ACL 2006 Pre Shows - Wednesday Night

Our first night in Austin found us at Artz Rib House for BBQ and blues. The BBQ was fine, but not as good as the Salt Lick I had imported for my birthday party.

The blues/country/gosple was provided by Shelley King and Carolyn Wonderland. Shelley (bottom) has a solid blues/country voice and even did a nice job on a gosple number. Carolyn (top) not only can belt out a song with her voice (and man does she have a voice) but she plays a mean slide, knocked off some hot solos on her two guitars and even did a trumpet solo during one of Shelley's songs. The two traded songs with Carolyn playing fills during Shelley's numbers and Shelley adding rhthym during Carolyn's songs. It was a nice way to start the week.