- Arcade Fire - Randall's Island, NYC - 2008*
- Band of Horses - The Metro, Chicago - 2008
- Beck and The Flaming Lips - Jones Hall, Houston - 2002
- Belle and Sebastian - The Backyard, Austin - 2001*
- Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Walter's, Houston - 2009
- Buddy and Julie Miller - The Continental Club, Houston - 2001
- Centro-matic - Rudyard's, Houston - 2002
- David Byrne - Jones Hall, Houston - 2009*
- Dwight Yoakam - The Backyard, Austin - 2002
- Emmylou Harris - Jones Hall, Houston - 2007*
- Gillian Welch with Old Crow Medicine Show - Engine Room, Houston - 2004
- Mates of State - Club de Ville, Austin - 2007
- Modest Mouse - Stubb's, Austin - 2003*
- Neko Case and Deer Tick - Warehouse Live, Houston - 2009
- Ralph Stanley - The Mucky Duck, Houston - 2002
- The Asylum Street Spankers - Rudyard's, Houston - 2002
- The Decemberists - Rudyard's, Houston - 2003
- The Polyphonic Spree - Warehouse Live, Houston - 2007**
- The White Stripes - Rudyard's, Houston - 2001
- Tom Waits - Jones Hall, Houston - 2008
** Honorable Mention (Words and rankings can not do it justice. Just smile when you think of it.)
I reserve the right to add more as my memory works over the weekend.
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OK I need to say a couple things. I left Fanfarlo off because I had to keep it to 20 and that one just happened so it is too new. I need to see if I still love it as much as I do now 5 years from now. But Fanfarlo definitely gets some sort of Most Promising Newcomer award.
And I also should mention Dale Watson, July 31, 2004, when he made the whole Broken Spoke sing happy birthday to my brothers. And a whole bunch of our friends were there -- good times.
I feel like I've forgotten something else and I have neglected The New Pornographers and Lucinda Williams and who knows who else but I had to keep it to 20. Oh well.
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