Kevin Higgins... is ... the BEST!

Jimmenychristmas!, what a show Friday night! Navasota's Corner Cafe took its place again this summer, as THE place with excellent LIVE music, every Friday night. I've been distracted with a book I'm writing, and have not been the usual raving lunatic, BUT, But, Butt, but YOU have been missing it if you have not heard Mo Mc Morrow, Brent Lee Croucher, and this last show, Kevin Higgins and his DIVINE Wife Barbara Malteze. Kevin, we are warning you, we want your wife, so you better stay away...

What a couple... what exquisite ART, with a capital A. Take Gordon Lightfoot, the Eagles and Crosby, Stills and Nash...mash them all together and extract the granola, you might imagine this OUTSTANDING act. Sure, he is Texas songwriter of the year, song of the year, yaddda yadda ya, this freaking long haired hippie with a Spanish moss haircut, but a dead aim throwback to the very best of the 70's Texas Progressive Country, with a woman that sings like Aretha Franklin on a good day. This couple does all original masterpieces with casual perfection, delicious harmonies that are... orgasmic, OK, I'm sorry, there I said it!

Higgins grabbed me hook,line and sinker, perhaps the most endearing act I have seen since Corner Cafe began to present its songwriter's series. Hey, I only worship God, but when these guys sing, you feel like the power of Creation is about to come through the floor. Favorite song: OUT IN THE FIELDS, Oh my God!

It's a song about a tornado that takes you up so high you swear you're hugging Dorothy and Toto and freefalling over Nebraska... And a deeply beautiful song about falling in love at the Grand Canyon, called "Infinity," that makes you stare into the depths of your own love, for that special someone. JimmenyCHRISTMAS! YOU FOLKS NEED TO WAKE UP AND SMELL THE NAPALM. Kevin and his lady burned the house down and built it back again by 10:00. What a deal! Right here in Navasota.

They played a couple of encores, one, called Four Friends at the Bar, went "we don't suck..."

No you don't, Kevin. But you guys sucked the life right of me as I smiled so big my jaws hurt. DO NOT MISS THIS BAND. They are important. Hopefully , you'll get another chance, before they are untouchable.

Thanks to Phil, and Sarah, for continuously bringing us the BEST of Texas music, every week.

Danny Everitt: It was too good to be true.

I couldn't really enjoy the last Friday night of music, thinking about all the great music we have had during the "Summer Songwriter's Series," and how it has hit the cold north wind and will all finally come to an end. This was the last in a long line of excellent intimate concerts, by outstanding performers, all under the gentle and winsome guidance of Danny Everitt, who has become the ultimate talent scout, mentor, mother hen and agent for some great Texas songwriters and musicians.

On this night he was playing as well, and the singers took turns sharing their songs. Danny is so low key and unassuming, and such a giving performer, it was typical to see him sit on the fringe, as two others sat in the limelight. They seemed to really enjoy performing together, and played like friends would do, teasing, assisting, sometimes doing harmonies.

Danny Everitt has found an exceptional line-up of artists, and we wish him and them well. They have brought a great bit of joy to the Corner, and the memories will be swimming around there for years. Here are just a few sights we have shared... I just wish I could attach music to these shots, because that's what it was all about.

Thanks to Danny and Jeff Moreland, who conceived such a project here in Navasota, and in the process of doing it, made music history in the Blues Capital of Texas!