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<\/a>While many of my fellow Houstonians were lined up early in the morning for Black Friday sales, I was puttering around the house and biding my time until show time for Jeff Plankenhorn\u2019s 7PM performance at McGonigel\u2019s Mucky Duck. He was accompanied this evening by Jon Notarthomas on acoustic guitar.<\/p>\nIt was to be a very laid back evening with the Plank doing some acoustic puttering of his own, visiting his own compositions along with a few covers of folks like Matt the Electrician and Stephen Bruton. He also spent a good deal of time sharing stories of times shared with Ray Wylie Hubbard and developing his own slide guitar creation called \u201cthe plank\u201d.<\/p>\n
The set list included \u201cHome Again\u201d from a compilation honoring Middle East war vets, the simple slide tune, \u201cTrip Around the Sun\u201d and the last song on his last CD, Soulslide, \u201cWalking in the Sun\u201d. Notarthomas added some tasty licks to Plankenhorn\u2019s performance throughout the evening. The pair visited Plankenhorn favorites like \u201cMary Magdalene\u201d, \u201cTeresa\u201d and the Subdudes sounding \u201cTrouble Find Me\u201d. Jeff ended the evening with \u201cMystified\u201d, a composition that he wrote with Eliza Gilkyson and Ellis Paul.<\/p>\n
The evening could have been described as a laid back series of great slide oriented guitar playing interspersed with some pretty heavy namedropping. What actually becomes apparent is that Jeff Plankenhorn is a name that we can get used to being dropped by these other artists that have been collaborating with him over the last few years.<\/p>\n
Jeff Plankenhorn will be back in the Houston area on January 20th<\/sup>, gracing the stage at the Barnes House Concert series. Bill and Deanna always host a great evening of music and fellowship on the Northwest side of town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Written by James Killen While many of my fellow Houstonians were lined up early in the morning for Black Friday sales, I was puttering around the house and biding my time until show time for Jeff Plankenhorn\u2019s 7PM performance at McGonigel\u2019s Mucky Duck. He was accompanied this evening by Jon Notarthomas on acoustic guitar. It… <\/p>\n