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Uncle Billy’s Lake Travis to Host Benefit Concert/Barbecue for George Kinney
AUSTIN, Texas (March 3, 2011) – “Mal Thursday’s Texas Tyme Machine,” the Austin-based podcast and floating concert series, has been presenting a series of fundraisers for Austin psychedelic music legend George Kinney, to help with the costs of his cancer treatment. The next benefit concert will be an all-day show on Saturday March 19th at Uncle Billy’s Lake Travis, the popular Texas barbecue restaurant and microbrewery’s new location in the Oasis complex at 6550 Comanche Trail in Austin. The show starts at high noon and continues until after sunset.
In addition to Kinney, performing on Uncle Billy's outdoor deck will be Opie Hendrix and The Texas Tallboys, Carrie Ann Buchanan, Steve Garrett, Matthew Hebert of Haunt, and James Henry of The Shadowcasters.
Other special guests are to be announced.
Kinney was the leader of the Austin psychedelic band The Golden Dawn, whose 1968 album Power Plant is recognized as a classic of the genre. The band were friends and labelmates of The 13th Floor Elevators. He went on to release a solo album, After the Fall in 1999 and Texas Medicine with The New Riders of the Golden Dawn in 2006. He has also published a novel, The Bandit King, and was featured in Scott Conn’s 2007 documentary Dirt Road to Psychedelia: Austin, Texas During the 1960s.
Kinney appears on the latest “Mal Thursday’s Texas Tyme Machine” podcast to tell "The Golden Dawn Story." Listen here: http://garagepunk.ning.com/
The floating concert seri
es will produce at least two more benefits for Kinney at other Austin venues, and possibly in Houston as well.
CONTACT:
J.M. Dobies
Industrious Media
Austin, Texas
LINKS:
“A Benefit Concert and Barbecue for George Kinney” Facebook event page
Mal Thursday’s Texas Tyme Machine podcasts
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"George Kinney Benefit" on the Texas Psych blog
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Mal Thursday’s Texas Tyme Machine to Stage Benefits for Austin Music Legend George Kinney
AUSTIN, Texas (January 20, 2011) – "Mal Thursday’s Texas Tyme Machine," the Austin-based podcast and floating concert series, is producing a series of benefits for Austin psychedelic music legend George Kinney, who has been diagnosed with cancer of the liver. The first benefit concert will be held at the Highball in South Austin on Saturday February 5th from 4 to 10 p.m.
In addition to Kinney, performing on the show at the swank ballroom/bowling emporium will be Haunt, Thom Tex Edwards, Steve Garrett, ST 37, The Texreys, White Dress, and Austin Renaissance man Jesse Sublett, the author, artist, and musician. Sublett founded the original Austin punk band The Skunks in 1979, and is also a cancer survivor. Other special guests are to be announced.
Kinney was the leader of the Austin psychedelic band The Golden Dawn, whose 1968 album Power Plant is recognized as a classic of the genre. The band were friends and labelmates of The 13th Floor Elevators. He has continued to make music as a solo artist and with his current band The New Riders of the Golden Dawn.
Kinney will be appearing on the "Texas Tyme Machine" podcast to tell “The Golden Dawn Story” on the series’ fifth episode. The show was recently spun off from the long-running podcast “The Mal Thursday Show.”
The floating concert series will produce at least three more benefits for Kinney at other Austin venues, and possibly in Houston as well. There will also be a Texas Tyme Machine show at Beerland on Friday February 18th, headlined by San Antonio garage kings The Sons of Hercules and Dallas ’60s legends Kenny and the Kasuals.
CONTACT:
J.M. Dobies
Industrious Media
Austin, Texas
jm@jmdobies.com
LINKS:
“A Benefit for George Kinney” Facebook event page
Mal Thursday’s Texas Tyme Machine podcasts
"George Kinney Benefit" on the Texas Psych blog
