Rags to Riches

The Hudsons may look like threadbare folksters, but their tunes are spun of solid pop gold - pop in a good way of course. Equal parts Bob Dylan, Marvin Gaye, Todd Snider, the Beatles, Elliot Smith, Biz Markie, Willie Nelson, and Tiny Tim (only Uke player I could think of). The fun starts with the first note, and you never know what's next until it's quitting time.

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I understand that if written on the correct paper, most any request or suggestion is inserted into the set list. They are the only band I know of that would give the audience a mike for random commentary and interactive banter during a show - well, maybe not all their ideas are good ones...Then again, their new album came out this fall, and the inside sleeve features a Rockslide image from some summer afternoon in Gruene. Seems like they have pretty good taste after all.

I was watching them at Waterloo last night thinking that the folks at the Rice Festival have a treat in store for them the second weekend in November.