Too Much Coffee Man Shannon Wheeler. He was on hand to personalize free t-shirts with his sarcastic scrawlings. My shirt was engraved with a a steamy cup o' joe splatting a bird. Also while at the trade show, which went on during the day, I was able to see Kelly Willis, who has been described as Janis Joplin fronting for the Allman Brothers in a garage. I also saw wacky San Francisco poet Carmaig de Forest and Victoria Williams.
Forest is one cool cat.
With a voice much like the Violent Femmes lead singer, he expounds poetry in motion. I Married an Axe Murderer. Although I'm inclined to give the best of show award to New York's Soul Coughing, I feel it is my duty to bestow it to Tony Bennett and his trio who packed it in at Austin Music Hall. What a magical start to a rather magical Thursday evening. Bennett was every man's man when he also said he felt just like Michael Jackson up there dancing.