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do.

"I think I was going for
more of a Diana Ross sound,"
replied Timms, but figures she
didn't quite make it. She did.

The Sadies led by the
Good Brothers, Dallas and
Travis, is an outfit that Timms
declares she would love to work
with any time. I met the talented
group of skinny Canadians 1
through friends and they had the
pleasure of crashing on my
South Austin floor with the
sugar ants during SXSW 1999.

The Sadies played in
Calgary while I was there. So
enthralled was I to hear great
music instead of a Waco juke
box I staggered close enough to
the stage to place my beer on the
speakers. The only way to see a
band.

The locale was the Night
Gallery, which DiMond and
fellow former Meat Purveyor,
guitarist Bill Anderson, in town
with Neko Case, also experi-
enced. When not commandeer-
ing golf carts at the folk festival,
DiMond and Anderson stole
away to quaff Canadian suds
and mosh - [to the Sadies? - s. l.] at the Night Gallery. That may have been where
DiMond acquired a black eye, or perhaps it was the result of her unbridled
embrance of the finest sport known to man and woman - hockey.

In November, while getting lubricated before a puzzling Reckless Kelly
show at the Saxon Pub (why are these guys popular?) [got me, but they were fun
at my cousin's wedding] and showing the Draught Horse bar wench how to lean
into a slap shot, DiMond accepted my request to call Houston despite my sorry
state.

"It was great," she said of the van ride through Western Canada. Timms
and Rauhouse did the driving and worrying; DiMond and Langford did the
drinking and the farting.

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