Antone's 47th Anniversary Shows: Anson Funderburgh, Sugar Ray Norcia, Lou Ann Barton, Bob Margolin & Roomful Horns

 July 14, 2022

The city, Austin.  Breakfast?  Just grab a couple of eggs and find a clean stretch of sidewalk and decide between sunnyside up or over-easy.  Another day of 110 degrees and not a cloud in the sky.  I decide to ditch breakfast completely for a midafternoon outing to the shrine of brisket cuisine, Franklin's Bar-B-Q.  A pound of brisket, 2 sides and a couple of Shiner Bocks later and I understand the meaning of King Khan & the BBQ's "Waddle Around" intimately.

I uber back to my bat cave for that Southwestern tradition, the siesta.  Did I say bat cave?  Chicken coop would be more accurate.  Not for the accommodations, but rather, the cacophony of chicken noise that greets you at dawn every morning as every household near my Air BnB seems to own roosters.

Feeling renewed and refreshed from an air conditioned nap, I am ready to face another night of great music and libations at Antoneland.

 Being a creature of habit I take the short uber trip down to South Sixth Street determined to get corroboration for my side project:  The alleged musician brawl at the 12 Anniversary Show the night of July 16, 1987 . That would make this the 35th Anniversary of the alleged brawl between blues legends over who played second to last (i.e.  just before the headliner).