brad thompson band, bertha coolidge

who are the people in your neighborhood? they're the people that you meet when you're walking down the street. tonight, it was muso's muso joey carter, who we encountered on our evening constitutional. joey was enroute to rehearse with the brad thompson band, who're playing at 6:30pm saturday on the sundance square stage at the main street arts festival, in between brave combo and patti griffin. (don't tell anybody, but they're gonna play "won't get fooled again," which joey sez makes monk's "brilliant corners" look like a cakewalk, from a keyb player's perspective.) so we know where _we're_ going after spending a coupla hrs at the airport visiting with my sweetie's li'l sis and her younguns.

later that same night, most of the thompson band -- minus bassist aden bubeck, who's off making bank with miranda lambert (substitute danny stone; not a bad deal) but with prodigal drummer rich stitzel, who's back from chicagoland for a spell -- will be appearing at cachonga's (within walking distance of mi casa, wouldn't ya know) in _literate_-but-groovin' form as bertha coolidge (as close as my sleepy li'l town ever came to producing an answer to ten hands). good to have such nice neighbors.