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SUMMARY:Brandon Hudgeons Ft. Matthew Payne Live at The Cactus Cafe!
LOCATION:Cactus Cafe
DESCRIPTION:Buy Tickets!\n\nBrandon Hudgeons has been making up songs sinc
 e he could hold a guitar. He was born and raised in Midland\, Texas. An e
 arly passion for music and an obsession with 70s and 80s country songcraf
 t led to rock bands\, a folk trio at Dartmouth\, and decades in the Austi
 n rooms where Texas songwriting lives.\n\nNever too far from the music\, 
 Brandon finally made a commitment in 2022. It started while listening to 
 a podcast interview with one of his favorite Austin songwriters\, Graham 
 Wilkinson\, who said\, “Anybody can get good enough to play shitty bars.”
 \n\nBrandon thought\, “Well\, hell\, I’m anybody.”\n\nThen Todd Snider cl
 osed a magical show at the Paramount by saying\, “If any of y’all want to
  come out here and chase songs with us\, I don’t see how any bad can come
  of it.”\n\nOn his birthday in 2022\, he set a deadline: 1\,461 days (fou
 r years) to write 12 songs good enough to justify an album. The kind he’s
  been chasing his whole life: Guy Clark\, Townes Van Zandt\, Jerry Jeff W
 alker\, Rodney Crowell.\n\nThe discipline is real. Hudgeons writes at lea
 st one song every week — a consecutive streak now 110 weeks long — as par
 t of the Song Club that he started and operates as its benevolent dictato
 r. He works all of the local Austin songwriter stages\, including Cactus 
 Cafe\, Hole in the Wall\, Carousel Lounge\, and Batch Austin. Eight noteb
 ooks full of lyrics. A 1989 Provan Tiger Astro van that doubles as his to
 ur bus\, festival home\, and mobile songwriting vessel.\n\nhttp://next-to
 -u.app/events/396da8e3-6227-4c16-8e22-ec0cf7dcaa84
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