Sam's Burger Joint

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Terri Hendrix Band with Lloyd Maines

All Ages
at Sam's Burger Joint
330 E Grayson St, San Antonio, TX 78215
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BOOTH DOES NOT INCLUDE ADMISSION---LIMITED SEATED SHOW---There’s a story Terri Hendrix likes to tell crowds before singing her song “Wallet” that explains the meaning behind the song’s key line — and the motto by which she’s lived her life and run her career for the better part of the last two decades: “Own your own universe.” It goes back to the summer of 1996, when she self-released her first album, “Two Dollar Shoes,” after being turned down by three different record labels. Not only did she sell enough copies of the winsome debut to promptly pay back (with interest) the handful of friends who’d invested in her dream, by the time she was ready to release her second album, 1998’s “Wilory Farm,” she was going-her-own-way not by necessity but by choice. Nearly 20 years and many, many albums later, Hendrix is still going strong on her own Wilory Records — and all three of those labels that turned down her debut are long out of business. But Hendrix is more than just a veritable pioneer in the running-your-own-label revolution now sweeping the music industry and a “truly self-made woman” (as pegged by music luminary Al Kooper in a glowing review for her song “Slow Down.”) The Texas trailblazer is also an award-winning singer-songwriter, classically trained vocalist and multi-instrumentalist (guitar, mandolin, and harmonica); music workshop teacher (from the Berklee School of Music to the Kerrville Folk Festival to her own annual “Life’s a Song” retreat in Port Aransas, Texas); the author of a book combining essays and a soup-to-nuts independent artist how-to-guide called “Cry Till You Laugh — The Part that Ain’t Art” (described by the Austin American Statesman as “equal parts spiritual and practical, honest, funny, useful, revelatory and moving”); and, most recently, the founder of a 501(c)(3) nonprofit community arts center called the OYOU — which stands, of course, for “Own Your Own Universe.” Fundraising for the center’s eventual home — which will one day be a handicapped-accessible, multi-purpose venue in Hays County, Texas for people of all ages — has already begun. In the meantime, the OYOU is a “get-it-done” grassroots operation with the goal of getting music and all things art into the ears and hands of folks that need it via performances, instrument donations, workshops and other special events throughout Texas and beyond.

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