Micah P. Hinson

An early evening show at the Bongo Club today.

Support were too country-folky for me & didn't pronounce their name clearly. Two thirds of the Something-Sounding-Like-Andrews Brothers.
Headliner was Micah Hinson (again?). From opener You lost sight on me through his entire oevre (with one new song) to closing The day Texas sank to the bottom of the sea and encore of John Denver's This old guitar (cheesy closing line “I love to sing my songs for you” seemed earnestly meant in context), he was just great, transfixing the quarter-capacity audience even with his first few words. Relaxed a lot towards the end of the set and kept complaining about his guitar strings breaking (three in one song I think) and forcing him to spent loads of time tuning up (including comedy musical interlude by his keyboard player): “Why is it we can send a man to the moon/but we can't make a guitar string hold its tune?” rhymed unintentionally I think. Anyway. You must be bored of me enthusing about him at this stage. Do listen if you get the chance though.