Our Austin bromance is alive and well | I’ll be curating a Music Festival in Guerneville, CA o

Friends,

We, the men and woman of The Mission Express, are headed out to Texas for a run of dates. Asking the eternal question: Is Austin still a great place to eat a taco? Even after the attack of the tech monsters? We suspect it is.

Our Austin bromance is alive and well. We love it. Three shows at the Continental Club on South Congress. Including a Sunday matinee. And shows at the Mucky Duck in Houston, SoCo Stomp, C-Boy’s Heart & Soul, and the Hill Country roadhouse known as the Devil’s Backbone. A place to experience music the way Bob Dylan described it: “Music is meant to be heard in rooms with wood walls.” Or something like that.

Oh wait, HERE IT IS, from the Nobel Prize winner’s mouth:

“The best sound you can get is an intimate clubroom, with four walls where the sound just bounces. That’s the way this music is meant to be heard.” –Bob Dylan, June 2006

We continue to run those cables out into the audience, hoping to keep the circuits connected. One gig at a time.

Have you heard the rumors about the Summertime Thing Festival. Yessir, I’ll be curating a Music Festival in Guerneville, CA on Saturday, June 29. We’re not quite ready to up and announce all the confirmed acts. But, many won’t be strangers to anyone who follows this newsletter. OK, now this may not be the biggest festival out there. But if you like Chuck Prophet music, it just might be the best. (Who knows, you might want to show up in your best shirt.) Seriously, how long could I resist getting in on the Festival fun? We have some surprises in store for you. There’ll be legends. And pioneers. Next Generation weirdos, too. Plus a couple acts you’ve never heard of, I’m sure. But this is for realzzzz. So think about joining us among the towering redwoods, at the the Rio Nido Roadhouse in Guerneville, CA. You can sit inside or out. There will be two stages. Gonna be a cool hang. That much I know.

Tickets for Summertime Thing are now on sale. So grab ‘em while you can. And book yourself a room for a night or two in Rio Nido or Guerneville.

Get up to the minute details on live shows and other goings on in all the usual places. Proving that there’s more to life than Premium Netflix and Starbuck’s Oatmeal. Live in-the-flesh music.

Onwards,

-CP

P.S. If you want to get deeper into the real nitty-gritty with some more of my personal writing, you can follow me over at Substack.

P.P.S NEW T SHIRTS! Old CD’s. Plus we’ve got 180 gram LPs. That’s a lot of grams. Try snorting that!

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3/8-3/10 Continental Club – Austin, TX

3/12 McGonigel’s Mucky Duck – Houston, TX

3/14 SoCo Stomp – Austin, TX

3/15 C-Boy’s Heart & Soul – Austin, TX

3/16 Devils’s Backbone Tavern – Fischer, TX

5/16 Moe’s Alley – Santa Cruz, CA

5/17-5/19 Hipnic – Big Sur, CA

5/25 Sweetwater Music Hall – Mill Valley, CA

6/8-6/9 Circus Mexicus – Puerto Peñasco, Mexico

6/29 Summertime Thing – Rio Nido, CA