This weekend Steve Wertheimer, the owner of the Austin institution The Continental Club, put on the seventh Lone Star Roundup, a showcase for hot rod and custom cars from all over the country. The cars are mainly pre 1960 so I felt a tad left out since my interests came a tad later but the cars and especially the people were worth the trip out to the Exposition Center. Some of the cars were spectacular.

Some of the people were too.

The main reason I made it was to see legendary guitarist James Burton. While Burton is famous for being the lead guitarist for Elvis during the last eight years of his career, he additionally played with artists ranging from Ricky Nelson to Elvis Costello. Here’s his bio - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Burton.

I have found it worth going to see anyone that Fender makes a signature model for and it was a treat. Burton had James Intveld singing and playing acoustic guitar, Chris Maresh on bass, I believe Earl Poole Ball on piano, a fine guitarist and drummer whom I just did not get the names of. Here’s a few of shots from the show.