A Song for Friday Night

Back when Martina and I were living in Thailand, my mom and stepdad mailed us a package that included a CD by a couple of guitar-picking brothers they had heard in Fredericksburg or thereabouts. The album was by the McKay Brothers, and we would sit on the porch overlooking the rice fields eating local pineapple and listening to this eponymous disc on our Panadenki stereo. The Panadenki, as the name likely suggests, was not the paragon of sound systems, but it got the job done.  Anyway, the album was sensational, and we played it constantly. In fact, we loved the McKay Brothers' songwriting so much that as soon as we got back to Texas a year or so later, we headed out to Luckenbach with my mom and stepdad to see them play.

Here is Noel McKay playing "Friday Night."

If you're around Cowtown on Saturday, stop by Half Price Books in Watauga between 1 pm and 4 pm and say howdy.