I Had a great weekend! Thanks to everyone who came out and shared it at Bohemeo's on Thursday, Dunn Bros. on Friday and Chicago Pizza and Italian Beef on Saturday! Below is a video posted from each of the nights. @ solo sets and the Front porch Society to wrap up the week in grand fashion.

And a very special treat. Nathan Taylor leading a porchy rendition of Quiet Riot's "Come On Feel The Noise"

Enjoy your week, and I hope to see you at Bohemeo's this coming Friday, Feb 3rd!

Tonight from 7pm-11pm

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I'm a gritty, grimey folk singer. Tonight, i have a completly solo show. No lead guitar. No banjo. No nothin'. Your gonna hear stuff I don't get to play on a regualr basis. Come and dig in. It's at Dunn Bros. Coffee. A nice place to listen to music. Family Friendly. Good Coffee. Quiet Atmosphere. Pastries, smoothies and such. Come early to claim your spot. I'll be directly in front of the fireplace.

Dunn Bros. Coffee

9305 Spring Cypress Rd
Spring, TX 77379

~Huke

Front Porch Songwriter Showcase

Featuring sets by: Samuel Barker, Huke Green and Robert Nathan Taylor

Thursday January 26th at Bohemeo's - Houston, Texas

Bohemeos.com

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Also:

Huke returns to Spring, Texas for a solo show at Dunn Bros. Spring

Jan 27th - Dunn Bros. (Spring) - 9305 Spring Cypress Rd.

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And on Saturday,  Jan 28th The Front Porch Society will be playing at Chicago Italian Beef and Pizza in the Heights.

This is ALWAYS a popular place to catch the FPS and have some of the BEST food in Houston!

This Saturday, Jan 14th, The Front Porch Society is having a special winter afternoon hootenanny from 1ish pm - 4ish pm. out at the Fantastic Dunn Bros. Coffeehouse in Frindswood, TX. YES, this is the place you've heard all the fuss about! The High should be in about the mid 60's and it should be a nice time for coffee or your favorite wine... whichever warms you most. There will be song-swapage between Mr. Robert Nathan Taylor, Samuel F. Barker, C.T. "Lightnin' Fingers" Worely and Myself. I hear tell that the Captain of MoJo, Jason "Beat on the Box" Poe will be there as well. So get yourselves out there and have a grand ol' time!

~Huke

I would like to implore all of you to do something this year. If you've never been to a House Concert, you I would like to suggest 2012 be the year you find one in your area and attend a show. 'House Concerts' may be a bit of a confusing term. Sometimes they are held in Churches, such as the case of Heights Live or Uncle Calvin's Coffeehouse. Sometimes there are in a building whose sole purpose is as a music venue, such as Red Dragon. They are places to go to hear music in an intimate setting, where folks aren't in attendance with the intent to getting fall down drunk, and where your libel to be warned of being thrown out if your disturbing others by chatting during the show. They are LISTENING ROOMS.

One of my personal favorite venues, Almost Austin House Concerts in Pasadena, TX is hosting a show TODAY and would be an excellent way to get into the House Show spirit! Kenny Pipes will feature the fantastic twosome of Danny Schmidt and Carrie Elkin right there on his living room stage. Click on the Almost Austin link above for more info and to see what's going on with future events.

Wherever you are in the world, Google your town with the term 'House Concert' and find a venue in your area. You'll be glad you did.

Hey everyone, hope all is well this holiday season.

In 2011 Sauna Studios and Cinder Shack Records put out Huke Green's "Rustic Poet" to much success. It was a highly acclaimed in Europe and here at home. Sauna Studios will be busy again here in the start of 2012 to bring a couple of exciting projects to you.

First:

We are wrapping up Ben Hall's sophomore release, 'Scars and Stars'. We are just waiting for some final studio instrumentation to be completed and then post production work. 'Scars & Stars is shaping up to be a mighty successor to Ben's first outing, 'Second Harvest', which you can pick up RIGHT HERE!

Also coming in 2012:

Baytown's legendary guitar man, C.T. Worley, has been green-lit for some time in Sauna Studios. C.T. has been a part of our musical family for over a year now and we think it's time he puts down some tracks for an album. He has crafted some mighty fine tunes and I think you are gonna dig this project!  

I have also begun to fool around with some things in the Studio and have an idea of how my next album will shape up. I'll get into recording it once Ben Hall's album is complete and will be going on along with C.T.'s project. I will say that the next album will be even more sparse than 'Rustic Poet' with only a few filled out songs. We're going to explore a different recording technique that I hope will fully benefit the bare bones fashion of most of the songs. No tentative date for the project to be available to the public is being set. I am going to work at my pace until I am happy with it but, hopefully it will be done in time for a 12-21-2012 release. 

So, There's what's on the agenda for now. Merry Christmas to you and yours...

~Huke

Casey Royer (The Jobe Wilson Band) and I will be doing a stripped down songswap Saturday Dec 17th out at Turtle Bayou Landing, or TBL to the locals, out in Anahuac, TX. It's a great venue in a great little town. I will be driving to Waco that morning and heading promtly back so that I can get out on the Bayou for a great night of song and story. Son of a gun, we'll have big fun on the bayou!

9 pm - 4705 F.M. 563, Anahuac, Tx. 77514

Texas Ave. in Baytown gets shutdown for the annual 'Christmas on Texas Avenue' Street Festival, an extravaganza of crafts, food and specialty vendors, strolling entertainers and musicians, is set for Saturday, Dec. 3 in Baytown’s historic old Goose Creek area, spanning six blocks of the street.

Huke & Sam will be playing inside The Dirty Bay Beer Co. at 224 West Texas Avenue. The Band 'Last House On The Left' will be playing later in the evening under the Brunson Marquee

Also, There will be an antique car show, the Baytown Photo Club will be taking pictures of folks with Santa Clause and there will be a Christmas tree contest at the nearby Historic Museum.

