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In 2010, after well over 20 years of plying his trade in dive bars, listening rooms, theaters and festival stages across America and Europe, journeyman Texas songwriter and guitar player Michael O’Connor finally got his due. Or at the very least, a couple of very fine next best things: co-billing with one of his favorite fellow writers, Adam Carroll, on one of the best albums of both artists’ careers (the acclaimed Hard Times), and his very own star on the South Texas Music Walk of Fame — located right in O’Connor’s hometown of Corpus Christi. Along with fellow 2010 inductees like Terri Hendrix, Ponty Bone and Geronimo Trevino, O’Connor’s name is now part of the same Lone Star constellation as such Texas legends as Guy Clark, Kris Kristofferson, and the late Doug Sahm and Freddy Fender. Overall, not a bad way to kick off a very good year. But in the wake of releasing Hard Times and humbly accepting his Walk of Fame honor, O’Connor did what journeymen songwriters and guitar slingers do best: went straight back to work. On top of promoting Hard Times with Carroll, he hit the road for another long run of sideman dates playing with Slaid Cleaves, capping a 10-year run together with the recording of Cleaves’ first live album, the new Sorrow & Smoke: Live at the Horseshoe Lounge. And on his days “off,” O’Connor also squeezed in several trips to producer Jack Saunders’ White Cat Studio in Houston to record Devil Stole the Moon, his third “solo” album and first since 2007’s Giants From a Sleepy Town.