Performance
Date
Saturday, May 26
Texas music might
mean frat-house anthems and dumbed-down country:
twanged-up Hootie with "Shiner Bock" and "Hill
Country" references. But that's Texas Music. Let's
deal with music from Texas instead. That's glorious
blues (Lightnin' Hopkins, Mance Lipscomb) or
beautiful rock' 'n' boogie (Doug Sahm) or - in this
particular case - luminous, literate (but not
pretentiously "literary") acoustic music. This is
the tradition of Townes Van Zandt, Vince Bell, Nanci
Griffith, Eric Taylor and others. It's sad-eyed,
sharp-edged stuff, and Denice Franke is out there
doing it the right way.
"If Mary Chapin
Carpenter and Joni Mitchell had a daughter, this is
how she'd sound"
-Alanna Nash,
Entertainment Weekly_
For more information on Denice, go to
www.denicefranke.com