School bands will perform Christmas concerts outside and break into groups to perform inside the businesses. Carolers will sing on stage and in strolling groups. Clowns and magicians will mingle with visitors.

There will be rides for children for a nominal fee. Face painters will be available at call. The Art League of Baytown will have a booth for children to decorate Christmas balls for $1 each and will also oversee a children’s sidewalk art contest.

Festivities will begin at 10 a.m. and some booths will remain open until 8 p.m. Admission is free.

“Our goal is to fill your heart with Christmas in downtown Baytown”, according to Gordom Ginzel, local business man and chairman of the event.

“We want everyone to join us.”

Primary sponsors are the Goose Creek Historical Society and the Art League of Baytown with the cooperation of the City of Baytown Parks and Recreation Department and other city officials.

website Christmas-on-texas-avenue.com

*UPDATE* Show Added: Saturday Dec. 10th, The FPS is going to re:HAB! That's right Houston Avenue Bar. Check the 'shows' listing for details

I like noodling on the ol' guitar whilst Cristi throws supper together. Our kitchen in quite cozy. Very down home. Gonna post some videos from the kitchen. Here is a song that's been around a while, but only played out enough times you can count on one hand.

I had these lyrics for some time and just couldn't get a music arrangement I was happy with. Ben Hall and I had a co-writing session at my kitchen table in the early days of the Front Porch Society. This session produced the completion of this song with Ben coming up with the music part, and also 'Delillah', which Ben Has ben playing for years solo and in the Dragliners

This song is about a "Suicide By Cop" in a grocery store parking lot. There are just some people who can't escape their dark deeds, no matter how bad they really want to. I feel bad for the guy here. He was born on the wrong side of the tracks and spent his life wanting to change, but knowing that he couldn't do so.

Make plans now to join us for our Mid October Shows. We will be in the Heights at Chicago Italian Beef and Pizza for a Dinner show Oct 14th... and there is so much good FRESH food to order here you can't go wrong!

Then on October 15th, we are back at Dunn Bros in Friendswood for our monthly "Front Porch on the Back Patio" gig, and the weather promises to be PERFECT! Hope to see you at one or BOTH of these shows!

"Huke, bought your cd today and i think it is after Israel Nash gripka in 2009, Dylan leblanc in 2010, the sensation of 2011. A very good cd with great lyrics and sublime musical framing. I will enjoy this record very much in the last months of 2011 and very well be in the years to come."

~Arjan Post

Thanks Arjan and everyone else who enjoys my music. I consider you all Friends rather than "Fans". I hope to see all my friends soon!

If your looking for something to add to your fall reading list, you might wanna pick up my new friend Frank Bill's new book "Crimes In Southern Indiana". The book will be hitting the public on August 30th (this coming Tuesday). There are some dark and gritty tales within these page, but seeing how your reading this on my site, it should be par for the course. A sneak peak of the book is included in the Sept 2011 issue of Playboy magazine, and Frank has been given plenty of praise. Click on the book cover right now to get your order in! I'm waiting with great anticipation for this book after reading some of Frank's other works online!

Head over to Frank Bill's House Of Grit and bookmark it to your favorites!

Hey everyone, Hope your finding this summer well. We've been busy this summer with lots of shows, including trips to the Hill Country. We are going to be back in Austin this Saturday at Cherrywood Coffeehouse, and yes, The have beer, wine, and REAL FOOD! I implore you near the Austin area to come out! We don't have much on the books after that and are gonna be working toward finishing Ben Hall's new album and possibly working on a Front Porch Society album, but you never know, our schedule could fill up quick!

Some advanced warning: We have a September and October show in Friendswood at the Dunn Bros. Coffee Pavilion. This is one of our favorite venues in the Houston Metro area and they should  be delightful gigs with nice weather, so mark those down!

Also, We have a gig coming Oct 14th at Chicago Pizza and Italian Beef. I can not express enough how this is a not-to-be-missed night! We came across "The Beef" after our tour last year put us through Chicago. We had a late night quest for a Chicago pie after our gig which was almost for not until we found Mugs Pizza & Ribs, which is open till 3am. We drove with this hefty pie back to our motel room and it blew our minds! We thought for sure a city the size of Houston would have a place to get REAL Chicago style pizza, but after trying a few of the best names in Houston pizza, hope seemed lost. Then, we discover Chicago Pizza and Italian Beef in the heights. These guys are transpalnts from the windy city, and it shows! This is the ONLY place in town to get a true deep dish pizza! We hope you join us in October and see for yourself.

in other news:

Our author friend from up in Indiana, Frank Bill, is releasing his debut book on August 30th. Crimes in Southern Indiana hits the shelves and punches you in the gut! "Welcome to heartland America circa right about now, when the union jobs and family farms that kept the white on the picket fences have given way to meth labs, backwoods gunrunners, and bare-knuckle brawling. Bill’s people are pressed to the brink—and beyond." Click HERE and pre-order it today.

Check out your favorite front porch pickers on Bandcamp and pick up our latest releases!

The Rustic Depot

Samuel Barker

Ben Hall

until later

~Huke

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Right on the Seawall over looking the Gulf. The Front Porch Society featuring Myself, Sam Barker, Tommy Worley and J-Po. You can swin at the bars pool while we play.

My Duo partner of more than three years, Samuel Barker, Has released his first solo disc, 'All This For Gas Money' The Official CD Release show is July 16th at Almost Austin House Concerts. It is highly recomened that you come out!

What happens if you don't come? You anger the Bear. What happens when you anger the Bear? She gets GRIZZLY!

SO YOU BETTER COME!

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