?
6. Reap What You Sow  
7. Woke Up Screamin'
8. Mamma, Talk To Your Daughter
9. In the Doorway Cryin'
10. The Hustle Is On
11. Things I Used To Do
12. Before I Grow Too Old   
13. Boogie Back to Texas (Got the California Blues) 

Notes on Rockin' My Blues to Sleep

"Kind Hearted Woman"
"House Cleaning Blues"
"My Rice Ain't Got No Gravy"
"Blues & Lonesome"
"Mandolin Moan"
"Sleeping With The Devil"

1. Hill Top
2. You Can't Be Lucky All the Time 
3. Dirty People  
4. Teardrops On My Windowpane 
5. Livin With The Blues 
6. I'm From Texas with Kinky Friedman

1. My Babe
2. Bocce Boogie
3. Hard Heareted Woman
4. Little Bitty Girl
5. Baby Please Don't Go

1. Down in the Alley
2. Mescal Road
3. This Old World Needs Love
4. Maybe, Maybe
5. Good Morning Judge  

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10661 N U.S. Hwy 87 Fredericksburg, TX 78624

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NOTES ON ROCKIN' MY BLUES TO SLEEP

It's funny how things work out.   Seems like only yesterday... sleepy afternoon at the cafe during the quiet break time twixt lunch and dinner... I'm alone, fooling around at the piano, enjhoying the peace and quiet when I hear someone hollering and banging on the door. 

Probably another traveler in distress -- run out of gas or overheated pullin' the 6 mile  grade from Cherry Springs to Hill Top -- 10 miles from a small town smack dab on top of a hill lookin' down two sides of lonesome Texas highway.  I get up slowly and start for the door when I hear a voice from outside, "Hey man! Open the door and fix me some gumbo!"   There's no mistaking that voice.  A smile creeps over my face as I open the door and the Texas Tornado blows in -- Doug Sahm, talkin' trash, askin' questions without getting the answers, non-stop rapping for 20 minutes while I'm warming up the rice and some of Brenda Sue's famous Port Arthur style Gumbo.

"Just been to California... Saw the Giants at Candlestick... Stopped off in New Mexico... On my way back to Austin..." Doug had an uncanny knack for showing up in his Cadillac, by himself, either coming or going between Austin and New Mexico or California.  I'd warm up the Gumbo and we'd talk for an hour (Doug did most of the talking) then he'd be gone like the wind.  The last time I saw Doug, I played a song for him I'd written back in '92 when I was on a West Coast tour with Snooky Pryor -- "Boogie Back To Texas".  On his way out that day we stopped at the old Seeburn and were talking 'bout  some of the many great 45s on the Hill Top Juke Box.  The last thing Dough told me was: "Many, you should get the guys tegether and cut some of these sones -- nobody sisngs this stuff like you."  Well, I don't know about that, but I did get the guys together and we did cut some of these songs and we hope you enjoy listening to them as much as we enjoyed playing them.  Yea, it's funny how things work kout -- I was really counting on him being around to hear this.  You don't miss your water 'till the well runs dry and now there's a big hole in the soul of American music by way of Tix Texas.  Adios Mi Compadre de Musica! This one's for you, Doug.

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